Author: Ken McCormick

The MAARC Flea Market will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2022 from 9am-Noon at the Lions Club, 701 Coverdale Road, Riverview, N.B. The cost for buyers will remain at $5 but the cost to sellers will be $10 for one to three Read more…

August 8, 2022 There is a survey that has been put out by Radio Amateurs of Canada concerning call sign policy. This is open to all amateurs in Canada. You do not need to be a member of RAC to Read more…

Aug 18, 2022 Not the best pictures ever found, but probably enough to make this another “Guess the Ops” feature. Can anyone guess each of the operators shown? Date: circa 1985.

Aug 18, 2022 Spanning nearly 25 years, looking back from 2021 to 1997 showing DX on this Day. Do you remember working XY0TA or A35AC or maybe JT0YPS ? You can also check back here and see all previous DX on this Day posts. We will run with Read more…

This event will take place throughout the upcoming weekend. For a list of participants see:https://illw.net/index.php/entrants-list-2022 DE0061/FED142; Lightship Laesoe Rende:Michael/DK9BM, Ecki/DH8AF, and Andreas/DK5ON operate from there on the weekend as DK5T/Lightship with 3 rigs on CW, SSB, and FT4/8 on all Read more…

18 August, 2022 Island activities: Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON IOTA QRGsCW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHzSSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz EU-002; OH0, ALAND ISLANDS:Alex/OH5UY, Pasi/OH2MZB, Jouni/OH2JIU, Niko/OH5CZ, Toni/OH5CY, Jere/OH5ELX, and Juha/OH5CW Read more…

DARC report the broadcast station Télédiffusion d’Algerie has been causing interference to the 21 MHz primary amateur radio band A translation of the DARC post reads: Algerian radio is now broadcasting in the early evening hours at 21450 kHz with Read more…

SFI = 123 A index = 31 K index = 2 SSN = 83 GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA forecasters say that strong G3-class geomagnetic storms are possible on Aug. 18-19 when a series of CMEs is expected to graze Earth’s magnetic field. During such storms Read more…

For the 3rd day in a row, active sunspot AR3078 is producing strong M-class solar flares. The latest, an M2-category explosion on Aug. 17th (1345 UT), hurled a plume of cool dark plasma into space: A CME will almost certainly emerge from Read more…

Aug 17, 2022 Not so much a shoebox find but rather something we found on an internet search to go with this post from just over 1 year ago.  These magazine cuttings are from Practical Wireless, January 1990 and we show here (courtesy PW Read more…