HAM News

Januari, 2020

• 1 Januari

  Caye Caulker Island

  Robert, W0YBS, will be active as V31CO from Caye Caulker Island (NA-105) starting February 1st (2020), for 3 weeks. Activity will be on various HF bands using CW, RTTY and FT8. Robert bought a condo on the Island of Caye Caulker in October of 2019. He plans on being active …
• 1 Januari

  The January/February 2020 Communicator

  Happy New Year from all of us here at SARC! Here is the January/February 2020 SARC Communicator newsletter: This edition has 75 pages of projects, news, views, and reviews from the SW corner of Canada. – VY0ERC: What is life like at the farthest north Amateur Radio Club in Canada?– …
• 1 Januari

  8Q, Maldives

  Sergey, RX3AMY, will be active as 8Q7BS from Mahibadhoo and Maafushi Islands, Maldives (AS-013), January 3-23rd (2020). Activity will be holiday style and with periodical work, operating mainly on 40 and 20 meters SSB (possibly CW), using a Yaesu FT-897 transceiver with dipoles. QSL via his home callsign
• 1 Januari

  Exam registration

  The Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club are holding a registration evening on the 7th of January 2020 from 18:30 onwards for both foundation and intermediate licence exams. Foundation exam set for Saturdays the 1st and 8th of February and the Intermediate 10 week course set to begin on Wednesday the 19th …
• 1 Januari

  Online Foundation Training

  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 …
• 1 Januari

  Earthing and the Radio Amateur leaflet updated

  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 …
• 1 Januari

  Virginia radio ham re-creates Fessenden broadcast

  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 …
• 1 Januari

  Foundation Online Statistics for 2019

  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 …
• 1 Januari

  Today is AMSAT CW Day

  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 …
• 1 Januari

  Ring In the New Year with Straight Key Night!

  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) …