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Balloons with APRS Payloads to Race Across North America in Educational Challenge
It all began when Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) educator Joanne Michael, KM6BWB — a science coach at the Wiseburn Unified S... Read more
Social Distancing Exam Sessions Demonstrate Pent-Up Demand for Testing
A recent in-person “social-distancing” amateur radio exam session in Indiana and a “drive-in” session in California are representative of those that a... Read more
New RSGB Online exam remote invigilation FAQ
New RSGB Online exam remote invigilation FAQ The RSGB have released a new version of the Online exam remote invigilation FAQ PDF which covers the new... Read more
Amazing opening on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands to Poland
On Friday the 29th of May 2020, there was an extensive Sporadic-E opening across Europe which reached as high as 144 MHz allowing stations across the... Read more
The K7RA Solar Update
No significant solar activity over the past week, and still no sunspots observed since the end of April. According to Spaceweather.com, the percentage... Read more
Temporary Rule Waivers Announced for 2020 ARRL Field Day
With one month to go before 2020 ARRL Field Day, June 27 – 28, the ARRL Programs and Services Committee (PSC) has adopted two temporary rule waivers f... Read more
Fldigi v4.1.13 now available
The hard-working development team led by W1HKJ have announced the release of Fldigi v4.1.13. This maintaneance release of Fldigi brings several bug f... Read more
CQ WPX Contest CW : May 30 – 31
Photo by PY3VK – QTH ZX5J – PT5J – PP5JR 2020 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest SSB: March 28-29, 2020 CW: May 30-31, 2020 Starts: 0000 UTC... Read more
Antenna
Drone Antenna
“Let’s see if my new DJI Mavic Mini can lift a long wire to be used as an antenna for amateur radio! Not a practical solution by any means... Read more
MFJ 1982MP End Fed Antenna
“This video is about the MFJ-1982MP End Fed antenna. You can find them using the link below. The MFJ-1982 covers 80-10 meters. This antenna can... Read more
Why I LOVE my Antenna Wire Measuring Counter!
This is an amazing machine made by “Sam” in the USA. I thank him for hand-assembling these. I have two now – and Sam is furnishing m... Read more
DX Commander Expedition Portable Antenna
A first look at the Portable version of the world famous DX Commander vertical antenna for Ham Radio. Read more
Digital Modes
New Summer EURAO Party to Premier FT4
The motto of the new European Radio Amateurs’ Organization (EURAO https://www.eurao.org/) Summer Party https://www.eurao.org/en/node/1045 is... Read more
World Wide Digi DX Contest
The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (“WWROF”), in collaboration with the Slovenia Contest Club (“SCC”), is pleased to announce the first annual... Read more
LoTW Now Accepting FT4 Contact
The latest TQSL update (Config.xml version 11.8), released on May 22, includes FT4 as a submode of MFSK. It also adds AISAT-1 and PO-101 in the satell... Read more
ADIF 3.1.0 was approved today
Dave Bernstein reported this on the DXLabs support group today: ————————————... Read more
FT4 vs FT8 – A new mode, what’s the difference?
The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting by K1JT Read more
VHF
Amazing opening on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands to Poland
On Friday the 29th of May 2020, there was an extensive Sporadic-E opening across Europe which reached as high as 144 MHz allowing stations across the... Read more
RADIODDITY GS-5B ANALOG RADIO | 5W | DUAL PTT | BLUETOOTH PROGRAMMING | S-METER | USB CHARGING
Professional VHF UHF Radio: Dual band, dual watch, dual standby, up to 128 channels. Equipped with an 8.9-inch long antenna, this solid 5W radio can r... Read more
News from DARC — 50 MHz
The Federal Network Agency made a preliminary provisional implementation of the WRC-19 results for the 6‑m band in MItteilung 111 from Amtsblatt 08/20... Read more
Aeronautical Mobile. Contacts 100 Miles + on a 5 watt Handheld
“This weeks show is slightly different. What if we take the Anytone AT D878 UV plus and put it in almost ideal conditions. How far can a 5 watt... Read more
DIY Satellite Antenna DU1AU
A satellite antenna can be made from 3 mm copper or aluminum elements, PVC boom, and some parts you may already have at home. To download the plan (hi... Read more
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An amazing 3866.47 KM on 144MHz SSB between D4VHF and J69DS [ VIDEO]
An amazing 3866.47 KM on SSB between D4VHF and J69DS via #tropo on #2m #vhf band. Maybe a new mode world record? TNX @FransJr for the effort! #hamradi... Read more
Equipment
Rotator Genius – 4O3A
Rotator Genius is a smart rotator controller that uses a magnetic sensor for reading azimuth. It can be controlled by a Windows or Android app. Motor... Read more
Elecraft K4 Update
by Eric Swartz May 19, 2020 Hi Everyone, At Elecraft, like many of you, we are in our 9th week of shelter in place. This has been tough on all of us.... Read more
ICOM IC-705 SDR transceiver Update
IC-705 HF/VHF/UHF Mobile Transceiver – Coming Soon! The new portable HF/VHF/UHF IC-705 has many great features such as SDR platform, internal ba... Read more
QRP Labs new QCX+ QRP CW/WSPR transceiver kit
QRP Labs has just announced the QCX+ which as the name implies is an upgraded version of the very popular QCX line of transceivers To date almost 10,0... Read more
Review
The Xiegu G90 (GSOC) remote head controller in development
Xiegu G90 (GSOC) remote head controller currently in development at the coding stage.. Read more
QCX+ the new QRP Labs 5W transceiver kit
QCX+: a feature-packed, high performance, single-band 5W CW transceiver kit, with WSPR beacon and built-in alignment/test equipment. Available for 80,... Read more
ADALM PLUTO Frequency Expansion Modification Plus CPU Cores
“Here we take a look at the ADALM-PLUTO frequency expansion modification to give us 70 MHz through to 6GHz. Mine actually went as low as 46MHz!!... Read more
Software
Fldigi v4.1.13 now available
The hard-working development team led by W1HKJ have announced the release of Fldigi v4.1.13. This maintaneance release of Fldigi brings several bug f... Read more
WSJT-X 2.2.0-rc2 – Candidate release
Release: WSJT-X 2.2.0-rc2 May 25, 2020 ————————- WSJT-X 2.2.0-rc2 is a release candidate for WSJT-X 2.... Read more
New Raspberry Pi SD card image for RSPdx
SDRplay has released a new downloadable Raspberry Pi SD card image which adds support for the RSPdx and simultaneous use of both the tuners in the RSP... Read more
Dxing
First contact made on 40 MHz between Ireland and Lithuania
On Wednesday the 29th of April 2020, EI4GNB in Ireland managed to complete a digital FT8 contact with LY2YR on 40.220 MHz on the new 8-metre band. No... Read more
WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY (WARD) RCD
WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY (WARD) RCD On April 18 the Dominican Radio Club will be celebrating the World Amateur Radio day (WARD). The RCD callsign will... Read more
TyQSL – Online Logbook
A modern Logbook by Hams, for Hams Share your QSO Statistics and even your whole Logbook with others A Place for other hams to take a look at your QSO... Read more
Large-Scale DXpedition to Timor-Leste Planned for this Fall
The Lagunaria DX Group is planning a “large-scale DXpedition” to Timor-Leste (4W) in the October/November 2020 timeframe. “We currently have one team... Read more
Contesting
CQ WPX Contest CW : May 30 – 31
Photo by PY3VK – QTH ZX5J – PT5J – PP5JR 2020 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest SSB: March 28-29, 2020 CW: May 30-31, 2020 Starts: 0000 UTC... Read more
COVID-19 RADIO COMMUNICATION EVENT
DATE: June 06-07, 2020. STARTS 10.00 UTC SATURDAY – ENDS 09.59 UTC SUNDAY For amateur radio operators worldwide, social distancing is not an iss... Read more
Hamvention QSO Party
Hamvention QSO Party The Dayton Hamvention for 2020 has been cancelled. WWROF, in cooperation with the Hamvention organizers, wanted to create a fun w... Read more
COVID-19 RADIO COMMUNICATION EVENT
DATE June 06-07. 2020. STARTS 10.00 UTC SATURDAY ENDS 0959 UTC SUNDAY For amateur radio operators worldwide, social distancing i... Read more
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Propagation
The K7RA Solar Update
No significant solar activity over the past week, and still no sunspots observed since the end of April. According to Spaceweather.com, the percentage... Read more
The K7RA Solar Update
Still no sunspots to report. Spaceweather.com reported on May 20 that the current stretch of days with no sunspots has now reached 18. And with that t... Read more
The K7RA Solar Update
No sunspots appeared last week. The previous seven days had only one big sunspot group on one day, with a sunspot number of 35. Over the seven-day per... Read more
App - Mobile
SatSat for IOS version 1.4.11 has been released
SatSat, by Fabrice Aneche is a satellite tracking software, for radio amateurs, scientists or hobbyists. It displays current and next passes for any s... Read more
GNU RADIO CODE FOR ANDROID NOW RELEASED
Supports the most recent version of GNU Radio (v3.8). Supports 32-bit and 64-bit ARM architectures (i.e., armeabi-v7a and arm64-v8a). Supports popular... Read more
Introduction to SmartSDR for iOS
Welcome to SmartSDR for iOS written by Marcus DL8MRE. This is an introduction video that allows you full control and access of your Flex 6000 series r... Read more
Android APP – Morse Trainer for Ham Radio
Learn or improve Morse code with Morse Trainer. Now with Farnsworth speed and Koch method. If you are a ham radio (amateur radio) operator or just wan... Read more
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