The UBA (Royal Belgian Amateur Radio Union) follows the actions of mainstream sporting bodies with regard to all activities of a competitive nature such as contests, awards and ARDF. Russian and Belarusian radio amateurs are therefore currently ineligible to participate Read more…
Month: April 2022
Monaco Special Callsign….
Members of Association of Radio Amateurs from Monaco (ARM) will be using the special callsign 3A5M to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Prince Albert 1st of Monaco (1848- 1922). He was a humanist, founder of the Institute of Peace, scientist, founder Read more…
Tape Measure Antenna….
Wind-up tape measure portable antenna for ham radio…. Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday about how to convert a wind-up tape measure into a portable amateur radio antenna If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning Read more…
RSGB statement – 40MHz in the UK….
There have been recently a number of reports of individual holders of UK Amateur licenses gaining Innovation and Trial licences from Ofcom (UK regulator) to conduct experimental transmissions on 40MHz (8m). Ofcom has made it very clear for several years that Read more…