Foundations of Amateur Radio
When you join a new community you learn very quickly that each community has its own language. A word in one community has a different or extra meaning in another. For example, the word “Snowflake” in one community might refer to a phenomenon related to water and freezing, in another community it refers to a person who is sensitive, easily hurt and offended. If you mix the two meanings all manner of misunderstanding ensues

Ham radio featured in ITU News Magazine
Self-training, intercommunication and technical investigations: the amateur service in the 21st Century

Australia: WIA board comment
In this week’s WIA News Director Peter VK8ZZ looks at the purposes of amateur radio and proposed changes to the amateur radio licenses

India: Record number of new ham radio licenses in 2018/19
Jose Jacobs VU2JOS reports the officers and staff of the Amateur Cell, WPC Wing, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued a record number of new amateur radio licenses in the 2018/19 financial year

LimeRFE for ham radio bands
LimeRFE is a software-definable RF front end module for LimeSDR platforms. A limited number of reduced-cost boards are being made available without Cellular but with the Amateur Radio bands

Minor geomagnetic storm warning
A large hourglass-shaped hole in the sun’s atmosphere is facing Earth and spewing solar wind in our direction. Estimated time of arrival: August 5th-6th

ITU News and Amateur Radio
Far too much for me to include with this submission – The latest copy of ITU News Magazine is good news for Amateur Radio

St. Paul Island DXpedtion
The CY9C DXpedition team are active until August 8th. Activity is on 160-6 meters using CW, SSB, EME, FT8 and the Satellites

Retrotechtacular: The Oscar 7 satellite died and was reborn 20 years later
If I were to ask you what is the oldest man-made orbiting satellite still in use, I’d expect to hear a variety of answers. Space geeks might mention the passive radar calibration spheres, or possibly one of the early weather satellites. But what about the oldest communication satellite still in use?

SSA defense of 23cm band against Galileo threat
Sweden’s national amateur radio society SSA has sent a supplementary letter to the communications regulator PTS ahead of the next meeting of the CEPT ECC Conference Preparatory Group CPG-19

Satellite challenge
Many of you probably were not at Hamvention when we announced this at the ARISS forum and the AMSAT forum, but if you want a ‘real’ challenge, AMSAT and ARISS are working on the design of a ham radio system for the Lunar Gateway

Book author goes to the moon
MX0CNS, The Essex Dx Group in collaboration with EssexHam on the 27th of July sent a greetings message 384.000km to the moon and back for Dr David Whitehouse, author of the book ‘Apollo 11 the inside story’

CW OPS Open Contest
The CW Open for 2019 is now just around the corner. As in the past, the CW Open is scheduled for the first weekend of September. By the time you read this article it is less than 4 weeks away

HamSphere 4.0 SSB British contest 2019
Beam your antennas to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey), gather as many big grids from UK as possible

The Space Weather Woman
A Coronal Hole Triple Play- The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

The Internet’s Impact on International Radio
Radio Today: Many broadcasters saved money by moving from high-power shortwave transmissions to the web. But at what cost?

Laindon Radio Club
The Laindon Radio Club will be holding a Display and Discussion night on the 30th August – and will welcome visitors and members alike

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

ARISS SSTV transmissions
ARISS is planning SSTV transmissions to begin on August 1 at 09:40 UTC and to end at 18:15 UTC on August 4

Be alert for Perseid fireballs
Earth is entering a stream of debris from giant Comet Swift-Tuttle, source of the annual Perseid meteor shower

T6, Afghanistan update
Robert, S53R (ex-YA5T), will once again be in Kabul starting in the beginning of September and may continue until the summer 2021. He will be there for two years working with the UN World Food Program

RSM traces an activated unregistered personal locator beacon
Recently, the Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC) in New Zealand asked RSM for help locating an unregistered Personal Locator Beacon (PLB). The PLB was successfully located due to the capability of the RSM compliance team

Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Operators Manfred/DK1BT, Wolf/DL4WK, Annette/DL6SAK, Sigi/DL7DF, Frank/DL7UFR, Jan/SP3CYY and Leszek/SP3DOI will be active as TO80SP from Saint Pierre and Miquelon (NA-032) between October 2-14th

2018 Cass Awards
Janusz Wegrzyn, SP9FIH has won the 2018 Single-Operator Cass Award.
The 3C0W team has won the 2018 Unlimited Cass Award. Sponsored by Club Log, DXLab, and the Northern California DX Club, the Cass Awards encourage DXpedition operating excellence by recognizing DX- peditions that work the most unique callsigns