IARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within International Band Plans

August 23, 2015 No comments

In apparent reference to efforts by China’s Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT) to coordinate operating frequencies for nine satellites set to launch in... Read more

Amateur Radio Emergency Net Active in Wake of Earthquake in Central Mexico

September 20, 2017 No comments

The FMRE National Emergency Net has activated on 7.060 MHz following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in the central Mexico state of Puebla at 1814 UTC on T... Read more

It’s Alive! LightSail Spacecraft Restored After Being Silenced by Software Issue

June 02, 2015 No comments

LightSail Spacecraft After going silent for a few days, The Planetary Society’s LightSail™ spacecraft has resumed transmitting. A suspected software g... Read more

ACOM 1500HF + 6m LINEAR AMPLIFIER

June 23, 2016 No comments

ACOM 1500HF Easy to operate The TRI is a powerful tuning aid that, together with the automatically controlled input attenuator, helps the operator to... Read more

EO-79 CubeSat Update

November 10, 2015 No comments

Wouter Weggelaar PA3WEG has provided this update on the status and plans for QB50p1 – EO-79. Earlier testing campaigns indicate that the AMSAT-UK/AMSA... Read more

AMSAT Fox-1A CubeSat Launches from California

October 08, 2015 No comments

Right on schedule at 1249 UTC on October 8, the Atlas rocket carrying the AMSAT Fox-1A Amateur Radio CubeSat and 12 others lifted off from Vandenberg... Read more

FCC Penalizes Marketer of Ham-Band Drone Audio-Visual Transmitters

December 19, 2017 No comments

The FCC has imposed a $180,000 civil penalty on a Sarasota, Florida, company that had been marketing noncompliant audio-visual transmitters intended f... Read more

QRPVer Minion SDR First Impressions

April 26, 2020 No comments

SSB SDR transceiver is a shortwave, ten band, multi band. QRPver Minion-SDR. This is a compact ten-band shortwave QRP SDR transceiver (1.8, 3.5, 5, 7,... Read more

The Legendary G5RV Antenna – ARRL The Doctor is In podcast

August 15, 2019 No comments

“The Legendary G5RV Antenna” is the topic of the new (August 15) episode of the ARRL The Doctor is In podcast. Listen…and learn!   Read more

Es’hailSat 2 portable reception

February 13, 2019 No comments

Receiving Es’HailSat 2 from my balcony using *very* minimal setup. Read more