ARDC grant provides ARESLAX with sophisticated noise location capabilities
ARESLAX, an arm of the ARRL Los Angeles Section, has used a $23,600 grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) to purchase equipment that will help Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) team members to locate and eliminate sources of radio frequency interference (RFI) that could hinder their operations
The UoSAT-1 story: ingenuity, teamwork and lots of favours!
UoSAT-OSCAR-9 (UoSAT-1), developed at the University of Surrey by Martin Sweeting G3YJO and his team, was launched into orbit 40 years ago on October 6, 1981
RSGB new exam online booking system available
The RSGB's new exam online booking system for individuals and clubs is now live
Delayed JAXA Epsilon Launch Set for October 7
The launch of a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Epsilon rocket carrying several amateur radio payloads has been rescheduled for October 7. Launches on October 1 and October 3 were scrubbed. This would be the fifth launch of the Epsilon Vehicle. The launch will carry four amateur radio satellites into space: TeikyoSat-4 (TS-4), Z-Sat, KOSEN-1, and NanoDragon. On October 6, four addition...
Microsoft Releases Windows Version 11
Today (October 5) is the official release date for the new Windows 11 operating system, Microsoft has announced, but it will be a slow reveal. Radio amateurs may be eager to learn if it will run the station software they’re running under Windows 7 or Windows 10, and if they’ll need new device drivers. “We are not too concerned,” said Tom Wagner, N1MM, of the widely popular, free logging softwar...
20m Indoor Loop Antenna
Antennas/Indoor
This antenna can gets you on the air on 14MHz, and it has a useable frequency range. The VSWR is almost perfect at the centre-frequency abd the design uses no expensive components.
U.S. birthday celebrations
Members of the Grayson County Amateur Radio Club commemorate the of President Dwight D. Eisenhower between Oct. 9 and 17
North American QRP CW Club special event
The North American QRP CW Club (NAQCC) runs the special event callsign N3A from several locations in the USA and Puerto Rico to mark the club's 17th anniversary
Repeater interference
Kells Radio Club are trying to source interference to the 2 Metre repeater EI2LLX on 145.7875 MHz in Cavan and to Dublin repeater EI2KTR on 145.7625 MHz
Better protections from harmful online videos
People who use online video-sharing sites and apps should be better protected from harmful content, as Ofcom issues new guidance for tech companies today
JOTI and JOTA
JOTA-JOTI takes place from the 15th to the 17th of October, hundreds of Scout stations are taking part including many Irish Scout Troops
10-year-old is youngest French radio ham
The youngest radio amateur in France and the Overseas Territories is 10-year-old Florian Barret FR4UG in Reunion Island who holds the French HAREC equivalent license, which is the same as a UK Full
FMH Portable Operations Challenge 2021, result
The Portable Operations Challenge 2021 took place on September 4th and 5th and the overall winner showed what can be done from a great portable location and using very low power. With just six contacts and running at one-watt CW on twenty metres, Jack Haefner NG2E took out the top spot with a grand total of 615,924 points
Sisters earn ham radio licenses
The Midland Daily News reports on two sisters who got their amateur radio licenses - Kanushi Desai KE8RNA and Jashvi Desai KE8QHI
16th annual ARRL online auction gears up for October 8 kick-off
Get ready to bid and support ARRL education programming when the 16th Annual ARRL Online Auction gets under way on Friday, October 8, at 10 AM EDT (1400 UTC). The auction continues through Thursday, October 14. GigaParts is sponsoring this year’s ARRL Online Auction
Data on Number of Radio Amateurs Worldwide Needs Updating
The oft-cited figure of 3 million radio amateurs worldwide may need updating. That number was what the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) published in 2000 for the global head count. The IARU once regularly collected amateur radio population statistics, but stopped the practice around the point when the worldwide amateur radio population began to decline. Data available elsewhere for a few...
20 meter short loaded vertical antennas
Antennas/20M/20 meter Dipole Antennas
Loading is a way to lower the resonant frequency of an antenna radiator. This technique is typically used in antennas that have radiating elements that are too short for the desired resonance frequency. In this excellent article the author experiment loaded vertical dipoles for 20 meters band
We're 100 today!
Today sees special edition number 100 of Southgate Vibes, our twice-weekly amateur radio podcast
The BBC World Service has published its performance review covering the period of 2016 - 2020
During the period covered by this review, the total reach of BBC World Service has grown significantly, by 42 percent, from 246 million people on average each week in March 2016 to 351 million people in March 2020
ARDC gives grant to help students
Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is helping high school Computer Science students become Makers by providing a grant to purchase Raspbery PIs and Arduinos
IARU Region 1 prepares for Workshop
On October 17-21 IARU Region 1 is holding a Workshop 'Shaping the Future' to discuss the future direction for amateur radio
ARISS contact is scheduled with students at various schools in the Prescott Unified School District, Prescott, AZ, USA
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 5, 2021 at 11:08 am MST (Prescott, AZ) (18:08 UTC, 2:08 pm EDT, 1:08 pm CDT, 12:08 pm MDT, 11:08 am PDT)
Numbers taking up amateur radio in UK declining
Figures in RSGB Board Proceedings suggest there has been a decline during this year in numbers joining the hobby but numbers are still much better than those before RI online exams were introduced
Ham radio exams in Nieuwegein, Netherlands
On October 2, the amateur radio Novice (equivalent to UK Intermediate) and Full exams were held in Nieuwegein. A day later, the Stichting Radio Examens (SRE) announced all the provisional exam results
School for Deaf Children to talk to an astronaut on the International Space Station in a world first radio communication
At 1212 hrs on 12 October 2021 Lloyd Farrington from the Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society (NADARS) will be calling the International Space Station using Amateur Radio equipment and callsign GB4MHN to enable ten deaf children to speak to NASA Astronaut Mark T. Vande Hei
A Foot Switch for the Future
Technical Reference/Headsets and Speakers
A prototype of a switch foot made on a square aluminium stock frame
Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2138
Trapped five band EFHW SOTA antenna, Multiband End-fed 80-10m Antenna, Portable magnetic loop antenna, SDR4Space, Coil-Shortened Vertical Antenna Calculator, QSO Map Pyton Script, UTSOURCE.net,
MIARC
The Michigan Area Repeater Council, Inc
BAFARA Award
Operating Aids/Awards
The Belgian Air Force Amateur Radio Association sponsor of BAFARA Award
Rodrigues Island
Robert, 3B9FR, is once again active from Rodrigues Island (AF-017) and is NOT a PIRATE
Bahamas 'Radio In a Box' operation
Operators George/AA7JV, Tomi/HA7RY, Mike/KN4EEI, Don/N1DG, Gregg/W6IZT and Hal/W8HC will be active as C6AGU from Wood Cay (NA-001) during the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 27-28th and the ARRL 160m CW Contest (December 3-5th)
Galapagos Islands
Members of the Tifariti Gang/DX Friends will be active as HD8R from Galapagos Islands (SA-004) between October 26th and November 7th
The AWA Valve QSO Party this afternoon
The AWA Valve QSO Party is a phone only contest on 40 and 80 metres using AM and SSB. Preferably valve radios or radios with valves in them should be used. No linear amplifiers may be used
Ham radio CubeSats to deploy from ISS include one on 76 GHz
It is expected four CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads will be deployed on the morning of Wednesday, October 6, one of them has 76 GHz capability
RSGB release 8 sets of Board proceedings
The Proceedings for eight RSGB Board meetings held from December 2020 until August 2021 have now all been released
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