HAM News

Januari, 2020

  • 2 Januari

    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. …

  • 2 Januari

    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 …

  • 2 Januari

    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 …

  • 2 Januari

    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, …

  • 2 Januari

    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 …

  • 2 Januari

    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 …

  • 2 Januari

    Tony’s 10m Band Report

    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 …

  • 2 Januari

    VP8PJ – South Orkney Islands

    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, …

  • 2 Januari

    Europe 1 closure

    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

  • 1 Januari

    St.Barthelemy operation

    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 …