This Week in Amateur Radio #995 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. March 24, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Amy Jo Clark, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:31:18 Download […]
The first individually-licenced amateurs in Tunisia are now able to get on the air. Of the 10 people who passed the first exam, five were able to attend a special ceremony to receive their documents personally. President of the National Frequencies Agency, Ashraf Chaabane and the amateur radio committee president Mehdi Hmem spoke about the […]
This Week in Amateur Radio #993 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. March 17, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Amy Jo Clarke, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:16:53 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR994 Trending […]
RAYNET groups around the country were activated during the heavy snowfall last weekend. Cardiff and District RAYNET were called in to assist with the transportation of key personnel, such as community care workers, as well as assisting stranded motorists to reach safety. Lothian and Fife RAYNET groups provided a communications net for the local 4×4 […]
This Week in Amateur Radio #993 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. March 10, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:20:43 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR993 Trending […]
Last week, on 1 March 2018, an attempt to hack the Echolink computer for GB3NC was made. Because of the attempted hack, there is no Echolink facility currently on the repeater, as a re-engineer of the machine is being conducted. Assuming the re-engineer is successful, it is hoped to restore the facility within the next […]
The Summits on the Air (SOTA) event Summit to Summit Europe to Australia and Beyond takes place on 10 March 2018. Over 30 SOTA activators are planning to climb to summits in Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The event will start around 0630UTC next Saturday. For any one wanting to join […]
This Week in Amateur Radio #992 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. March 03, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Amy Jo Clarke, and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:19:39 Trending stories in this […]
A second beta version of WSJT-X version 1.9.0 has been released. This is to allow further field testing of the new FT8 DXpedition mode, designed to enable DXpeditions to make FT8 contacts at very high rates. The team is inviting the amateur radio community to participate in a public test run of FT8 DXpedition mode. Test times […]
Children from two Hamilton schools had a fun time February 20th building a Morse code sender and learning Morse at the Whitehill Community Centre. This was the fourth session learning basic electronics and building an electronic project, with help from the CQScotland Group. Guest radio amateur (ham) Roy, radio callsign GM4VKI, shared with the children […]
The RSGB’s web-hosting service for clubs radioclubs.net will be closing down for good on 29 March 2018 when the hosting company we use discontinue their services. We emailed clubs using the service on 6 January 2016 to explain our plans and to give them sufficient notice to arrange a different way of hosting their club website. Only […]
Our Society has open elections for its President. Unfortunately no nominations have been received for 2018-20 and the post is now being re-advertised. The closing date is 2359 on 26 April. If an election is required, details will be published in the June edition of RadCom, available in mid-May. The current President Nick Henwood, G3RWF […]
This Week in Amateur Radio #991 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. February 24, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Wayne Nelms, N4LMS, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Fred Fitte, NF2F and Jessica Bowen, KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:08:30 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR991 Trending stories […]
The IARU Region 1 Monitoring System newsletter reports a north-west African military Thales-3000 system on 13,998.4kHz was causing interference in the amateur radio 20m band, and that in the amateur radio 40m band Radio Myanmar has been heard on 7200kHz, and Radio Hargeisa from the Republic of Somaliland on 7120kHz. Read more at www.iarums-r1.org/iarums/news2018/news1801.pdf (18-page/1.1MB PDF). via […]
This Week in Amateur Radio #990 Here is a summary of the news trending this week. February 17, 2018 This weeks edition, is anchored by, Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, and Jessica Bowen,KB2VWX. Produced and edited (and a little anchoring too) by W2XBS. Running Time: 1:13:40 Download here: http://bit.ly/TWIAR990 Trending stories in […]
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