Month: February 2019

The Space Weather Woman The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov:

27 February, 2018 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz NA-105; FS/PJ7, St. Martin (Sint Maarten): Tom/AA9A operates once again as PJ7AA from Read more…

22 February, 2019 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by AA4NC, F4EBK, W2AIV, W3UR, WB2REM, The Daily DX, The OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web Read more…

  https://wp.rac.ca/update-on-the-conference-preparatory-meeting-for-wrc-19/   Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, RAC Special Advisor, is once again in Geneva, Switzerland attending the latest Preparatory Meetings for the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19). He will be tweeting comments on Amateur Radio issues from the meeting using Read more…

Members of the Giresun Amateur Radio Society (GITRAD – Giresun Telsiz Radyo Amatorleri ve Doga Sporlari Dernegi) are celebrating its 10th anniversary with the special callsign TC10GITRAD. It will be on the air until December 31st, 2019. The log will be uploaded to Read more…

 16 FebruaryS, 2019 Island activities: NA-049. Jean, VE2FDJ, will be active as 5J0JC from Providencia Island, Colombia, between February 15-27th. Activity will be on 80/40/20/6 meters using SSB. QSL via VE2FDJ, direct or by the Bureau. SA-071. Junior, PY2ZA, who Read more…

15 February, 2019 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by CO3JK, EA4NF, W1UE, The Daily DX, The OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks Read more…

Marenga PU0FDN, Ville PY2ZEA/OH2MM, and Renner PY7RP are going to pay Fernando de Noronha a visit for the ARRL DX CW contest. QRV as PY0F from the 13th to 18th with a focus on the low bands (CW, SSB, FT8) before and Read more…

13 February, 2018 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AF-014; CT3, Madeira Archipelago: Henning/OZ1BII/OZ2I will be active from Porto Moniz between the Read more…

David Honess M6DNT has written an article describing how to receive ISS Slow Scan TV images using just a Raspberry Pi computer and an RTL-SDR USB dongle SSTV is a picture transmission method for sending and receiving static pictures via radio. Read more…