News for Sunday 10 April

ISS Slow Scan TV in April ARISS reports that International Space Station (ISS) Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions on 145.800 MHz FM may take place between April 11-15, 2016

Transmitting DATV with just a Raspberry Pi Evariste Courjaud F5OEO has created RPiDATV which is capable of allowing the Raspberry Pi to transmit DVB-S Digital Amateur TV (DATV)

VK100ANZAC to be on air again The Wireless Institute of Australia has proudly assigned VK100ANZAC to the Geelong Amateur Radio Club on July 19-21, the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Fromelles

RAST April Meeting Report The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand (RAST) report ISIS are building the first Thai ham radio satellite JAISAT-1 and the first Advanced Class examination will be held in June, 2016

SARL Youth Net today The monthly South African Radio League Youth Net will be held this afternoon at 15:00 UTC. Join Koos Fick, ZR6KF, on 7 070 kHz this afternoon

Ofcom release WRC-15 report The UK communications regulator Ofcom has published a report on the outcome of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 and ITU have published Final Acts WRC-15

Ofcom consults on Broadcast TV Technical Codes Ofcom is consulting on proposed updates to its Broadcast TV Technical Codes. The Codes set technical standards for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) – also often known as Freeview				Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels SolderSmoke Podcast Episode 186 of the amateur radio podcast SolderSmoke is now available

 

 

News for Saturday 9 April

Southeast Asia Net (SEANET) to be reactivated The Southeast Asia Net (SEANET) will be reactivated next week by the members of RAST, Thailand's national amateur radio society

HF Mobile Antenna System Cross Country Wireless have released a HF Mobile Antenna System. The antenna is designed to work with HF transceivers with internal or external antenna tuning units

BEAM heading for Space Station Tucked in the trunk of the latest commercial cargo spacecraft to head for the International Space Station is an expandable structure that has the potential to revolutionize work and life on the space station

DKARS Magazine April 2016 is now ready for download The DKARS (Dutch Kingdom Amateur Radio Society) issues its own free PDF Magazine once every month Propagation de K7RA All solar and geomagnetic indicators declined again last week. Compared to the previous seven days, from March 31 through April 6 the average daily sunspot number slipped from 28.1 to 19.4. Amendments to wireless telegraphy exemption regulations Ofcom has decided to amend the Wireless Telegraphy Exemption Regulations, with regard to commercial single-user 'gateway' devices				Proposals to change existing licence fees Ofcom has published a consultation on proposals to change the current licence fees for some Wireless Telegraphy Act products TX Factor GB2RS News Podcast All the very latest Amateur Radio news is now available via the TX Factor GB2RS weekly podcast     White space devices - licence exempt regs Ofcom has published a consultation on proposals to make minor amendments to the licence exemption regulations for white space devices

 

 

News for Friday 8 April

UK Space Agency: Ham radio in top 10 On April 7, to celebrate the 44th birthday of astronaut Tim Peake, the UK Space Agency published their 10 favourite moments from his Principia mission - Amateur Radio was number 7

ANZAC Award Certificates The WIA announced the ANZAC 100 program at its Sunshine Coast Queensland annual general meeting in May 2014, and then kept WIA members up with the details as they evolved. This week we will look at this in detail

RADIO TALK with Steve and Gary at ML&S The first in a new line of videos from ML&S called 'RADIO TALK' with Steve and Gary

Designing a universal service obligation for broadband In November 2015, the Government set out its intention to introduce a universal service obligation (USO) for broadband, giving everyone the right to request a decent broadband connection

LoRaWAN and The Things Network Andrew Back G7JKB writes in Design Spark about using the LoRa UHF transceivers in Wide Area Networks Geostationary ham radio satellites EngineerIT magazine reports on the quest by radio amateurs to get transponders on geostationary satellites DX News from the ARRL The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands				GEO Symposium April 23 The Group for Earth Observation (GEO) are holding their symposium at the National Space Centre, Leicester on Saturday, April 23 RCF Exam Committee Reports The RSGB has made available the reports of the RCF Examinations Committee from 2010 to 2014 Follow Southgate Amateur Radio News

 

 

News for Thursday 7 April

K6LCS Charity Auction The list of items up for an auction that benefits two humanitarian organizations is growing...

Essex Morse Tutor interviewed by BBC Andy Kersey G0IBN gave a live demonstration of Morse code and was interviewed about Morse and the Titanic on BBC Essex

				Tony's 10 Metre Band Report I guess VK0EK (Heard Is) and FT4JA (Juan de Nova Is) were top DX all week but there was some more in there. Conditions were generally down with even the sensitive data modes (PSK and JT65) not showing much activity and that mainly from PU and LU

Commemorative Diploma for the 90th anniversary of REP Awards will be issued by the Rede dos Emissores Portugueses (REP) to amateurs proving to have made QSOs with at least 90 different Portuguese stations

Meteor Scatter season gets underway SARL News report the Meteor Scatter (MS) season has started with the April meteor showers and will continue until the beginning of January next year

March RSGB Board Proceedings The RSGB Board Proceedings for the March 18 meeting have been released, they provide an updated membership figure Ham radio reaches where broadband can't Radio amateur Nick Pittner K8NAP is interviewed by WOSU about the problems of broadband access in rural Ohio				IQ4FE Special Event Members of the A.R.I. Fidenza Radio Club will be on the air as IQ4FE between April 18-28th EMC Committee minutes released The minutes of the RSGB EMC Committee meeting held on March 17 have been released