World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 (WRTC-2014) will benefit from an ARRL Foundation grant. WRTC-2014 announced what it called “a significant financial grant” on June 22. The grant will help to support WRTC-2014’s public relations effort to use the event to promote Amateur Radio to the general public. An international competition involving 59 teams of radio contesters, WRTC-2014 will take p…
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
APRS Tracker Internals
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Internal shot of Tiny Tracker
Amateur Radio’s history, public service role, satellite program, utilization of computer and digital technology, and even its relationship to the Common Core education standards are on the forum menu Friday and Saturday at the ARRL National Centennial Convention. With ham radio notables such as Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, Martti Laine, OH2BH, Carole Perry, WB2MGP, Gordon West, WB6NOA, and Joe T…
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The daily sunspot number rose dramatically this week on June 13 when it increased to 276, but two days later it was back below 100. The resulting weekly average for June 12-18 (141) was actually down 2.3 points from the previous seven days. Average daily solar flux was down 11.7 points to 134.7.
Predicted solar flux has weakened lately, and for the near term flux values are predicted at 105 on J…
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The annual ARRL® Field Day is touted as the largest disaster communications exercise in the world. Each year thousands of amateurs in North America working with clubs, a group of friends, or as individuals, take to the fields with thousands of dollars worth of equipment. But what does it take for this effort to be successful and stress free?
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The FCC’s recently announced revisions to the Part 97 Amateur Radio rules governing exam credit to former licensees, test administration, and emission types will go into effect on Monday, July 21. In a wide-ranging Report and Order (R&O) released June 9, the Commission announced that it would grant examination credit for written elements 3 (General) and 4 (Amateur Extra) to holders of “expired …
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The FUNcube-3 payload has reached orbit, and its 145.815 MHz beacon signal has been copied. FUNcube-3 is a transponder-only payload on the QB50 precursor CubeSat, QB50P1, which launched on June 19 from Russia. FUNcube-3 carries an inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder, with an uplink passband of 435.035-435.065 MHz (LSB) and a downlink passband of 145.935-145.965 MHz (USB).
The QB50P1 and QB50P2 p…
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Because of network maintenance, the ARRL Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, the ARRL Store, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down overnight Friday to Saturday, June 20-21 (Saturday, June 21, from 0000 until 1000 UTC). All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for later delivery. E-mail to @arrl.net Forwarding Service addresses will not be af…
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Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Association (VTARA/K4KDJ) Speaker: Josh Arritt, KF4YLM Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 @ 7:00 PM Location: Squires 219 The majo…
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What some consider Europe’s answer to Dayton Hamvention®, the 39th International “Ham Radio” exhibition gets underway June 27 in Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance in southern Germany. Thousands of radio amateurs and electronics enthusiasts will converge on the Messe Friedrichshafen convention center and surrounding fairgrounds for the event. Some 200 exhibitors and organizations …
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The Summit, NY Qth is the most active station in the USA with 10-14 hours a day activity and 48 hours during contests. See why?
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Dave visited the Manly Warringah Amateur (HAM) Radio Society to see what they are up to…
Matt Wilhelm, W1MSW, of Williamsburg, Massachusetts, will be the new ARRL Contest Branch Manager. He will start work at ARRL Headquarters on July 3. An active contester and a member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club and the Hampden County Amateur Radio Association, Wilhelm has been licensed since 2009 and holds an Amateur Extra ticket. He became hooked on contesting after the first ARRL Rookie…
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The FCC has significantly reduced the fine it imposed earlier this year on an Oklahoma Amateur Extra class radio amateur licensee for operating his Citizens Band radio to interfere with other CBers’ transmissions. Orloff Haines, KF5IXX, had been facing a $ 12,000 fine. In a June 17 Forfeiture Order, the Commission dropped Haines’s liability to $ 1750.
“Mr. Haines does not deny that he intentionall…
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The winner of the June QST Cover Plaque award is Pete Rimmel, N8PR, for his article “A Portable Two-Element 6 Meter Quad Antenna.”
The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the June issue today.
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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will have a prominent place at the third annual ISS Research and Development Conference this week. The conference, organized by American Astronautical Society (AAS) in cooperation with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space and NASA, takes place June 17-19 in Chicago.
ARISS International Chairman and AMSAT Vice President for Hu…
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Yaesu FT-60! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004P4PDAO/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004P4PDAO&linkCode=as2&tag=someabouf…
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Marina del Rey, CA (PRWEB) September 23, 2009
Would you like to join an exciting group of dedicated people who offer assistance in times of disaster, provide communications in severe weather, and protect their community by talking directly with law enforcement?
How would it feel to be a member of a dedicated group of people ranging in ages from 8 through 85 who have been responsible for the leading communication inventions in the past 100 years, which includes: radio, TV, FAX, satellite, cell phones, and FTP protocol?
The California Yacht Club, located at 4469 Admiralty Way in the Marina Del Rey, is sponsoring its fifteenth annual Amateur radio license class on the weekend of October 10 and 11, 2009. This course is open to anyone who is interested in joining this exciting hobby. The class will begin on Saturday, October 10 at 9 A.M. and end on Sunday at 5 P.M. No background in electronics is needed and the California Yacht Club starts from the very first page. Students enrolled in the course can earn the Technician & General Amateur license in only two, exciting days.
The Amateur License opens the door to free e-mails while cruising, weather faxes from NOAA, and offers a free gateway to making new friends around the world. HAM radio includes everyone, beginning with a student interested in computers, educated professionals, and finally a house wife who passed the test for the reason of family protection.
The class will be taught by Charles Pascal, WB6CIY, a licensed amateur & certified teacher. Charlie has taught over 5,000 students in the past 25 years to pass the Amateur exam on the first attempt. Testing will be provided at the same location where the class was taught. The price for the class is $ 100 per license plus an additional $ 12 for the text book, which can be downloaded from http://www.myhamteacheronline.com .
Students who need the Technician license, the tuition will be $ 112. Please click here to download the book for the class. Students needing the General license should click here. The tuition for two classes, plus books is $ 224. Register for this class by e-mailing: radiopascal(at)earthlink(dot)net. Please click here for free sample tests. Call Charles Pascal at 310-714-0524 for additional information.
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW WAS operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, June 11 (the evening of June 10 in US time zones), from Alabama and Louisiana to Arkansas (W1AW/5) and Minnesota (W1AW/0). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it will be easy to work all states sole…
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Last week’s bulletin opened with your author (me) moaning about a decline in solar activity, but this was short lived. The current week saw average daily sunspot numbers more than double, rising from 60.1 to 144.3, and average daily solar flux rise from 104.1 to 146.4. In addition, on June 12 the daily sunspot number was 196, and solar flux was 174.5. It actually was not long ago when sunspot n…
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
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The event was nearly cut short by generator problems. An emergency trip to Louth by Dan M6AXC and Bill 2E1SKA for a replacement spark plug, and we were back up and running.
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Me again on 70 centimetres.
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To mark the FIFA World Cup of football (soccer) competition now underway in Brazil, special event stations will be on the air until the end of July. Also, listen for special World Cup-related prefixes. LABRE, Brazil’s national Amateur Radio association, is promoting the “Brasil, Terra do Futebol” (Brazil, land of football) award. Twelve “key” stations are on the air with ZX14 prefixes, and 15 o…
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Some ARRL Network services will be affected by a maintenance outage on the evening of Thursday, June 12 (2200 UTC on June 12 until 0200 UTC on June 13). Affected services will include e-mail to and from ARRL Headquarters (all e-mail will be queued for later delivery); Logbook of The World (LoTW); the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, and Online DXCC. The ARRL website, including The ARRL Store, wi…
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The Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) has appointed Ian MacFarquhar, VE9IM, to be the new Amateur Radio on the International Space Statiion (ARISS) Regional Representative, replacing Daniel Lamoureux, VE2KA.
“Canadian ARISS representatives have always been a huge benefit to the ARISS team,” said Rosalie White, K1STO, ARRL’s ARISS delegate and ARISS-International Secretary-Treasurer. “Not only have …
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ARRL Life Member John M. “Wondy” Wondergem, K5KR, of Metairie, Louisiana, died June 7. He was 91. A retired US Navy captain and World War II veteran, Wondergem in May of 1962 was at the controls of the helicopter that retrieved Astronaut Scott Carpenter after his Project Mercury Aurora 7 space capsule splashed down some 250 miles off course in the Atlantic. Wondergem was on the DXCC Honor Roll …
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The ARRL already has complained to the FCC that so-called “grow light” ballasts can generate severe interference on the HF bands. According to a recent article in The Coloradoan, retired electrical engineer Tom Thompson, W0IVJ, first noticed interference on 40 meters at his location in Boulder a couple of years ago. So, he coupled his own portable receiving loop with a direct-conversion receive…
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
GAP Titan DX Antenna
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
Amateurs are invited to submit technical papers for presentation at the 33rd Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communications Conference to be held September 5-7 in Austin, Texas. These papers will also be published in the Conference Proceedings (you do not need to attend the conference to have your paper included in the Proceedings). The submission deadline is July 15. Please send papers to: Maty W…
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The National Hurricane Center’s WX4NHC May 31 on-the-air station test was a success, according to WX4NHC Amateur Radio Assistant Coordinator Julio Ripoll, WD4R. WX4NHC conducts the event each year in preparation for hurricane season, which began June 1 and continues through November.
“We had the best annual station test that I can remember,” Ripoll said this week. “Hopefully we will not have to …
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Boy, has solar activity declined this week, and the near term outlook weakened as well!
Average daily sunspot numbers for May 29 through June 4 dropped from 103.3 (for the previous seven days) to just 60.1. Average daily solar flux declined from 110.3 to 104.1. Last week the predicted solar flux for Field Day weekend was 108 and 110, and on June 2 that changed to 95 and 110.
Predicted solar flux…
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Due to network maintenance, ARRL’s Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down on Saturday, June 7, from 1200 until 1600 UTC. All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for delivery following the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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W100AW/7 will be on the air from Sea-Pac, the ARRL Northwestern Division 2014 Convention and an ARRL Regional Centennial Event, in Seaside, Oregon. W100AW/7 will be active from June 6 until June 8. Contacts with W100AW portable operations are worth 5 points in the ARRL Centennial QSO Party. Operation will be on SSB, CW, and possibly on digital modes.
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How low can you go? A signal on 8.971 kHz has spanned the Atlantic, from North Carolina to the UK. Running on the order of 150 µW effective radiated power, very low frequency (VLF) experimenter Dex McIntire, W4DEX, transmitted signals on June 2 and 3 that were detected by Paul Nicholson, an SWL in the UK. Earlier this year, Nicholson detected McIntire’s WH2XBA/4 Experimental Service VLF signal …
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Several CubeSats carrying Amateur Radio payloads are set to launch during June. These include two FUNcube projects.
FUNcube-3, the transponder-only payload on the QB50 precursor CubeSat, QB50P1, is scheduled for launch on June 19 from Russia, at a tentative launch time of 1911 UTC. Initial beacon signals from the main transceiver are expected to be AX.25 1200 bps BPSK packets on 145.815 MHz. FUN…
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Nominations are invited for open seats on the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. Three terms will expire this year, and a fourth director will be elected for 1 year to complete an unexpired term. Up to two alternates may be elected for 1-year terms.
A nomination requires either one Member Society or five current individual members in good standing to nominate an AMSAT-NA member for Director.
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ARRL Life Member Howard O. “H.O.” Townsend, K5CX (ex-WA5MLT), of Naples, Texas, died on May 30. He was 69. Townsend was a retired software designer and a US Army veteran.
An Honor Roll DXer, West Gulf Division Assistant Director, and past Section Emergency Coordinator, Townsend participated in the W1AW/5 Centennial QSO Party operation from Texas (12 meters SSB).
ARRL West Gulf Division Director D…
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The 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC-2014) will take place Thursday and Friday, August 14-15, in conjunction with the Huntsville Hamfest in Alabama. The Huntsville Hamfest, August 16-17 at the Von Braun Convention Center, is the Southeastern Division Convention and a Regional ARRL Centennial Event.
The GAREC conference will focus on the application of advanced…
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The ARRL Foundation Board of Directors has announced the scholarship recipients for 2014. Each year, the Foundation’s Directors have the honor and privilege of selecting Amateur Radio operators who will receive monetary assistance to further their undergraduate or graduate education. For 2014, the Foundation awarded 79 annual scholarships through 58 funds to young Amateur Radio operators, value…
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AMSAT-NA has issued its first call for papers for the 2014 AMSAT Symposium and General Meeting the weekend of October 10-12 in Baltimore, Maryland. Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community.
AMSAT requests a tentative presentation title no later than August 1, and final papers and presentations …
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In this era of nearly ubiquitous cell phones, Amateur Radio still offers a way to summon help in an emergency. Ron Smith, N1PXX, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, is living proof. Over Memorial Day weekend, on May 24, Smith, who’s in his 60s, broke in on a conversation on the N1ZIZ 146.685 MHz repeater in Plymouth to say he was having a medical problem.
“Ron had pulled over on the highway and was ha…
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The FCC Enforcement Bureau has made public several warning notices issued over the past few months to radio amateurs. A couple of the letters from Special Counsel Laura Smith involved alleged infractions on 20 meters. On April 15, the FCC wrote Larry S. King, KI8NGS, of Owosso, Michigan, regarding failure to properly follow station identification rules on March 21. Smith told King that he was m…
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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .
Have you ever converted a wireless network router into an Amateur Radio Mesh transceiver?
Among the WARC bands, which is your favorite?
Have you ever used Amateur Radio digital communications in a public service application?
Have you ever heard a Long Delayed Echo (LDE)?
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Solar indicators continue to weaken. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 129.4 to 103.3, and average daily solar flux went from 128.5 to 110.3. This is comparing data from May 22-28 to the previous seven days.
The instruments used to measure solar flux at the observatory in British Columbia were overloaded on May 24, and the estimated solar flux was 118. The actual measured value was 124…
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WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, will be on the air Saturday, May 31, for the annual NHC Station Test. The event will begin at 1300 UTC and wrap up at 2200 UTC.
Due to a server issue the EchoLink/IRLP conference and nodes have changed. The EchoLink conference will be *VKEMCOMM* EchoLink Conference Node 270177/IRLP 9508. WX4NHC plans to be on EchoLink and IRLP from 2000 unt…
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The Southern Florida Section will get a new Section Manager on June 1. Current SM David Fowler, K4DLF, of West Palm Beach, has announced plans to step down at the end of the month. Fowler, who has been at the helm in Southern Florida since October 1, 2010, cited recently increased work responsibilities as the reason for his resignation.
Jeff Beals, WA4AW, of Loxahatchee, will take over as the So…
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Representatives of China’s Posts and Telecommunications Press (PT Press) visited ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut on May 30 to present an award honoring the ARRL’s involvement in publishing Amateur Radio books in China. PT Press publishes more than 20,000 titles as well as 13 magazines. In partnership with the ARRL, PT Press has translated and published several League titles, such as…
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