A schoolgirl who recently passed her radio exams to become a licensed amateur radio user is going to be the first student to speak to astronaut Tim Peake using Amateur Radio.
Jessica Leigh, a student at Sandringham School in St Albans, will be operating a VHF/UHF amateur radio station to enable her school to communicate directly with Peake, who is currently on board the International Space Station (ISS).
The talented teen will be establishing contact and managing a group of 10 students who will be questioning the astronaut on Friday morning….READ MORE
Beginning October 1, ARRL will offer a 10% discount on all applications for 5Band Worked All States (5B WAS) wall plaques and Triple Play (TPA) wall p... Read more
Two well-known ham radio authors and speakers will share their expertise with members in October during ARRL Learning Network webinars. ARRL... Read more
A Moscow Aviation Institute MAI-75 slow-scan television (SSTV) experiment event is planned for Wednesday, September 30, from 1305 UTC to 1845 UTC, and... Read more
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Hara Arena, the former venue for Dayton Hamvention® and myriad sports, entertainment, and other presentations over the years, will soon be histor... Read more
CAMSAT says the CAS-7A launch has been postponed until next May, and CAS-5A until next June. “Because of COVID-19, many things have been delayed,” CAM... Read more
The latest beta release of the WSJT-X digital software suite includes digital protocols particularly designed for communication on LF and MF... Read more
Candidate releases are intended for beta testers, WSJT-X 2.3.0-rc1 offers the new modes FST4 and FST4W designed for use on the LF and MF bands WSJT-X... Read more
Stephan Greene KS1G reports the AMRAD-Oscar 27 (AO-27) satellite has celebrated 27 years in orbit On the AMSAT Bulletin Board he writes: Happy 27... Read more
ARRL met via telephone with FCC staff members this week to emphasize its opposition to the FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in Docke... Read more
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Up until September 23, we saw 32 consecutive days with no sunspots. Then new sunspot group AR2773 appeared, which ha... Read more
Late on the afternoon of September 16, the police department in Post Falls, Idaho, received a 911 call that two juveniles — ages 9 and 11 — were missi... Read more
“I was looking for an antenna to throw in my camping kit to give the portable radio a little more range. Typically campsites and backwoods locat... Read more
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has published the 2020 ITU Radio Regulations — the international treaty governing the g... Read more
Steve Franke, K9AN; Bill Somerville, G4WJS; and Joe Taylor, K1JT Version 2.3 of WSJT-X introduces a new family of digital modes we designate FST41. Th... Read more
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