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Here is the latest Amateur/Ham Radio news summary from the Southgate Amateur Radio Club. Views expressed in this article are those of the reporters and correspondents.
News for Sunday 25 March
Satellite Show in Palm Springs May 15, 2018
ARRL-registered Instructor Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his ‘Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT’ multimedia session at the May 15, 2018 regular monthly meeting of the Desert RATS amateur radio club of Palm Springs, California. All are welcome to attend
QSO Today – DuWayne Schmidlkofer, KV4QB DuWayne Schmidlkofer, KV4QB, is one of the amazing creators of homebrew projects from conception to the finished package. He uses microcontrollers combined with RF circuitry to make some pretty cool and mostly inexpensive projects
Three SA contests for the start of April
The first leg of the popular SARL 80 metre QSO Party is on the air from 17:00 to 20:00 UTC on Thursday 5 April 2018 with phone activity between 3 603 and 3 650, and 3 700 and 3 800 kHz
VP6D Ducie Island 2018 DXpedition
Joining the team is Ken Karr, NG2H. A CW enthusiast, Ken was most recently a member of the VK0EK Heard Island 2016 DXpedition team
Mission Goodwill Kosovo story at Visalia
The Mission Goodwill Kosovo is ever thankful and delighted to have been invited to present the heartbreaking – and regrettable – story of “The Republic of Kosovo and Z60A” at the Visalia International DX Convention over the weekend of April, 20 thru 22
Rallies and Hamfests Check-out the latest additions to G4RGA’s comprehensive rally and hamfest guide
Foundations of Amateur Radio #146 Coax Loss vs Connector Loss– now with more coax
Recently I spent some time discussing the losses associated with connectors between your radio and your antenna. The traditional wisdom, and I use the word “wisdom” ironically, says that each connector introduces loss into the feed line. There is an understanding that the more connectors you have the worse it is and the more loss you have
Israeli 60m permits now available on yearly basis For several years Israeli Amateurs have had access to 8 three kilohertz-wide channels at 5 MHz by means of personal permits. Permission was initially valid from the application approval date until mid March 2014. Permits are now renewable in April of each year
Good news for Thai contest operators Tony, HS0ZDX, RAST Liaison Officer, reports to members and friends of the RAST: There is good news for contest operators
Maker community in Shenzhen Future Cities, a full-length documentary strand from WIRED video, looks inside the bustling city of Shenzhen
Attracting more women to Amateur Radio
Following International Women’s Day, Kimberly Olsen VK2KMI spent some time researching how to attract more women to amateur radio
9-year-old radio ham in ISS link-up
Keen radio amateur Archie Toy VK3FTOY encouraged his school to arrange a link-up with the International Space Station (ISS)
Ham radio uptake and retention
Wireless Institute of Australia Board Director David Ford VK4MZ suggests ways we can improve amateur radio uptake and retention
Propagation de K7RA
At 2332 UTC on March 22 the Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning for this weekend, March 24 and 25
DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Friday, 16th March, through Friday, 23rd March there were 224 countries active
IOTA news from OPDX Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin
New HackSpace magazine available for download
Issue 5 of the free magazine HackSpace has an article about Limor Fried AC2SN (aka LadyAda) of electronics company Ada Fruit as well as a Dr Lucy Rogers M6CME article “Share the knowledge”
Ofcom allow use of mobile phone repeaters
Ofcom has confirmed the making of regulations that will allow people to use certain types of ‘mobile phone repeaters’, without the need for a licence
2018 WIA Radio and Electronics Convention and AGM
Don’t forget that registrations are now open for the 2018 WIA Radio and Electronics Convention and AGM. You can register today via the online registration form on the WIA website
Essex Ham in the press
The Southend Standard and Basildon Standard newspapers report radio amateurs from Essex Ham were at the Raspberry jam event to celebrate the computer’s birthday
Mills On The Air You could help bring some life back into Australia’s heritage mills by joining the mills-on-the-air scheme. Once thought of as a mainly UK event, the scheme has spread to Europe, and since last year, has Australia as a member
DX News from the ARRL
The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands
Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio activities:
Source: Big Island Amateur Radio Club March 2018 Newsletter.
Everyone is invited to the HPP Radio Day on Saturday, 28 April 2018, 0900-1600 HST, at the Hawaii Paradise Park Community Center, 17th and Maku’u Drive in the Puna District. According to coordinator Mike Stratton (KH6PAC), “We want to let everyone know that the event is open to all hams, especially the newest ham operators.” For details, email Mike at jefffan@hotmail.com.
You still have time to sign up for the Big Island Amateur Radio Club’s (BIARC) QTH.NET Email Listserve. According to coordinator Les Hittner (K0BAD), “The main advantage of using such a listserve is that you do not have to individually maintain a list of club-member email addresses in order to enter into important conversations related to club operations…the listserve provides a secure means of sending club email.” To register for the listserve, please send an email to lhittner@hbci.com.
General Comments:
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Please send your Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio news items to kh6jrm@arrl.net at least two weeks prior to your event so I can notify our local print and broadcast media in a timely manner.
