https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVXfkG7q_0s

I seem to recall that NAWS was the callsign for North Atlantic Weather Service and CFH was Halifax airtraffic control.

Hw did that get there ?
Breakthrough into the sound system ?

Reminds me of GBR on 16Khz on Tubular Bells getting into the recording studio and only detected many years later.

Saturday 5th of November 2022 is the Amateur Radio Conference A full day of speakers from across VK and the World with presentations including Youth Engagement and Amateur Radio, Remote Stations, Electrical and RF safety, Low Power Portable EME, QRP SOTA POTA WWFF, Interference mitigation, Digital Amateur TV, Microwave Experimentation and much more - these will be delivered both In-person and Online.

Sunday 6th of November 2022 is the huge Ham Expo With Amateur Radio Vendors and Traders including - ICOM, All About DX and many more making their way to Hobart. There will be many preloved equipment tables, Fox Hunts on the Day, Raffles including transceivers and handhelds and Information Stands - ALARA, Parks, SOTA, ROAR + more!

Registrations for attendance, Vendors and Pre-loved tables are NOW open and registration for the event is essential.

For more information and the registration links please visit the reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference-and-expo/

We look forward to seeing you all in Hobart!

Naturally, mission control in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are the places most closely associated with Nasa’s Artemis 1 moon adventure but a lesser-known spot on a remote heath in the far south-west of Britain is also playing a crucial part.

When the mission does blast off, hopefully later this week, scientists at Goonhilly Earth Station on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall will help Nasa track the rocket using a giant deep space antenna nicknamed Merlin, and then command six small research satellites that are piggy-backing a ride on Artemis.

It will be a big moment for Goonhilly, which was on the brink of being closed for good in 2006 after four decades of service, and a huge boost for Cornwall’s burgeoning space industry.

“We’re very excited,” said 23-year-old Beth Sheppard, a University of Oxford graduate rejoicing in the job title of deep space network mission operations engineer, who is one of those in the hot-seat at Goonhilly control. “We can’t wait to see it go up and it will be quite a moment when we receive signals from it.”

Sheppard is from the Cornish seaside town of Hayle and can’t quite believe she is making a living as a space engineer in the place she grew up. “I feel a great sense of pride. Cornwall’s a unique place and this helps to put us on the map.”

Decode 2-line elsets with the following key:

1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ

2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ

KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM

0 OSCAR 7

1 07530U 74089B 22242.48724767 -.00000044 00000-0 14555-4 0 9993

2 07530 101.9114 222.6079 0011816 260.4810 218.3160 12.53656571186748

0 ISS

1 25544U 98067A 22242.67862816 .00006690 00000-0 12518-3 0 9997

2 25544 51.6458 327.5435 0003207 178.1382 346.4591 15.49979622356732

0 SO-50

1 27607U 02058C 22242.30016805 .00000193 00000-0 47022-4 0 9994

2 27607 64.5540 75.9033 0081085 280.2842 78.9126 14.76213011 59275

0 AO-73

1 39444U 13066AE 22242.44113624 .00001069 00000-0 13206-3 0 9998

2 39444 97.6310 213.0491 0057169 148.2927 212.1752 14.83654458472497

0 XW-2A

1 40903U 15049E 22242.48021175 .00015401 00000-0 22118-3 0 9993

2 40903 97.1724 301.2351 0008721 194.3535 290.9650 15.56153183390765

0 IO-86

1 40931U 15052B 22241.99407779 .00000682 00000-0 57781-5 0 9992

2 40931 5.9994 4.4800 0012717 130.4920 229.6398 14.76847075374235

0 CAS-4B

1 42759U 17034B 22242.50245564 .00001494 00000-0 97493-4 0 9999

2 42759 43.0182 284.4076 0009238 27.0124 112.1451 15.12323481287569

0 CAS-4A

1 42761U 17034D 22242.53588780 .00001314 00000-0 87099-4 0 9997

2 42761 43.0181 282.9570 0009592 28.9283 120.6428 15.12406593287577

0 AO-91

1 43017U 17073E 22242.25448595 .00002222 00000-0 17097-3 0 9992

2 43017 97.6641 133.4153 0245830 306.3340 51.5403 14.81881233258047

0 PO-101

1 43678U 18084H 22242.61268097 .00000755 00000-0 79676-4 0 9996

2 43678 97.9807 16.7921 0010778 47.1255 313.0878 14.92272978208914

0 QO-100

1 43700U 18090A 22242.35118837 .00000146 00000-0 00000-0 0 9991

2 43700 0.0051 178.1400 0001944 16.4039 296.1803 1.00271750 13774

0 JO-97

1 43803U 18099AX 22242.18257945 .00001407 00000-0 12577-3 0 9995

2 43803 97.6137 307.3465 0014802 25.4112 334.7835 14.97377686204109

0 CAS-6

1 44881U 19093C 22242.52204348 .00000194 00000-0 31315-4 0 9998

2 44881 97.8905 320.6611 0013885 309.0129 50.9852 14.81793927145744

0 RS-44

1 44909U 19096E 22242.30808293 .00000025 00000-0 51165-4 0 9995

2 44909 82.5245 181.2154 0217889 146.7963 214.7032 12.79714415124958

0 XW-3

1 50466U 21131B 22242.52789306 .00000019 00000-0 20824-4 0 9991

2 50466 98.5774 319.7365 0003315 290.8410 69.2422 14.38517187 35562

As a founding member of the Tallahassee Amateur Radio Society and the AE4S repeater, Bill is connected and communicates with the lifelong friends he has made through ham radio.

AE4S tells his ham radio story in this QSO Today.

Audio of the teleconference will stream live online at: https://www.nasa.gov/live

Teleconference participants include:

• Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters

• Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director, NASA Exploration Ground Systems Program, NASA Kennedy

• John Honeycutt, manager, Space Launch System (SLS) Program, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

The Artemis I launch was scrubbed Monday after encountering an issue getting one of the four RS-25 engines on the bottom of the rocket’s core stage to the proper temperature range for liftoff.

Artemis I is a test flight to launch NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon before the Artemis II mission, which will have astronauts aboard. Through Artemis missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone on the way to Mars.

At the VK2RAG Somersby repeater site, the D-Star, Rad-Net DMR and 2m Echolink services are fully functional. Brand Meister DMR and 70cm Echolink and IRLP are still on the sick list.

The club has a Web SDR at Somersby. Websdr.ccarc.org.au is configured to listen on 6 metres, 2 metres, 70 centimetres and 23 centimetres.

The club has resumed 'show and tell' days on the last Saturday of each month; with a very successful day Saturday with members showing off some interesting gear.

The daily Morning Tea Net is held at 10:00am each morning and after the VK2WI broadcast on Sunday mornings.

The Thursday evening net is held at 8:00pm on the same repeater and echolink conferences. This week was run by Brad, VK2FRQ we had a discussion about the IC905.

The Morning Tea and Thursday night nets are held on the VK2RAG repeater – 146.725 MHz with 91.5Hz tone, and on echolink through the HAM and CCARCNSW echolink conferences.

The fortnightly SSTV net, hosted by Adrian, VK2ABS, is on the Club’s 2 Meter WICEN repeater; 147.125 MHz with 91.5 Hz tone, consisting of 2-3 rounds. Adrian has had a large amount of support from other members and would love to see you drop in on the next net on Friday the 2nd of September at 7:30 PM.

The Thursday night and SSTV nets are also video streamed live to the club’s Facebook page and recordings can be found in the “Videos” section.

You can find out more about the CCARC, our upcoming social events and other details that we can’t tell you about here on the web at ccarc.org.au, by phone on 02 4340 2500, or on social media by searching for “Central Coast Amateur Radio Club”. Remember to give the club a “like” to follow for any updates.

Exactly what FISSURE is pretty clear from its acronym, which stands for Frequency Independent SDR-Based Signal Understanding and Reverse Engineering. This is all pretty new — it looks like [Chris Poore] presented a talk at DEFCON a few weeks back about using FISSURE to analyze powerline communications between semi-trucks and their trailers, and they’ve got a talk scheduled for next month’s GNU Radio Conference as well.

We’ve been looking through all the material we can find on FISSURE, and it appears to be an RF hacker’s dream come true. They’ve got a few examples on Twitter, like brute-forcing an old garage door opener with a security code set by a ten-position DIP switch, and sending tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) signals to a car. They also mention some of the framework’s capabilities on the GitHub README; we’re especially interested in packet crafting for various protocols.

The video below has some more examples of what FISSURE can do.

It looks like FISSURE could be a lot of fun, and very handy for your RF analysis and reverse engineering work. If you’ve been using Universal Radio Hacker like we have, this looks similar, only more so. We’ll be downloading it soon and giving it a try, so be on the lookout for a hands-on report.
https://hackaday.com/2022/08/27/introducing-fissure-a-toolbox-for-the-rf-hacker/

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I'm from the USA, currently working in Eastern Europe. My primary focus with HF lies in QRP NVIS. I was in the military for 15 years, working first as a Radio Teletype Operator (MOS 05C) and then as a Special Forces Communications NCO (MOS 18E). Since then, I've worked on P25 networks overseas for the military and the Department of State. My job also provides me the opportunity to work with NATO soldiers in their radio communications missions.

My equipment consists of a Yaesu FT-857D (base/static - mainly for SSB), and an Elecraft KX-2 (portable/hasty - CW and data). I use Chameleon's Tactical Delta Loop (TDL) for static comms, their MPAS for hasty/on the move comms and their Tactical Dipole (TDL) for ALE comms....73!

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The second clause of the original Amateur's Code reads:

The Amateur is Loyal. He owes his amateur radio to the American Radio Relay League, and he offers it his unswerving loyalty.

The 2022 ARRL handbook presents it with the following words:

The Radio Amateur is LOYAL...offers loyalty, encouragement and support to other amateurs, local clubs and the American Radio Relay League, through which Amateur Radio in the United States is represented nationally and internationally.

The ARRL website goes the extra mile to make this hard work and states that:

The Radio Amateur is LOYAL...He/[She] offers loyalty, encouragement and support to other amateurs, local clubs, the IARU Radio Society in his/[her] country, through which Amateur Radio in his/[her] country is represented nationally and internationally.

Pronouns aside, this has got to be one of the more tortured efforts you might subject an entire group of humans to. Written in an attempt to enumerate each and every specific version of the global amateur radio community, it excludes more than it includes and in doing so completely fails the one thing it aims to achieve, a sense of belonging, being part of something bigger than you.

So what does loyalty look like?

Is providing constructive feedback loyalty? Is giving your time and energy a loyal thing? What about being a member of a club?

The dictionary suggests that loyalty is a strong feeling of support or allegiance. Originally the code suggested that this should be directed at the ARRL, even the handbook continues to suggest that today, but is that relevant for me here in Australia? Should I be a loyal member of the ARRL, or should I be a loyal member of the WIA? What if there is a second body in your country? In Australia there is another organisation attempting to reshape the hobby, RASA, the Radio Amateur Society of Australia, should I be loyal to that? Can I be loyal to both, or neither? What happens if I am not comfortable with either organisation, who should I be loyal to?

National bodies aside, what about clubs? Am I required to be a club member and be loyal to it? What if I'm a member of more than one club? Should I be more loyal to one than the other? Should I be more loyal to the national body or my local club? What if I'm not a member of any club? What should I be loyal to then?

What if loyalty is coupled to an idea instead of a specific body? What might that idea look like? The revised version of the clause already includes concepts such as encouragement and support to other amateurs. What if we just omit any specific bodies and replace it with the idea of the global amateur community in all its many splendored diversity?

While we're looking at this, the word encouragement includes the action of giving someone support, confidence or hope, so we're repeating ourselves by using support and there's plenty of other things we could share around.

Here's a philosophical question to wrap your mind around. If you have a drivers' license, but you don't drive, are you a driver? Similarly, if you have an amateur license, but you don't do anything with it, are you an amateur? Perhaps the nub of this lies in participation.

Taking those thoughts into account, we could rephrase the second clause of the Amateur's Code to:

The Radio Amateur is LOYAL...offering encouragement and participation to the global amateur community.

If this clause was part of the Amateur's Code, would it help you feel like you belonged, would it travel beyond the borders of your country and would you feel part of something bigger?

The evening will be in the larger main hall at Danbury. We will have facilities for sales of small/single items to whole tables.

All radio amateurs, clubs and electronics enthusiasts are invited to attend - as buyers or sellers. Doors open for sellers setting up at 7pm, ahead of the main event opening at 7:30pm.

If you have missed Canvey Rally, this is an excellent opportunity for Essex radio/electronics bargains, downsizing or recycling.

Tables are free! - but must be reserved in advance to avoid disappointment, so Book Now!

The evening includes refreshments and a raffle too!

For further details – see the CARS website www.g0mwt.org.uk

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News stories include: -

• Simultaneous APRS and Voice Repeater on the International Space Station

• Hams Radio Operators Support American Red Cross in Kentucky Flood Response

• 13-year-old Restoring Old Soviet Tech in Georgia

• Bicycle Mobile Competition at Ham Radio Event

• ARUMS newsletter - Over The Horizon Radars

• New Radio - Icom IC-905

• New Radio - Yaesu FT-710

• United States Special Event

• Free Windows RF Calculator - WinRFCalc

• GB3HA Back on Air in Northumberland

Regarding the situation in Switzerland the President of IARU Region 1 Sylvain Azarian F4GKR expressed his concern saying:

"Not only two generations are missing, but also the squad!"

It's clear: it can't go on like this any longer!
USKA and IARU R1 have the identified an urgent need for action.
But what about the sections?

A translation of the USKA report reads:

On Saturday, August 20, the representatives of the USKA Sections met for the annual Section Presidents’ Conference. This time at the Verkehrshaus in Lucerne, which incidentally allowed for the demonstration of the renewed HB9O shortwave radio station. 24 of the 34 Sections of the USKA were represented.

Several surveys were conducted during the conference to find out the attitude of the Sections.

The Sections react extremely differently to the challenges in amateur radio. For example, only 25% of the sections present are at all concerned about the undisputed dramatic ageing of our clubs (slide 9).

The newer offers of the USKA are still insufficiently accepted (slide 7): Only 11 of 24 representatives participate in a HamGroup. Only 5 out of 24 sections have had HamWebinar.ch speakers so far. This raises the question: How do section committees, which do not use these offers themselves, explain their advantages to their members and motivate them to participate? For the benefit of section life, of course.

Less than half of the represented sections have designated an “EMC 1st Level Supporter” in their section – disturbances thus do not seem to be an “issue” in the majority of the sections – really? Even only 2 sections state that they participate in the USKA’s Götti programme. As if they were not interested in new members or in younger blood!

We can only hope that the sections will now do their homework quickly. There is not much time left. Already 2/3 of all USKA members are not motivated to join a section. This fact is increasingly calling into question the legitimacy of both the USKA Delegates Assembly and the Section Presidents’ Conference. Meanwhile, the “Urabstimmung” ballot represents the only truly democratic decision-making body in the USKA, apart from the presidential election.

The monthly public “USKA Question Time” is open to all members and interested parties and is an important instrument for the USKA Executive Committee to address the concerns of people who are not members of a section.

Willi Vollenweider HB9AMC, USKA President

USKA report
https://www.uska.ch/en/bericht-von-der-sektions-praesidenten-konferenz-der-uska-2022/

Slide pack
https://www.uska.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Presentation_USKA_SPK_CPS_20_Aug_2022.pdf

24 December 1922 was when the very first amateur radio signal from Europe was heard in North America; this was from the RSGB station (G)5WS which was established at Wandsworth in South London, as part of the Third Transatlantic Tests.

Unlike the tests of the 1920s, which consisted of one-way communication, the 2022 tests will encourage world-wide two-way communication with UK & Crown Dependency based stations by having a series of awards available for making QSOs with activating special stations. The Club Log team have kindly agreed to provide the supporting infrastructure for the Tests.

In anticipation of this centenary celebration, with the assistance of Ofcom (the UK licensing authority), the RSGB have reactivated five call signs which they held in the 1920s:

• G5WS, used for the 1922 tests – “the first to get across”

• G5AT, used for the 1923 tests

• G6XX, used for the 1923 tests

• G6ZZ, used for the first amateur tests on a moving railway train in 1924

• G3DR, Scottish Highlands Call - GM3DR.

These historic call signs will be activated by RSGB members and Clubs, using G5WS, G5AT, G6XX, G6ZZ and G3DR (England), GM5WS (Scotland), GW5WS (Wales), GU5WS (Guernsey), GD5WS (Isle of Man), GJ5WS (Jersey) and GI5WS (Northern Ireland).

This flight will be streamed by Everyday Astronaut:
https://everydayastronaut.com/

This will be the 13th year for N3U and this memorial operation.

Bob, W3BTX (Trustee W3PN/P41USA/N3U), informs OPDX, "N3U was 1st activated in 2010 and has continued every year since. We also ran a special Aruba call P41USA for several years but COVID 19 got in the way."

Activity will be on all bands that are open at the time using mostly FT8/FT4 as well as CW and SSB.

The Technician Class license is the entry-level license for amateur radio. The class is free of charge and open to all members of the community.

This class will be a hybrid class, meeting via Zoom and in person at the Humboldt Bay Fire Training Room , 3030 L St. in Eureka.

The class will meet for nine Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. beginning Sept. 12 and concluding on Nov. 14.  There will be no class meeting on Oct. 31.

The class will introduce radio and electronic fundamentals, tips on operating station equipment, procedures for communicating with other hams, license and operating regulations and radio safety.

Following the class, the FCC licensing test is scheduled for Nov. 19, at 10 a.m. at the Fortuna Fire Department, 320 S Fortuna Blvd. in Fortuna.

Students are encouraged to purchase the textbook used for the class, “ARRL Ham Radio License Manual 5th Edition,” available from the American Radio Relay League store at
https://home.arrl.org/action/Store/Product-Details/productId/2003373064 for $32.95 plus shipping for spiral bound.

To get the Zoom meeting invitation or for more information about the class, contact Don Campbell at ke6hec@arrl.net or 707-834-0042.

For more information about ham radio in Humboldt County, visit the Humboldt Amateur Radio Club website, https://www.humboldt-arc.org/.

Activity is to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Independence of Malaysia.

Operations will be on various HF bands using CW, SSB, FM and the Digital modes.

offers a free of charge RF toolbox with many interesting RF calculators and analysers can be downloaded, offering the following capabilities

Antenna numbers
Transmission loss
Unit converters
Attenuators
EMC and Shielding
RF Mixer analyser
DSP
General RF calculators
Butterworth filters
Impedance matching
Interdigital filter calculator

486 QSOs were made from 5HFF-5 plus 263 QSOs from Moshi town. Today, was my last QSO #722 from Tanzania. I want to say "asante sana" (Thank you very much) to all of you for accompanying me on the radio during my hike.

Today's edition of Spaceweather.com takes a deeper dive into the photos, explaining why Jupiter's auroras are so much more than just oversized versions of our own. Spoiler alert: Volcanoes are involved.

Decode 2-line elsets with the following key:

1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ
2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ
KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM

0 OSCAR 7

1 07530U 74089B 22235.47225545 -.00000031 00000-0 93709-4 0 9998

2 07530 101.9102 215.5670 0011836 274.3615 238.0623 12.53656493185860

0 ISS

1 25544U 98067A 22235.50869149 .00006706 00000-0 12409-3 0 9994

2 25544 51.6449 3.0638 0005034 151.5393 297.8763 15.50297674355629

0 SO-50

1 27607U 02058C 22235.05149929 .00000198 00000-0 47714-4 0 9995

2 27607 64.5541 98.0893 0080928 281.6694 77.5335 14.76208227 58203

0 AO-73

1 39444U 13066AE 22235.42702250 .00000801 00000-0 10073-3 0 9999

2 39444 97.6300 206.3433 0056564 171.1371 189.0857 14.83640154471454

0 XW-2A

1 40903U 15049E 22235.46584396 .00018506 00000-0 26725-3 0 9999

2 40903 97.1734 294.1902 0007970 219.7474 238.7090 15.55970994389679

0 IO-86

1 40931U 15052B 22234.97070245 .00000866 00000-0 31290-4 0 9996

2 40931 5.9992 54.5166 0013216 28.6647 331.4192 14.76846859373190

0 CAS-4B

1 42759U 17034B 22235.49666530 .00003242 00000-0 19657-3 0 9997

2 42759 43.0183 323.0492 0009863 343.2904 129.9313 15.12305887286501

0 CAS-4A

1 42761U 17034D 22235.59964598 .00002854 00000-0 17416-3 0 9995

2 42761 43.0188 321.2203 0010149 346.9294 153.6758 15.12389620286526

0 AO-91

1 43017U 17073E 22235.43471609 .00002112 00000-0 16248-3 0 9991

2 43017 97.6662 126.8769 0246409 328.7892 29.8883 14.81851230257034

0 PO-101

1 43678U 18084H 22235.57208622 .00000365 00000-0 41518-4 0 9992

2 43678 97.9795 9.6599 0011191 66.8581 293.3786 14.92263201207862

0 QO-100

1 43700U 18090A 22235.23803122 .00000140 00000-0 00000-0 0 9992

2 43700 0.0262 244.5438 0002014 312.4735 245.9652 1.00273169 13699

0 JO-97

1 43803U 18099AX 22235.16591444 .00000744 00000-0 68823-4 0 9999

2 43803 97.6152 300.5088 0015418 46.9698 313.2813 14.97361292203050

0 RS-44

1 44909U 19096E 22235.34973386 .00000010 00000-0 -82873-5 0 9993

2 44909 82.5238 185.8357 0217604 163.0333 197.8196 12.79714433124067

0 HO-113

1 50466U 21131B 22235.50273144 -.00000005 00000-0 12959-4 0 9995

2 50466 98.5781 312.7175 0003484 319.3490 40.7436 14.38516685 34553

IOTA QRGs
CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz
SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz

EU-149; ES1,2,4, TALLINN & HARJUMAA / VIRUMAA COUNTY group:
Ed/ES2TT activates Aegna Island until the end of August. QRV on 40 and 30m (CW, SSB) with 100W. QSL via homecall or eQSL.

Icom has published a video and pre-release document to coincide with the launch at the show, which you can view here:

-  Watch IC-905 VHF/UHF/SHF SDR Transceiver Video.
-  Download IC-905 VHF/UHF/SHF SDR Transceiver Pre-release Document.

Also showcased at the Hamfair is the IC-PW2 HF/50 MHz 1 kW linear amplifier. Icom has also released a video and pre-release document about this model:

-  Watch IC-PW2 HF/50 MHz 1 kW Linear Amplifier Video.
-  Download IC-PW2 HF/50 MHz 1 kW Linear Amplifier Pre-release Document.

As to the launch date and pricing, we don't have those details but rest assured we will publish them on our website and  social media channels  when we have them.

Michael Johnson, WO9B, joins us to build our base of exhibitors for this and future Expos. Mike was a guest in Episode 376 of the QSO Today Podcast, loves QRP and operating CW from the field. He is also the creator of the Spark Plug End Fed Antenna. We look forward to having him on our team helping us to make the Expo even bigger and better.

Expo Video Player Back On the Expo Website

We have gathered over 200 of the videos from previous Expos and made them available today using our simple, blind and vision impaired friendly player on the Expo website. Unfortunately we lost the player for a while because our programmers were in the middle of conflict zones around the Ukraine. While the conflict is not over, Vlad is back, and helping us to keep all of the back office automation running that produces the website and manages the presentations. Click here to get to our library of video content.

Expo Tickets On Sale Now

Our ticket for the next QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo is only $10.00 for the entire weekend of September 17-18, 2022 and for the 30 day period that follows. We will have over 50 amazing presentations, and plenty of opportunity for "eyeball QSOs" in our virtual lounges. Please join us by supporting the Expo by Clicking Here to go to ticketing and registration. Use the emailed credentials to test your login before the Expo weekend. Again the cost is a flat $10.00. We offer a free ticket to students and kids under 18 years of age, Click Here for Application.

New Project Gallery

It is not too late to add your paper, project, or video to our Project Gallery. Perhaps you have drone footage of your new antenna array, video from your raft trip down the rapids while operating CW or operating digital modes from a lonely island, a white paper on your new 20 meter soup can vertical antenna, or your modifications to a old or new rig. Now you can share your experience and expertise with everyone.

You can feature an article, poster, video, or slides, along with a downloadable PDF document about your project from a self service kiosk on our platform. This is a great way to make a presentation in the Expo without making a speaker commitment.

The Project Gallery is up for the entire period of the show including the 30 day on demand period. Each kiosk includes an optional live Q&A text chat to receive and answer questions from visitors to the Project Gallery. Accepted Project Gallery submissions will receive a free ticket to the Expo. For more information, Click Here . To submit your project to the gallery - Click here

Our list of Presentations is: Here

It is completely searchable and will have dates and times within the next two weeks.

See you at the Expo!

73,

Eric Guth, 4Z1UG

QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo

It is for amateurs around the world to contact as many other amateurs in as many Maidenhead Grid Fields as possible using the FT4 and FT8 modes.

The contest takes place next Saturday and Sunday. FT4 and FT8 are used, with separate contest subbands on 1.8, 3.5, 7, 14, 21 and 28 MHz, with three power classes up to five watt, up to 100 watt and up to a maximum of 1.5 kilowatt. Normal FT8 QSOs are valid for points and multipliers on standard FT8 frequencies.

“I like to replace the batteries or clean the fans, replace the paste that is used for cooling down the computers. I like how concentrated I am with connecting the small pieces,” she tells Scenes.

'Feed that curiosity'

Mariam’s interest in electronics was sparked when she was nine years old. Her stepfather, Thomas Burns, a former Hollywood cinematographer and self-proclaimed ‘electronic nerd’, was helping fix a friend’s iMac computer. The colourful wires and shiny components instantly caught Mariam's eye. 

“When they took the screen off, there were a lot of small parts that I was interested in. Also, these wires just going through the computer and I was curious about them. I wanted to how the computer worked,” she recounts. “I was like, let me just ask him about what this is and what that is, and maybe I could help with the things that he's doing.”

With her father's help, Mariam replaced the iMac's hard drive. To cultivate and hone his daughter's interest, Thomas offered to fix more friends and family's broken gadgets.

“Mariam is a naturally very curious person. I wish I could say that I inspired her to follow this path, but it really came from her,” says Thomas. “The most important thing for me is that she feels free to pursue her interests without any limitations and that she's not afraid to feed that curiosity,” he adds.

Family business

It didn't take long for word to spread and referrals to start flowing in. Friends of friends began dropping off their broken hardware in the hopes the duo would restore them back to life. “At some point, we realised that we were one Facebook page away from an actual business and so we made it official, and now it is very much a full-time endeavour,” says Thomas.

In 2021, the father-daughter team launched their family business. “I called it ‘Mariam's Computer Repair’, not only is it projecting the fact that women can repair things, which I think is critically important, but it's also a point of pride for us as a family,” explains Thomas.

Read the full story and watch the video here:
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/08/15/meet-the-13-year-old-restoring-old-soviet-tech-in-georgia?f

Submit your log sheet by 21:59 UTC on Thursday 1 September to contest@sarl.org.za.
The rules are on page 60 in the Blue Book..

The third and final August contest is the SARL HF CW contest which will be on the air from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC on Sunday 28 August. CW activity is spread over three periods - as was done with the HF Phone and HF Digital contests. Remember that you can participate as a single operator single radio - single band station, a single operator single radio - all band station, a multi operator - single band station or a multi operator - all band station. The exchange is a RST report and a consecutive serial number starting at 001.

Countries available:

3A, 3B8, 3B9, 3D2, 3DA, 3V, 3W, 4J, 4L, 4O, 4S, 4U1U, 4W, 4X, 5A, 5B, 5H, 5N, 5R, 5T, 5W, 5X, 5Z, 6Y, 7P, 7Q, 7X, 8P, 8Q, 8R, 9A, 9G, 9H, 9J, 9K, 9M2, 9M6, 9N, 9Q, 9V, 9Y,

A4, A5, A6, A7, A9, AP, BV, BY, C3, C9, CE, CE0Y, CE9, CM, CN, CP, CT, CT3, CU, CX, D2, D4, DL, DU, E5/n, E5/s, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, EL, EP, ER, ES, EU, EX, EY, F, FG, FK, FM, FR, FS, FW, FY, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GU, GW, H4, HA, HB, HB0, HC, HH, HI, HK, HL, HP, HR, HS, HV, HZ, I, IS, J2, J3, J5, J6, J7, JA, JD/o, JT, JW, JX, JY,

K, KG4, KH0, KH2, KH6, KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LX, LY, LZ, OA, OD, OE, OH, OH0, OJ0, OK, OM, ON, OX, OY, OZ, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PY, PZ, S0, S5, S7, SM, SP, ST, SU, SV, SV5, SV9, T5, T7, T8, TA, TF, TG, TI, TK, TT, TU,

UA, UA2, UA9, UK, UN, UR, V2, V3, V4, V5, V8, VE, VK, VK0M, VP2E, VP2M, VP5, VP8, VP8/o, VP9, VQ9, VR, VU, XE, YB, YI, YJ, YL, YN, YO, YS, YU, YV, Z2, Z3, Z6, ZA, ZB, ZC4, ZD7, ZF, ZL, ZP, ZS

Joe loves vintage military transmitters and receivers as well as the best tube type rigs.

Like many hams of his generation he was early into computers, PCs, and programming where his knowledge contributed to his career advancement and his enjoyment of amateur radio.

WA2EJT tells his story in this QSO Today

Anderson County leaders joined the legislators in recognizing the service of a number of local residents who are licensed amateur radio operators and members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES), according to a county government news release.

The state’s resolution recognizes the 19,835 licensed amateur radio operators who embody “the historic spirit of the Volunteer State” and provide invaluable services to their fellow citizens and local first responders during emergencies and natural disasters.

The ARES consists of licensed amateurs who voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment with their local ARES leadership, for communications duty in the public service in the event of an emergency or natural disaster.

Local members of ARES who attended Monday night’s meeting to receive the resolution were: Darrell Cook, Jim Womack, Jamie Wright, Sam Howard, Jim Bogard, and Bart Rollen.

To learn more about the ARES, visit online at www.arrl.org/ares.

The project is with Flight Aware, but they possibly share data across platforms. They are hoping to find hosts along the flight paths, in the areas that have little or no coverage. This would include locations like: Hopetown, Van Der Kloof, Colesburg, Sutherland, Calvinia, Beaufort West, Elliot, Queenstown, Kokstad, Phalaborwa and Hoedspruit.

Flight Aware will provide feeder equipment to those approved, so it is just the hosting of around 200 Mb of data per month and having a reasonably clear sight of the sky that will contribute to their approval. There is no remuneration offered. Once Cemair has a list of volunteers, they will engage with the Flight Aware engineers to determine the best locations to commit to.

The first clause of the original Amateur's Code reads:

The Amateur is Gentlemanly. He never knowingly uses the air for his own amusement in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others. He abides by the pledges given by the A.R.R.L. in his behalf to the public and the Government.

The 2022 ARRL handbook version states it like this:

The Radio Amateur is CONSIDERATE...never knowingly operates in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others.

Today the ARRL website presents it as:

The Radio Amateur is CONSIDERATE...He/[She] never knowingly operates in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others.

It's surprising to see the addition of the He/[She] pronoun when nothing is added by doing so, in fact for some amateurs this actually reduces its relevance, something which I've spoken about before.

We could just simply change the words to remove the pronoun entirely, but does that actually cover all of what we want it to mean? Should this consideration be limited to operating, or should we go beyond that? What about conduct in a club setting, or on social media, email or SMS?

Some of these activities are conducted as a radio amateur and some are not. If we're limiting ourselves to amateur radio, not an unreasonable place to start given that we're talking about a document called "The Amateur's Code", we should really discuss the nature of amateur radio today.

I find myself in a community of amateurs, not a radio in sight, exchanging thoughts, opinions and experience that go beyond the concept of operating. I will note that there are legal definitions in our hobby that describe the notion of operating that do not include QRZ.com, email or Reddit and there is an argument to be made that operating falls strictly within the bounds of a licensed amateur activity.

That said, since "no man is an island", first uttered in 1624 by John Donne, neatly illustrates that although we're licensed amateurs, we do more than key our radios alone and even when we do, there are activities that affect others who are not operating as such.

When we discuss things with each other, face to face, that's not a licensed activity, even if both of us are amateurs. Neither is sending an email to another amateur, or commenting on a social media post. Standing in a club and teaching is also not a licensed amateur activity and cannot be considered under the idea of "operating".

All of what this clause is attempting to say is to be considerate. Don't reduce the pleasure of others by doing things that are unacceptable. It goes to how you are expected to be, to conduct yourself, to behave.

To incorporate this idea that what you do with other amateurs goes beyond operating, I think the word "operate" needs to be changed to the word "behave".

I'd also like to explore the word "gentlemanly" from the original text. Synonyms for this include civilised, courteous, honourable and polite to name a few. It seems to me that words like that would benefit our interactions within our community, not to mention beyond it.

One word that comes to mind is "respectful", something that lies at the heart of how we conduct ourselves towards each other.

So, if we drop the pronouns, update the word operates and add in respect, a revised clause one could be:

The Radio Amateur is CONSIDERATE and RESPECTFUL...never knowingly behaving in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others.

Let me hasten to point out that I'm proposing this as a starting point for discussion. This is an activity that should go beyond one individual, it should also go beyond a single organisation. Amateur Radio is a global activity and it would do well for us to consider all of humanity when drafting a code of conduct which is essentially what the Amateur's Code is attempting to achieve.

So, how would you approach the first clause, what do you like, what do you think is missing, what would it need for you to consider it words to live by?

In addition it appears to provide support for ATV operation.

The ICOM promotional video was released at 01:10 GMT on Saturday, August 20.

The march northwards continues with Southern Germany already fully defined and the more northern and eastern states being added one by one.

There is also summit definition work going on in Australia and other countries.

For full details of the HEMA scheme checkout www.hema.org.uk.

Decode 2-line elsets with the following key:

1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ

2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ

KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM

0 OSCAR 7

1 07530U 74089B 22231.47438691 -.00000022 00000-0 15133-3 0 9996

2 07530 101.9096 211.5546 0011851 282.2228 194.8250 12.53656421185366

0 ISS

1 25544U 98067A 22231.77984025 .00005170 00000-0 97713-4 0 9996

2 25544 51.6434 21.5426 0005620 138.7254 6.2998 15.50234287355046

0 SO-50

1 27607U 02058C 22231.39328391 .00000434 00000-0 79950-4 0 9990

2 27607 64.5545 109.2858 0080838 282.3659 76.8404 14.76205796 57668

0 AO-73

1 39444U 13066AE 22231.44783376 .00001487 00000-0 18166-3 0 9997

2 39444 97.6294 202.5395 0056185 184.2336 175.8411 14.83632692470867

0 XW-2A

1 40903U 15049E 22231.48310888 .00019918 00000-0 28920-3 0 9997

2 40903 97.1733 290.1913 0007730 238.3162 246.6738 15.55810394389057

0 IO-86

1 40931U 15052B 22231.45901757 .00000607 00000-0 -47850-5 0 9991

2 40931 6.0024 79.6398 0013773 341.4111 18.5558 14.76842834372673

0 CAS-4B

1 42759U 17034B 22231.53196877 .00002957 00000-0 18053-3 0 9991

2 42759 43.0184 344.9111 0010455 322.3751 141.0346 15.12276514285907

0 CAS-4A

1 42761U 17034D 22231.56594228 .00003184 00000-0 19294-3 0 9990

2 42761 43.0188 343.4641 0010787 324.5350 148.8973 15.12364868285915

0 AO-91

1 43017U 17073E 22231.45084404 .00004547 00000-0 34253-3 0 9992

2 43017 97.6662 123.0566 0246871 341.8772 17.3755 14.81827021256449

0 PO-101

1 43678U 18084H 22231.41476596 .00001083 00000-0 11186-3 0 9993

2 43678 97.9796 5.4501 0011321 78.7699 281.4795 14.92262674207240

0 QO-100

1 43700U 18090A 22231.50707437 .00000138 00000-0 00000-0 0 9997

2 43700 0.0131 111.5633 0002072 82.0351 342.5351 1.00273376 13669

0 JO-97

1 43803U 18099AX 22231.42366773 .00002020 00000-0 17852-3 0 9993

2 43803 97.6157 296.8617 0015951 59.1829 301.0961 14.97353925202494

0 RS-44

1 44909U 19096E 22231.36235858 .00000016 00000-0 18672-4 0 9996

2 44909 82.5231 188.4837 0217421 172.3502 188.1008 12.79714322123555

0 HO-113

1 50466U 21131B 22231.60759206 .00000107 00000-0 49771-4 0 9994

2 50466 98.5782 308.8256 0003657 333.9778 26.1224 14.38516204 33990

Keplerian bulletins are transmitted twice weekly from W1AW.

The newspaper says:

People aged 16-24 spend less than an hour (53 minutes) in front of broadcast TV in an average day – a fall of two-thirds in the last ten years.

In contrast, those aged 65 and over still spend around a third of their waking day enjoying broadcast TV, sitting down for almost six hours (5 hours and 50 minutes) daily.

Around a fifth of homes (5.2 million) now subscribe to all three of the most popular platforms – Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ – costing around £300 per year.

While public service broadcasters have continued to see both audiences and levels of viewing fall, there is better news for their on-demand ‘player’ apps. The average time spent watching services such as BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub and All 4 increased to 15 minutes per day, up by three minutes per person per day, bucking the trend of post-pandemic declines in viewing time.

TIMOR-LESTE, 4W. Satoshi, JH2EUV is QRV as 4W/JH2EUV. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using mostly FT8. His length of stay is unknown. QSL to home call.

CYPRUS, 5B. Look for station P3CG to be QRV from Cape Greco, ILLW CY0004, during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. QSL via 5B8AP.

TAIWAN, BV. Look for station BV1EJ to be QRV from the Kaohsiung Lighthouse, ILLW TW0001, during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. QSL via QRZ.com

MAYOTTE, FH. Marek, F4VVJ will be QRV as FH4VVK from Petite-Terre, IOTA AF-027, from August 20 to April 1, 2024. Activity will be in his spare time. QSL direct to home call.

SCOTLAND, GM. Members of the Zetland Amateur Radio Club will be QRV as GB2ELH from Eshaness Lighthouse, ILLW UK00058, on the Shetland Islands, IOTA EU-012, during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. QSL via GM0GFL.

THAILAND, HS. Brad, VK2FY is QRV as HS0ZNR until September 2. Activity is on 160 to 10 meters. QSL direct to home call.

DJIBOUTI, J2. J28RC is a new club station located in a US Army military camp. QSL via EA5GL.

JORDAN, JY. Nart, JY5IB is QRV from Amman and is active on 60 to 12 meters using FT8. QSL direct to home call.

LITHUANIA, LY. Special call sign LY770CT is QRV until October 14 to commemorate the 770th anniversary since the founding of the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda. Activity is on all bands and modes. QSL via LY1CT and LoTW.

FINLAND, OH. Members of the Scandinavian Young Lady Radio Amateurs, and DL3KWF and DL3KWR, will be QRV as OH1SYL from Katanpaa Island, IOTA EU-096, from August 21 to 23. Activity will be on the HF bands using CW and SSB. QSL via OH5KIZ.

ALAND ISLAND, OH0. A group of operators will be QRV as OG0C from August 22 to 28. Activity will be on 160 to 2 meters using CW, SSB, RTTY, and FT8, with a focus on 30, 17, 12, and 6 meters. QSL via OH5C.

POLAND, SP. Members of the Dobrzycki Amateur Radio Club are QRV with special call signs SO550MK, SP550MK and SQ550MK to commemorate 550 years since the birth of astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus. QSL via SP3PDO.

GREECE, SV. Station SZ8G will be QRV from the Gaidouronisi Islet Lighthouse, ILLW GR0005, or possibly the Didymi Islet near Syros Island, IOTA EU-067, during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. They will be on 80 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8 in DXpedition mode. QSL via LoTW.

AUSTRALIA, VK. Operators Fred, VK2FM, Steve, VK2SPF and Russel, VK4NGN will be QRV as VK2FM from South Solitary Island, IOTA OC-194, from August 19 to 22. This include being active from the Solitary Lighthouse, ILLW AU0054, during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend. QSL via VK2FM.

INDIA, VU. Station VU2CW is QRV as AT75RADIO until August 21 in celebration of the 75th anniversary of India's independence. QSL to home call.

INDONESIA, YB. Special event stations 8H77RI, 8H77I, 8H77N, 8H77D, 8H77O, 8I77N, 8I77E, 8I77S, 8I77I, 8I77A, and 8I77RI are QRV until August 20 to celebrate Indonesia's 77th anniversary of independence. 
Activity is on the HF bands using CW, SSB, RTTY, FM, and FT8. This includes some Satellite activity as well. QSL via operators' instructions.

ALBANIA, ZA. Vladimir, Z35M will be QRV as ZA/Z35M on August 23. Activity will be on 40 to 15 meters using CW and SSB with 5 watts. QSL to home call.

CAYMAN ISLANDS, ZF. Station ZF1PB/9 is QRV from Cayman Brac, IOTA NA-016, until August 22. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands using SSB.
QSL direct to home call.

THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO
The ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest, ARRL RTTY Rookie Roundup, The International Lighthouse, and Lightship Weekend, North American SSB QSO Party, QRP 20-Meter CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC CW Sprint, K1USN Slow Speed CW Test, SARTG World Wide RTTY Contest, Russian District Award Contest, Feld Hell Sprint, CVA DX CW Contest, NJQRP Skeeter Hunt and the FISTS Sunday CW Sprint are all scheduled for this upcoming weekend.

The Run for the Bacon QRP CW Contest, K1USN Slow Speed Test, ICWC Medium Speed CW Test, OK1WC CW Memorial, Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest, RTTYOPS Weeksprint, SKCC CW Sprint, Phone Weekly Test, A1Club AWT, CWops Test, Mini-Test 40 and Mini-Test 80 are all on tap from August 22 to 24.

Most are rig or project specific.  There are a couple of big ones -- one has all the recent Podcasts, the other has ALL of the videos (long and short).  The beauty of the Playlist is that you can turn it on and it will continue to play through all of the videos on the list.  In this way you can just leave the videos on while working at your bench.  

I will be adding more Playlists. 

Here is the blog post about the new Playlists:
https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2022/08/help-soldersmoke-playlists-for.html

Or to go directly to the Playlists: 
(21) SolderSmoke - YouTube

We've been having a lot of fun on the blog and on the podcast. Recent topics include subharmonic mixers, Farhan's Daylight Receiver,  my 17/12 and Mythbuster (20/75) SSB rigs and a lot more. 

Check out the blog:  
https://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/

Thanks and 73! 

DE0061/FED142; Lightship Laesoe Rende:
Michael/DK9BM, Ecki/DH8AF, and Andreas/DK5ON operate from there on the weekend as DK5T/Lightship with 3 rigs on CW, SSB, and FT4/8 on all HF bands. QSL via DK5ON (d/B), LoTW, ClubLog.

FR0014; FRA 15c; Berck-sur-Mer: A team (DJ8EI, DK5OPA, DL5KA, DL1DCT, DL8KR, and DJ5KX) activates the lighthouse Berck-sur-Mer (QTH JO00SJ) as TM0BSM from the 17th to 22nd and HF and via QO-100. Contacts also
count for FFF-534; PB075 - D.P.L.F. (Diplome des Phares du Littoral Francais - French Lighthouse Award), FR0014. QSL via DK5OPA (B), sending cards is not necessary.

IL0001; Jaffa Light, IL0002; Stela Maris Light, IL0003; Ashdod Light, IL0004; Akko Light, IL0005; Tel-Aviv Light:
These locations will get activated by 4X01LH (Jaffa), 4X02LH (Stela Maris), 4X03LH (Ashdod), 4X04LH (Akko), and 4X05LH (Tel-Aviv). An award is also available: https://iarc.org/lighthouse/. QSL for all via 4X6ZM.

IT0004; Goro Lighthouse:
IR4DX activates this lighthouse during the weekend. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, ClubLog, e-mail.

MT-0001; Delimara Point:
A team of 10 from Germany pays a visit to the LH Delimara as 9H6LH. QSL via DL1KJ (d/B). For more information see: 9h6lh.com.

IOTA QRGs
CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz
SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz

EU-002; OH0, ALAND ISLANDS:
Alex/OH5UY, Pasi/OH2MZB, Jouni/OH2JIU, Niko/OH5CZ, Toni/OH5CY, Jere/OH5ELX, and Juha/OH5CW pay a visit to Aland from Aug. 22 to 28. QRV as OG0C on 160-2m (CW, SSB, FT8, RTTY) with a focus on 6m and WARC bands. QSL via OH5C.

NA-029; VY2, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND:
Peter/ZL2HM, Everett/W6ABM, Joseph/N7BF, and Barclay/WT4BT sign VY2/homecalls/p from Prince Edward Island between the 17th and 29th. QSL via h/c (d/B).

NA-104; V4, ST KITTS AND NEVIS:
Gary/G0FWX pays a visit to John's/V47JA QTH from the 21st to 30th and operates as V47FWX. QSL via M0URX OQRS, sending cards to him is not necessary.

OC-194; VK2, NEW SOUTH WALES STATE NORTH group:
A team consisting of Fred/VK2FM, Steve/VK2SPF, and Russel/VK4NGN activates South Solitary Island from the 19th to 22nd as VK2FM. They will also put the Solitary lighthouse (AU-0054) on the air. QSL via VK2FM.
 

Other IOTA news
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AS-082, RI0QQ:
The log has been uploaded to ClubLog.

The BBC News item was broadcast in the show BBC South East Today at 1830 BST (1730 GMT) on Tuesday, August 16. It is available on the web, fast forward to 15:25 into the show at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001b8bk/south-east-today-evening-news-16082022

You can read BBC News item at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62563215

Isabella was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live on Tuesday, August 16, at 1740 BST (1640 GMT) and BBC Radio Kent on August 17 at 0820 BST (0720 GMT).

Press coverage of eight-year-old's ISS ham radio contact
https://amsat-uk.org/2022/08/11/press-report-8-year-olds-iss-contact/

ISS astronaut’s favorite ham radio contact
https://amsat-uk.org/2022/08/03/iss-astronauts-favorite-ham-radio-contact/

AT75RADIO to be active from August 10-21, 2022. So far 82 QSOs made with 28 Countries on SSB Voice mode on 20 m and 15 m bands.

AT75CW to be active from September 01, 2022 to October 02, 2022.

My conditions are Yaesu FT-991A, Carolina Windom Inverted 'V' Dipole Antenna, Power is 100 watts (expect power out would be 85 watts). Location is ML88mk. Antenna Height is 65 feet from Ground. Coaxial Cable is Times Microwave LMR-400 imported from USA. Microphone Heilsound PRO7.

From my location, 20 m band opens at 1600 Hrs UTC (that is 2200 Hrs Indian Standard Time).

Countries available:

3A, 3B8, 3B9, 3D2, 3DA, 3V, 3W, 4J, 4L, 4O, 4S, 4U1U, 4W, 4X, 5A, 5B, 5H, 5N, 5R, 5T, 5W, 5Z, 6Y, 7Q, 7X, 8P, 8Q, 8R, 9A, 9H, 9J, 9K, 9M2, 9M6, 9N, 9Q, 9V, 9Y,

A4, A6, A7, A9, AP, BV, BY, C3, C9, CE, CE0Y, CE9, CM, CN, CP, CT, CT3, CU, CX, D2, D4, DL, DU, E3, E5/n, E5/s, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, EL, EP, ER, ES, ET, EU, EX, EY, F, FG, FK, FM, FO, FR, FS, FY, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GU, GW, H4, HA, HB, HB0, HC, HH, HI, HK, HL, HP, HR, HS, HV, HZ, I, IS, J2, J6, J7, JA, JT, JW, JX, JY,

K, KH2, KH6, KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LX, LY, LZ, OA, OD, OE, OH, OH0, OJ0, OK, OM, ON, OX, OY, OZ, P2, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PY, PZ, S0, S2, S5, S7, S9, SM, SP, ST, SU, SV, SV5, SV9, T2, T7, T8, TA, TF, TG, TI, TJ, TK, TU, TZ,

UA, UA2, UA9, UK, UN, UR, V2, V3, V4, V5, V8, VE, VK, VK0M, VP2E, VP2M, VP8, VP9, VR, VU, XE, YA, YB, YI, YJ, YL, YN, YO, YU, YV, Z2, Z3, Z6, Z8, ZA, ZB, ZC4, ZD7, ZF, ZL, ZP, ZS

Look for the following lighthouses:
Lighthouse Callsign ILLW#
---------- -------- -----
Jaffa 4X01LH IL001
Stella Maris 4X02LH IL002
Ashdod 4X03LH IL003
Acre 4X04LH IL004
Tel Aviv 4X05LH IL005

Decode 2-line elsets with the following key:

1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ

2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ

KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM

0 OSCAR 7

1 07530U 74089B 22228.52073051 -.00000041 00000-0 33187-4 0 9994

2 07530 101.9091 208.5903 0011878 288.0704 184.3022 12.53656300184991

0 ISS

1 25544U 98067A 22228.81314231 .00005590 00000-0 10511-3 0 9999

2 25544 51.6420 36.2439 0005519 128.9230 8.6666 15.50201881354580

0 SO-50

1 27607U 02058C 22228.41250959 .00000422 00000-0 78289-4 0 9994

2 27607 64.5547 118.4086 0080765 282.9350 76.2742 14.76202250 57221

0 AO-73

1 39444U 13066AE 22228.48028426 .00001374 00000-0 16836-3 0 9992

2 39444 97.6290 199.7030 0055902 194.0617 165.9045 14.83623923470425

0 XW-2A

1 40903U 15049E 22228.52120444 .00019334 00000-0 28201-3 0 9999

2 40903 97.1741 287.2180 0007345 251.4063 215.8372 15.55694714388593

0 IO-86

1 40931U 15052B 22228.01483857 .00001020 00000-0 52472-4 0 9999

2 40931 5.9980 104.1735 0014103 294.9000 64.9815 14.76844759372161

0 CAS-4B

1 42759U 17034B 22228.49672534 .00003350 00000-0 20289-3 0 9993

2 42759 43.0179 1.6489 0010702 306.3221 173.6058 15.12259281285447

0 CAS-4A

1 42761U 17034D 22228.52307337 .00003053 00000-0 18562-3 0 9997

2 42761 43.0191 0.2488 0010919 307.7330 139.6838 15.12343562285459

0 AO-91

1 43017U 17073E 22228.41224463 .00003997 00000-0 30150-3 0 9995

2 43017 97.6666 120.1428 0247211 351.8509 7.8721 14.81800078255995

0 PO-101

1 43678U 18084H 22228.53146045 .00000729 00000-0 77192-4 0 9991

2 43678 97.9783 2.5293 0011219 86.5642 273.6879 14.92253950206818

0 QO-100

1 43700U 18090A 22225.69538810 .00000125 00000-0 00000-0 0 9993

2 43700 0.0248 117.5015 0001982 65.4695 55.2441 1.00268968 13606

0 JO-97

1 43803U 18099AX 22228.41648359 .00001950 00000-0 17254-3 0 9998

2 43803 97.6164 293.9307 0016304 68.9548 291.3416 14.97341835202049

0 RS-44

1 44909U 19096E 22228.39137149 .00000011 00000-0 -40821-6 0 9998

2 44909 82.5226 190.4566 0217287 179.2921 180.8531 12.79714239123177

0 HO-113

1 50466U 21131B 22228.54712388 .00000062 00000-0 35010-4 0 9994

2 50466 98.5786 305.7676 0003825 344.9218 15.1855 14.38515245 33558

There will be over 350 lighthouses on the air in over 40 countries. Germany has 70 registered, USA 41, Australia 38, England 19. Some smaller countries with 1 entry are Canary Islands, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Iceland, Isle of Man, Latvia, Malta.

It is interesting to note that some stations have taken part in the event every year some, with the same call sign and some at the same lighthouse. It is the support of amateurs globally that has grown this event into what it has become, one of the most popular events in the amateur radio calendar.

Kevin vk2ce & Ted w8tts

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ARISS contact with Summer Camp students at Kopernik Observatory and Science Center, Vestal, New York, USA

News stories include: -

A Radio Relic
Two New Amateur Radio Bands for Canadian Hams
Hams on SOTA Event Help Prevent Major Forest Fire
Angola DXpedition Promises People the moon
Failure in Launching Indian Schoolgirls’ Ham Satellite
NRAO Program to Educate Emerging Generation of Scientists using Amateur Radio
QSO Expo Returns for Autumn 2022 Show
Remembrance Day Contest
AP75PAK Celebrates 75th Anniversary of Pakistan

Places are still available and commence at 20:00 hrs each Monday evening. The course lasts fifteen weeks and will prepare you for Both the new Direct to Full or traditional Full exam on the three tier system. Full support is also available via email and the material is also presented via 140 usefull videos and documentation.

The FCC said that 32 microphones sold by Sound Around failed to comply with FCC requirements governing emissions power and use of the spectrum, rules that protect against harmful interference to other spectrum users.

The FCC has rejected the business' assertion that the dollar amount of the proposed fine was too high, that a decade of warnings and notices sent by the FCC was insufficient and that photos of the company's marketing websites did not provide proof that the item was available for purchase.

Any young amateur or club interested in operating during the event can find the rules and additional information at the Young Amateurs Radio Club website.

YARC, founded in 2017, is an international amateur radio club with a focus on promoting adoption and innovation in amateur radio among young people. In 2018 the club was officially recognized by the FCC as an official amateur radio club under the call sign WY4RC.

This is a very special place to operate from, dark skies, low electical interference with salt water only a dozen yards away on 2 sides. Estimated first transmission at 10:30hrs UTC

Listen out for GB2SL on the airwaves, this is from a little worked square of JO03BN, with the WAB square of TA-41.

Full details of the event can be gained from www.hfdxarc.com.

Best 73 and good DX for the following event.

John Cunliffe G6LNV
Chairman HFDXARC

www.hfdxarc.com

Registration will begin from 11am. Candidates will be contacted directly regarding venue preference and registration requirements, but if any candidates have not been contacted already or have any further queries regarding the exam, please contact irts.exams /at/ gmail.com for more details.

It is hoped that this exam will clear any backlog of previous postponements and facilitate any candidates looking to sit the examination before the end of 2022. The next HAREC examination after this one, will likely be spring 2023. So time to brush up on your study and pencil in the date!

Furthermore, any anyone interested in doing the CW test can contact Dave (EI4BZ) at any time to organise the test. More information on the IRTS morse test can be found on the IRTS website. I would also like to mention a special thanks to the IRTS examination team for the work they do voluntarily behind the scenes, to make these examinations possible.

Tickets are on sale now at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo website. Click Here to go to ticketing and registration. Use the emailed credentials to test your login before the Expo weekend. The cost is a flat $10.00. We offer a free ticket to students and kids under 18 years of age, Click Here for Application.

Share Your Project or Article in our New Project Gallery

Share your latest ham radio project in our new Project Gallery. You can feature an article, poster, video, or slides, along with a downloadable PDF document about your project from a self service kiosk on our platform. This is a great way to make a presentation in the Expo without making a speaker commitment.

The Project Gallery is up for the entire period of the show including the 30 day on demand period. Each kiosk includes an optional live Q&A text chat to receive and answer questions from visitors to the Project Gallery. Accepted Project Gallery submissions will receive a free ticket to the Expo. For more information, Click Here . To submit your project to the gallery - Click here

Sneak Preview of Coming Expo Presentations

Here is a list of presentations coming to the Expo in September:

A Broadcast Engineer's Version of an HF Station

• A Minimalist QRP Approach - ADX HF QRP

• After 35 Questions: How Young Hams Can Enjoy Their License

• Anatomy of a Special Event

• Arduino: The Next Generation

• Automatic Antenna Tuner Solutions for the 1KW Operator

• Beyond the gas generator - backup power strategy for amateur radio in the 21st century

• Build-a-thon: Let's build a simple Transceiver

• Building and Operating a 122GHz Station

• Contesting for the Absolute Beginner - Competing Against Yourself

• End Fed Antennas From Theory, to Concept, and On-The-Air!

• Engaging the Next Generation - Fully Remote Amateur License Testing

• Fractal Mobile Antennas

• Haifuraiya - Open Source HEO Satellite Project Proposal

• Headset Interconnect Standard: An open standard for headset portability and interconnect devices

• Herding Cats, or Unifying a local group with a mission using a structured Simplex Exercise.

• Hide your rig, not your signal!

• High Power Magnetic Loop Antenna Theory and Construction

• How to Make That QSO- Get in the Rhythm, Know the Rhyme & Dance the Dance

• HT + DTMF = Fun: Simple Digital Communication for Handheld Transceivers

• In Search of the “Optimum” Magnetic Loop Antenna

• Introduction to DX

• Introduction to Software Defined Radio with Focus on Aviation Frequency Applications

• Introduction to the nanoVNA Vector Network Analyzer

• Launching into ARISS

• Miniaturizing Digital Voice Using the ESP32 Microcontroller

• Never Stop Learning New Ham Radio Concepts

• Parks on the Air - 3 Practical Methods for Successful Activations

• Ribbit, a new digital text messaging mode for UHF/VHF emergency communications

• Silent Key Estate Planning — A Guide

• Build-A-Thon: Simple Station accessories: Key, Keyer, Sidetone Oscillator, Antenna & Tuner

• Smith Charts: What Are They and Why Would I Use One?

• Successful Operating- Assessing Effectiveness of Your Station

• The "Leyden Jar" Magloop Antenna

• The $14.00 Remote Rig Controller

• The ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program

• Transmitter Testing Using Low Cost Test Gear

• Updates in VHF and Above LNA

• Welcome Back to the World of Arduino

• Youth on the Air - Two Years of Life-Changing Success in IARU Region 2, and More To Come

For more information on our Presentations and Speakers, Click Here

Presentations from Previous Expos Available on our Vimeo Channel

All of the video presentations made at the previous Expos, over 200 of them, are edited and available on our Vimeo channel. The catalog is completely searchable by name and keyword. Go to this link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/qsotodayhamexpomar2021

Thanks for your consideration. See you at the Expo!

73,

Eric Guth, 4Z1UG

QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo

Think of it as a CME on steroids; SMEs outmass CMEs by 400 billion to one.

An SME on Betelgeuse may be responsible for the red supergiant's recent dimming.

Yesterday the club held its Annual General Meeting. Thank you to the outgoing team; welcome to the incoming team and keep up the great work to those continuing.

At the VK2RAG Somersby repeater site, the D-Star, Rad-Net DMR and 2m Echolink services are fully functional. Brand Meister DMR and 70cm Echolink and IRLP are still on the sick list.

The club has a Web SDR at Somersby. Websdr.ccarc.org.au is configured to listen on 6 metres, 2 metres, 70 centimetres and 23 centimetres.

The daily Morning Tea Net is held at 10:00am each morning and after the VK2WI broadcast on Sunday mornings.

The Thursday evening net is held at 8:00pm on the same repeater and echolink conferences. This week we had a discussion about “what do you enjoy most about Amateur Radio”; with consensus around simply being able to communicate in so many different ways.

The Morning Tea and Thursday night nets are held on the VK2RAG repeater – 146.725 MHz with 91.5Hz tone, and on echolink through the HAM and CCARCNSW echolink conferences.

Adrian VK2ABS, hosts fortnightly SSTV net on the Club’s 2 Meter WICEN repeater; 147.125 MHz with 91.5 Hz tone, consisting of 2-3 rounds. Adrian has had a large amount of support from other members and would love to see you drop in on the next net on Friday the 19th of August at 7:30 PM.

The Thursday night and SSTV nets are also video streamed live to the club’s Facebook page and recordings can be found in the “Videos” section.

You can find out more about the CCARC, our upcoming social events and other details that we can’t tell you about here on the web at ccarc.org.au, by phone on 02 4340 2500, or on social media by searching for “Central Coast Amateur Radio Club”. Remember to give the club a “like” to follow for any updates.

RadCom obviously needs a strong team who are focused on continuity but also on developing the future of such a well-respected family of publications. Elaine very kindly offered to delay her retirement so that we could have time to create that future RadCom team.

Working with a professional agency, I led the recruitment team. The President, the current Managing Editor and members of the Board of Directors were all involved to ensure as wide a selection profile as possible. That recruitment process is now complete.

We are very pleased to announce the appointment of Edward O’Neill, M0TZX as RadCom Managing Editor and Matthew Smith, M0VWS as RadCom Technical Editor.

Ed O’Neill, M0TZX has held a number of roles in the Civil Service and in a Local Authority where his responsibilities included the publication of material for the public. He has had a life-long interest in all things technical. Most of his radio operating is done on the HF bands via CW, but he can sometimes be heard in the phone sections of the HF, VHF and UHF bands.

Matt Smith, M0VWS comes from an aerospace background dealing with electrical integration of satellite hardware with more than 16 years’ experience. On the amateur front, he enjoys working DX, IOTA, Field Days and spending time in his extensive workshop.  

Ed and Matt are working very closely with Elaine and the rest of the team to ensure a smooth handover in the coming months. I’m very much looking forward to working with both of them, continuing to deliver and develop a RadCom suite of publications that supports the future of amateur radio.’

Steve Thomas, M1ACB
RSGB General Manager

The American Radio Relay League or ARRL is one of the oldest amateur associations on Earth. 1926 saw the birth of 'the Radio Amateur's Handbook', the first edition of what we now know as "The ARRL Handbook For Radio Communications" featured chapters on what it means to be an amateur, how to build and operate a station, how propagation works and how to experiment. The very first handbook had 5000 copies printed and thanks to the website WorldRadioHistory.com we have access to a signed copy by the author himself, the Communications Manager of the ARRL, Francis Edward Handy (W1BDI). He starts the 228 page book with the following words:

This Handbook is written as a guide for member-operators of the League. It is also useful as a source of information to the man who wants to take part in amateur radio activity but who has no idea of how to get started. Written first of all for the beginner, such an amount of useful and up-to-date information has been added that the Handbook in its present form is equally valuable as a compendium of information for the experienced brass-pounder and the beginner alike.

The first edition doesn't show a cover price, but the third edition, published a year later shows a charge of $1. The 2022, or 99th edition has nearly six times as many pages, 1280 of them, it costs ten times as much per page and sells for nearly 50 times as much at $49.95. The current handbook features topics such as Radio electronics theory and principles, Circuit design and equipment as well as articles and projects that include 3D printing, portable battery selection, safe antenna and tower work practices and comes in a variety of formats including electronic and box sets.

I'm giving this background to give you a sense of how things have evolved in the past century. For example, one thing that the very first edition didn't have was a page called the Amateur's Code. The oldest copy I've found appears in the 1927 or third edition.

If you're familiar with the words, you're in for a treat. If not, sit back and imagine it's 1927, or 1923, more on that in a moment.

The Amateur's Code

I - The Amateur is Gentlemanly. He never knowingly uses the air for his own amusement in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others. He abides by the pledges given by the A.R.R.L. in his behalf to the public and the Government.

II - The Amateur is Loyal. He owes his amateur radio to the American Radio Relay League, and he offers it his unswerving loyalty.

III - The Amateur is Progressive. He keeps his station abreast of science. It is built well and efficiently. His operating practice is clean and regular.

IV - The Amateur is Friendly. Slow and patient sending when requested, friendly advice and counsel to the beginner, kindly assistance and cooperation for the broadcast listener: these are marks of the amateur spirit.

V - The Amateur is Balanced. Radio is his hobby. He never allows it to interfere with any of the duties he owes to his home, his job, his school or his community.

VI - The Amateur is Patriotic. His knowledge and his station are always ready for the service of his country and his community.

This version is credited to Paul M. Segal 9EEA, Director, Rocky Mountain Division ARRL.

The code appears on page 9 of the 1927 edition of the handbook. It uses Roman numerals to identify each point, the title is beautifully rendered with the Old English Typeface and it's shown inside a rectangle on a page on its own.

Over the next 45 years the text stays the same. There are changes like colons to semi-colons, an additional comma and the evolution from Roman numerals to modern numbers, and then written numbers and finally the removal of the numbers entirely. At one point the title is changed from "Amateur's Code" to "Our Code", but that only lasts for one edition. Speaking of editions, the 1936 edition, the thirteenth in the series, is referred throughout as the 1936 edition, superstition is alive and well.

The credit changes over time as well. In 1929 Paul's callsign is changed from 9EEA to W9EEA.

In 1943 we see a once-off credit appear. It states that the code was written in 1923 by Lieut.-Commander Paul. M. Segal, General Counsel of ARRL. It's the only credit that shows a different year from any of the other references which all point at 1928 as the original year, which is what the ARRL uses today. Interestingly, we have a copy of the handbook from 1927 that features the code, so it's entirely possible that 1923 is actually correct and it's not hard to imagine that a poorly printed 3 looks like the remains of the number 8.

To add to this, there's a 1944 FCC report to the President of the United States of America that contains a reference to "Lieutenant Commander Paul. M. Segal, the radio industry attorney". In addition there's an announcement in the New York Times, dated 25 May 1968 with the headline: "Paul M. Segal Is Dead at 68; Expert in Communications Law"

I don't have access to any version of the Second Edition of the handbook which had two print runs in 1927. It's entirely possible that the code appeared there, but I have no evidence either way. I do believe that Paul M. Segal, 9EEA Director of the Rocky Mountain Division of the ARRL is the same person as Lieutenant Commander Paul. M. Segal, General Counsel of ARRL and radio industry attorney who became a silent key in 1968.

Credits, layout and font changes aside, 1973 sees the first time when the words of the Amateur's Code actually change.

Let me illustrate.

The original first clause reads:

I - The Amateur is Gentlemanly. He never knowingly uses the air for his own amusement in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others. He abides by the pledges given by the A.R.R.L. in his behalf to the public and the Government.

In 1973 that's changed to:

One The Amateur is considerate . . .He never knowingly uses the air in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others.

The first four clauses are modified to greater and lesser degree, clause five and six stay the same.

Today the ARRL website shows the first clause as:

The Radio Amateur is CONSIDERATE...He/[She] never knowingly operates in such a way as to lessen the pleasure of others.

And the credit reads: "adapted from the original Amateur's Code, written by Paul M. Segal, W9EEA, in 1928"

It's noteworthy that going back to the original text the very first clause encourages the amateur to be gentlemanly, something which we can relate to in terms of being respectful, polite and civil.

It's also clear that the Amateur's Code is a living document and has been moving with the times. I think that we as a community have the opportunity to participate in another review and I will investigate and share with you some of my thoughts on the matter.

I think that it is important that we have a code of conduct that reflects our values and at present the best starting point we have is the Amateur's Code.

The ARISS Russia and USA teams have been working for several weeks to prepare theService Module radio for APRS operations. ARISS Russia team member Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, led the effort, working with Russian mission controllers and the on-board ISS cosmonauts to configure the Service Module radio for APRS ops. On August 11, final checkouts were completed and the APRS packet mode was switched on for amateur radio use.

ARISS-International Chair Frank Bauer, KA3HDO states, “Simultaneous operation of APRS and the voice repeater on ISS is transformative for ARISS and represents a key element of our ARISS 2.0 initiative, providing interactive capabilities 24/7 that inspire, engage and educate youth and lifelong learners—especially life-long learning in ham radio operations.” Bauer continues, “Our heartfelt thanks to Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, for making this crucial ARISS 2.0 initiative become a reality.”

The Columbus Module radio uses the callsign NA1SS and the new Service Module radio uses RS0ISS. Aside from the callsigns, the radios are identical and packet operations are the same as before. You can use RS0ISS, ARISS, or APRSAT as the packet path. Also, both radios are expected to be on full time, except during educational contacts, EVAs, anddockings or undockings.

The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org .

Media Contact:

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Search on Amateur Radio on the ISS and @ARISS_status.

“Both conventions include an exceptional amount of programming to encourage and instruct radio amateurs across a variety of interests,” said ARRL Education and Learning Manager Steve Goodgame, K5ATA. Goodgame, who used his recent experience of him as a school teacher to help high school students earn their ham radio licenses, will participate in both events. He will lead forums to share ways for engaging youth and offer tools and tips for approaching schools about including amateur radio in their programs and curriculum.

The Huntsville Hamfest will also include a Youth Lounge where young and prospective hams can participate in hands-on activities and demonstrations, including kit building, fox hunting (find the hidden transmitter), and opportunities to get on the air.

Average daily sunspot number increased from 36.6 to 65.4. Average daily 10.7 cm solar flux rose from 95.7 to 111.9.

Solar wind caused geomagnetic numbers to rise, with average planetary A index going from 7.7 to 14.4, and middle latitude numbers from 8.6 to 12.1.

An improved outlook shows solar flux over the next month peaking at 116 on September 2 to 4. The forecast from USAF/NOAA on Thursday evening was improved from Wednesday.

A look at ARLP032 from 2021 gives a perspective on solar cycle progress. A year ago, average sunspot number was 6 and average solar flux was just 74.8. Quite a difference from 65.4 and 111.9 during the past week.

Predicted flux values are 115 on August 12 to 14, 110 on August 15 to 18, 108 on August 19, 104 on August 20 and 21, then 98, 100, 102, 100, 102, and 100 on August 22 to 27, then 102 on August 28 to 30, then 108 and 114 on August 31 and September 1, 116 on September 2 to 4, 112 on September 5 to 7. 110 on September 8 and 9, then 108 on September 10 to 12, 106 on September 13, then 104 on September 14 to 16, 102 on September 17 and 98 on September 18.

Predicted planetary A index is 12 on August 12, 5 on August 13 to 16 then 10, 12 and 15 on August 17 to 19, 8 on August 20 and 21, 5 on August 22 to 26, 12 on August 27, 8 on August 28 to 30, 5 on August 31 through September 2, then 14, 18, 14, 10 and 8 on September 3 to 7, and 5 on September 8 to 12, then 22 on September 13, 15 on September 14 and 15, 8 on September 16, and 5 on September 17 to 22.

OK1HH commented:
"A geomagnetic disturbance rarely comes completely unexpectedly. And even more so in a situation where its source cannot be located (or selected from several locations). Moreover, lasting five days.

All this happened between August 7th and 11th.

At higher latitudes, the 'STEVE' phenomenon was sighted on August 7 (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement). STEVE is a recent discovery. It looks like an aurora, but it's not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE

It all started with a positive phase of disturbance in the ionosphere, when shortwave propagation improved. The development continued with a deterioration of propagation in the negative phase on August 8, followed by generally below average conditions in the following days. With a strong influence of sporadic layer E, whose activity usually increases as the Perseids meteor shower approaches maximum (expected on 12 and 13 August). They are also called the 'Tears of St. Lawrence'.

Starting August 12 onward, we expect a longer mostly quiet period."

NASA expects increasing activity:
https://bit.ly/3QjOLk5

Always appreciate The Sun Now page from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Yet another cycle prediction method:
https://bit.ly/3SKm29J

Tamitha Skov, WX6SWW has a 200 minute part 2 of a course on ground effects:
https://youtu.be/cOom5LQ_LBY

If you would like to make a comment or have a tip for our readers, please email the author at, k7ra@arrl.net

For more information concerning shortwave radio propagation, see http://www.arrl.org/propagation and the ARRL Technical Information Service at http://arrl.org/propagation-of-rf-signals. For an explanation of numbers used in this bulletin, see http://arrl.org/the-sun-the-earth-the-ionosphere.

An archive of past propagation bulletins is at http://arrl.org/w1aw-bulletins-archive-propagation.
More good information and tutorials on propagation are at http://k9la.us/.

Instructions for starting or ending email distribution of ARRL bulletins are at http://arrl.org/bulletins

Sunspot numbers for August 4 through 10, 2022 were 52, 69, 69, 87, 63, 58, and 60, with a mean of 65.4. 10.7 cm flux was 108.8, 112.2, 116.3, 116.1, 113, 109.4, and 107.6, with a mean of 111.9.

Estimated planetary A indices were 6, 6, 4, 24, 31, 19, and 11, with a mean of 14.4. Middle latitude A index was 7, 7, 5, 20, 21, 15, and 10, with a mean of 12.1.

Matthew M0LMK tweeted about the picture shown above:
"Isabella has been having an email exchange with the @NASA #ISS team, you know, as you do! She sent a photo for their publicity team and asked for it to be sent onto @astro_kjell. Here's what she got in return..."
https://twitter.com/m0lmk/status/1556976125359919105

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ILLW: Veraval Light House AT3VLH

Friday 12th August 2022

For the first time Veraval Light House situated at south coast of Gujarat State from India will be activated with the Special Amateur Radio Callsign AT3VLH on August 19-22

The Lighthouse is activated by active Ham Radio Operator Rajesh Vagadia VU2EXP from Rajkot (Gujarat) India. It is SOLO operator Activation to experiment learn and spread awareness with amateur radio spirit.

Location
Lat:   20° 54' 41'' N
Long:  70° 21' 11'' E
Grid:   ML50ev
CQ Zone: 22
ITU Zone: 41

Map https://goo.gl/maps/kgU3xmZ4ezwktvg56

International Lighthouse & Lightship Weekend
https://illw.net/

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Ham Radio School Outreach: How to talk about amateur radio with schools

Friday 12th August 2022

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h8HpfjoqRM

A perpetual trophy is awarded annually to the Australian state or territory with the best performance. The name of the winning State or Territory is inscribed on the trophy, and that State or Territory then holds the trophy for 12 months. The winning State or Territory is also given a certificate, as are leading entrants.

The aim of the contest is for Amateurs to contact other amateurs in all VK call areas, ZL and P29 on all bands except WARC bands. Modes allowed are PHONE, CW and RTTY as per the era being remembered.

VKCL is the logging software that will allow HF and VHF/UHF contacts to be logged. Although there are a few other loggers to use, N1MM is suitable but only if the HF sections are being entered.

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AZERBAIJAN, 4K. Dirk, DK1DKE is active as 4K7DK until August 13. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and FT8. QSL via DK1DKE, by the Bureau or LoTW.

TANZANIA, 5H. Eugen, DL8AAI will be active as 5H2JK/p during a hiking tour in Kilimanjaro National Park (5HFF-0005) until August 17, and some days after hiking, from Moshi. Activity will be holiday style, mainly on SSB on 20 to 10 meters. Check for WSPR beacon signals from 5H2JK/P on 15 meters which will be activated when the antenna is operational. QSL via DL8AAI.

MALAWI, 7Q. Junior, 7Q7JN has been active as 7Q7EMH from the radio station at the Embangweni Mission Hospital in the Northern Region. Activity has been on 30, 15 and 12 meters using CW and FT8. QSL via LoTW or ClubLog.

INDONESIA, 8H7/8I7. To celebrate the 77th anniversary of independence, amateurs will be using 8H7 and 8I7 call signs from August 13 to 21. Activity will be on 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters and on 2m/70cm for Satellites, as well VHF Terrestrial on 2 meters, using CW, SSB, RTTY, FT8 and FM (Satellite).

MALDIVES, 8Q. Giovanni, IZ2DPX will be active as 8Q7AG until August 20. Activity will be on various HF bands as well as 6 meters. QSL to IZ2DPX direct, via HE9ERA by the Bureau, LoTW or ClubLog's OQRS. Also, Stefan, EA5Q will be active as 8Q7QE from August 14 to 24. QSL via EA5Q. All contacts will be confirmed via LoTW.

USA, N. Special event station N7C is commemorating the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, until August 19. Look for them on 7265, 14265 and 18130 kHz using CW, FT8 or phone. QSL via Herb, N7HG. Herb's father, John V. Goodluck, was one of the US Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers, serving in the South Pacific in WWII.

PAKISTAN, AP75. Members of the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) will operate under special call sign AP75PAK and Pakistani hams may use the "AP75" prefix with their existing call sign suffixes for the month of August to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Pakistan's Independence. Activity will be on various HF bands and modes, 6 meters and the satellites.

INDIA, AT2. Members of the West Bengal Radio Club, VU2WB, will activate the special call sign AT2AAM to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Independence of India. Activity will be on various HF Bands. QSL via AT2AAM or VU2WB.

CUBA, CO. Lefty, CO2QU will be active until December 31 on 30 meters (FT8/FT4) and 6 meters (FT8). QSL via CO2QU direct or LoTW.

MAYOTTE, FH. Marek, F4VVJ will be active as FH4VVK from August 20, 2022 to April 1, 2024. Operations will be on various HF bands and modes. QSL direct (see QRZ.com) or eQSL.

ECUADOR, HD1. Members of the Ecuador DX Club will be active as HD1HERO until August 12 to commemorate the August 10th Heroes and will be on all bands and modes.

SAUDI ARABIA, HZ. Members of the Saudi Amateur Radio Society will be using the special call sign HZ1CPCF for the "Crown Prince Camel Festival" until September 4. Activity has been on 20, 17, 15 and 6 meters using CW, SSB and FT8/FT4. QSL via HZ1SAR.

DJIBOUTI, J2. Jeje, F8FKJ will be active as J20EE sometime this month and into September. His activity will be on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via F4DXW direct only.

GRENADA, J3. Greg, N9GB will be active as J38GB from August 12 to 19. He expects to be using CW and SSB on 40 to 6 meters including the newer bands. QSL via his home call sign, LoTW, and possibly ClubLog.

ISLE OF MAN, MD. Dale, EI7HDB will be active as MD/EI7HDB from August 14 to 19. Activity will be on various HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL EI7HDB via the Bureau.

ALAND ISLAND, OG0. Operators Alex, UT5UY/OH5UY, Pasi, OH2MZB, Jouni, OH2JIU, Niko, OH5CZ, Toni, OH5CY, Jere, OH5ELX and Juha, OH5CW will be active as OH5CW from August 20 to 27. Activity will be on 160 to 2 meters with a focus on 6 meters and the newer bands, using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. QSL via OH5C.

SEYCHELLES, S7. Operators EA3WL and EA3BT will be active as S79/EA3WL and S79/EA3BT until August 23. The operation will be in SAT mode only, on QO-100, RS-44 and others, in a holiday style DXpedition, using SSB, CW and FT8. QSL via EA3BT or OQRS.

ST. KITTS, V4. Jim, NT5V is active as V4/NT5V until August 18. Activity will be on various HF bands using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via home call sign, direct, by the Bureau or LoTW. In addition, Gary, G0FWX will be active as V47FWX from August 21 to 30. Activity will be holiday style on various HF bands using SSB only. QSL via M0URX.

THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO
The QRP Fox Hunt, 144 MMMonVHF/DUBUS 144-MHz Meteorscatter Sprint Contest, WAE DX Contest, SKCC Weekend Sprintathon, Kentucky State Parks on the Air, Maryland-DC QSO Party and the 50-MHz Fall Sprint will keep contesters busy this weekend.

The 4 States QRP Group Second Sunday Sprint is August 15 and the Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest is August 16.

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The AH-730 covers a wide frequency range from 1.8 to 50 MHz, providing Amateur radio operators with the opportunity of working multiple frequency bands.

With a 7 m (23 ft) or longer wire element, all band matching is possible from the 1.8 MHz (160 m) band to the 50 MHz (6 m) band (Ground connection is required.)

The  AH-730 emits only 0.3 W of RF output from the antenna during tuning operation. The low power minimises the risk of interference to other stations while matching the antenna.

The body of the AH-730 is made up of an IPX4 waterproof, high-strength resin. It can be safely installed in a variety of outdoor locations. Additionally, coaxial and control cables can be connected without opening the case.

In addition, automatic high-speed tuning in about 2 to 3 seconds is possible. Up to forty-five matching states can be stored, and when the same frequency is retuned, the matching can be completed in about one second.

The AH-730 Automatic Antenna Tuner is now available to order from Icom Authorised Amateur Radio dealer with a suggested retail price of £570.00 inc.VAT.

Results from the mission were just published in the Geophysical Research Letters. Now that the technique has been proven on Earth, researchers want to try it on Venus.

The $200,000 grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) will provide scholarships to four students for one full academic year and assist with numerous gaps in tuition and associated costs of attending Hampton University. Hampton will introduce its students majoring in STEM related fields to amateur radio and engage them through activities that provide unique hands-on, experience-building opportunities. Additionally, the grant will fund hour-long educational programs highlighting scholars studying STEM topics that will be aired on Hampton’s FM radio station (WHOV 88.1 MHz).

About Hampton University

Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character, and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. The mission of the Hampton University's School of Engineering and Technology serves a segment of the U.S. population that has traditionally not had access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. The School of Engineering and Technology is committed to serving as a catalyst to recruit and retain talented African American and female students who pursue research careers in materials science and engineering fields. To learn more about Hampton University, go to https://www.hamptonu.edu.

About ARDC

Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is a California-based foundation with roots in amateur radio and the technology of internet communication. The organization got its start by managing the AMPRNet address space, which is reserved for licensed amateur radio operators worldwide. Additionally, ARDC makes grants to projects and organizations that follow amateur radio’s practice and tradition of technical experimentation in both amateur radio and digital communication science. Such experimentation has led to advances that benefit the general public, including the mobile phone and wireless internet technology. ARDC envisions a world where all such technology is available through open source hardware and software, and where anyone has the ability to innovate upon it. To learn more about ARDC, please visit https://www.ampr.org.

Northern Lights were sighted in the USA as far south as Pennsylvania, while Scandinavians witnessed a rare summertime display of auroras mixed with twilight.

Carillon Wellbeing Radio (Coalville, Leics) 1476 kHz will again relay a broadcast from the LV18 in Harwich on the weekend 13-14 August according to this:

"It is with great excitement that the trustees of the Lightvessel 18 announce our radio broadcast for Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th August 2022.

We will be broadcasting live online at https://carillonradio.com/ and in some areas on 1476 AM Medium Wave.
Similar to last year, we will have 24/7 broadcasting with a variety of DJs including a Sunday show (Sunday 10am to 12pm) by Stephen Foster (formally of BBC Suffolk and now a regular Radio Caroline presenter) and two shows (Saturday 12-2pm and Sunday 2-4pm) by Keith Skues. They will both be broadcasting live from the LV18. Keith will also be around for a meet and greet and book signing from about 11am till 1pm on the Sunday.

"The ARRL Radio Lab is an innovative test space designed to reshape the way we imagine and build a ham radio shack," said Goodgame. The station is intended to inspire members to build, organize, and equip their own stations in innovative ways. "From a decluttered workspace and a digital user interface, to being able to remote into the equipment from anywhere, W1HQ is a step towards the future of amateur radio stations," Goodgame added.

The station includes a new tower and antennas atop the main administrative building at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. Inside the station, three operating positions provide an interface to rack-mounted and computer-controlled transceivers, amplifiers, antenna switches, and rotators.

Decode 2-line elsets with the following key:

1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ

2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ

1 07530U 74089B 22217.50875953 -.00000029 00000-0 10809-3 0 9992

2 07530 101.9075 197.5394 0011980 309.7025 164.9468 12.53656157183611

0 ISS

1 25544U 98067A 22217.70805160 .00004768 00000-0 90723-4 0 9991

2 25544 51.6434 91.2781 0005303 85.8690 316.1257 15.50240345352868

0 SO-50

1 27607U 02058C 22217.16679622 .00000273 00000-0 57984-4 0 9999

2 27607 64.5547 152.8248 0080482 285.0856 74.1353 14.76188998 55566

0 AO-73

1 39444U 13066AE 22217.48672841 .00000775 00000-0 97902-4 0 9994

2 39444 97.6276 189.1958 0055100 230.7903 128.8412 14.83593114468798

0 XW-2A

1 40903U 15049E 22217.59023082 .00012585 00000-0 18712-3 0 9991

2 40903 97.1753 276.2465 0007264 301.5809 195.7830 15.55267340386892

0 IO-86

1 40931U 15052B 22217.54734148 .00000650 00000-0 12480-5 0 9991

2 40931 5.9975 178.8062 0012539 143.9027 216.2253 14.76837408370618

0 CAS-4B

1 42759U 17034B 22217.59382878 .00001374 00000-0 91033-4 0 9991

2 42759 43.0176 61.7780 0010145 245.3815 210.5031 15.12181892283797

0 CAS-4A

1 42761U 17034D 22217.61540796 .00001719 00000-0 11034-3 0 9997

2 42761 43.0178 60.4096 0010575 246.3085 147.6943 15.12271064283800

0 AO-91

1 43017U 17073E 22217.40531176 .00002929 00000-0 22155-3 0 9994

2 43017 97.6688 109.5889 0248536 27.8627 333.5643 14.81704674254360

 0 PO-101

1 43678U 18084H 22217.46750449 .00000504 00000-0 55214-4 0 9992

2 43678 97.9773 351.3258 0011075 119.8483 240.3855 14.92238696205168

0 QO-100

1 43700U 18090A 22217.30081275 .00000151 00000-0 00000-0 0 9999

2 43700 0.0143 89.8952 0001722 80.6475 277.3616 1.00271555 13515

0 JO-97

1 43803U 18099AX 22217.18938685 .00001525 00000-0 13615-3 0 9999

2 43803 97.6165 282.9868 0016193 103.9866 256.3158 14.97283452200366

0 RS-44

1 44909U 19096E 22217.44563631 .00000025 00000-0 58709-4 0 9997

2 44909 82.5210 197.7266 0216810 204.9171 154.1341 12.79714198121772

0 HO-133

1 50466U 21131B 22217.48769192 -.00000028 00000-0 54745-5 0 9990

2 50466 98.5792 294.7160 0004555 19.9937 340.1427 14.38512727 31969

Bringing together the expertise of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), amateur radio enthusiasts, and subject matter experts (SMEs), the two-year program will:

1. Introduce two cohorts of students to radio technologies,

2. Engage these students in hands-on activities that will deepen their knowledge of astronomy, particularly radio astronomy,

3. Support them in attaining their Technician Class and General Class amateur radio licenses, and

4. Develop a scalable curriculum to be shared nationwide (and internationally) through Superknova, NRAO’s online learning platform.

Students will learn about the very real ways in which the electromagnetic spectrum is a natural resource, every bit as limited and precious as the oceans and forests. They will also learn how amateur radio is an essential part of our national emergency infrastructure, and a critical resource in times of climate change and pandemics. The program is expected to start January 2023, initially serving 10 students. According to Dr. Tony Beasley, Director of the NRAO, “Amateur radio continues to be incredibly important to the nation and global communications, and NRAO is excited to be working with ARDC to bring a new generation and diverse communities to the field.”

About the National Radio Astronomy Observatory

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a facility of the National Science Foundation (NSF), operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. Furthering NSF’s mission to advance the progress of science, the NRAO enables research into the Universe at radio wavelengths and provides world-class telescopes, instrumentation, and expertise to the scientific community. NRAO’s mission includes a commitment to broader, equitable, inclusive participation in science and engineering, training the next generation of scientists and engineers, and promoting astronomy to foster a more scientifically literate society. NRAO operates three research facilities: the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), which are available for use by scientists from around the globe, regardless of institutional or national affiliation. NRAO welcomes applicants who bring diverse and innovative dimensions to the Observatory and to the field of radio astronomy. For more information about NRAO, go to https://public.nrao.edu.

About ARDC

Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) is a California-based foundation with roots in amateur radio and the technology of internet communication. The organization got its start by managing the AMPRNet address space, which is reserved for licensed amateur radio operators worldwide. Additionally, ARDC makes grants to projects and organizations that follow amateur radio’s practice and tradition of technical experimentation in both amateur radio and digital communication science. Such experimentation has led to advances that benefit the general public, including the mobile phone and wireless internet technology. ARDC envisions a world where all such technology is available through open source hardware and software, and where anyone has the ability to innovate upon it. To learn more about ARDC, please visit https://www.ampr.org.

Members of the Croatian Amateur Radio Association will use the following several special callsigns from various locations:
9A22YOTA -- will be used during the entire week from the camp premises.
9A100QO -- will be used exclusively on QO100 satellite from multiple locations.

** The young operators will be using the following callsigns (series 9A1-5YOTA) from various locations and dates: 9A1YOTA -- remote from 9A1TT's station: August 6-13th
9A2YOTA -- Krk Island (IOTA EU-136; CI046) from the seaside town of Baska: August 8th
9A3YOTA -- from Sljeme mountain (SOTA 9A/ZH-002) above Zagreb: August 10th
9A4YOTA -- from Medvednica Nature Park (POTA 9A-0001, WWFF 9AFF-0013) above Zagreb: August 10th
9A5YOTA -- from Dubovac castle (COTA 9A-00099): August 12th

PREDICT version 2.3.0 introduces an easy-to-use satellite transponder database editor and support for a mouse (or touch screen under a Termux/Android environment). New features make it possible to run PREDICT in Multi-Satellite Tracking Mode, left click on any satellite displayed on the screen, and be brought directly into Single Satellite Tracking Mode for more detailed tracking information on the chosen satellite. In addition, previously separate "Vocalizer" code has been integrated into PREDICT's mainline source. Text-to-speech operations are now executed in separate threads rather than forked background processes as was the practice in the past.

PREDICT was originally released under an Open Source Software General Public License in late 1999, and is cataloged under the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System hosted by Harvard University. PREDICT has been successfully employed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration where it provides orbital prediction and tracking data for VLBI radio telescope steering. PREDICT is employed by the European Space Agency's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where it provides tracking and velocity profile data used to steer the 25 meter dish antenna at the Chilbolton Observatory (https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2006/03/Chilbolton_Observatory). PREDICT also powers AMSAT North America's on-line satellite prediction service (https://www.amsat.org/track/), and has served as the basis for a host of other derivative open-source software applications.

Additional information, including screenshots and download links, are available via the PREDICT website at https://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html

Countries available:

3A, 3B8, 3B9, 3D2, 3DA, 3W, 4J, 4L, 4O, 4S, 4U1U, 4W, 4X, 5A, 5B, 5R, 5W, 5X, 5Z, 6W, 6Y, 7Q, 7X, 8P, 8Q, 8R, 9A, 9G, 9H, 9J, 9K, 9M2, 9M6, 9N, 9V, 9Y,

A2, A3, A4, A6, A7, A9, AP, BV, BY, C3, C9, CE, CE9, CM, CN, CP, CT, CT3, CU, CX, D2, D4, DL, DU, E5/n, E5/s, E6, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, EL, EP, ER, ES, EU, EX, EY, F, FG, FK, FM, FO, FR, FS, FW, FY, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GU, GW, H4, HA, HB, HB0, HC, HH, HI, HK, HL, HP, HR, HS, HZ, I, IS, J2, J6, J7, J8, JA, JT, JX, JY,

K, KG4, KH2, KH6, KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LU, LX, LY, LZ, OA, OD, OE, OH, OH0, OJ0, OK, OM, ON, OX, OY, OZ, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PY, PZ, S0, S5, SM, SP, ST, SU, SV, SV5, SV9, T5, T7, TA, TF, TG, TI, TK, TU,

UA, UA2, UA9, UK, UN, UR, V2, V3, V4, V5, V7, V8, VE, VK, VK0M, VP2E, VP2M, VP8, VP9, VR, VU, XE, XU, YA, YB, YI, YJ, YL, YN, YO, YS, YU, YV, Z3, Z6, ZA, ZB, ZC4, ZD7, ZF, ZL, ZL7, ZP, ZS

NRRL source with image of article from newspaper is at 

Last Monday night saw a very special QSO, when Tommy EI9IPB called in to the net. Tommy only recently passed the HAREC exam, and wanted to make his very first QSO in the Irish language. Tony was pleased and honoured to be part of what is possibly a very unique occasion. A QSL card, in Irish of course, is on its way to Tommy for this, his very first QSO ever. Congratulations and well done Tommy.

Space Kidz India
https://www.spacekidzindia.in/azaadisat/

The AMSAT TAPR Banquet on Friday night was an excellent opportunity to come together with our friends at Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) and pay tribute to Bob Bruninga, WB4APR (SK), who we lost earlier this year. I want to thank everyone who shared their stories of Bob, who has contributed so much to amateur radio and amateur radio in space.

Attendance at the AMSAT Forum was fantastic. Jerry Buxton, N0JY, and Jonathan Brandenburg, KF5IDY, provided an excellent Engineering update on GOLF, our in-house developed reaction wheels, and the new Fox Plus program. Frank Karnauskas, N1UW, brought us up to speed on the AMSAT Youth Initiative program, which takes an innovative and inspiring approach to introduce youth to amateur radio in space. Last but not least, Alan Johnston, KU2Y, and his students demonstrated the CubeSat Simulator and CubeSatSim Lite, which have made a terrific impact on the STEM education community.

I thank the volunteers who donated their time over the long weekend to serve as AMSAT Ambassadors at our booths. Our volunteers, led by Phil Smith, W1EME, did a phenomenal job in answering questions, helping our members, and making AMSAT’s presence at Hamvention 2022 a huge success. THANK YOU!

40th Anniversary of the Space Camp
For those not aware, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, celebrated the 40th Anniversary of Space Camp on June 18, 2022. AMSAT Ambassador Tim Cunningham, N8DEU, hosted special event station K4S, demonstrating his field day amateur radio satellite station and answering questions about amateur radio in space. While Tim worked the International Space Station (ISS) several times, along with multiple contacts through other LEO satellites, the highlight of his efforts was facilitating a contact between a graduating Space Camp young lady and an astronaut aboard the ISS. Congratulations, Tim, on a job well done!

An Innovation Road Map
Innovation and experimentation are the cornerstones of what sets AMSAT apart in the amateur satellite community and what we need to continue to focus on in AMSAT’s future.

In June 2021, AMSAT implemented a strategic plan defining who we are and where we want to go. In this plan, we affirmed our commitment to return to higher orbits and the vital role GOLF plays in helping us to develop the necessary systems and skills to take us there. In addition, we expressed our continued support in providing easily accessible amateur radio satellites in low earth orbit, encouraging the next generation of engineers, software developers, scientists, and mathematicians through STEM educational initiatives, and partnering with ARISS on human spaceflight programs. It is now time that we put that plan into action.

Compliance and Open Projects – Establish export control policy and open project framework to allow AMSAT’s return to international collaboration. AMSAT is committed to complying with U.S. export controls laws and regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations. ITAR and EAR regulations govern the shipment, transfer, and access of export-controlled data, items, equipment, materials, and software to non-U.S. persons or entities (domestically and abroad). OFAC regulations impose sanctions and embargoes on transactions or exchanges with designated countries, entities, and individuals.

To ensure compliance with all Export laws, AMSAT must establish an Export Control policy, including procedures for complying with Export Control laws and educating all individuals working at, with, or on behalf of AMSAT, who work with, or have access to export-controlled technical data software, materials, and equipment, on such laws, policies, and procedures. This policy should require actively managing and monitoring compliance with Export Control laws and authorizing the creation of procedures to administer major organizational functions related to export compliance.

AMSAT also recognizes that a critical component of its mission is supporting fundamental research, developing relationships and participating in the worldwide scientific, amateur radio, and amateur satellite communities to further the pursuit of knowledge.

Export control laws restrict foreign national access to items or information that might be contrary to U.S. interests; however, these laws include exemptions for information published or disseminated in the Public Domain. AMSAT must take advantage of these carve- outs, when available, to further its international collaboration and outreach efforts.

As such, we are working on implementing the necessary online project management and collaboration tools to support our open projects and the required publication processes to share what we have learned with the world.

Experimentation and Education – Develop open and sustainable CubeSat programs to provide technological experimentation and educational support in Low Earth Orbits (LEO).

Low earth orbiting (LEO) satellites play a critical role in AMSAT’s future. LEO FM CubeSats provide a cheap entry point to amateur radio in space. The lower costs associated with building and launching them make them an excellent platform to support our technological experimentation and STEM education initiatives. AMSAT’s Fox Plus program will be the foundation for our future efforts in LEO.

In addition, proposed orbital debris mitigation standards will require all flight systems intended to be flown above low earth orbits to be “proven” in low earth orbit first. AMSAT’s GOLF-TEE (Greater Orbit Larger Footprint - Technology Exploration Experiment) was developed to demonstrate the necessary technologies for higher orbits.

Scientific Research – Develop an open CubeSat program to enable scientific research related to amateur radio above low earth orbits. As space becomes increasingly crowded, obtaining a license to launch a satellite above low earth orbit will require a reason more important than amateur radio. Moving forward, we need to incorporate missions that include benefits for the greater good of society, of which scientific research and education appear to be our easiest path.

AMSAT is not a scientific research institution, but we can certainly benefit by partnering with educational institutions to study the long-term effects of radiation exposure on communication and command and control systems. For example, our partnership with Vanderbilt University during the Fox Program provides a template as we chart our return to HEO.

GEO Rideshare – Develop a program to secure an amateur radio payload in geostationary orbit above North America. I am often asked, “When will AMSAT put a satellite in geostationary orbit?” The short answer is NEVER,... if we have to do it ourselves. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not going to allow a bunch of weekend warriors to play in geostationary orbit; not to mention, the price of admission, continued operation, and indemnification is beyond our reach. So, our best opportunity is to partner with someone already going there as a secondary payload.

No one has knocked on our door offering a free ride, nor have we succeeded in our numerous cold call attempts. We need someone on the inside or even a friend of a friend, who can get us in the room. If you know someone and an opportunity, I could use your help. Until next time, thank you for supporting AMSAT. Onward & Upward!

Robert Bankston, KE4AL
AMSAT President

One of the most misunderstood settings on your radio is the microphone gain. You'll often hear people talking about adjusting it up or down depending on what they hear and the results are often displeasing to the ear.

The very first thing to know is that the microphone gain is likely the single most audible setting on your radio, right after the tuning frequency. It's pretty much the first variable between your voice and your transmitter. Set it too low and you'll hear nothing, set it too high and you'll hear gibberish.

I said it's pretty much the first thing, but it's not the very first. That's your voice, unique in all its glory, loud, soft, happy, sad, funny or not, it's the thing that your microphone captures to transmit. Closely coupled to your voice is the distance between your mouth and your mike. The closer you are, the louder, the further, the softer and the more background noise creeps in.

As an aside, speaking of noise, there's background noise at play, but there's also the noise that comes from the audio circuitry itself, which can for example change depending on the temperature of your radio. I'm going to refer to both as noise here, even though they're slightly different.

So, starting with the ideal model where you always speak in the same way, at the same volume, at the same distance from the microphone, with a constant temperature in your radio, at all times, the next thing is the microphone gain, or gain.

Gain is an imperfect attempt at corralling your utterings into electrical signals without causing the audio circuit to distort or drown in noise. Distortion comes as a result of overloading of the audio circuit when the gain is too high, causing clipping, which essentially changes the audio waveform into something that no longer resembles your voice. At the low end of the gain range there is no difference between audio and noise which results in your voice being buried inside a hissing noise.

You might wonder why we don't just build transmitters that cannot clip and increase your volume. Well, we do. We use things like AGC, or Automatic Gain Control to attempt to prevent such things from happening, but this isn't perfect.

All this results in the microphone gain being a setting that you need to tune to your voice and adjust as things change. Overall, the best outcome is when you set the gain so the AGC just engages when you talk normally.

This gain setting also applies to computer generated signals, often fed into your radio via an audio or microphone input. If you set the gain too low, noise is the problem, set it too high and the Automatic Gain Control will distort the signal to the point where it no longer works and causes interference for everyone else including the station that you're trying to contact.

On older radios the output power was fixed. This is also true for Software Defined Radios. To reduce output power, you can change the microphone gain down and reduce the power. Change it to halfway and your output power is essentially reduced to half power. This works for a range of settings, but get too low and we're back to noise and audio fighting each other.

The opposite isn't true.

You cannot increase the microphone gain to increase power. The moment you exceed the audio circuit range your signal is distorted. On an SDR this means that you're exceeding the ability of the Analogue to Digital converter to represent your audio. In digital terms, zero means no sound and all on means 100%. If your audio is so loud as to only be 100% on, that's like sending a tone out the transmitter, resembling anything but your voice.

All of what I've talked about is related to SSB signals and to some extent AM. FM is a different animal entirely. For starters, output power on FM is fixed. The next difference is the signal or channel width. Without going into full detail, FM comes in different widths, WFM or Wideband FM, NFM, or Narrowband FM, and between the two, "normal" FM. To make things more fun, not everyone agrees on what each one means at any given time. Also, channel width and channel spacing are not the same thing, but that's for another day.

Gain aside for a moment, consider two matched FM radios using the same channel width. Your voice volume is determined by how much of the channel you use. Louder means wider, softer means narrower. Adjust the gain up, the signal gets wider, but the limit of the channel width remains, get too high and it clips at the channel width and distorts. At the other end, changing the gain down, you'll use less of the channel width and eventually the noise and your voice will be at the same level and you won't be heard.

Let's look at what happens when you use a normal FM signal to transmit to a narrowband FM receiver. Essentially your signal is too wide and the result is that your voice will be clipped unless you speak really softly or if you've set the gain really low, either way comes with more noise.

Similarly, if you transmit a narrowband FM signal to a normal FM receiver, then your voice will be very low, regardless of the microphone gain setting and turning it up will only distort it due to clipping inside your transmitter.

So, for FM, before fiddling with the gain, make sure that you're using the same FM mode as the other station. One thing to remember is when you use a repeater, if the audio is always too loud for everyone, your mode is probably too narrow. Similarly, if the audio is always too soft and you always need to turn up the volume on your radio, your mode is likely too wide. Check your radio specifications to determine what each mode means.

In broadcast audio this whole thing is managed by calibration using standard tones, but as amateurs we tend to rely on other people reporting their feelings on the quality of your voice with the often heard admonishment to adjust the microphone gain.

Mike Askins KE5CXP speaking on ARNewsLine said that it had operated for months on emergency frequencies used by the Young County Sheriff's Office. According to local media reports, the transmissions on the dispatch channels often included the voices of a man, woman and some children yelling at one another and the sounds of a barking dog.

A story in the Olney Enterprise newspaper said that the police were so hampered in using their own assigned frequencies that they often had to use cell phones instead to communicate.

Sheriff Travis Babcock contacted the Federal Communications Commission which provided him with an official statement to read on the emergency channel but that failed to bring the transmissions to a halt. The news report said that on July 8th two officers patrolling in their car heard the unauthorized traffic and were able to track down the radio and its owner.

Binar-1 is a 1U CubeSat currently in low-Earth orbit (LEO) and was a technical demonstrator of in-house developed hardware that aimed to become a repeatable platform for research and educational purposes.

This year the Board of the WIA agreed to support the upcoming mission 2 that will see satellites: Binar-2, Binar-3 and Binar-4 be deployed from the ISS in the same way as Binar-1 into LEO. A subsequent mission 3 will follow about a year later with three more CubeSats (Binar-5,6 and 7) to also be delivered into Low Earth Orbit.

Part of the Binar mission is to try to make it easier for young, enthusiastic students to learn more about and how to use amateur radio in a way which directly relates to STEM. We believe that this specific use of amateur radio is a fantastic crossover opportunity for education and encouragement of STEM. Previously young students were constrained by resources, and current progtam wants to provide a platform where students - both high-school and university - can learn about amateur radio, spacecraft, their operations, and science experiments flying onboard the spacecraft.

The satellites in Launch 2 will be Binar-2, 3, 4 will have a multiband radio, capable of operating in the amateur band. The radio frequencies are allocated in the 70cm Amateur Satellite Radio band and, as required by local and international regulatory bodies (ACMA, ITU, IARU), will be coordinated through the IARU (International Amateur Radio Union) with the support of the Wireless Institute of Australia as the national association for Amateur Radio in Australia .

The main purpose of the usage of the amateur-satellite band allocation onboard the Satellites in Launches 2 and 3 is to provide a platform to educate high school and university students on satellite technology.

Decode 2-line elsets with the following key:

1 AAAAAU 00 0 0 BBBBB.BBBBBBBB .CCCCCCCC 00000-0 00000-0 0 DDDZ

2 AAAAA EEE.EEEE FFF.FFFF GGGGGGG HHH.HHHH III.IIII JJ.JJJJJJJJKKKKKZ

KEY: A-CATALOGNUM B-EPOCHTIME C-DECAY D-ELSETNUM E-INCLINATION F-RAAN G-ECCENTRICITY H-ARGPERIGEE I-MNANOM J-MNMOTION K-ORBITNUM Z-CHECKSUM

0 OSCAR 7

1 07530U 74089B 22217.50875953 -.00000029 00000-0 10809-3 0 9992

2 07530 101.9075 197.5394 0011980 309.7025 164.9468 12.53656157183611 0 ISS

1 25544U 98067A 22217.70805160 .00004768 00000-0 90723-4 0 9991

2 25544 51.6434 91.2781 0005303 85.8690 316.1257 15.50240345352868 0 SO-50

1 27607U 02058C 22217.16679622 .00000273 00000-0 57984-4 0 9999

2 27607 64.5547 152.8248 0080482 285.0856 74.1353 14.76188998 55566 0 AO-73

1 39444U 13066AE 22217.48672841 .00000775 00000-0 97902-4 0 9994

2 39444 97.6276 189.1958 0055100 230.7903 128.8412 14.83593114468798 0 XW-2A

1 40903U 15049E 22217.59023082 .00012585 00000-0 18712-3 0 9991

2 40903 97.1753 276.2465 0007264 301.5809 195.7830 15.55267340386892 0 IO-86

1 40931U 15052B 22217.54734148 .00000650 00000-0 12480-5 0 9991

2 40931 5.9975 178.8062 0012539 143.9027 216.2253 14.76837408370618

0 CAS-4B

1 42759U 17034B 22217.59382878 .00001374 00000-0 91033-4 0 9991

2 42759 43.0176 61.7780 0010145 245.3815 210.5031 15.12181892283797 0 CAS-4A

1 42761U 17034D 22217.61540796 .00001719 00000-0 11034-3 0 9997

2 42761 43.0178 60.4096 0010575 246.3085 147.6943 15.12271064283800 0 AO-91

1 43017U 17073E 22217.40531176 .00002929 00000-0 22155-3 0 9994

2 43017 97.6688 109.5889 0248536 27.8627 333.5643 14.81704674254360 0 PO-101

1 43678U 18084H 22217.46750449 .00000504 00000-0 55214-4 0 9992

2 43678 97.9773 351.3258 0011075 119.8483 240.3855 14.92238696205168 0 QO-100

1 43700U 18090A 22217.30081275 .00000151 00000-0 00000-0 0 9999

2 43700 0.0143 89.8952 0001722 80.6475 277.3616 1.00271555 13515

0 JO-97

1 43803U 18099AX 22217.18938685 .00001525 00000-0 13615-3 0 9999

2 43803 97.6165 282.9868 0016193 103.9866 256.3158 14.97283452200366 0 RS-44

1 44909U 19096E 22217.44563631 .00000025 00000-0 58709-4 0 9997

2 44909 82.5210 197.7266 0216810 204.9171 154.1341 12.79714198121772 0 HO-133

1 50466U 21131B 22217.48769192 -.00000028 00000-0 54745-5 0 9990

2 50466 98.5792 294.7160 0004555 19.9937 340.1427 14.38512727 31969

Operations are for the start of the 3rd "GOLDEN GLOBE RACE" (non-stop round-the-world sailing trip, without assistance and without a modern navigation system).

Activity will be on all bands and all modes.

SPRATLY ISLANDS. Operators 4F2KWT, 4F1OZ, DU1VGX, DU1XX and DU3JA will be QRV as DX0NE from Kalayaan, IOTA AS-051. Activity will be on 160 to 6 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL via IZ8CCW.

RODRIGUES ISLAND, 3B9. Operators 3B8BAN, 3B8CF, 3B8FA, 3B8FV, 3B8GF and 3B8GL are QRV as 3B9BAN, 3B9CF, 3B9FA, 3B9FV, 3B9GF and 3B9GL, respectively, until August 9. Activity is holiday style on the HF bands using mainly FT8, and on Satellite QO-100. QSL via operators' instructions.

AZERBAIJAN, 4K. Operator DK1DKE is QRV as 4K7DK from Baku until August 13. Activity is on 80 to 10 meters using SSB and FT8. QSL to home call.

MADAGASCAR, 5R. Elvira, IV3FSG is QRV as 5R8LH from Andavadoaka until September 8. Activity is on the HF bands and 6 meters using CW, SSB, and various digital modes. QSL via IK2DUW.

BARBADOS, 8P. Philippe, EA4NF will be QRV as 8P9NF from August 8 to 12. Activity is primarily on the FM and Linear LEO Satellites from Grid Square GK03, and IOTA NA-021. QSL via LoTW.

CROATIA, 9A. Special event stations 9A22YOTA, 9A1YOTA, 9A2YOTA, 9A3YOTA, 9A4YOTA, 9A5YOTA and 9A100QO will be QRV from Karlovac from August 6 to 13 during the 10th Youth On The Air summer camp. Activity is on all HF, V/UHF bands, and various Satellites using CW, SSB, RTTY, and FT8. QSL via operators' instructions.

PAKISTAN, AP. Pakistan Amateur Radio operators can use the AP75 prefix during the month of August in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Independence of Pakistan.

PHILIPPINES, DU. Mike, W6QT is QRV as DU3/W6QT from Olongapo City on Luzon Island, IOTA OC-042, until September 15. QSL to home call.

GUERNSEY, GU. Special event station GB5VAS is QRV on August 6 and 7 from the grounds of the Vintage Agricultural Show. QSL via GU3HFN.

ECUADOR, HC. Special event station HD1HERO will be QRV from August 8 to 12 in remembrance of the heroes from 1809 involved in the Quito Revolution. Activity will be on all bands and modes. QSL via LoTW.

REPUBLIC OF KOREA, HL. Special event station HL77V is QRV during August to commemorate the 77th anniversary of liberation. QSL via 6K0MF.

DJIBOUTI, J2. Jeje, F8FKJ is QRV as J20EE during August and September from Djibouti City. Activity is on 40 to 10 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL direct to F4DXW.

GRENADA, J3. Greg, N9GB plans to be QRV as J3/N9GB from August 12 to 19. Activity will be holiday style on 40 to 10 meters, and possibly 6 meters using CW, SSB, and possibly FT8. This might include 160 and 80 meters if conditions allow. QSL to home call.

LITHUANIA, LY. Special event station LY786A is QRV until September 30 to commemorate 786 years of Siauliai City. QSL to LY5A.

SEYCHELLES, S7. Nuria, EA3WL and Josep, EA3BT will be QRV as S79/home calls from Praslin, La Digue, and Mahe Islands, IOTA AF-024, from August 9 to 23. Activity will be on various Satellites using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL via EA3BT.

COSTA RICA, TI. Special event station TI1GOAL is QRV until December to draw attention to the Costa Rican football team participating in the FIFA World Championship. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB and FT8. QSL direct.

CORSICA, TK. Frans, DJ0TP is QRV as TK/DJ0TP from Linguizzetta, IOTA EU-014, until September 6. Activity is holiday style on 20, 15, and 12 meters, and possibly 30 meters, using CW, PSK, FT8, and FT4. QSL to home call.

CANADA, VE. Pierre, VE3KTB is QRV as VY0ERC from the Eureka weather station on Ellesmere Island, IOTA NA-008, until August 16. Activity is in his spare time on 20 and 17 meters using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL via M0OXO.

FALKLAND ISLANDS. Jonathan, 2E0KZN is QRV as VP8TAA from the Royal Air Force Mount Pleasant Complex until early November. Activity is in his spare time. This includes being active as VP8TAA/p from various SOTA sites. QSL via M0OXO.

THIS WEEKEND ON THE RADIO
The ARRL 222 MHz and Up Distance Contest, North American CW QSO Party, 10-10 International Summer SSB Contest, VHF-UHF FT8 Activity Contest, QRP 20-Meter CW Fox Hunt, NCCC RTTY Sprint, NCCC CW Sprint, K1USN Slow Speed CW Test, Batavia

FT8 Contest, NRRL MGM Weekend Contest and the SARL HF Phone Contest are all scheduled for this upcoming weekend.

The ICWC Medium Speed CW Test, OK1WC CW Memorial, Worldwide Sideband Activity Contest, RTTYOPS Weeksprint, NAQCC CW Sprint, Phone Weekly Test, A1Club AWT, CWops Test, VHF-UHF FT8 Activity Contest, Mini-Test 40 and Mini-Test 80 are all on tap for August 8 to 10.

The RSGB reports that the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club is holding an Open Day on Saturday, the 6 August from 10am. They welcome anyone who has an interest in amateur radio, or those that are already licensed, to join them for the day. There will be an opportunity to operate the club station, have a chat and learn more.

The club has a superb site on the cliffs overlooking Poldhu Cove and Mounts Bay, with a triband HF beam and multiple dipoles. The location is close to the Poldhu Cove beach with its café, an ideal location for the family while you indulge your radio passion. Go to Poldhu Cove and follow the signs to the Marconi Centre, where there is a large free car park.

IOTA QRGs
CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz
SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz

AF-024; S7, INNER ISLANDS:
Nuria S79/EA3WL and Josep S79/EA3BT activate Praslin, La Digue, and Mahe Islands from Aug. 9 to 23. QRV only via satellites (QO-100, RS-44 and others) on CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL via EA3BT, ClubLog OQRS.

AF-049; 3B8, MAURITIUS (MAURICE) ISLAND:
A team consisting of Francois/3B8BAN, Jacky/3B8CF, Patrice/3B8FA, Gerard/3B8FV, and Patrick/3B8GF puts Rodrigues Island on the air from the 5th to the 9th, all signing 3B9/homecalls/p. QRV on HF and via QO-100.

AS-013; 8Q, MALDIVE ISLANDS:
Giovanni/IZ2DPX operates as 8Q7AG from Aug. 8 to 20 with 100W and a vertical antenna on SSB and digital modes (HF, 6m). QSL via IZ2DPX (d/B), ClubLog OQRS, LoTW.

NA-008; VY0, NUNAVUT (ELLESMERE ISLAND) group:
Pierre/VE3KTB operates during his spare time from the Eureka weather station until Aug. 16. QRV as VY0ERC on 20 and 17m (CW, SSB, FT8). QSL via M0OXO OQRS.

NA-104; V4, ST KITTS AND NEVIS:
James/NT5V signs V4/NT5V between the 8th and 18th from St Kitts on HF (CW, SSB, FT8). QSL via NT5V (d/B), LoTW.

OC-042; DU1-4, LUZON ISLAND:
Mike/W6QT remains active as DU3/W6QT until Sept. 15 from Olongapo City on Luzon Island. QSL via W6QT
(d/B), eQSL, LoTW.

OC-123; A3, NIUAFO'OU ISLAND:
Masa/JA0RQV had to cancel his trip to Niuafo'ou Island, scheduled for Aug. 7 to 20.

SA-002; VP8, FALKLAND ISLANDS:
Jonathan/2E0KZN operates during his spare time as VP8TAA or VP8TAA/p (SOTA), mostly on 20m (SSB, FT8). He stays on Falkland until November. QSL via M0OXO OQRS.

Other Island News

RSM has now made the 5925–6425 MHz frequency band available for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) services under the Low Power Indoor (LPI) use and the Very Low Power (VLP) Indoor and Outdoor regimes through the Radiocommunications Regulations (General User Radio License for Short Range Devices) Notice 2022. By adopting comparable conditions, this aligns with the approaches adopted in Australia and United Kingdom.

This decision follows our June 2021 consultation, where we invited interested parties to make submissions to our consultation paper WLAN Use in the 6 GHz Band on the future use of the 5925 – 7125 MHz frequency band.

In addition, we have made corrections to the conditions applying to the 5150 -5350 MHz band and have also extended the 57 – 66 GHz band to 57 – 71 GHz. This is to bring our provisions into line with other regions including Australia, Europe, and North America.

Read more about WLAN use in the 6 GHz Band
https://www.rsm.govt.nz/projects-and-auctions/completed-projects/wlan-use-in-the-6-ghz-band

“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth.

“All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices, and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property. Doing so is critical to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here on Earth.” 

Dale (EI7HDB) along with members from the Isle of Man Amateur Radio Society will be activating the lighthouse IM0001 for the weekend of 20th and 21st of August for the Lighthouse and Lifeboat weekend. The club call GT3FL will be used for the event and they hope to be active for the full 48 hours. The station will be live from 80M to 70CM operating CW, SSB and digital modes, so please listen out for them.