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VK5SFA Wins the April QST Cover Plaque Award

April 09, 2019 No comments

The winning article for the April 2019 QST Cover Plaque award is “A High-Power 160- and 80-Meter Transmitting Loop Antenna” by Steve Adler, VK5SFA. Th... Read more

ARRL Seeks Clarification of Amended Amateur Service RF Safety Rules

May 14, 2020 No comments

ARRL has filed a Petition for Clarification addressing two issues arising from amended FCC RF safety rules that go into effect on June 1 for the Amate... Read more

XU7AKC – Rong Sanloem Isl, AS-133

February 16, 2016 No comments

Jacek, SP5APW will be active from Rong Sanloem AS-133 as XU7AKC between April 13-19, 2016. QRV on HF bands from the Secret Paradise Resort with clear... Read more

ARRL Asks FCC to Allocate New 5 MHz Band, Retain Channels and Current Power Limit

January 12, 2017 No comments

ARRL has asked the FCC to allocate a new, secondary contiguous band at 5 MHz to the Amateur Service, while also retaining four of the current five 60-... Read more

Honour for Morse Code Interceptor

May 29, 2015 No comments

  Morse Code Interceptor “An 88-year-old Calgary woman has been honoured by the British High Consulate for her work during the Second World... Read more

Work the World with WSJT-X – Dr. Joe Taylor

March 31, 2018 No comments

“Dr. Joe Taylor, K1JT, author of many of the weak signal digital modes and co-author of the very popular FT-8 mode presented: “Work the Wo... Read more

The K7RA Solar Update 04/24/2015

April 24, 2015 No comments

Solar activity perked up this week, with average daily sunspot numbers rising from 65.6 in the previous seven days to 120.9 in the April 16-22 period.... Read more

New Beta Version WSJT-X 2.0 !

September 20, 2018 No comments

WSJT-X  V2 As promised, the WSJT-X Development Group has announced a new “candidate release,” WSJT-X 2.0 rc1. This beta version of the popular digital... Read more

Touch Screen Antenna Controller

January 17, 2017 No comments

“The following manual will show the features and how to use the new antenna electronic controller that, as you will see, it is by far the most s... Read more

Marconi Day Award

September 15, 2020 No comments

Marconi Day Award The Calabria DX Team has once again organized Marconi Day and Award for the second year. The following accredited stations... Read more

1240-1300 MHz discussed at CEPT SE 40 meeting

July 14, 2020 No comments

The 69th meeting of CEPT ECC Working Group SE-40, held June 23-25, discussed the amateur radio 1240-1300 MHz band, the meeting documents are now avail... Read more

The Double Bazooka Antenna – A Review

April 23, 2015 No comments

The Double Bazooka Antenna – A Review     Read more

Ham Astronaut Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, Poised to Set Time-in-Space Record

November 22, 2016 No comments

New ISS crew members Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG, and Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy are settling in on board the International Space Stat... Read more

Ham Radio Satellites to Deploy from ISS

June 17, 2019 No comments

Three BIRDS-3 satellites with Amateur Radio payloads are scheduled to be deployed from the International Space Station on Monday, June 17. The BIRDS-3... Read more

ZY6V – Abrolhos Island IOTA SA-019

November 13, 2018 No comments

 Abrolhos Island  – ZY6V   Abrolhos Island, IOTA SA – 019, 14 – 19 November 2018. Team: PY6HD, PY6RT, PY6AWU, PY6BA, PY1AX and PS8NF... Read more