Special callsigns mark year of tragedy and bravery
1968 was a tragic year for New Zealand shipping, with the loss of the ferry Wahine and the grain ship Maranui plus a fire at sea aboard the liner Gothic

VK6WIA NewsWest
Welcome to NewsWest. It’s been a week since we devoured more hot cross buns and easter eggs than were good for us. Doesn’t time fly?

Germany – up to 10 million people could be hit by threatened radio shut down
The airwaves across many parts of Germany could fall silent next week due to a financial dispute between radio stations and an FM broadcasting provider

QSO Today Fred Cady KE7X
Fred Cady, KE7X, took his love of radio and electronics as far as he could go – that was to a PHD in Electronic Engineering where he settled into teaching at Montana State University

Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club to partner with the National Park Service for amateur radio special event station W2E
The Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) will partner with the National Park Service with a special event amateur radio station to be held at the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in Paterson, NJ

SARL Electronic Voting System now available to test
The new SARL Electronic Voting System is now online and available for testing by SARL members

Foundations of Amateur Radio #148
Experience comes from doing …
During the week a friend reminded me that the process of determining what’s happening within a shack comes with experience

A hole in the sun’s atmosphere
An unusually wide hole in the sun’s atmosphere is facing Earth and spewing a stream of solar wind toward our planet. Estimated time of arrival: April 9th

Major Rove Announcement!
Announcing a major rove for satellite operators; the Springtime Rove to The Great White North!

VK Shires Contest manager needed
The March 2018 meeting of the WIA Board has just been finalised. At that meeting the board accepted this committee’s recommendations to conduct the Trans-Tasman Contest and the VK Shires contests under the banner of the WIA

National Seashore to host events commemorating Titanic, Marconi
The Cape Cod National Seashore will host two events commemorating wireless communication and the role it played to rescue survivors from the sinking of the Titanic

N.Z.A.R.T. Conference
Otago Branch 30 are your hosts for this year’s annual N.Z.A.R.T. Conference and cordially invites members and partners to join with us to celebrate the 92nd conference and also our own 90th year of operation

Propagation de K7RA
We only saw sunspots over two days of this past week, March 30 and 31 when the daily sunspot numbers were 11 and 12. There were no sunspots during the previous week, so the average daily sunspot number rose from 0 to 3.3

First UK 136 kHz ham radio transatlantic contact with USA
The ARRL reports UK radio amateur Chris Wilson 2E0ILY made what may be the first 136 kHz (2200m) transatlantic contact with a radio ham in the USA operating under FCC Part 97

End of mission for PicSat satellite
PicSat, launched January 12, carried an amateur radio FM transponder. Unfortunately following a loss of communications in March the team has had to announce the end of the mission

Could ham radio clubs embrace ‘Hour of Circuits’ program?
Dan Romanchik KB6NU shares his thoughts on what an amateur radio club might do as part of its public service remit

ARRL seeks new CEO
The ARRL is looking for what will be its 3rd Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in just over 2 years

RSGB supporting clubs to encourage growth and participation
Clubs around the country are doing great things to encourage new people into amateur radio and to help current radio amateurs to develop their skills at all levels. The RSGBprovides a range of services to support clubs in these activities

Customer left with unwanted antenna after company collapse
Stoke-on-Trent newspaper The Sentinel reports on a radio enthusiast, Simon Blight, who found himself stuck with an antenna he doesn’t want

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