Saturday 28 December, ARISS contact planned with Scout group in The Netherlands

An International Space Station educational radio contact has been planned Saturday 28 December with participants at Scouting Burgemeester Welschen Meerhove, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 13:08 UTC, which is 14.08 CEWT. This will be a direct radio contact between IR0ISS and PE6SBW. The contact is expec... [continue]

Saturday, 21st December 2013

IARU R3 Update:

To all IARU member-societies: Due to the very fine efforts of IARU Region 3 Chairman Gopal Madhavan VU2GMN and many of the other Region 3 volunteers, the IARU had a very nice booth at the 2013 World Telecom recently held in Bangkok. The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST) provided volunteers to help staff the booth during the event and also ... [continue]

Six to stay on National VOA Museum of Broadcasting Board

Six members of the 19-member National VOA Museum of Broadcasting’s board of directors have renewed their terms in order to continue work on developing the museum

Santa uses 434.075 MHz during sleigh test

BBC TV News has reported on the 434.075 MHz STRATODEAN balloon carrying Santa and Rudolf that was launched from Coleford, Gloucestershire, UK

OZ7IGY 24 GHz beacon now transmitting PI4

On Friday, December 20 the 24 GHz OZ7IGY beacon was upgraded to transmit PI4, CW and carrier

Propagation de K7RA

Geomagnetic conditions were more stable than expected last weekend, good news for participants in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. The planetary A index on Friday through Sunday was 3, 16 and 7 and mid-latitude A index was just 3, 10 and 5

Ofcom draft Annual Plan 2014/15

Ofcom has published its draft Annual Plan for the coming financial year, and will hold a series of public meetings to hear people's feedback

Caribbean islands tour

Three Amateur Radio operators, Mek SP7VC, Ted SP3IPB and YL Kate SQ7OYL, plan to activate a few islands in the Caribbean between January 11-30th

Bahrain special event station

Special event station A91MCAT is now active until December 31st. Activity is to celebrate that Manama city was chosen to be the 'Capital of Arab Tourism 2013' by the Arab Tourism ministers who met in Aqaba, Jordan, in 2011

IARU Recommendations

At the Region 3 Directors meeting held in August 26th and 27th, 2013, two recommendations were adopted regarding usage of two meter band for the amateur satellite service

Propagation Forecast Bulletin #52 de K7RA:

Geomagnetic conditions were more stable than expected last weekend, good news for participants in the ARRL 10 Meter Contest. The planetary A index on Friday through Sunday was 3, 16 and 7 and mid-latitude A index was just 3, 10 and 5.