Essex Ham’s free online Foundation training courses have restarted, and have been updated to support the new 2019 RSGB exam syllabus In 2019, close to 400 people took part in one of these courses. The courses are free, take place in an online classroom, and require 2-3 hours of study …

Ian 2E0IJH has updated the RSGB EMC 07 leaflet ‘Earthing and the Radio Amateur’ to reflect the fact that Gas and Water pipes no longer require bonding if supplied by plastic service pipes as they have no reference to Earth RSGB EMC 07 Earthing and the Radio Amateur v4 is …

Washington Post reports proof that the world’s first radio show was broadcast 113 years ago on Christmas Eve doesn’t exist, but the purported occasion is still marked annually during the holidays The newspaper says: Since 2012, radio engineer Brian Justin WI2XLQ has spent part of his holidays commemorating the apparent …

Essex Ham have released statistics for the eight free online Foundation courses that they ran in 2019 They note that this year’s numbers are lower than previous years, as they stopped for 5 months so that they could update the course material for the new RSGB syllabus. This meant re-recording …

You are cordially invited to take part in AMSAT CW Activity Day 2020 sponsored by AMSAT for all radio amateurs throughout the world. The 2020 event will be held in memory of Larry Brown, W7LB, and Keith Pugh, W5IU. Among their many contributions to AMSAT, they were the AMSAT 20-meter …

12/31/2019  It’s time to break out (and/or dust off) the brass and set some time aside on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to take part in Straight Key Night (SKN). The annual event begins at 0000 UTC on January 1, 2020 (New Year’s Eve in US time zones) …

12/31/2019 After many years of monitoring and tracking intruders on the amateur bands, Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, of Siegbach, Germany, is stepping down at year’s end as coordinator of the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS). IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ, announced this week that Hadel …

Austria’s national amateur radio society ÖVSV reports Wolfgang Wagner is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first amateur radio license as OE5WWL with two special call signs As well as the special call sign OE1970WWL on March 28-29, 2020, Wolfgang will be using the contest call sign OE0WWL in the …

The ‘Team Charlie’ (S5 Team) that was active as TK0C from Sant Ambroggio, Corsica, during the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 23-24th) as a Multi-Single entry, has released an interesting video of their operation. To view it, see:https://vimeo.com/379807649

An extraordinary outbreak of stratospheric clouds is underway around the Arctic Circle. Longtime residents are describing it as a “once in a lifetime event,” and the clouds are being mistaken by some tourists as “daytime auroras.” These rare clouds can form only when the temperature in the polar stratosphere drops …