Day: August 14, 2021

• Podcast

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1172

Release Date: August 14, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...

• DX
• Newsreel

Intrepid-DX Group Takes Itself Out of the Running to Activate Bouvet Island

In a brief statement this week, Intrepid-DX Group President Paul Ewing, N6PSE, said his team is pulling out of the...

• News
• Newsreel
• Special Event

Pittsburgh amateur radio group celebrates 80 years of providing emergency communications during disasters (Pennsylvania)

After eight decades of providing emergency backup communications on a volunteer basis during some of this region’s worst storms and...

• General
• International
• RSGB

via the RSGB: 27 September 2021 – Repeaters: how they are built, planned, commissioned and used by Steve Morton, F4VTF, G8SFR

Steve’s presentation Voice repeaters have been with us in UK for almost 50 years a lot has changed in that...

• International
• Public Service
• RSGB

via the RSGB: Amateurs help with forest fire comms

Radio amateurs from ARA, the Algerian national society, are assisting their government in the response to forest fires, where 65 people...

• ARRL
• DX
• Follow-up
• International
• Newsreel

Via the ARRL: Bouvet Island DXpeditions Are in Planning Stages for 2021, 2022, and 2023

Parallel planning is under way by three entities for DXpeditions to Bouvet Island in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The remote...