Southgate Amateur Radio Club News

DXpedition team hit multiple snags
The V6J team in Micronesia report: You may have already noticed that V6J suddenly went to QRT last night around 14 GMT

Large hole in the sun’s atmosphere faces Earth
A large hole has opened in the sun’s atmosphere and it is spewing a stream of solar wind toward Earth

An American in Dublin
Jarad KE8GBF from Northern Michigan will be visiting Dublin and surrounding areas. He would like to talk over the airwaves to as many hams in the country as possible

CommsDay pick-up on WIA disappointment
The professional web e-zine Communications Day has picked up the news story from the WIA that expressed disappointment with ACMA’s response to implementation of the Five Year Spectrum Spectrum Plan for amateurs

Thailand 3rd largest ham radio nation
As of February 2018, Thailand had the third highest number of licensed radio amateurs in the world with a total of 101,763

IARU Region 3 Conference documents available
The 17th IARU Region 3 Conference takes place in Seoul, Korea, September 10-14. The agenda and some discussion documents are now available for download

Upcoming ARISS contact with Shinoda Elementary School, Izumi City, Japan
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Shinoda Elementary School, Izumi City, Japan on 23 July

VK6WIA NewsWest
Welcome to NewsWest for 22nd July 2018. In this Contesting edition we’ll tell you about contests coming up, remind you about the ‘NewsWest Dinner on the Hamfest weekend, in fact we’ll be reminding you ABOUT Hamfest

QSO Today – Mike Mussler – AI8Z
Mike Mussler, AI8Z, is one of the early pioneers in the 630 Meter band experimental trials in 2007 that resulted in the band being opened for amateur radio exploration much later

Scotland site selected as launch base for Lockheed Martin, Orbex
Two companies — U.S. aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and British start-up Orbex — seeking to carve out a share of the burgeoning small satellite launch market, plan to fly their rockets from a remote site on the northern shore of Scotland, British government and industry officials announced Monday

RAC President attends annual ARRL Board meeting: July 21-22
The annual Board of Directors meeting of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), is underway in Windsor, Connecticut and will conclude today, Sunday, July 22

Foundations of Amateur Radio #163
The Contesting Coin Toss for the rest of us 
If you’ve been part of the amateur community for a while and have heard me talk on matters of contesting, you’ll know that I’m an avid contester and that for me, it’s better than sliced bread. Of course, I’m me and you’re not.

More ARRL contest award certificates now available for download
The ARRL Contest Branch has announced that more contest award certificates are now available for download from the ARRL website in PDF and JPEG formats. Just enter the call sign used

Spiders and space weather
Did you know that spiders can fly? New research shows that arachnids can launch themselves into the air using electric fields as a form of propulsion

France to slash public broadcasting budgets by €190m
The French government said Thursday that it would demand 190 million euros of spending cuts

Norfolk Island operation
Operators Takao JO7GVC and Hirokazu JK7LXU will be active as VK9/homecall from Norfolk Island (OC-005) between October 9-14th

Mayotte DXpedition
Members of the Czech DXpedition team (CDXP) will be active as TO6OK from Mayotte (AF-027) between September 20th and October 6th

Propagation de K7RA
Over three weeks of blank sun! Spaceweather.com reported 22 consecutive days with no sunspots as of Thursday, and there is nothing to indicate when sunspots will return