Southgate Amateur Radio Club News

More African countries arrive on 60 m
Word has just arrived via the South African Radio League (SARL) that three new African countries have joined the ranks of 5 MHz / 60 m operators

Amateur Radio on BBC Radio 4 Shortcuts
Treetop antennas, a witness from history and a dialogue with a loudspeaker – Josie Long presents short radio docs and adventures in sound inspired by broadcasts into the ether

Germany: New Entry-Level license class ‘N’ on its way
DARC reports on the planned introduction of an entry-level amateur radio license, it will be limited to just 10w EIRP in the 144 and 430 MHz bands but they can build their own equipment

Radio ham to honor broadcast engineers lost on 9/11
Radio World report a New England ham radio repeater is to be dedicated to the memory of six broadcast engineers killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center

NASA to discuss status of next Artemis I Moon Mission launch attempt
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 8, to discuss next steps for the Artemis I mission to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

How to assemble a narrow cw filter
QRPer.com readers know that I’m a big fan of the venerable Yaesu FT-817 and FT-818 series transceiver – So much so, I own two FT-817NDs

IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

Electricity shortage – how can we help?
On September4, Switzerland’s USKA held a brainstorming session on the subject of electricity shortages and radio amateurs

Croatia’s HRS presented laptops to youth representatives
Elín Sigurðardóttir TF2EQ, youth representative of Iceland’s ÍRA attended the IARU Region 1 YOTA summer camp held in the city of Karlovac in Croatia August 6-13

Major farside solar radiation storm
One of the biggest solar radiation storms in years is underway following a major explosion on the farside of the sun. Earth is not affected

The Fair Lawn, NJ Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) and the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG)
The West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group (WPBARG) and the Fair Lawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) have agreed to a unique partnership in sharing ideas, activities, and best practices to better encourage the growth and development of each other’s amateur radio club

The QSO Today Podcast
In 2014, I started the QSO Today Podcast because I was inspired by Ham Nation on the TWIT Network

Ham radio: You never know who’s on the other side
The Puget Sound Repeater Group membership includes a large contingent of Seattle tech workers — engineers, coders, product designers and more — who share a common preoccupation: Obsessive tinkering with science and technology

3Y0J Bouvet DXpedition
Amateur Radio DXpeditions (ARD) is making great progress for our upcoming 3Y0J Bouvet DXpedition

Route 66 On The Air
The Citrus Belt Amateur Radio Club of San Bernardino (w6jbt.org), California, is once again hosting (probably one of the most fun special event activities) the 23rd annual ‘Route 66 On The Air‘ special event

Special 911 Callsign
The station WA2NYC is a remembrance of the 21st anniversary on the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City

IOTA News from OPDX
Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW