01/10/2020 The February issue of Digital QST is now available for viewing on your desktop or laptop. Click here to view the issue. It is also available for reading on your Apple, Android, or Kindle Fire device. Build an affordable D-STAR Hotspot Learn about CAT Ham-friendly homes and a hidden …

01/10/2020 Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.

Due to a change of plans and flight availability, Nobu, JA0JHQ hopes to be active from Nauru during January 13-19, 2020. Callsign won’t be known until arrival and even then he might not be able to secure a license at short notice. Nobu says “this trip is a kind of …

01/10/2020 The 2019 ARRL Periodicals DVD is now available and includes the complete, fully searchable collection of three ARRL journals — QST, the official membership journal of ARRL, QEX Forum for Communications Experimenters, and National Contest Journal (NCJ). In addition, the DVD includes source code for software projects and PC …

Members of the Association des Radio- amateurs de la Cote (HB9HI) will activate the special event station HE2JOJ until January 31st. Activity is to mark the 3rd edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games (Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse) to be hosted in Lausanne. QSL via HB9HI, direct or by …

QARMAN, a nano-satellite designed and built at VKI, was launched to the International Space Station on December 5, 2019. Deployment is expected to take place in the week of January 20, 2020 QARMAN (Qubesat for Aerothermodynamic Research and Measurements on AblatioN) is the world’s first CubeSat designed to survive atmospheric …

On January 6, the Australian Maritime College (AMC) released news that they have “gone live” to the public with their new Lookup facility for Available Amateur Radio Callsigns   The WIA news story says: The service is available by clicking the following Linkhttps://csdb.utas.edu.au/Callsign/SearchUnallocated This is a very welcomed addition to …

The latest IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports LED lamp interference forced Wolf DK2OM to relinquish the role of IARUMS Region 1 Coordinator The newsletter says his daily monitoring work has, since April 2016, been intentional hampered by interference from a neighbouring LED lamp. It seems the Federal Network Agency, BNetzA …

This Group is in memory of F5ISY – Carine DUBOIS. She developed this YL contest and did not ever see it to the end. WE are now going to make this happen in her memory. ‘The Day of YLs ‘ 24 & 25 May 2020 HF/VHF CONTEST THE DAY OF …

On HamSphere 4.0 we have a WAS award, this working all states is really difficult to win for opérators outside of North America. I am on HS4 since 2014 and i still need 6 states to get this WAS award. Its realy stange because they are 800 000 amateur radio …