Author: Ken McCormick

JIDX contest committee announced today that in light of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and Belarus, we will not accept entries in the JIDX CW contest (April 10-11) by Russian and Belarusian stations. All QSOs with these stations will not Read more…

Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on April 6th and 7th when at least one CME is expected to graze Earth’s magnetic field. There might even be two strikes. A pair of CMEs left the sun over the weekend, one propelled by a solar Read more…

New sunspot counts from NOAA confirm that Solar Cycle 25 is racing ahead of the official forecast–and the gap is growing: See the complete labeled plot or play with an interactive version from NOAA Sunspot counts have now exceeded predictions for 18 straight Read more…

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are planning to transmit Slow Scan TV (SSTV) images on 145.800 MHz FM probably using the SSTV mode PD-120 The transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment (MAI-75) and Read more…