September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – The sixth Enigma Reloaded event will take place from September 27 until October 12

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – In Lima, Peru, on October 3, 2019, an Emergency Communication Workshop (ECW) will be held after the XX IARU Region 2 Assembly

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – ComReg have released the Spectrum Intelligence and Investigations Annual Report 2018-19

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – The European Radio Amateurs’ Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: ‘claiming for 2m’

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – ALARA, the Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association, is offering a limited number of grants to any YL applying for a Foundation Licence or upgrading to a Standard or Advanced Amateur Radio Licence

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – The sun is undergoing a remarkable period of spotlessness. During northern summer 2019, the face of the sun was blank (no sunspots) more than 89% of the time

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – Scientific American magazine reports new data suggest the 1921 ‘New York Railroad Storm’ could have surpassed the intensity of the famous Carrington Event of 1859

September 25, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

September 24, 2019 01:39 PM – ARRL -As the September 30 date for the closing of the Official Observer program nears, ARRL has expressed deep appreciation to the hundreds of volunteers who gave their time as Official Observers (OOs) to help preserve the integrity of the Amateur Radio frequencies.

The Official Observer program has served the Amateur Radio community and assisted the FCC Enforcement Bureau for more than 85 years. The …

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The Air Force will bring a satellite to the Defcon hacking conference next year. Soon, the Air Force will put out a call for submissions. Think you know how to hack a satellite or its ground station? Let them know

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Standard Time and Frequency station WWV celebrate its centenary on October 1. Rado amateurs have been asked to participate by taking measurements and sharing their results

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – UK Ministry of Defence has released a document that outlines how they will make progress towards the objective to share 750 MHz of public sector spectrum by 2022

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – A jet-like coronal mass ejection (CME) left the sun on Sept. 20th, and it might graze Earth’s magnetic field later this week. Even minor CME strikes can spark geomagnetic storms

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Phone jamming trial, the real ‘cell’ phone story. Contraband mobile phones should be useless if Goulburn Correctional Centre’s mobile phone jamming trial is going to plan

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – NBC TV Alaska reports on a statewide exercise that prepares volunteers to use ham radios incase of emergency

September 24, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – You can still save money when registering for the 50th Anniversary AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting, Friday through Sunday, October 18-20, 2019, in Arlington, Virginia

September 23, 2019 07:11 PM – ARRL -The Radio Club of America (RCA) has announced its 2019 award recipients and fellows. Many of those being recognized are radio amateurs. Honorees will be feted at RCA’s 110th Banquet & Awards Presentation on Saturday, November 23, in New York City.

Awards

Armstrong Medal: Thomas Marzetta, for outstanding achievements and lasting contributions to the radio arts and sciences and wireless communicati…

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – ARRL instructor Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be giving his ‘Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT’ presentation at the following clubs and hamlets in the next few weeks

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Operators Andrew/VK5AK, Grant/VK5GR (Team Leader), Oly/VK5XDX and Steve/VK5SFA will be active as A35JT from Tonga between September 22nd and October 7th

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The following four updates were posted on the ZK3A DXpedition’s Web page September 18th

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Wes AC8JF contacted Southgate News to say: Reports so far are that a few hundred people turned up at the gate of the “Area 51” military reservation, and there was no confrontation. A few thousand people came for other events

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 1st/September, through Sunday, 8th/September there were 217 countries active

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Pista, HA5AO, is once again active as 3DA0AO from the Kingdom of eSwatini (Swaziland) until September 30th. He will be active from the Mountain Inn Resort at Mbabane

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – ARRL’s Ad Hoc Legislative Advisory Committee will meet with several members of Congress later this month in Washington to introduce new Committee members, reacquaint the lawmakers with Amateur Radio’s most-pressing issues, seek their input on the best ways to achieve ARRL’s objectives in Congress, and request their continuing support

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Australia’s communications regulator the ACMA has released its final 5 year spectrum outlook

September 23, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Sid, ZS5AYC reports that Tuesday 24 September is Heritage Day and will also be the second ZS SOTA Day of 2019

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The workshop at the NARC planned for 28 September has been postponed, and some of the discussions will now be incorporated in the next scheduled workshop on 23 November

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Paul Andrews, W2HRO, re-entered amateur radio, after a 35 year break, by working FM satellites with a Yaesu portable and a dual band antenna

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – All CW operators are invited to check into the net on at 3535.0 kHz 9pm NZT, Monday-Friday. The net is “formal, but friendly.”

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – I am pleased to announce that my new book, ‘The Radio Today guide to the IC-9700’ is now available from the RSGB bookshop, Amazon, and Kindle

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced his nation’s intention to join the United States’ Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA’s Artemis lunar program

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Common knowledge tells us that storms knock out communications. Tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, typhons, and tsunamis have all disrupted communications

September 22, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – A new antenna that uses saltwater and plastic has been developed by Lei Xing and her colleagues at the College of Electronic and Information Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – We’re climbing ‘aboard the Love Ship’ this weekend 21st/22nd September for another fabulous RADIO CAROLINE NORTH broadcast LIVE from Ross Revenge

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – Distracted driving regulations continue to be an area of interest for many Canadian Radio Amateurs. These regulations are made and enforced by provincial governments and can vary considerably from province to province and over time

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – In NewsWest for Sunday 22nd September 2019 we talk about contests and contesting, with a summary of some of the contests coming up soon, and we take a closer look at the Remembrance Day Contest results

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – With sadness I report that Mirko Mandrino YT7MM (ex YU1NQM, YU7NQM) passed away in Pancevo Serbia on 19 September

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Ruth Willet KM4LAO to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Rob Sherwood from Sherwood Engineering

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – Going on an outing – After my fun and games working out how to manage power for a temporary radio set-up, away from my shack and normal infrastructure, I had the pleasure of actually going out to get on air and make some noise

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – JJ1WTL’s English language License Data Search enables you to look up the license details of over 421,000 Amateur Radio stations in Japan

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – In this episode, George found some neat items at the Huntsville Hamfest. Emile builds the COMM Pi CD Archiver with remote control. Tommy creates an IP address Emailer to keep track of your IP address when you are away. Plus we announce the details of the AmateurLogic.TV 14th Anniversary Contest

September 21, 2019 08:13 AM – Southgate ARC – As a result of the 2019 Board of Directors Election, Jerry Buxton, N0JY; Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA; Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK; and Michelle Thompson, W5NYV; will serve on the board for two years

September 20, 2019 09:09 PM – ARRL -As a result of the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election, Jerry Buxton, N0JY; Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA; Patrick Stoddard, WD9EWK; and Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, were elected by the AMSAT membership to serve for 2 years. The First Alternate is Brennan Price, N4QX. The Second Alternate is Howie Defelice, AB2S. Both will serve 1-year terms.

Total number of votes cast was 1,052 (892 electronic plus 1…

September 20, 2019 04:43 PM – ARRL -Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.

September 20, 2019 01:27 PM – ARRL -No sunspots this week, and as of Wednesday we’ve seen 15 spotless days in a row. This is the solar minimum. The current Solar Cycle (24) is expected to end by the end of this calendar year.

Average daily solar flux declined from 69.4 to 68.1. Average daily planetary A index declined slightly from 8.9 to 8.3, but average daily mid-latitude A index rose from 7.7 to 8.

Predicted solar flux is 68 on …

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – On the evening of the 14th and the morning of the 15th of September 2019, there was a remarkable opening on 144 MHz from the Azore Islands in the Atlantic Ocean to parts of the UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Pirate radio stations are appearing on unlicenced DAB digital multiplexes in Dublin and Cork, and more are planned for other cities in Ireland

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – NRK has announced the long wave transmitter on 153 kHz is to close but the medium wave transmitter in Svalbard on 1485 kHz is to be upgraded

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Since its inception in 1998 the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend has been held on the 3 rd full weekend in August. The founders selected this weekend as it was the most suitable for the European and UK stations that made up the bulk of entries for the event

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Waters and Stanton are delighted to announce that Eric Swartz WA6HHQ, co-founder of Elecraft, will be flying over in person to give the first UK live demonstration of the Elecraft K4 Transceiver

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The latest meeting of the CEPT SE24 and SRD/MG took place in Romania this week. IARU was there and had submitted three papers for discussion

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – International Space Station school contact has been planned for Nick Hague KG5TMV with participants at University of Colorado Amateur Radio Club, Boulder, CO, USA

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Danie Conradie writes on Hackaday about the Antuino, a compact Radio Lab for antennas and radio circuits

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – ARRL renews its request for the FCC to replace the amateur radio license Symbol Rate restriction with a Bandwidth limit

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – This year’s Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championship was held September 2-8 in Rogla, Slovenia. The United Kingdom won a Silver medal in the category for Men aged 70 years and over

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

September 20, 2019 09:12 AM – Southgate ARC – http://www.southgatearc.org/bands/10metres/2019/september/september-20.htm

September 19, 2019 09:12 PM – WA7BNM Contest Calendar – 1930Z-1959Z, Sep 19 (CW) and 2000Z-2029Z, Sep 19 (SSB) and 2030Z-2059Z, Sep 19 (RTTY)

September 19, 2019 08:10 PM – ARRL -ARRL’s Ad Hoc Legislative Advisory Committee will meet with several members of Congress later this month in Washington to introduce new Committee members, reacquaint the lawmakers with Amateur Radio’s most-pressing issues, seek their input on the best ways to achieve ARRL’s objectives in Congress, and request their continuing support. Committee members have completed a comprehensive analysis of…

September 19, 2019 07:28 PM – ARRL -ARRL is seeking an emergency management director to oversee a team responsible for supporting ARRL emergency communication programs and services, including the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) and National Traffic System (NTS), and to work with staff to develop standards, protocols, and processes designed to support the Field Organization. This is a full-time, exempt position at ARRL Hea…

September 19, 2019 04:16 PM –

September 19, 2019 03:04 PM – ARRL -ARRL Headquarters will be temporarily closed today from 1530 UTC (11:30 AM EDST) to 1800 UTC (2 PM EDST) for a staff appreciation picnic and Headquarters FM Sprint contest. No online services will be affected by this closure.

 

September 19, 2019 02:25 PM – ARRL -The winning article for the September 2019 QST Cover Plaque award is “A Slightly Off-Center-Fed Dipole” by Brian Machesney K1LI/J75Y.

The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the October issue today.

 

September 19, 2019 12:00 PM – ARRL -“Demystifying the Language of Morse Code” will be the focus of the new (September 19) episode of the So Now What? podcast for Amateur Radio newcomers.

If you’re a newly licensed Amateur Radio operator, chances are you have lots of questions. This biweekly podcast has answers! So Now What? offers insights from those who’ve been just where you are now. New episodes will be posted every other Thurs…

September 18, 2019 06:41 PM – ARRL -In ex parte comments filed on September 17 in WT Docket 16-239, ARRL renewed its request that the FCC delete symbol-rate limits for data transmissions in the Amateur Service rules. As it did in its initial filing, ARRL asked the FCC to couple the removal of the symbol rate limits with the adoption of a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit. In response to a 2013 ARRL Petition for Rulemaking (RM-11708), the F…

September 18, 2019 03:16 PM – ARRL -HamSCI and the Case Amateur Radio Club of Case Western Reserve University (W8EDU) will sponsor a “Festival of Frequency Measurement” on WWV’s centennial, October 1, from 0000 to 2359 UTC (starting on Monday evening, September 30, in the Americas). The event invites radio amateurs, short-wave listeners, and others capable of making high-quality frequency measurements on HF to participate and pub…

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September 17, 2019 06:48 PM – ARRL -The Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club (MDARC) Disaster Recovery Program for the 2018 Carr and Camp Fires has made a $1,000 grant to the California Amateur Radio Linking Association (CARLA) toward the cost of rebuilding one of its destroyed sites. The CARLA network of repeaters provides coverage across California and Western Nevada to provide reliable communication during significant local, region…

September 17, 2019 06:36 PM – ARRL -The Taurus-1 (Jinniuzuo-1) CubeSat carrying an Amateur Radio FM-to-Codec-2 transponder was launched on September 12 from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The CubeSat was developed by Aerospace System Engineering Research Institute of Shanghai for youth education and Amateur Radio. The transponder is similar to that used on the LilacSat-1 (LO-90) CubeSat and can use the same software, on…

September 17, 2019 03:58 PM – ARRL -Well-known Canadian radio amateur J Allen, VY1JA, of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, has announced that he’s retiring from ham radio, citing long-term health issues and hearing loss. The familiar VY1JA call sign also has been retired. Allen will begin dismantling his station and antennas as early as this weekend. His last contact was with KA4UPI on September 14. He has uploaded his logs to Logbook…

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September 16, 2019 01:00 PM – ARRL –Radio World reports that the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) has resumed testing digital radio broadcasting on the 80-meter amateur band after a 2-year absence. North Korea is transmitting with the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) protocol. The latest transmissions on 3.560 MHz began in mid-August.

“It appears unclear at this time, however, whether the current series of transmiss…

September 15, 2019 06:31 PM – ARRL -Starting on Monday, September 16, WWV and WWVH will broadcast a US Department of Defense message to mark the centennial of WWV and to announce the WW0WWV special event from September 28 until October 2 at the WWV transmitter site near Fort Collins, Colorado. The DoD message transmissions will air until October 1.

Kevin Utter, N7GES, a member of the WW0WWV Centennial Committee, recorded the audio…

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Most of those attending the recent Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) summer camp in Bulgaria were first-timers, observed Monty Schebesta, OE3VVU, a participant this year

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The second leg of the The South African Radio League (SARL) VHF/UHF Digital Contest is on the air from 10:00 UTC on Saturday 21 September to 10:00 UTC on Sunday 22 September 2019 with activity from 6 metres and up

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The workshop at the NARC on 28 September starts with a panel discussion about various ways to solve mains induced noise. The panel will present a case study and will show how, with a few simple measures, a reduction in mains noise can be achieved

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Burt Fisher, K1OIK, raised a stir and perhaps the ire of many hams with a 2008 YouTube video critical of amateur radio operators and their operating practices

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The Practical Wireless 70MHz Contest takes place on Sunday 22nd September 13:00 to 16:00 UTC

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Controllers for NO-104 (PSAT-2) announced on September 13 that they have commanded the camera to take a picture and store it into memory every 10 minutes. This mode should last for 7 days or at least to next commanding session on Monday

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The Havre Daily News reports Montana’s Havre and Hill County Local Emergency Planning Committee intend to take up a Department of Justice offer of amateur radio equipment

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The Makrothen is coming! The Makrothen RTTY Contest is 1 month away! Originally conceived by Waldemar Kebsch, DK3VN and now sponsored by Pizza Lovers 259 (PL259), the contest takes place each year during the second full weekend in October

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) – Region 3 (Asia-Pacific Region) Directors meeting was held in Tokyo September 2-3

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The RSGB Contest Committee have released the results of the first 80m FT4 one hour contest

September 15, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Jefferson Public Radio (JPR) interviews Joe Bassett W1WCN and Steve Bosbach KW5V about the role of amateur radio in a natural disaster

September 15, 2019 07:03 AM – ICQ Podcast -In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Leslie Butterfield G0CIB, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Matthew Nassau M0NJX, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Ruth Willet KM4LAO to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is Rob Sherwood from Sherwood Engineering.

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September 15, 2019 12:13 AM – WA7BNM Contest Calendar – 1600Z-2300Z, Sep 21

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Sound the All Clear After Aurora – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – No sunspots this week. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 3.4 to 0. At the same time, average daily solar flux rose from 67.4 to 69.4

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Students at the Villanova University College of Engineering started a CubeSat Club in the fall of 2018 and have since got their amateur radio licenses

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Taurus-1 (Jinniuzuo-1) carrying an amateur radio FM to Codec-2 transponder was launched on a CZ-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Thursday, September 12 at 0326 GMT

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Whilst watching a recording of episode 2 of ‘The Capture’ on BBC 1 a couple of nights ago, I suddenly heard a familiar sound

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Mark M5BOP reports the complete set of amateur radio technical talks from this year’s Martlesham Microwave Round Table is now available to watch on YouTube

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Ofcom has approved requests from commercial radio group Communicorp UK Limited to change the formats of two stations in Peterborough and Kettering, Corby and Wellingborough

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – Planning for an outing – Recently I had the opportunity to use a new radio whilst I was far away from my shack. It wasn’t unexpected, I took the radio with me, planned for the experience and packed light with intent

September 14, 2019 08:12 AM – Southgate ARC – The FCC is asking for public comments on procedural changes that, if adopted, would streamline many administrative hearings under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended