Amateur/Ham Radio News, 24-25 Feb 2019

Qatar OSCAR-100 web receiver now live
The BATC and AMSAT-UK 10 GHz Narrowband WebSDR and Wideband Spectrum Viewer for the amateur radio transponders on the Es’hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite are now available online

Radio ham who revolutionized the video game industry
IGN Entertainment have published an article about the African-American radio amateur Jerry Lawson WA6LVN who revolutionized the video game industry

Tate Gallery features Ham Radio as art
The impressive artwork ‘Ten Minute Transmission‘, featuring the amateur radio Kenwood TS-2000 transceiver and the International Space Station, is once again on display at the Tate Gallery in London

Ham radio club offers fun hobby, emergency capabilities
The Fort Polk Guardian asks What do you know about radio airwaves?
If you’re like most people, it’s probably not a lot

National Inwards QSL Bureau Volunteers sought (or is that SORT)
The WIA National Inwards Bureau, located at the WIA offices in Bayswater, is seeking expressions of interest from WIA members who would be willing to assist in the sorting and distribution of incoming QSL cards received at the Bureau

50th Anniversary AMSAT OSCAR Satellite Communications Achievement Award (Limited Edition) starts March 3rd
Get those uplinks ready! Much like the regular AMSAT OSCAR Satellite Communications Achievement Award, the 50th Anniversary Limited Edition is unique in that the award certificates will be printed on one of the original goldenrod paper stock certificates and signed by AMSAT’s founding President, Perry Klein, K3JTE (now W3PK)

Enter the InnovAntennas XR7 & XR7C
After the success of the XR6, InnovAntennas announce today the release of the new XR7 models

Foundations of Amateur Radio #194
More WSPR adventures – Previously I’ve spoken about the joy of making something out of not much. On that theme I’ve covered WSPR, the Weak Signal Propagation Reporter, a mechanism to use a modest station to report signals received, which is something any suitably interested person can participate in, no license required

WIA Board Comment WRC-19
In WIA News, Board Director Marcus Berg VK5WTF discusses preparation for the World Radio Conference WRC-19 which takes place in October and November

Carole Perry, WB2MGP, first recipient of educational award
ARRL congratulates Amateur Radio educator Carole Perry, WB2MGP, for being the first recipient of the newly established Carole Perry Educator of the Year Award, presented on February 9 by Orlando HamCation

Eire mobile phone coverage map
ComReg has released an online outdoor mobile phone coverage map allowing consumers to check mobile phone coverage and signal levels at locations throughout Eire

VK6WIA NewsWest
NewsWest is the Amateur Radio news that’s all about Amateur Radio, and it’s always about Amateur Radio in or of interest to Western Australia

Propagation de K7RA
No sunspots are visible since January 30. The lack of sunspot activity has persisted for over 3 weeks, as of February 21

Golden Globe Race: Penalty given for ham radio use
My Sailing reports a sailor in the Golden Globe around the world race has been given a penalty after using amateur radio to ask for weather routing information

World JOTA-JOTI 2018 Report published
With a goal of increasing JOTA-JOTI participation to three million, what were the numbers for 2018?  But as importantly, how were Scouts engaged in the largest annual Scouting event in the world?

Update on the Conference Preparatory Meeting for WRC-19
Bryan Rawlings, VE3QN, RAC Special Advisor, is once again in Geneva, Switzerland attending the latest Preparatory Meetings for the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19)

Winter Section Manager election results announced
Four new ARRL Section Managers have been declared elected in the just-concluded winter election cycle, and one incumbent Section Manager was re-elected to a new term

The Space Weather Woman
The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov

Atmospheric radiation update: Cosmic rays continue to increase
New data released by the Earth to Sky Calculus/Spaceweather.comhigh-altitude ballooning program show that atmospheric cosmic rays are intensifying for the 4th year in a row–an ironic side-effect of the decaying solar cycle

AO3MWC: Mobile World Congress 2019
21 February – 3 March this special event station will be on air thanks to Ràdio Club Barcelona, EA3RKB, echoing this first class international event hosted by the mobile world capital

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

Receiving the Es’hail-2 geostationary satellite
George Smart M1GEO has published an article about his experiences in receiving the amateur radio transponders on the Es’hail-2 geostationary satellite

ARRL adds JO-97, FO-99, QO-100 to LoTW configuration file
The ARRL has released version 11.7 of the Logbook of the Worldconfiguration file adding the ability to confirm QSOs made through JO-97, FO-99, and QO-100 via LoTW

NASA to provide coverage of SpaceX commercial crew flight test
NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for the SpaceX Demo-1 flight test to the International Space Station for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which is working with the U.S. aerospace industry to launch astronauts on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil for the first time since 2011

Digital Communications Conference – call for papers
Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), to be held September 20-22 at the Marriott Detroit Metro Airport Hotel