01/09/2020 The ARRL Events app, which will be featured at Orlando HamCation, is now available for both Apple iOS and Android devices. A web-browser version, optimized for nearly any browser or other mobile device type, is also available to view. Orlando HamCation 2020 takes place February 7 – 9 and …

Homes and businesses up and down the country are set to benefit from much faster and more reliable fibre broadband, under major proposals set out by Ofcom. As demand for internet data accelerates, the UK’s infrastructure needs to be upgraded. So today we are proposing new, flexible regulation that will …

Four astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for three spacewalks in January to complete battery upgrades and finalize repairs to an invaluable cosmic ray detector. Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA are scheduled to conduct spacewalks Wednesday, Jan. 15, and Monday, Jan. 20, …

Amateur radio talks featured at the popular DEF CON 27 event in Las Vegas during August 8-11, 2019 Watch Mark KR6ZY – Hunting tape measure yagis and offset attenuators – DEF CON 27 Ham Radio Village [embedded content] Other DEF CON 27 talks can be found at https://www.youtube.com/user/DEFCONConference/videos

Grey line propagation provides surprisingly long distance radio communications at dawn and dusk sometimes when other forms of ionospheric propagation may not be expected to provide signal paths of these distances. This mode of propagation is widely used in ham radio, often providing signals from the other side of the …

ARRL reports on proposed changes to Beijing’s Measures for the Administration of Amateur Radio Stations which appear to threaten 136 kHz and most amateur bands above 146 MHz ARRL say: Lide Zhang, BI8CKU, told ARRL that the proposal would prohibit amateur operation on the 2200-meter band as well as on …

Ismo, OH2IS informs DX-World that he will be active as FJ/OH2IS from Saint Barthelemy during April 1-7, 2020. QRV on HF; CW, FT8 & SSB. QSL via OH2IS, LoTW, Club Log OQRS. Previous articleYJ0VK – Vanuatu Next articleTX4N & TX4VK – French Polynesia

01/09/2020 ARRL Puerto Rico Section Manager Oscar Resto, KP4RF, says small tremors continue on the island in the wake of the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the southwestern part of the island on January 7. A magnitude 5.8 quake struck a day earlier. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) …

01/08/2020 John Litz, NZ6Q, has been appointed as the ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section Manager to succeed Dan Pruitt, AE6SX, who died on December 27. Litz will complete the remaining term of office that runs through June 30, 2021. ARRL Radiosport and Field Services Manager Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, made the …

01/08/2020 The ARRL West Central Florida Section is marking its 20th anniversary this year. The Section newsletter, the WCF Presser, includes information on celebratory activities. A K4WCF special event in January will activate all 10 of the Section’s counties, with additional K4WCF special events later in the year. The West …