Radio Amateurs of Canada Announces New President

New Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President, Phil A. McBride, VA3QR/VA3KPJ, took office on January 1. He was elected by the RAC Board of Directors. McBride succeeds Glenn MacDonell, VE3XRA, who served the maximum three consecutive 2-year terms in the top post.McBride is the former RAC Ontario South Director. Former Ontario North and East Director… [continue]

Monday, 3rd January 2022

Spain: New National Frequency Table published

Spain’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation has published a new National Frequency Table in the Official Government Bulletin dated December 24

Ham Radio Science Citizen Online Workshop

Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW and Jim Bacon G3YLA are among the speakers at HamSCI Workshop 2022: The Weather Connection. Virtual participation is free of charge

SpaceX’s first launch of 2022 will deploy more Starlink internet satellites

SpaceX plans to kick off its 2022 launch schedule with a Falcon 9 rocket flight Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the company’s next group of Starlink internet satellites

Disruption of air traffic due to FM broadcast transmitter

Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL) reports that the radio traffic of aircraft landing at Schiphol has been regularly disrupted in recent weeks

2021 DX Sound Bites

Tom, K8CX, has done it again. He has provided DXers with 314 memorable rare DX sound clips (now in MP3 format) from Ohio during 2021. This brings the total number of MP3 sound clips on Hamgallery to 3,211

Mexican special event

Members of the Federacion Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores (FMRE) [Mexican Society] are celebrating their 90th anniversary during January, February and March 2022 promoting each of the 31 States and Mexico City with the following 32 different special event callsigns and 4A90FMRE

DXCC Most Wanted

The ‘DXCC Most Wanted’ entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of December 25th. The list contains 340 entities

DXCC Country/Entity Report

According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 26th December, through Sunday, 2nd January there were 210 countries active

Sunday, 2nd January 2022

Celebrations to mark the BBC’s Centenary began at midday (1/1/2022) via shortwave radio

BBC Radio 4 announcer/newsreader, Jim Lee, launched special event amateur radio station GB100BBC, from the BBC’s Broadcasting House, in London, at exactly midday yesterday

QSO Today – Charlie Brown, NJ7V

Charlie Brown, NJ7V, is twice a mountain goat, a title that comes from many SOTA activations