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Comment: Here are some of the top Amateur/Ham Radio news stories compiled by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club. Views expressed in this news summary are those of the reporters and correspondents. This report covers the period of 05 October 2018 through 09 October 2018.
News for Monday 8 October
Special event station GB0AUK
The special event station GB0AUK will be active on the amateur satellites at the AMSAT-UK Colloquium, part of the RSGB Convention, in Milton Keynes Oct 13-14
The station will be operational, as time permits, from Friday, October 12 until Sunday, October 14
Ham radio satellite list Mineo Wakita JE9PEL has made available a table of all amateur radio satellites in Word and Spreadsheet formats
DXCC Most Wanted The ‘DXCC Most Wanted‘ entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of October 6th. The list contain 340 entities and here are the top 10 entities
DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 30th September, through Sunday, 7th October there were 214 countries active
IOTA news from OPDX Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin
News for Sunday 7 October
Cassini-Huygens: Odyssey to Saturn and Titan
At 10:45am on Sunday, October 14, the Chair of the UK Space Agency Steering Board Professor David Southwood will give a presentation on the Cassini-Huygens mission to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium in Milton Keynes
The AMSAT-UK Colloquium is part of the RSGB Convention being held in Milton Keynes
SO Today – Stephen Hicks – N5AC Stephen Hicks, N5AC, is vice president of engineering for Flex Radio, is deep in to SDR or software defined radio, likes to chase grid squares in his microwave rover, and observes the growth and trends in our amazing amateur radio hobby
VK6WIA NewsWest
In today’s broadcast, we bring you:
News from the NZART, along with Promotion of the November VKFF Activation Weekend.
Onno brings us the impending death of FT8 Call – with the introduction on JS8, while Bob re-boots the FreeDV net
SARL Spring QRP Contest
The SARL Spring QRP Contest is on the air from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC on Saturday 13 October 2018 and you may use phone and CW with power output of 5 watts (PEP) output or less
NASA Television to air launch of NASA astronaut on first space mission
Astronaut Nick Hague KG5TMV, who joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 2013, is preparing to launch Thursday, Oct. 11, on his first space mission – a six-month stay on the International Space Station. The launch and arrival at the space station will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website
News for Saturday 6 October
Foundations of Amateur Radio #174 Random bits of wire … One topic that is longer than all other topics combined is that of antennas. Designing, planning, sourcing, building, tuning, using, you name it, all of this is regular fare in the day of a radio amateur. I’ve discussed the topic here regularly and no doubt I’ll revisit that when the mood or necessity takes me. One topic that is rarely discussed is that of failure
Ham Talk Live! Portable Satellite Operation
In episode 135 of the Ham Talk Live! show Patrick Stoddard WD9EWK/VA7EWKanswered questions about operating amateur radio satellites on the road
Presentations of the HAMNET Conference online
The DARC report on September 29, the 4th Hamnet Conference took place at the Hochschule Bremen and the presentations are now available for download
WIA News: Board highlight diversity and inclusion
Australia’s national amateur radio society, the WIA, say they aim to build a culture of inclusion for all groups within our community so, they feel part of this great hobby
Propagation de K7RA
Sunspots finally returned on September 29, after over two weeks with none
Coronal canyon faces Earth
A large canyon-shaped hole is bisecting the sun’s atmosphere, spewing a stream of solar wind toward Earth
News for Friday 5 October
ARRL, FCC discussing issue of uncertified imported VHF/UHF transceivers
ARRL report they have taken a minor exception to the wording of a September 24 FCC Enforcement Advisory pertaining to the importation, marketing and sale of VHF and UHF transceivers and is in discussion with FCC personnel to resolve the matter
It’s a ham radio thing
This event may be ahead of its time or a bust. On Saturday October 6, 2018, starting at 9 AM and ending at 1:00 PM. We will have an informal get together to talk about ham radio
SARL and AMSAT-SA VHF/UHF workshops
The first in the series of VHF/UHF workshops will be held at the SARL National Amateur Radio Centre on Saturday 20 October
Iceland: Ham radio course canceled
The national amateur radio society in Iceland, the IRA, had been hoping a training course would be run in Reykjavik in October but its been canceled due to lack of interest
HH2AA on the air
The Radio Club D’Haïti together with the RemoteHamRadio.com team will have a special event remote station on the air on a 6700′ (2042m) mountain in Obleon Haiti
Quake Contesters on Niue
Members of the Quake Contesters will be active as E6Y at Turtle Lodge in the Makefu area on Niue Island (OC-040) between October 6-15th
Christmas Island operation
Operators Chris G3SVL, Nigel G3TXF, David G3WGN, Mike G3WPH and Tony G2NF (all 6Gs Group members) will be active as VK9XG from Christmas Island between Oct 16-30th
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
Don’t forget the 2018 ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) on Saturday, 13 October 2018, from 0900 to 1200 HST.
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Aloha es 73 de
Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
Public Information Coordinator
Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section
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