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07/08/2016 | Philippines Ham Emergency Radio Operations Network Bracing for Effects of Super Typhoon
The Philippine Amateur Radio Association’s Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) network activated on July 7 at 2145 UTC, as fears arose that super typhoon Nepartak could amplify the effects of the southwest monsoon. Read More
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07/08/2016 | Solar Car Challenge W1N Traveling Special Event Operation Set
Special event station W1N will travel from the Texas Motor Speedway to Minneapolis between July 15 and July 24 to highlight the 2016 Solar Car Challenge. Read More
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07/08/2016 | The K7RA Solar Update
The recent zero-sunspot period of June 23 through July 4 ended with the appearance of a single sunspot group (2560) on Tuesday, July 5. Read More
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07/07/2016 | Decades of Satellite Contacts Net Satellite WAS for Ohio Radio Amateur
It took Bob Liddy, K8BL, of Mentor, Ohio, nearly 4 decades to achieve Worked All States via satellite and earn WAS Satellite Award #341. Read More
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07/07/2016 | Solar Power Systems Often Do Not Comply with EMC Standards, VERON Says
The Netherlands national Amateur Radio society VERON has reported on spectrum pollution problems caused by residential solar panel installations. Read More
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07/07/2016 | ISS Crew Increment with Two Radio Amateurs Launched and Now in Orbit
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, astronaut Takuya Onishi, KF5LKS, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos launched early on July 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Read More
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07/07/2016 | Amateur Electronic Supply Closing after 59 Years in Business
Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) will close its doors at the end of July after 59 years in business. Read More
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07/07/2016 | Annual “Night of Nights” Event to Resurrect Historic Shore Stations
The annual “Night of Nights” event, in which historic maritime CW stations such as KPH and WLO, and Coast Guard stations such as NMC, return from the dead for a few hours, starting at 0001 UTC on July 13. Read More
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07/07/2016 | FCC Investigating Amateur Radio, Commercial Application Processing Glitch
The FCC information technology staff is continuing to look into why the Universal Licensing System (ULS) Electronic Batch Filing (EBF) system has stopped processing at least some — and perhaps all — Amateur Radio exam session files and applications. Read More
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07/06/2016 | Andorra Returns to 60 Meters, Gains New 4 Meter Band, More Power on 6 Meters
Radio amateurs in the tiny (less than 500 square miles) European principality of Andorra now have two new bands plus an increase in power on 6 meters. Read More
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07/06/2016 | ARRL 600 Meter Experiment Reports 202,400+ Hours of Operation, Zero Interference Complaints
The ARRL 600 Meter Experiment under the WD2XSH Part 5 Experimental license reports that no interference complaints have been received from other services operating in the 465-515 kHz band over the course of more than 202,400 hours of operation. Read More
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07/06/2016 | IARU HF World Championship July 9-10 is Mid-Year Contest Centerpiece
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) HF World Championship over the July 9-10 weekend highlights the mid-2016 contest calendar for radio amateurs around the globe. Read More
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07/05/2016 | New Microwave, UHF Distance Records Set on Same Day
New distance records were set on 47 GHz and on 902 MHz on June 30 by stations at vastly separated points on the globe. Read More
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07/05/2016 | Juno Spacecraft that Heard Hams Say “HI” Now Orbiting Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which in 2013 listened for earthbound radio amateurs sending “HI” in coordinated, very slow-speed CW, now is circling Jupiter. Read More
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07/05/2016 | Two Radio Amateurs Set to Head for the International Space Station
Two Amateur Radio licensees are part of the International Space Station crew increment bound for the orbiting outpost this week. Read More
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07/05/2016 | Radio Club of America Seeks Nominations for Awards and Fellows
The Radio Club of America (RCA) is currently accepting applications for the elevation of existing members to the grade of Fellow and for awards. Read More
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