Foundations of Amateur Radio

The APRS of it all ... Amateur radio is a living anachronism. We have this heady mix of ancient and bleeding edge, never more evident than in a digital mode called Automatic Packet Reporting System or APRS

Saturday, 16th January 2021

eton.ca is now CLOSED

The email robot at RAC-Bulletins@eton.ca is now CLOSED - this is the LAST message you will receive from it

Harmful Coronavirus content on Loveworld breaks broadcasting rules for second time

An Ofcom investigation has found that religious satellite television channel, Loveworld, breached broadcasting rules for the second time in a year

DX News from the ARRL

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands

Friday, 15th January 2021

Enter Construction Competitions!

Have you entered the RSGB’s ‘Get on the air to care’ construction competition? The deadline is the 1st of February. Your project can be hardware, software or a system and may be based on a kit. If you made something during the autumn lockdowns, over the holiday season, or are in the middle of something […]

New AllStar Gateway in North Lancashire

Recently, the MB7IMB repeater came on the air in North Lancashire. It is a simplex AllStar gateway on 145.2375MHz narrow FM, with a CTCSS access tone of 110.9Hz. The North West AllStar Group has been formed, linking AllStar nodes and repeaters throughout north-west England. The group is encouraging use of the repeater. All that’s needed […]

The K7RA Solar Update

Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: What happened? Solar Cycle 25 seemed well under way, but no new sunspots have emerged since December 23. The last time any sunspot was visible was January 2. On January 14, Spaceweather.com posted, “Welcome back, solar minimum.”Average daily solar flux declined from 78.6 to 73.8. Geomagnetic A index remained qu... [continue]

CHESS CubeSat Constellation to carry FUNcube transponders

In 2020, a project between AMSAT-UK, AMSAT-NL and Swiss universities started with the aim of equipping two Swiss satellites with a linear transponder for amateur radio

Tips on operating a Satellite while Roving

In Episode 6 of DX Engineering’s Amateur Radio Satellite series, Sean Kutzko, KX9X, explores the fun of operating your amateur radio gear from a grid square other than the one where you live

Ofcom: Technologies shaping communications for the future

A new Ofcom report shines a light on the innovative, emerging technologies that could shape the communications industry in the future

FT4 on the amateur radio satellites

The free English language AMSAT-EA January newsletter features an article by Carlos Flores EA3HAH about his experiences in operating WSJT FT4 on the linear (SSB) amateur satellites