ARISS featured on Australian TV show
Amateur Radio recently got some good publicity when Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI appeared in an interview on the Australian Channel 7 todaytonight show. View the video clip of this excellent item on the WIA website

VR2S active for Hong Kong Scout Olympia
Members of the Hong Kong Amateur Radio DX Association (HARDXA) are pleased to announce that they have received official permission to use the special event callsign VR2008O for the period between July 15th and August 31st, to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympics

DX News from the ARRL
The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

QRP VHF operating from Gibraltar
A new video on YouTube shows Amateur Radio QRP operation on the 50 and 144 MHz bands from the top of the Rock of Gibraltar

FT-726 display replacement
The blue display in a FT-726 can become unreadable after long-term use. One radio club has solved the display problem by replacing the original display in the FT-726 with a backlit LCD

Isles of Scilly operation
Starting on May 15th in the afternoon until May 23rd, a team of French radio amateurs led by Tony, F8ATS, will go to St Mary's, Isles of Scilly (EU-011, WW Loc. IN69UV)

Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test to be conducted May 10
The U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 58th anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD)

Delfi-C3 status update
The team behind the Amateur Radio satellite Delfi-C3, which has now been in orbit for over a week, have issued a further status udate

GB0WWW - Mills on the Air
Harlow DARC, Norfolk ARC and RAFARS will be activating the only currently registered Norfolk Mill during 2008's Mills on the Air weekend

Bulgarian Special Event Station
Look for special event station LZ08KM to be active until May 31st. Activity is to commemorate St. Cyril (Kiril) and Methodius, the creators of the cyrillic alphabet

GIOVE-B transmitting its first signals
Following a successful launch on 27 April, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals yesterday. GIOVE-B is equipped with the most accurate clock ever to be flown in space.

St. Barthelemy 6m DXpedition
Arliss W7XU and Ed W0SD are planning a 6-meter DXpedition to St. Barthelemy which will take place between June 28th and July 6th

Special Event Station SU8AFR
Special event station SU8AFR (Africa) will be active from the 11th until the 15th May

Ofcom 2012 Olympics - Summary of responses
On Wednesday Ofcom published a summary of responses to its discussion document on spectrum planning for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics Games

Glow-in-the-dark clouds sighted
On May 5th, experienced sky watchers in Northern Ireland were surprised by a sudden apparition of electric-blue noctilucent clouds (NLCs)

Ofcom report on future communications technology
On Wednesday Ofcom published its third annual Technology Research and Development Report: Tomorrow’s Wireless World

Tony's 10-metre band report
The past week was not a good one for 10-metre band enthusiasts. Even the weekend failed to see an upturn in activity.

Technical info about the new Portuguese D-STAR Repeaters
These two new repeaters will operate only at the 70 cm Amateur Radio band, within the Digital Repeater Communications sub-band, according to the IARU recommendation channels

RSGB HQ Geographical Telephone Number
The cheaper geographical telephone number for RSGB HQ has been made available on the web.

Send your name to the Moon aboard LRO !
NASA invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO spacecraft

FOUND: Radio Ham's sensational tape of the bank heist 'that rescued compromising pictures'
The new British film The Bank Job is expected to do great things at the box office. However, the £500,000 heist - equivalent to £5million today - would not have caught the nation's imagination, let alone made the cinema, were it not for the key role of amateur radio ham Robert Rowlands

D-STAR repeater GB7YD
2 metre D-STAR repeater GB7YD (C) is operational on 2 metres, sharing 145.675MHz (RV54) with the FM repeater, GB3NA

Video of first DRM-Plus transmission
Videos of what is believed to be first transmission of the new Digital Radio standard DRM+ are now available on YouTube

D-STAR in Ulster
An application has been submitted for Ulster's first D-STAR repeater GB7WT

Freesat launches Tuesday 6th May
The Freesat satellite TV/Radio service launches today Tuesday 6th May. The service, developed by the BBC and ITV, hopes to have 80 TV and Radio channels

IOTA news
Weekly IOTA News - compiled by the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

Canadian radio amateur aboard damaged sailboat
A Canadian Radio Amateur aboard a damaged sailboat is nursing concussion after being rolled over in the turbulent South Atlantic Ocean but says he has no intention of giving up an unusual solo voyage around the world

Portuguese Lighthouse Activity
Members of the Algarve DX Group (ADXG) will activate 7 lighthouses simultaneously between May 31st and June 1st.  28 operators will be distributed between the 7 lighthouses

DxTuners in good hands
Kelly Lindman's new project is called HamSphere. HamSphere is an artificial shortwave radio based on the natural laws of radio propagation

New SolderSmoke Blog
Bill N2CQR CU2JL M0HBR, who produces the very popular SolderSmoke podcasts is now producing a blog

IOTA news from OPDX
Weekly IOTA News - compiled by OPDX

New Zealand Foundation licence discussed with MED
The introduction of an Amateur Radio Foundation license was one of the topics discussed in a meeting between NZART and New Zealand regulator MED

WRAA and VMARS Weekend Activity Camp
Worcester Radio Amateurs will be running another of their fun, Activity Weekends on the 17th and 18th of May and you are invited to join them

SEEDS SSTV
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE has received two SSTV pictures from the new SEEDS satellite

SteppIR Dream Beam
The new SteppIR Dream Beam DB36 antenna was on display at the Visalia DX Convention, held in Visalia, California recently

Hong Kong Special Event VR2008
Members of the Hong Kong Amateur Radio DX Association (HARDXA) are pleased to announce that they have received official permission to use the special event callsign VR2008O to celebrate the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Cork Radio Club, rally venue change
Due to the closure of the Blarney Park Hotel the club has had to move the Rally to a new location. The Hotel that CRC has selected offers the same facilities as Blarney giving even more space to accommodate more traders and amateurs

History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

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First SSTV pictures from Amateur Radio CubeSat Seeds
The first Slow Scan Television (SSTV) pictures have been received from the SEEDS satellite, which was launched on 28th April
Left: SSTV picture captured by Masa JN1GKZ

Amateur Radio Special Event Station K9BSA
On Saturday May 10, 2008, the Wheaton Community Radio Amateurs of Wheaton, Illinois U.S.A. will be hosting a special event amateur radio station for scouts and visitors attending the Scout-O-Rama (SOR) of the Three Fires Council of the Boy Scouts of America

Seven CubeSats delivered to orbit
The April 28, 2008 launch of 10 satellites aboard the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-9 (PSLV-9) rocket included 7 amateur radio cubesat, and 3 commercial / scientific satellites

SARL RTA in Durban - will you be there this Saturday?
The annual SARL Radio Technology in Action Symposium will be held in Durban this week Saturday 10 May and in Port Elizabeth on 31 May. Here is an opportunity to get in tune with the new technologies and interesting activities that will take amateur radio to greater heights than ever before

AO-16 down and recovered
The AO-16 Command Team investigated reports this week that the satellite had gone silent. The team is aware of the anomaly and there is no cause for alarm

Antique Radio Collector's petition denied
In its Notice of Apparent Liability the FCC had claimed that the Antique Radio Collector had violated the FCC's rules regarding the marketing of uncertified A-M radio transmitters as far back as 2006. Specifically the S S TRAN model AMT3000

N5WEB buys Force 12 Antennas
Mark Hooper, N5WEB is the new owner of Force 12, Inc. antennas and towers. He will be manufacturing the product line in Bridgeport, Texas which is located near the Dallas Fort Worth area

Propagation de K7RA
For several weeks we expected today, May 2 to have active geomagnetic conditions..

New RSGB HQ up and running
The Radio Society of Great Britain has completed its relocation to Bedford and is now fully operational

ARRL card checking at Dayton Hamvention
DXCC staff and volunteers will be checking cards at the 2008 Dayton Hamvention during all hours of operation on Friday, Saturday and Sunday

VoIP Hurricane Net looking to recruit net control operators
The VoIP Hurricane Net is looking for Net Control Operators (NCOs) to assist with its weekly Hurricane Preparation Net and during Hurricane Net activations

AATiS School Club activity day
German Educational organisation AATiS has its annual School Club EU activity day on Monday 5 May

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." 
(Albert Einstein)

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