PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1301
Release Date: January 27, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week…
Category: News
Via the ARRL: Heil Ham Radio Donates Equipment to W1AW
The Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, W1AW, at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, has received a…
Via AMSAT: ANS-035 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins for February 4, 2024
AMSAT News Service ANS-035 February 4, 2024 In this edition: AO-92 Reenters Earth’s Atmosphere The…
Via AMSAT: AMSAT CubeSatSim Beta Release – v1.3
You might have heard about it or seen it at Hamvention or Symposium, but the…
Via the ARRL: The First Amateur Radio Station on the Moon, JS1YMG, is Now Transmitting
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully landed their Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM)…
Via AMSAT: Request to Reconsider Decommissioning of IO-117 Under Evaluation by Italian Space Agency
AMSAT News Service Special Bulletin ANS-033 February 2, 2024 In this edition: Request to Reconsider…
February Tonight@8 webinar
The RSGB’s next Tonight@8 live webinar is on Monday 5 February. Gwyn Griffiths, G3ZIL will present a presentation called “Propagation at...
British Science Week resources
The RSGB is collecting resources to help you get involved with British Science Week, which runs from 8 to...
Exam prices to change
The RSGB is being affected by higher-than-inflation increases across the exam processes. The Society is not passing this total...
RSGB elections – nominations now closed
Nominations for the one Board Director and eight Regional Team posts closed at 23.59 on 31 January 2024 Our...
via HACKADAY: No Dish? Try a Portable Weave Helix Antenna
When you think of satellite communications, you probably think of a dish. But that’s…
Dead Electrical Dudes No. 1
KA4KOE’s look back at James Maxwell.
Radio operators swap stories, gear at Midwest Hamfest (Illinois)
Ham radio operators from across the Midwest did something in Collinsville on Saturday that they…
If the grid goes down, amateur (ham) radio works when all else fails (Georgia)
I don’t necessarily consider myself a “prepper,” but I do like to be prepared in…
Ham radio expedition to remote island includes Vatican representative (Kentucky)
For the last two weeks of January, the Vatican City State flag flapped in the…
Meet the company that sells your lost airplane luggage
…Back in 1970, a man named Hugo Doyle Owens was at a crossroads. Born and…
Sunspot AR3559 has erupted
Departing sunspot AR3559 erupted Monday morning, Jan 29th (0438 UT), producing a strong M6.8-class solar flare. NASA’s…
Via the ARRL: Dr. Philip Erickson, W1PJE, New Director of MIT Haystack Observatory
ARRL Member and active radio amateur Dr. Philip Erickson, W1PJE, is the new director of…
Proposal for a Geostationary Microwave Amateur Radio Payload
The aim of this paper is to discuss the mission concepts and broad technical requirements…
via the RSGB: Presentations released on VHF airborne radar and WRTC 26
The RSGB has released a further three presentations from its 2023 Convention. In the first, Professor Simon…
Amateur Radio in Space: Unveiling the 8AAT STEM Cubesat Robotics Camps (Ontario)
On January 31st, the Seaway Valley Amateur Radio Club will have a guest speaker to discuss…
Via the ARRL: YLISSB Celebrates 61 Years On the Air
February 8, 2024, marks the 61st anniversary of the YL System, now known as the…
FCC Will Add Vehicles for Pirate Radio Enforcement
To help fight pirate radio, the Federal Communications Commission hired four full-time people in fiscal…
Build a radio workshops for British Science Week
As part of its British Science Week activities, the RSGB is organising two build-a-radio workshops at Bletchley Park on...
Presentations released on VHF airborne radar and WRTC 26
The RSGB has released a further three presentations from its 2023 Convention. In the first, Professor Simon Watts, G3XXH...