HAM News

Desember, 2019

• 29 Desember

  January 2020 Radio ZS

  The January 2020 issue of Radio ZS will be uploaded to the South African Radio League website by Friday 27 December. In this issue you can read about getting out of your shack and discovering new opportunities; Jonathan, ZS1ARB discusses QRP and Motorbikes – lessons learned from 1 500 km …
• 29 Desember

  Boston Marathon

  FCC proposes a Marathon fine for unlicensed broadcasting The FCC has proposed fining an alleged pirate broadcaster in the Boston, Massachusetts area more than $450,000. According to the FCC, Radio TeleBoston, used three separate transmitters for broadcasting, resulting in three separate violations of the law. As a result of the …
• 29 Desember

  RSGB release Board Proceedings

  The RSGB has released the missing Board proceedings for July as well as the proceedings for September and October Members can read the RSGB Board proceedings athttp://rsgb.org/main/about-us/board-of-directors/board-proceedings-and-reports/ You can join the RSGB online athttp://www.rsgbshop.org/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Join_the_RSGB_22.html RSGB membership is free to licensed UK amateurs under the age of 21 or aged 21-25 …
• 28 Desember

  2020 IOTA Honour Roll – Annual Listing

  IOTA enthusiasts, if you have been planning to submit an application for IOTA, consider doing it now before the December / January rush. For those waiting for the very last QSL to secure their highest possible position on the 2020 Honour Roll and Annual Listing, you are reminded that the …
• 28 Desember

  Commemorative ARISS slow-scan TV transmissions

  Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will support slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions worldwide in memory of cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valery Bykovsky, and Sigmund Jaehn. Transmissions are scheduled to start at 1100 UTC on December 28 and continuing until 1820 on January 1, 2020. Transmissions will take place on …
• 28 Desember

  The End of a Radio Legend

  Larry Thompson shared this link from Extreme Shortwave Listening I was saddened to recently learn that the wonderful nonprofit charity dedicated to shortwave radio everywhere, EarsToOurWorld.org, will be going the way of the Silent Key. I first learned about this through my association with Universal Radio, in Columbus, Ohio, a …
• 28 Desember

  Scouts get trained to be Ham Radio operators

  Scouting magazine reports on how two assistant scoutmasters are training scouts to become radio amateurs The magazine article says: Assistant Scoutmaster Scott de Masi KC5NKW‘s subdivision was underwater — as were many parts of Kingwood, Texas, in the wake of the devastating Category 4 Hurricane Harvey in 2017.With roads flooded, …
• 28 Desember

  WIA Annual Conference

  Season’s Greetings from the WIA Conference Organising Committee. The WIA Annual Conference will be held in Hobart Tasmania over the 8th to 10th May 2020 and registrations are open and selling fast. The conference theme is “Antarctic Gateway” and the weekend is setup to showcase the Antarctic past, present and …
• 28 Desember

  98th anniversary of successful ARRL transatlantic tests

  A group of radio amateurs gathered earlier this month at W1AW to mark the 98th anniversary of the successful ARRL Transatlantic Tests. December, 1921, a message transmitted by a group of Radio Club of America members at 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was copied by Paul Godley, 2ZE, in Scotland. Reporting …
• 28 Desember

  Meteor-M2-2 satellite ‘struck by micrometeoroid’

  Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday that the Meteor-M2-2 weather satellite may have been hit by a chunk of rock and radio amateur Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB was among the first to notice “The textbook operations of Meteor-M 2-2 wouldn’t last long, though, and as is often the case, an amateur …