Desember, 2019

• 22 Desember

  Roanoke Division Director Interviews Oldest US Radio Amateur

  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 …

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• 22 Desember

  Christmas Carols to be Broadcast on HF from Antarctica

  12/21/2019 A program of Christmas carols will be broadcast from Antarctica on Christmas Eve. The transmissions on 7995 kHz USB will begin on December 23 at 2300 UTC, coordinated by McMurdo Communications Operations (MacOps) — known as “The Voice of Antarctica.” Each year, the station’s residents celebrate the holiday by singing …

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• 20 Desember

  The K7RA Solar Update

  12/20/2019 Still no sunspots, and it’s been the same for 37 consecutive days. Geomagnetic conditions remained quiet, until “a minor stream of solar wind” (according to Spaceweather.com) hit us on December 18. This drove the planetary A index to 13 from the low single digit values earlier in the week. …

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• 20 Desember

  China to Launch CAMSAT CAS-6 Satellite on December 20

  12/19/2019 The CAMSAT CAS-6 amateur radio payload is set for launch on Friday, December 20, at 0321 UTC from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, piggybacked on a TIANQIN-1 technology test satellite, using a CZ-4B launch vehicle. The primary launch payload is the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite CBERS-4A. The microsatellite, to …

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• 20 Desember

  Over-the-Horizon Radars Causing Widespread Interference on 40 Meters

  12/19/2019 Over-the-horizon (OTH) radars continue to plague various amateur radio bands. Those operating on exclusive ham radio allocations have been complaining for years, but military systems have a blanket waiver to use amateur radio frequencies. The latest edition of the International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring System (IARUMS) newsletter reports that …

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