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The Amateur Radio satellite Compass-1, designed and built by students at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences in Germany, celebrates its first year in space on April 28. On the AMSAT Bulletin Board (AMSAT-BB) Mike Rupprecht DK3WN writes: ...
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25 April, 2009 ARLP017 Teased again, on Wednesday, April 22 we saw sunspot 1015 fade away, just as it was about to slip over our Sun's western limb. It emerged only briefly, late on April 21, and by Thursday it had disappeared. 10.7 cm s...
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Cray Valley RS operated GB6MW from Meopham Windmill in Kent for the first time last year, and we will be repeating the operation over the weekend of 9-10 May for National Mills weekend. The mill...
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Today's 'Independent on Sunday' has a very interesting article on sunspot activity by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. With the snappy title of 'It's been a long, cold, lonely winter but, here comes the Sun. (And yes, it's all right)' , it not only explain...
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The closing date for entries in South Africa's 2009 Construction Competition has been extended to 28 April, when the judging for the second phase will take place. Full derails can be found on www.amateurradio.org.za. The main prize ...
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Writing from the US Naval Academy Satellite Development Lab this week, Bob, WB4APR reported on new satellites with the same APRS packet relay as PCSAT and the ISS that are in the works. Bob said their design will use the new Byonics a...
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The HB9AFO website carries further news on the launch status of the Amateur Radio satellite SwissCube-1 that is likely to launch between late May and mid June The site reports that on April 22 the satellite was sealed in its final packaging ready fo...
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A new organisation has been formed that seeks to unite all amateur radio associations in Europe.. and beyond. According to their website, EURAO - the European Radio Amateurs' Organization aims to "group all those associations in the old continent, ...
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Last month we had a visit from 9V1/?????? ( I am not mentioning any names here), the first guy to be issued with a temporary visitor's license. An active member of the SARTS radio club (again, no names mentioned) kindly allowed this chap to use his statio...
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Charly Hausemer, LX1AJ, from Differdange, Luxembourg (LX), became a 'Silent Key' (SK) on April 7th, at the age of 89. He was the oldest ham in LX-land and was a licensed radio amateur for more than 60 years. He was a keen DXer and...
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Some further information on the recently launched ANUSAT satellite is available on the website of one of the former students at Anna University. Sidharth Balasubramanian did his undergrad in Electronics and Communication Engineering at College of E...
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Operators Kasimir DL2SBY and his friend Georg DF1SR will be active from Liechtenstein between April 24th and May 4th. Activity will be on HF bands (80-10m) using CW, SSB and RTTY. Kasimir says that he has bought Spiderbe...
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Since Dave G4DPZ made available the Amateur Satellite Beginners slides on the web, they have proved to be very popular, with over 1500 people viewing them. The Powerpoint slides were originally produced for the satellite beginners session at the Lei...
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A crazy week with Thursday and Saturday producing the best results. S04R, Tifariti Western Sahara, was easily the most sought after DX during the week but didn’t re-appear at the weekend. Nice QSL card Most popular DX (three or mo...
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The draft for the Government Gazette for the changes to the 40-metre band in South Africa is still doing the rounds in the ICASA machinery and was not tabled at the Tuesday ICASA Council meeting. Dumisa Ngwenya, Senior Manager Engineering at South ...
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TRAVERSE CITY -- An obscure figure nearly lost to history launched a communications revolution just over 100 years ago. On Saturday, amateur radio operators around the world will celebrate Guglielmo Marconi, an inventor whose conceptual leap fu...
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Still no sunspots, and again we saw a prediction for slightly higher solar flux slip away. If you go here and click on any forecast prior to April 14, you will see solar flux numbers at 72 predicted for the end of this month. But in the few days since the...
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Earlier this year, South Africa's regulator ICASA suspended the printing of amateur radio licences on plain paper as some fraudulent licences were printed outside ICASA. ICASA Management has ordered special paper with security water markings to ens...
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Bob, VK0BP, currently employed by the Australian Antarctic Division as a Communications Tech from Davis Base Station (WABA VK-03, WAP AUS-03, IOTA AN-016), Antarctica, will be using the special callsign AX0BP on April 25th, to celebr...
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The student-built 40-kg micro educational satellite ANUSAT carrying an Amateur Radio payload was launched on Monday April 20 from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Satish Dhawan space centre. The launch vehicle was ISRO's P...
