Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences On November 21, 2019 at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, a new allocation to the Amateur Radio Service for Region 1 was approved. The Read more…
Year: 2019
RAC Members – PEI (VY2)….
At their annual meeting in Moncton on September 14 the RAC executive was made aware of interest in having PEI declared an Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) section separate from the Maritime section. William Caw (VY2CAW), Brent Taylor (VY2HF) and Read more…
BBC Monitoring’s Magazine….
Monitor magazine now available The Autumn 2019 edition of the BBC Monitoring’s magazine Monitor is now available on the web BBC Monitoring provides news and information from freely available media sources around the world. Our round-the-clock monitoring of TV, radio, press, internet Read more…
[RAC-Bulletin] Former RAC North/East Ontario Director Bill Unger, VE3XT SK
Celebration of Life to be held Friday, November 22 https://www.rac.ca/former-rac-north-east-ontario-director-bill-unger-ve3xt-sk/ For immediate release: Radio Amateurs of Canada has received the sad news that former RAC North/East Ontario Regional Director Bill Unger, VE3XT, has become a Silent Key. The following Read more…
IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club….
20 Novenber, 2019 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz OC-009; T8, Palau Islands: Noboru/JH1OLB returns to Palau from Nov. 21 to 27 Read more…
IOTA News from OPDX…
18 November, 2019 Island activities: AF-019. Operators Silvo/S50X, S51V, Krajcar/S52P, Peter/S54W, Pavla/S56DX, Berto/S56N, Slavko/S57DX and Drago/S59A will be active as IG9/homecall from Lampedusa Island between January 21-27th, 2020. Activity will be on 160-10 meters, and this will include the CQWW Read more…
[RAC-Bulletin] Progress Report from RAC Special Advisor to WRC-19: Week 3
For immediate Release: https://www.rac.ca/progress-report-from-rac-special-advisor-to-wrc-19-week-3/ The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, the RAC Special Advisor at World Radiocommunication Conferences, has provided the following update. We will also be Read more…
DX News from the ARRL….
November 15, 2019 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by AA3B, EA4NF, LU4AAO, 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…
[RAC-Bulletin] RAC Attends Canadian CubeSat Meeting in Fredericton
https://www.rac.ca/rac-attends-canadian-cubesat-meeting-in-fredericton/ The following item is courtesy of The Canadian Amateur magazine: On October 7, 8 and 9, 2019, the University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CubeSat NB hosted the first of three Preliminary Design Read more…
Marquesas Islands FO/M DXpedition….
Members of the CAN-AM DXpedition Group are now active as TX7T from the Island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands until November 17th. Operators mentioned are Didier/F6BCW, Bob/K4UEE, Robert/K5PI, Madison/W5MJ, Bill/W5SJ, Robert/W5RF, Neil/VA7DX and Keith/ VE7KW. This includes the operators from TX5T last Read more…