Author: Ken McCormick

Island activities: The following are IOTA operations that were active this past week between January 10-15th (as per the DXCluster): IOTA Callsign Island/GROUP Bands/Modes —— ———- ————- ———— AF-004 EA8DFB CANARY 15m; FT8 AF-004 EA8DIG CANARY 20m; SSB AF-004 EA8DKA Read more…

Members of the Marconi Cape Cod Radio Club (KM1CC) will be on the air between 1330 UTC, January 18th and 0200 UTC,- January 19th, to commemorate the 119th anniversary of Marconi sending the first transatlantic message from the USA to Europe (UK). Read more…

SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-3 mission launched on Thursday carrying 105 satellites including several amateur radio payloads. The Tevel mission comprises eight satellites, each with an FM transponder with an uplink on 145.970MHz and downlink, plus beacon transmissions on 436.400MHz. The Read more…

Hadrian’s Wall Special Event Station We have just had the callsigns issued for two Special Event Stations to commemorate 1900 years since Hadrian’s Wall was built, the northern frontier of the mighty Roman Empire and which was the inspiration for Read more…