Day: August 4, 2022

• Follow-up
• International
• News
• Newsreel
• Shortwave
• Weather

Via Southgate: Eruption proved continuing importance of shortwave

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano exploded earlier this year, bringing down communications to and from Tonga, RNZ Pacific...

• DX
• International
• News
• Newsreel

Via Southgate: IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040...

• DX
• International
• News

Via Southgate: Tony’s 10m Band Report

Not a hugely dramatic week for DX, quantity or rarity. At the start of the week was AO2022XAC (which I...

• ARISS
• NASA
• News
• Newsreel
• Space

Via Southgate: ISS astronaut’s favourite ham radio contact

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS, who is on the International Space Station, describes his amateur radio contact with 8-year-old Isabella from Kent, UK,...

• International
• News
• Regulatory

Via Southgate: New Zealand: WLAN use in the 6 GHz Band

New Zealand has now made 5925–6425 MHz available for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) following similar action in the UK...

• Digital
• International
• News
• Newsreel

Via Southgate: ARDC grants 99,915 Euros to Finnish ham radio club

Finland's national amateur radio society, the SRAL, reports the OH2CH radio club applied for and got a grant of 99,915 Euros The...

• International
• News
• Radio
• Shortwave

Via Southgate: Radio broadcasting still crucial in Sarawak

The Borneo Post reports on the importance of radio broadcasting in Sarawak The newspaper says: Radio broadcasting has imprinted a...

• International
• News
• Youth

Via Southgate: Austria: International Youth Day

ÖVSV reports that on International Youth Day, August 12, young people in Austria will be permitted to send a greetings...