Foundations of Amateur Radio
What Open Source means to our hobby and why it’s important
For much of the past month I’ve been attempting to articulate what Open Source Software is, why it’s important, how it’s relevant to our hobby, how it works, how software is different from hardware and why you should consider if the equipment you buy comes with source code or not. I’m finding it difficult to separate out the issues since they all hang together in a cohesive clump of ideas and concepts

MacLoggerDX Version 6.34 released
Dog Park Software is pleased to announce that version 6.34 of MacLoggerDX has been released

BARC Virtual Monthly Meeting
Bangalore Amateur Radio Club – Virtual Monthly Meeting – July 2021

ZD7GB may be on QO-100 from St Helena
Gerry Bulger G3WIP / ZD7GB hopes to operate on the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur transponder from Jamestown, St Helena

Ofcom Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21
Ofcom has published its Annual Report and Accounts for the period April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021

Galway Digital Radio Group
The Galway Digital Radio Group are currently working on a D-Star Repeater kindly donated by the West Tyrone Repeater Group in Northern Ireland and ICOM UK

The Amsat-SA Space Symposium – Today!
The Space symposium will be held today, Saturday 10 July 2021 starting at 10:00 CAT on the BlueJeans platform. Registration for SARL and AMSAT SA members is free

US Postal Service issues space stamps
The US Postal Service is issuing a set of stamps bearing images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Announcing the Summer 2021 AM QSO Party
Amplitude Modulation Amateur Radio Society and the AM Amateur Radio Europe Facebook group are pleased to announce the Summer 2021 AM QSO Party

Radio hams combine High-tech with Low-tech
The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports amateur radio operators find creative ways to communicate when all else fails

Finland’s countrywide amateur radio carnivals
Celebrating many events such as the half time mark of the SRAL centennial and the start of new relaxed COVID domestic regulations, the entire OH population is overjoyed and is taking full advantage of the current tropical temperatures all over their homeland, with their beautiful lakes and rivers, now at their best

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