Please click link or scroll down to read your selections. This report covers the period of 04 November 2019 through 06 November 2019.
News for Wednesday 6 November
Tony’s 10m Band Report
Some good DX about but it was not all at the weekend. VP6R was favourite, with D68CCC (Comoros), VK9NG (Norfolk Is) and ZS6S (South Africa)
RSGB WRC-19 update: 23cms and A Long Day
The RSGB WRC-19 team had posted an update on activities at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference during Tuesday, November 5
Australian Foundation Manual Supplement
Australia’s WIA has released a free PDF supplement to the Foundation training manual following the removal of unnecessary restrictions from the licence
IARU Region 1 ban alcohol at YOTA events
IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie G3BJ reported to the IARU Administrative Council meeting in Lima about the decision to ban alcohol at future YOTA amateur radio events
Statue to commemorate Fern Blodgett Sunde and the Battle of the Atlantic
A volunteer steering committee, along with its community partner, the Cobourg Museum Foundation, will erect a life-sized bronze statue commemorating Fern Blodgett Sunde (1918-1991), the first Canadian woman to earn a professional radio operator’s licence, and the first female radio operator – a ‘Sparks’ – to work at sea
CWops
Our goal is to bring together Amateur Radio operators who enjoy communicating by Morse Code (CW). CWops encourages the use of CW in Amateur communications, and it supports CW activity through planned events. CWops promotes goodwill among Amateurs throughout the world, and it fosters the education of young people and others in matters related to Amateur Radio
IOTA News IOTA chasers should note that updates for the Honour Roll and the Annual Listing 2020 must be made before the end of January 2020. Due allowance should be made for postal delivery
A class-leading lightweight carbon-fibre mast from SOTABEAMS
Portable specialist SOTABEAMS has launched a new carbon-fibre portable telescopic mast. The Carbon-6 has an extended length of 6 metres (19.6 ft).
Its packed length is only 43 cm (17 inches)
WRC-19 Day-6: Work resumes on all fronts
The RSGB WRC-19 team report Week-2 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference started with both 50 MHz and other items – inc a new arrival from afar
WRC-19: Don’t count your chickens…
The RSGB WRC-19 team have released an update on the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from Oct 28 until November 22
TU2R activity
A group of Belgian operators will be active as TU2R from Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) on March 23 – April 3 2020 with participation in the CQ WPX SSB 2020
QO-100 geostationary satellite with just 100 milliwatts Radio amateurs in Sweden are limited to just 100 mW on 2.4 GHz. In this article Christer SM0NCL shows how they can still send CW and SSB signals via the QO-100 / Es’hail-2 narrowband transponder
3Y0I Bouvet Island DXpedition news – preparations resumed
Excerpts from an announcement on the 3Y0I Bouvet Island Web page, under “NEWS”, reports the following interesting facts and details of the second attempt to go to Bouvet Island
When the world got its news from shortwave radio
From the mid-1930s to 2004, Switzerland’s international service was Swiss Radio International (SRI). The first few decades of SRI’s existence were the heyday of shortwave – it was often the only way of getting news directly from other countries
AREN Training and Social weekend
On the 9th and 10th of November, AREN will hold a national training and development weekend in Dromineer, County Tipperary
AMSAT seeks webmaster, website content managers AMSAT-NA is in the process of redesigning its website and is looking to immediately fill key volunteer member additions to its digital communications team
DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 27th October, through Sunday, 3rd November there were 223 countries active
IOTA news from OPDX Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin
Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio News:
The next meeting of the Big Island Amateur Radio Club is set for Saturday, 09 November 2019, 1400 HST, at the Keaau Community Center in Keaau, Hawaii Island.
The ARRL Pacific Division Members Meeting will be held on Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 1730 HST, at the KMC Cafeteria. A buffet dinner will be served. The highlight of the evening will be a series of briefings from ARRL Pacific Division Director Jim Tiemstra (K6JAT). Please RSVP by Saturday, 09 November 2019, 1500 HST. Contact Bob (AH6J) at 808-345-6390.
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