Author: Ken McCormick

Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions from the International Space Station are expected to take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Jan 30-Feb 1 SSTV setup and activation is expected to start around 13:30 GMT and end about 18:30 GMT on Read more…

SOLAR WIND, INCOMING: During solar minimum, long-lasting holes open in the sun’s atmosphere, releasing streams of solar wind into space. One of those holes is facing Earth now, and it’s a big one: We’ve seen this hole before. It opened in Read more…

The League of Brazilian Amateur Radio Transmitters, LABRE, has obtained the special event callsign ZW85LABRE which is valid from February 1 until March 31, 2019 The Liga de Amadores Brasileiros de Rádio Emissão (LABRE) was founded February 2, 1934. A Google translation of the Read more…

A sailing news article suggests some sailors in the Golden Globe Race have been operating in the amateur radio bands using made-up callsigns For some reason the article references an entirely unrelated instance that occurred in 2015 when the UK Read more…