Izzy’s videos
Izzy M6TZI has produced some introductory videos on amateur radio. She has made two so far, one on Waves and one on AM and FM Modulation

Amateur satellites on Ham Talk Live show
The Ham Talk Live show, broadcast December 28, featured AMSAT Vice-President Operations Drew Glasbrenner KO4MA

AMSAT SA Space Symposium – Proposals for papers
Some interesting subjects will be presented at the 2019 AMSAT SA Space Symposium to be held on Saturday 16 March 2019 in Gauteng

United States Special Event
To celebrate the 20th annual Ham Radio University educational conference and 2019 ARRL New York City Long Island Section Convention, look for club station W2HRU to be on-the-air from Sunday, December 30th, through the day of the event, Saturday, January 5th, 2019

Togo DXpedition
Members of EIDX Group will be active as 5V7EI from Main Street, Togo, between March 14-26th, 2019

ISS Fan Club closing down on January 1st 2019
After almost 17 years of service to the amateur radio community, the issfanclub.com site will shut down on January 1st 2019

QSO Today – Jonathan Naylor – G4KLX
Jonathan Naylor, G4KLX, pioneered the opening, to amateur radio operators, of D-Star and later other digital repeater modes including DMR and Yaesu system fusion by writing software that could be implemented on Arduino and Raspberry Pi hardware for the creation of multi-mode repeater and hotspot controllers

VK6WIA NewsWest
NewsWest for 30th December 2019 is the final edition for 2018. It’s a special programme to look at what we got up to and what’s ahead of us

Soyuz flight deploys amateur radio satellites
The Soyuz flight on December 27th carrying a pair of Kanopus V remote sensing satellites also deployed two German Orbital Systems D-Star ONE satellites: D-Star ONE – Sparrow and D-Star ONE – iSat

In-Orbit test (IOT) of Es’hail-2 AMSAT P4-A transponders
AMSAT-DL notes that the In-Orbit testing (IOT) of the P4-A ham radio transponders on Es’hail-2 have started

Ham Talk Live podcast featuring KO4MA
If you missed the Ham Talk Live show featuring Amsat’s Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, on December 27 you can play back a recording of this episode

AM stations fall silent
Chris Greenway has tweeted about the closure of AM Medium Wave stations in Belgium and the Netherlands on December 31

VK6WIA NewsWest
NewsWest for 30th December 2019 is the final edition for 2018. It’s a special programme to look at what we got up to and what’s ahead of us

Spotless sun sparks geomagnetic storm
Solar Minimum is in full swing. No sunspots? No problem

January-February 2019 eTCA now avaliable
The Canadian Amateur  (TCA), Canada’s premiere national magazine devoted to Amateur Radio, is published six times per year and is the membership journal of the Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC)

Propagation de K7RA
No sunspots over our reporting week, December 20-26, so compared to the previous seven days average daily sunspot number declined from 3.4 to 0

Foundations of Amateur Radio #186
QRP EME project update #1 
Over the past year and a half I’ve been working on a secret project. Today I’d like to share what I’ve been up to

Ham Radio Kids Day January 5
The Times News report on amateur radio Kids Day that takes place Saturday January 5

HRN 408: PhasingRadioLineNow
Marty KC1CWF is in the house! We talk Ham Radio, his visit to Los Angeles and plans for 2019!

WIA Board Comment
Although some 3 broadcasts since our last WIA Board Comment, when President Justin VK7TW brought us up to speed on WIA activity a Christmas Message from the board was posted on the main wia.org.au site

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