Southgate Amateur Radio Club News

VRT withdraws slur against radio amateurs
Belgium’s Flemish broadcaster VRT falsely said radio amateurs were likely responsible for the transmission of fictional traffic information to vehicle dashboard screens

QSO Today – John Nowacki – W3NA
John Nowacki, W3NA, was a teenager in the early sixties when he won a contest to name a popular amateur radio line of antennas that are still sold today

FCC dismisses ARRL, AMSAT requests in Small Satellite proceeding
An FCC Report and Order (R&O) released August 2 in the so-called ‘small satellite’ rulemaking proceeding, IB Docket 18-86, failed to address concerns expressed by ARRL and AMSAT

SARL RF Noise Workshop
The SARL RF Noise Workshop will be held at the National Amateur Radio Centre on Saturday 28 September. This workshop is presented in partnership with AMSAT SA

Pirates On US Navy Satellites – UHF SatCom
Here we take a look at how to listen to the Brazillian Pirates on UHF SatCom

SARL HF Digital Contest this afternoon
The second contest in the SARL HF Contest series is the Digital Contest taking place from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC this afternoon (Sunday) with RTTY and PSK activity on 80, 40 and 20 meters

BBC increases Kashmir service on shortwave
The BBC World Service has stepped up shortwave broadcasts to Jammu and Kashmir during the media shutdown in the region

Foundations of Amateur Radio
What’s in a Watt?
We need more power. I’m giving her all she’s got, Captain! She cannae take anymore.
I’m sure your Scottish ancestors are rolling in their graves right now, but in our community of radio amateurs we have a tendency to advocate the use of more power. More power fixes all problems and hides all sins

Threat to Amateur Radio 23cm band
A joint paper to be submitted to the CEPT CPG meeting in Ankara by France, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia and The Netherlands attacks the continued use by Radio Amateurs of our 1240-1300 MHz band

France: National societies send joint statement to regulator
France’s national Amateur Radio societies AMSAT-F, DR @ F, URCand REF have written to ANFR’s International Affairs Department regarding the 50, 144, 1240 MHz and 5 & 47 GHz Amateur Radio bands

WIA Director highlights ham radio spectrum threats
WIA Director Aidan VK4APM highlights the threats the Amateur Radio and Amateur Satellite Services face from commercial interests keen to grab our spectrum

144 and 1240 MHz threats: IARU submits papers
The IARU has submitted two papers to the CEPT ECC Conference Preparatory Group (CPG) meeting which takes place in Ankara, Turkey on August 26-30, 2019

QO-100 geostationary satellite talk at Hamfest 2019
Paul Marsh M0EYT gave a presentation titled ‘All you need to know to get going on Es’hail-2 / QO-100 geostationary satellite’ at Hamfest 2019 in Dorset on Sunday, August 11

Radio amateur adventure weekend of Western Slavs
We are happy to announce an additional YOTA Sub-regional event for 2019. The camp is mostly meant to get to know each other

Propagation de K7RA
No sunspots were visible over the recent reporting week, Thursday through Wednesday, August 8 through 14

World’s first FT8 contact on 122 GHz
Roland Lang, VK4FB, and Stefan Durtschi, VK4CSD, completed what is being claimed as the world’s first FT8 contact on 122 GHz

The spectacular end of Longijang-2 moon mission
The last commands to Longijang-2 Moon Orbiting Satellite were sent from the from OM Reinhard, DK5LA, during a thunderstorm with lightning strikes nearby his antennas before the satellite crashed on to the moon surface!!

The Space Weather Woman
A Coronal Hole Blows, A Perseid Shower, & Mars – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

Amazon Forest operation
Daniel ‘JD’, IK2SGL, and his XYL have moved to a location in the Amazon Forest, Peru. They are international volunteers in a world-wide education program which contacst and helps the indigenous people of the region: the Awajun people

Radio hams combine hobby with serving the community
KOMU TV carried a news item about the public service role of radio amateurs in Jefferson City

RSGB-Workshop email reflector
A new email group has been created for supporting, discussing and developing technical content based around RadCom and related published articles

INDEXA Newsletter
The Summer 2019 Issue of the INDEXA Newsletter is now available to download

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