Massachusetts ARES Prepares as a Now-Weakened Hurricane Earl Approaches

Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:The following is a situation report from the Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section on Hurricane Earl. The good news is that Earl has weakened to a Category-1 hurricane. The other good... [continue]

Friday, 3rd September 2010

Propagation Forecast Bulletin #35 de K7RA:

Over this past week four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1 both new sunspot groups 1103 and 1104 appeared, and on September 2 sunspot group 1105 arrived. Over August 26 to September 2 the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51, and 52 and ove... [continue]

ARNewsline Report 1725 -- Sept 3 2010:

The following is a Q-S-T. A missing Arizona ham is found dead in a trailer and an arrest is made. Also, amateur radio is ready for Hurricane Earl, ham radio towers are included in a controversial proposed ordinance in Escondido, California, the FCC denies a rather interesting request for a waiver of the vanity call sign rules and a working royal... [continue]

New Interim Chief Takes Over Air Force MARS

 The Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) organization has a new “interim” Chief. Outgoing USAF MARS Chief Allen Eiermann, K3LSR, retired at the end of May and was replaced by TSgt Jason E. Sandifer. Sandifer is a systems manager stationed at the Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC) at Scott AFB, Illinois. AFNIC is the head... [continue]

The K7RA Solar Update

Over this past week, four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1, two new sunspot groups -- 1103 and 1104 -- appeared, and on September 2, sunspot group 1105 arrived. Through August 26-September 2, the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51 and 52 an... [continue]

Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1725 - September 3 2010

The following is a closed circuit advisory and not necessarily for air. Ladies and gentlemen, with a report on Amateur Radio Newsline's financial status, here's our producer, Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. -- Well, the last time I was on here with a financial report I told you that I thought we had enough in the bank to hold us over the months of ... [continue]

Astronaut Chris Hadfield VA3OOG to be ISS’s first Canadian commander

According to The Globe and Mail: [bit.ly] Chris Hadfield has been designated to lead the International Space Station in 2013. He will be the first Canadian to command the ISS. I took the photo of the autographed photo on Sept. 1, 2010 at the Aerospace Museum of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, not knowing Chris would be front-page news the following da... [continue]

Surfin’: Hurricane Hamming

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing EditorThis week, Surfin’ makes plans for emergency communications of the hurricane variety.   As I write this, Connecticut and the Northeast are looking down the barrel of Hurricane Earl. It looks like my neck of the woods will only receive a glancing, but powerful blow, but points south and east of us will n... [continue]

The great expectation of DX quadruplets

The great expectation of DX quadruplets The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea are to undergo constitutional status changes next month and result in a four new DXCC entities. Sint Maarten PJ7, Curacao PJ2, Bonaire PJ4, each are to become a DX entity, while Saba PJ6 and Sint Eustatius PJ5 combined, are set to be a single... [continue]

Missing recording of last amateur 56 MHz transmissions

Missing recording of last amateur 56 MHz transmissions In 1949 the 5 metre band (56 MHz) was taken away from UK Radio Amateurs and allocated to TV broadcasting. Jack Hum G5UM had a gramophone recording of the last evening's transmissions on the band, but its whereabouts are now unknown. Roger G3XBM writes: Many years ago Jack Hum G5UM attended ... [continue]

Missing recording of last amateur 56 MHz transmissions

In 1949 the 5 metre band (56 MHz) was taken away from UK Radio Amateurs and allocated to TV broadcasting