Southgate Amateur Radio Club News

Foundations of Amateur Radio
The sun shines on our hobby in unexpected ways
When you begin your amateur radio journey, one of the first things you learn about that’s not directly involved with radios and antennas is the ionosphere and its impact on long distance communications. Immediately after that you are more likely than not to be introduced to the biggest plasma experiment in our backyard, the Sun

IARU Region 3 Conference Report
The triennial conference of IARU Region 3 (Asia/Pacific), hosted by Thailand’s national amateur radio society RAST, took place September 20-22 in a virtual form using the Zoom platform

Open-source amateur satellite work not subject to export administration regulation
CEO Michelle Thompson, W5NYV, reports that Open Research Institute (ORI) received an advisory opinion from the US Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on September 2

Register now for free Foundation Online amateur radio training course
The next free amateur radio Foundation Online training course run by volunteers from Essex Ham starts on October 3 – Register Now

The Space Weather Woman
Bright Regions Emerge Too Fast To Count – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW

Listening to Military Aircraft via Satellite – Larry Van Horn N5FPN
Monitoring The Military From HF Through Satellites – “A Kawfee Tawk”

Russian Digital Radio Club invites you: AUTUMN 2021
Dear Fellow Radio Amateurs, we invite you to participate in the days of activity and contests of our club

A gigantic jet with fireballs
This week, a photographer in Puerto Rico watched a 50 mile long plume of plasma shoot from the top of a Caribbean thunderstorm. The towering form contained dozens of fireballs the size of football fields

Propagation de K7RA
Last week’s Propagation Forecast Bulletin ARLP038 reported a big increase in activity with the daily sunspot number going to 124, but by the end of that week all sunspots disappeared. The Sun was blank for several days, but sunspots returned on September 19