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Here are today’s top Amateur/Ham Radio news stories from the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club. The report covers the period 01 June 2018 through 03 June 2018. Views expressed in this news summary are those of the reporters and correspondents.
VK6WIA NewsWest
In this broadcast: It’s our CLUB FOCUS week, and we’ll hear from clubs around VK6 including Ham College and the NCRG, and of course – what’s been going on at WA Amateur Radio news
High-Altitude Balloon launch Tom, ZSL5341 reports that Binaryspace is doing another High-Altitude Balloon Launch from about 07:00 CAT on 9 June from the Leeukop Farm Airfield in Deneysville in South Africa’s Free State
HMAS Gladstone on-air this weekend The Observer newspaper reports radio amateur Ray Mulder VK4FRAL is using the call sign VK4GLA from HMAS Gladstone for International Museum Ships Weekend
ARRL on The Weather Channel
The ARRL’s Emergency Preparedness Manager speaks about the work of radio amateurs in past hurricanes and about preparations for the coming hurricane season
Foundations of Amateur Radio #156 The Internet of Digital Radio – The topic of how radio evolves and embraces available technology is one that describes the hobby itself. From spark-gap through AM, SSB and FM our community picked up or invented solutions to make communication possible
School STEM projects use Amateur Radio
An Amateur Radio-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiative at an Arizona elementary school culminated on May 22, as youngsters competitively deployed their own radio-controlled rovers to explore a simulated planet set up in the Sonoran Desert
Receive CubeSat signals for just $25 Eric Evenchick VA3EVK writes on Hackaday about the low-cost approach to CubeSat reception used by Thomas Cholakov N1SPY
All Hands On Deck…
This weekend you don’t need to ‘go down to the sea in ships’ to participate in a fun ‘world wide event.’
Back to homebrew Banbury Amateur Radio Society (BARS) has started a program to boost homebrew. This is in two parts, understanding components and practical understanding and building radio equipment
Summer rover announcement
Robert, KE4AL writes on the Amsat BB: As part of my plans to activate 43 grids this Summer, I will be operating from EN37 26-31 July, holiday style
BBC Radio 4 – The Bottom Line Will 5G revolutionise our lives? The next generation of mobile technology – 5G – will be rolled out from 2019. It will enable faster streaming on our mobile phones and tablets and speed up the ‘internet of things’, allowing thousands of computers to ‘talk’ to each other
F-TROOP
In last week’s WIA News, we told you of probably VK’s first Foundation Members net using the catchy moniker ‘F-TROOP.’ Now from the west wing comes news of VK’s longest RUNNING ‘new comers net.’
Propagation de K7RA
On May 30 at 0005 UTC the Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a warning: On 1 June geomagnetic activity is expected to increase to Active and Minor Storm levels due to arrival of the co-rotating interaction region and high-speed solar wind streams associated with the recurrent trans-equatorial coronal hole
News for Friday 1 June
Threat to key part of 70cm ham radio band in Belgium UBA report the Belgium Regulator BIPT is consulting on a proposal to restrict Amateur Radio access to 433.050 – 434.790 MHz in such a way that it will hardly be usable anymore
Hamvention Forum videos available
ARRL reports videos of some Hamvention 2018 forums are available in the YouTube Dayton Hamvention 2018 videos playlist
Upcoming Canadian Hamfests and Fleamarkets
The following events are featured on the RAC Events Database as of May 31, but please check the site frequently as new events are added and/or updated
RAST has booth at Friedrichshafen Ham Fair
This year’s international amateur radio exhibition takes place from June 1 to 3 at the fairgrounds in Friedrichshafen under the motto “Radio Scouting – The Adventure of Youth Amateur Radio.”
Submissions received for 5G spectrum
The New Zealand regulator, RSM, report submissions for the 5G discussion document have been published on the RSM website
Solar wind alert
NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% chance of minor G1-class geomagnetic storms on June 1st, increasing to 65% on June 2nd, when a stream of high-speed solar wind is expected to reach Earth
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 Notes:
You can find the latest Kilauea eruption and lava flow reports here:
Hawaii Island radio amateur should monitor the VOAD Repeater atop Mauna Kea (146.72 MHz, 100 Hz tone) and the 40 meter interisland net frequency of 7.088 MHz (LSB). These frequencies can be used to send emergency traffic if the need arises. Please keep up to date by listening to Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency messages broadcast over Hawaii Island radio stations and through the social media.
Darren (Stacy) Holbrook (KH6OWL) wants to write a human interest story about Hawaii Island radio amateurs who have first hand experience with the ongoing eruption and lava flow disaster. If you have lost your home or business to the lava flows or have evacuated from an endangered area, please contact Darren at his facebook address: https://www.facebook.com/hamradiohawaii or by using the comment form at the bottom of his blog: https://hamradiohawaii.wordpress.com Also, Darren has published a preliminary list of Hawaii State Field Day sites in his blog. You can find that article by scrolling through the right hand sidebar of this blog.
The Annual Emergency Preparedness Fair is coming to Waimea (Hawaii Island) on Saturday, 25 August 2018, from 0800 – 1200 HST. The public event is free and will be offered at the Mana Christian Ohana Hall across from the Kahilu Theatre. Event coordinator Jim Sugg (AH6AE) needs ham radio operators “to demo how ham radio works.” If you can help, please call Jim at (808) 747-4500.
