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12/24/2019 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will support slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions worldwide in memory of cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valery Bykovsky, and Sigmund Jaehn. Transmissions are scheduled to start at 1100 UTC on December 28 and continuing until 1820 on January 1. Transmissions will take place on …

12/23/2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that the OPS-SAT “flying laboratory” satellite lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket on December 18. According to ESA, the small, low-cost, test satellite was specifically designed for operational experimentation in space and includes the most powerful …

12/23/2019 The Canadian inventor, experimenter, and entrepreneur Reginald Fessenden has been credited as the inventor of radiotelephony. Fessenden claimed to have made his first voice — and music — broadcast on Christmas Eve in 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, although his account is disputed. As he has done each December …

Yuri, N3QQ informs his team have plans to be active from Adak Island, NA-039 (and possibly another rare IOTA) in June 2020. “..dates, tickets to Adak in hand..“, says Yuri. See here for full details. Furthermore, Yuri mentions the Russian Robinson Club (RRC) is now a non-profit corporation registered within …

Chris VE3FU / VO2AC, Frank VO1HP and Dave VE9CB / VO2AAA will be active in the 2020 CQ160 CW contest from the Point Amour Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada, on the South coast of the rare Labrador (LB) multiplier. Point Amour is located in the South East part …

UPDATE – Jon mentions he has now received his license and callsign. Look for HC2JKT during January 10-30, 2020. QRV on 40-6m, SSB only. QSL via EA1VE. NOVEMBER 24, 2019 – Jon EA1VE informs that he be active from Puná Island SA-034 as HC2/EA1VE in January 2020. Dates to be announced. …

12/21/2019 CAMSAT has announced that the CAMSAT CAS-6 amateur radio payload launched successfully on December 20, piggybacked on a TIANQIN-1 technology test satellite. “The satellite is currently in orbital testing,” CAMSAT’s Alan Kung, BA1DU, told ARRL on December 20. “The amateur radio payload is expected to be operational in about …

12/21/2019 Roanoke Division Director Bud Hippisley, W2RU, interviewed 108-year-old Cliff Kayhart, W4KKP, of White Rock, South Carolina — the oldest known radio amateur in the US — about his experiences in the US Army Signal Corps during World War II. An articulate and animated Kayhart recounted his deployment to the …