01/02/2020 Members of the Warren County (New York) Amateur Radio Club (W2WCR) will activate Maxim Memorial Station W1AW for Winter Field Day 2020 over the January 25 – 26 weekend. Winter Field Day is sponsored by the Winter Field Day Association (WFDA), which believes that emergency communication is important throughout the year. …
Read More »MIT Radio Society W1MX Announces January Lecture Series on “Everything Radio”
01/02/2020 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Radio Society (W1MX) and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are hosting a lecture series in January that may answer some of your questions about such topics as radar techniques, interferometry, imaging, and radio astronomy, to antenna design and modern chip-scale RF devices. No …
Read More »IOTA news from the DARC
Island activities: IOTA QRGsCW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHzSSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AN-011; various, Antarctica: Felix/DL5XL operates as DP1POL duringJanuary and February from the German Neumayer III Station (WAPDEU-08, DLFF-0022) on HF and QO-100 (CW). QSL via DL1ZBO (d/B),LoTW. http://www.waponline.it …
Read More »AMSAT at the Thunderbird Hamfest
AMSAT will be at the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club‘s annual hamfest on the morning of Saturday, 11 January 2020. The hamfest will be at Glendale Nazarene Church, at the northwest corner of 59th Avenue and Cactus Road in Glendale, Arizona. More information about the hamfest is available at: http://www.tbirdfest.org/ Information …
Read More »Yahoo Groups shutdown – Radio ham preserves archives
ARRL reports that on hearing of the Yahoo Groups shutdown Andy Majot K5QO took the initiative to download archives of Yahoo Groups devoted to individual amateur radio gear and upload them to his website “I hope to have them hosted in perpetuity for future hams to use,” Majot told ARRL. …
Read More »Update on the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) program
There have been some recent developments with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) program in Canada. First, a bit of background. There are four levels of ARES organization: National, Section, District and Local. Sections are geographically-based administrative units organized to deliver RAC services to non-government organizations and governments through the …
Read More »Hamilton veteran wants to revive ham radio
CBC News report how amateur radio was used to connect Canadian soldiers abroad with families at home In 1978, John David was surprised to discover — upon calling his parents in Hamilton, Ont. from the Golan Heights — that a five-minute conversation cost $20, a hefty chunk of change for …
Read More »Region-1 144 MHz tropo record now extended to 4,776 kms
Over the last week, there has been some remarkable conditions on the VHF bands allowing lots of DX contacts across Europe. While this is in itself nothing new, it has coincided with a sea duct running down as far as the west coast of Africa. On the 28th of December, …
Read More »Radio ham receives Memorial Trophy
The Bury Times reports an inspirational radio amateur was presented with a new award to honour a long-serving treasurer who died one year ago The newspaper reports: Sean Redmond M7DOS was the first recipient of Bury Radio Society’s memorial trophy, given for his proactive role in promoting the club during …
Read More »AmateurLogic 2019 New Year’s Eve live stream incident
This is the raw, unedited video from the New Years Eve 2019 live stream. It is over 6 hours long contains plenty of bloopers and mishaps (the kind of stuff you’ve come to expect from us). The first 2 hours are a replay of an earlier episode and the team …
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