A team of nearly 2 dozen Amateur Radio volunteers established an emergency communication net as Cyclone (hurricane) Nilofar approached the west coast of India from the Arabian Sea last week. The late October activation came right on the heels of the Amateur Radio response to powerful Cyclone Hudhud, which caused widespread flooding and property damage and claimed several lives. Especially hard …
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NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has reported that a brief radio blackout “event” occurred on March 29 at 1748 UTC, the result of an “impulsive” or short-lived R3 (strong) solar flare. Extreme ultraviolet radiation from the X-1 class event “sent waves of ionization rippling through Earth’s upper atmosphere and disturbed the normal propagation of terrestrial radio transmissions,” Sp…
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More Ham Radio CubeSats Expected to Deploy from ISS This Week:
eHam.net Another batch of CubeSats were deployed at noon on February 25 from the International Space Station. While no Amateur Radio satellites were among them, NASA has indicated, "More deployments are scheduled through Friday." NASA said this week that … |
The Amsterdam Island FT5ZM DXpedition team is on the island, and word is that they be on the air January 25.
“It only took 50 trips to the island, but pretty much everything is ashore,” reported DXpedition pilot Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L. “The first tower is up with a 12 meter Yagi.”
Team member Michel Brunelle, FM5CD, reported that at 2230 local time, the team finally was able to get a little sl…
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ARRL Information Technology Manager Michael Keane, K1MK, is reporting that while Logbook of The World (LoTW) system is currently down, it is expected to be back up by 9 AM EST (1400 UTC) on Friday, November 9. “While the system is temporarily down, radio amateurs are not able to access LoTW or upload their logs,” Keane explained. “No data has been lost, and everyone’s records are intact. We und…
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Hurricane Ernesto made landfall on the southern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula late in the evening on Tuesday, August 7. The Category 1 hurricane brought heavy rains and winds, but weakened as it moved across land. Due to this weakening, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami downgraded Ernesto to a tropical storm at 5 AM EDT (0900 UTC) Wednesday morning.
Radio amateurs with…
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