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New IARU Region 2 HF Beacon Coordinator named
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 Executive Committee has named Dennis Stice, WI5V, of Oklahoma City, as the new HF Beacon Coordinator for the region. Former Region 2 HF Beacon Coordinator Bill Hayes, WJ5O, stepped down on January 19, after 10 years in that position
Amateur radio operators gather for Hamfest
NBC TV news reports amateur radio vendors and operators gathered last weekend to discuss evolving technical aspects of the field that help with emergency backup communications
Deutscher Amateur Radio Club - IOTA news
Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
AREDN donates Mesh Networking equipment to ARRL
The Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (AREDN) project team has donated several pieces of High-Speed Multimedia Mesh (HSMM) hardware to the ARRL Laboratory
Iceland updates ham radio regs
The Iceland Radio Amateurs (IRA) site says the regulator PFS has updated the Amateur Radio regulations
'It's like Frankenstein's lab': Massive 78-year-old transmitter for sale
A piece of radio history could be yours for $5,000. A 1940 RCA 50 kW shortwave transmitter, located at the decommissioned Radio Canada International site in Sackville, is up for sale
What happens to discarded rocket boosters and old satellites?
Rockets routinely drop stages on their way to orbit, and you might wonder what happens to these spent piece of space hardware when they fall back?
Callum Stockley joins Icom UK’s Marketing Department
Icom UK are pleased to announce that Callum Stockley joins the marketing department as their new Marketing Assistant
PicSat requests Ham Radio assistance to capture/upload telemetry
The Cubesat PicSat was launched on the same PSLV-C40 flight from India that delivered AO-92 to orbit
Foundation Online Course Statistics
Essex Ham have published the figures for the 14 free online amateur radio Foundation courses which were run in 2017
ICQ Podcast Episode 258 - Getting Ready for the Six Metre Season
In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX and Bill Barnes N3JIX to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episode’s feature is Getting ready for the six-metre season
AO-92 Commissioning: HERCI Experiment and L-Band Downshifter
AMSAT North America reports on the testing of the L-Band Downshifter on the recently launched AO-92 CubeSat providing a 1267 to 435 MHz FM transponder
VK6 IOTA
Craig VK5CE is pleased to announce his next DXpedition will be to three IOTAs in Western Australia
Southern Ireland Repeater Group
It recently became necessary to relocate the 70cm repeater EI7BWR on 430.875 to an alternative site due to a change of site owners who were not as accommodating to amateur radio
3Y0Z Bouvet DXpedition news
We had an uneventful traverse of the Straits of Magellan, and are currently just southeast of the Falkland Islands, making approximately 11 knots
DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 14th January, through Sunday, 21st January there were 217 countries active
IOTA News from OPDX
Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin
Pico-Balloon from Argentina
AMSAT Argentina has informed SARL News that they launched a Pico-Balloon on Friday 19 January that is heading towards South Africa
ZS30SRC - Celebration of 30 years in Amateur Radio
The Secunda Amateur Radio Club, ZS6SRC, is celebrating its 30th anniversary from Saturday 20 to Sunday 28 January with a week of DXing on six HF bands using the special call sign ZS30SRC. QSL via the operator's instructions
ARISS contact with Naka Junior High School, Kakamigahara City, Japan
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Naka Junior High School, Kakamigahara City, Japan on 22 Jan