Not a great deal of activity this past week. Nice to see MM5DWW top on Saturday. His Optibeam is a popular resting place! Just one report this week from Patrick, ON4ARJ.On Sunday worked OH1TP -10dB using FT8. I worked no-one on 10m! Most popular DX (three or more contacts, any …

South Orkney Islands DX-peditionVP8PJ(AN-008) We are pleased to announce the call sign for the Perseverance DX Group’s expedition South Orkney 2020 will be changed to VP8PJ. In past years it was relatively easy to get a preferred VP8 call sign for the British Antarctic Territory. After a licensing administrative change, …

Europe 1 on 183 kHz closed 32 minutes before midnight CET (23:00 UTC) last night after 64 years on air. The longwave band in Europe is getting increasingly quieter. • Our thanks to Mike Terry for the above information

Col, MM0NDX, from DX-World.net, reports the following update:“A team has now been formed and will be QRV from St. Barts during early May 2020. “Since FJ is very wanted in Asia, focus will be given to that region. Our QTH is a hilltop villa with good take-off to difficult to …

Robert, W0YBS, will be active as V31CO from Caye Caulker Island (NA-105) starting February 1st (2020), for 3 weeks. Activity will be on various HF bands using CW, RTTY and FT8. Robert bought a condo on the Island of Caye Caulker in October of 2019. He plans on being active …

Happy New Year from all of us here at SARC! Here is the January/February 2020 SARC Communicator newsletter: This edition has 75 pages of projects, news, views, and reviews from the SW corner of Canada. – VY0ERC: What is life like at the farthest north Amateur Radio Club in Canada?– …

Sergey, RX3AMY, will be active as 8Q7BS from Mahibadhoo and Maafushi Islands, Maldives (AS-013), January 3-23rd (2020). Activity will be holiday style and with periodical work, operating mainly on 40 and 20 meters SSB (possibly CW), using a Yaesu FT-897 transceiver with dipoles. QSL via his home callsign

The Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are holding a registration evening on the 7th of January 2020 from 18:30 onwards for both foundation and intermediate licence exams. Foundation exam set for Saturdays the 1st and 8th of February and the Intermediate 10 week course set to begin on Wednesday the 19th …

Essex Ham’s free online Foundation training courses have restarted, and have been updated to support the new 2019 RSGB exam syllabus In 2019, close to 400 people took part in one of these courses. The courses are free, take place in an online classroom, and require 2-3 hours of study …

Ian 2E0IJH has updated the RSGB EMC 07 leaflet ‘Earthing and the Radio Amateur’ to reflect the fact that Gas and Water pipes no longer require bonding if supplied by plastic service pipes as they have no reference to Earth RSGB EMC 07 Earthing and the Radio Amateur v4 is …