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News for Sunday 18 August
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
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
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
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
VK6WIA NewsWest
NewsWest for Sunday 18th August 2019, is the New Amateurs Edition where we give our attention to new Amateurs, and those seeking to join the hobby
In the regular New Hams segment Bob talks about wire antennas for beginners
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
Propagation de K7RA
No sunspots were visible over the recent reporting week, Thursday through Wednesday, August 8 through 14
News for Friday 16 August
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
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
Alan (AD6E/KH6TU) reminds us about the Hawaii QSO Party from 24 – 25 August 2019. “The HQP will run from 0400Z 24 August to 0359Z 26 August. Translated, that’s 6 pm HST Friday through 5:59 pm Sunday. Work as many stations on as many bands and modes as you can. You can find the rules here: http://www.hawaiiqsoparty.org/Rules/HQP/HQPRules-2019-A.html
Doug Wilson (KH7DQ) is offering one more free Technician License Class this year. The class begins Thursday, 17 October 2019 at the Keaau Community Center in Keaau, Hawaii Island. For details, contact Doug at douscelle@aol.com
“Grid Madness 2019”, the Hawaii Island-based VHF/UHF Simplex Contest, is set for Sunday, 15 September 2019, from 1300 to 1700 HST. You can find the revised contest package here: https://gridmadness.blogspot.com
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