Southgate Amateur Radio Club News

Foundations of Amateur Radio
What’s in a plan?
As radio amateurs we learn which frequencies we’re allowed to transmit on, where stuff lives and who has priority when there’s a signal on the frequency you’re operating on and when you need to contact your regulator if you hear an illegal station on the air 

2020 Nordics On The Air Norway
This year, the annual Nordics On The Air ham radio youth camp will be held in Norway during Easter, April 10-13, 2020

JARL focus is on Younger Generations and Women
In his New Year statement Japan Amateur Radio League President Yoshinori Takao JG1KTC says JARL continues to focus on acquiring new members of Younger generations and Women

The Fainting of Betelgeuse
Red giant star Betelgeuse is on the verge of going supernova. Is the end near?

The 2020 CQ DX Marathon
This ia a year-long DX hunt, with participants competing to see who can work the greatest number of countries and CQ zones during this calendar year

Marquesas Islands EME operation
Operators Lance W7GJ and Gene KB7Q will be active as TX7MB from Taaoa, Hiva Oa Island (OC-027), between November 3-15th

South Orkney Islands DXpedition VP8PJ
We are pleased to announce that the call sign for the Perseverance DX Group’s expedition South Orkney 2020 will be changed to VP8PJ

Propagation de K7RA
A single new Solar Cycle 25 sunspot appeared over the past week,January 1 through January 8. NOAA did not record or number the newspot until January 2, but Spaceweather.com indicated it (sunspotregion 2755) began on January 1

LED lamp interference forces IARUMS coordinator to leave role
The latest IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports LED lamp interference forced Wolf DK2OM to relinquish the role of IARUMS Region 1 Coordinator

AMC Callsign Lookup Facility now live
On January 6, the Australian Maritime College (AMC) released news that they have “gone live” to the public with their new Lookup facility for Available Amateur Radio Callsigns

Belgium’s QARMAN CubeSat to deploy Feb 12
QARMAN, a nano-satellite designed and built at VKI, was launched to the International Space Station on December 5, 2019. Deployment is expected to take place in the week of February 12, 2020

John Litz, NZ6Q, appointed as San Joaquin Valley Section Manager
John Litz, NZ6Q, has been appointed as the ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section Manager to succeed Dan Pruitt, AE6SX, who died on December 27. Litz will complete the remaining term of office that runs through June 30, 2021

VK6WIA NewsWest
NewsWest for Sunday 12th January 2019 is the History of Amateur Radio edition, and accordingly we have some history stories to tell

Swiss special event station
Members of the Association des Radio- amateurs de la Cote (HB9HI) will activate the special event station HE2JOJ until January 31st. Activity is to mark the 3rd edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games (Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse) to be hosted in Lausanne

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

Beijing’s proposed ham radio regs raise concerns
ARRL reports on proposed changes to Beijing’s Measures for the Administration of Amateur Radio Stations which appear to threaten 136 kHz and most amateur bands above 146 MHz

Grey Line Propagation
Grey line propagation provides surprisingly long distance radio communications at dawn and dusk sometimes when other forms of ionospheric propagation may not be expected to provide signal paths of these distances

Ham radio at DEF CON 27
Amateur radio talks featured at the popular DEF CON 27 event in Las Vegas during August 8-11, 2019

NASA TV coverage of three spacewalks in January
Four astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station for three spacewalks in January to complete battery upgrades and finalize repairs to an invaluable cosmic ray detector

Supercharging investment in fibre broadband
Homes and businesses up and down the country are set to benefit from much faster and more reliable fibre broadband, under major proposals set out by Ofcom

US Ham radio where are you on Hamsphere 4.0
On HamSphere 4.0 we have a WAS award, this working all states is really difficult to win for opérators outside of North America

The Day of YLs 2020
This Group is in memory of F5ISY – Carine DUBOIS. She developed this YL contest and did not ever see it to the end. WE are now going to make this happen in her memory