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News for Sunday 12 July
Getting publicity for Amateur Radio
Publicity can be magical and when it comes to ham radio, it’s great magic. Jeremy Boot G4NJH tells WIA News how one amateur in the UK used newspaper publicity to boost ham radio’s profile
The uncertain future of Ham Radio Julianne Pepitone writes in the IEEE Spectrum magazine about the state of amateur radio in the USA
7-CALL 30th Anniversary special station
7-CALL Amateur Radio Club has started operation from a 2nd Shack of 8J17CALL, 7-CALL 30th Anniversary Special station on 11th July, 2020
Austral and Marquesas Islands DXpedition postponed Lance, W7GJ, informs OPDX of the following: Because of the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, we regret that the W7GJ 6m EME DXpedition to FO/A and FO/M and the KB7Q 2m EME DXpedition to FO/M must be delayed until 2021
SARL 80m Club Sprint
The fourth leg of the 80m Club Sprint is on the air from 17:00 to 18:00 UTC on Wednesday 15th July with CW and phone activity
Polish special callsign
Members of the Mysliborski Klub Lacznosci PZK (SP1PMY) will be active with the special callsign SN87LOT from Mysliborz between now and August 31st
Foundations of Amateur Radio Homebrew radio for the 21st Century The hobby of Amateur Radio is essentially one of experimentation. Within our community we endlessly build things, from amplifiers to Yagis and every letter of the alphabet in between. With every experiment we grow the amateur radio sphere of influence just a little bit
A SOTA wedding took place on 4th July 2020! David Wise KM3A and Lizzette Rodriguez K6LZT are both keen SOTA activators, and their marriage actually took place on a summit and in conjunction with a SOTA activation!
Image: David Wise KM3A and Lizzette Rodriguez K6LZT
ESA emits a guide to picking up ISS SSTV The Register reports on the new ESA tutorials explaining how to pick up the amateur radio Slow Scan TV (SSTV) tutorials transmitted from the International Space Station
LunART- Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder
The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments
VK6WIA NewsWest NewsWest for Sunday 12th July 2020 is the contesting edition of NewsWest, which is pretty timely because there’s a few Aussie contests coming up, and we’ve got some handy information for those wondering if they should give contesting a go
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Doug Wilson (KH7DQ) will start his online Technician Class License Class on 01 September 2020. For details, contact Doug at douscelle@aol.com
All radio amateurs are urged to participate in the Sunday, 20 September 2020, Hawaiian Islands Grid Madness VHF/UHF Simplex Event. The event, sponsored by the Aulani Hui Amateur Repeater Club, will run from 1300 HST to 1700 HST. For details, please go here: https://gridmadness.blogspot.com
