ARISS Joins NASA On-The-Air for a Special SSTV Event October 27-29

Amateur Radio On The International Space Station (ARISS) is planning a very special Slow Scan TV event currently scheduled to start Saturday, October 27th about 10:00 UTC.  Transmissions are scheduled to continue until around 19:30 UTC on October 29th. Helping to support the event will be NASA’s Space, Communication and Navigation (SCaN) D... [continue]

Tuesday, 23rd October 2018

JOTA Participants Urged to File Post-Event Reports

Practice Makes Perfect with FT8 and Other WSJT-X Protocols

Mexico’s IARU Member-Society Requests Clear Frequencies for Hurricane Nets

The Federación Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores (FMRE), Mexico’s IARU member-society, is asking radio amateurs to avoid 7.060, 7.130, and 14.120 MHz, where Category 4 Hurricane Willa emergency nets are operating (in Spanish).As of 1200 UTC, the storm was some 150 miles south-southwest of Mazatlan, with maximum sustained winds of 130 MPH. Willa ... [continue]

ARISS joins NASA On-The-Air for a special SSTV event

Amateur Radio On The International Space Station (ARISS) is planning a very special Slow Scan Televison (SSTV) event during October 27-29 on 145.800 MHz FM using PD-120

FRC expands its presence on social media

Recently, Federación de Radioaficionados de Cuba (FRC) activated its official Twitter site

Ham radio spacecraft signal decoded after bouncing off Moon

Radio amateur Daniel Estévez EA4GPZ / M0HXM reports decoding a JT4G signal from the LO-94 (DSLWP-B) spacecraft that was reflected off the Moon

CB1H installs 4el G0KSC OWA Yagi

Nick, XQ1KZ contacted me through my website and asked for a 40m 4 element Yagi design which I provided to them. The attached photos show the finished antenna and SWR results with comments from Nick

Ducie Island report

The Ducie Island DXpedition team report: Pileups have been deep, energetic and generally well behaved THANK YOU

Inferior conjunction of Venus

This week, something strange and wonderful is happening to the shape of Venus

Sinking of the S.S. Dundalk

The Dundalk Amateur Radio Society are activating a Special Event Station EI100SSD to commemorate the sinking of the S.S. Dundalk which occured 14th Oct, 1918