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News for Wednesday 11 April

ISS ham radio link-up for UK school
A contact between Kings High School for Girls in Warwick and the International Space Station is planned for Thursday, April 19 at 1205 UT (1305 BST).
We strongly encourage our girls to develop their interests both inside and outside the classroom. This culture of empowerment led one of our girls to apply to ARISS Europe for a highly prestigious link-up to the International Space Station

Contest events at Dayton
Tim, K3LR, reports the following updates/information for the HamVention

Ofcom confirms start of spectrum auction assignment stage
Ofcom has confirmed bidding in the assignment stage of its auction to release airwaves for 4G mobile and future 5G services has just started

Australian Callbook
Australian amateurs might be interested in a new callbook program from Tim at MapAbility (home of the Global Overlay Mapper)

It takes the latest VK licensing data and georeferences it to create an up-to-the-minute callbook that can be visualised on Overlay and Online maps

Israel 70th anniversary special event
Look for special event stations 4X70A, 4X70E, 4X70I, 4X70L, 4X70R, 4X70S and 4Z70IARC to be active between April 19th and June 27th. Activity is to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary

Austrian special event
The Amateur Radio Section of ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) and the Documentary Archive Radio Communications/QSL Collection will operate for 72 hours only, a special event station with the callsign OE18M on Friday, April 20th to Sunday, April 22nd

Geomagnetic storm in progress
A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress on April 11th as Earth moves through a high speed stream of solar wind

IOTA news from the DARC
Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

News for Tuesday 10 April

Intercosmos – 40th year of international human flights – SSTV Award
SSTV from the International Space Station is expected to be active April 11-14 worldwide as part of Cosmonautics Day, which takes place on April 12

Ham Radio in Sunday Times Home Help
The April 8 Sunday Times newspaper Home Help section featured Amateur Radio, but not in a flattering way

World Amateur Radio Day
Every April 18th, radio amateurs worldwide take to the airwaves in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day

Free IARU Monitoring System newsletter
The IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports on reception of Over The Horizon Radar (OTHR) from the Far East in the new 5 MHz (60m) allocation

MUARC on-the-air from historic Navan Fort
Following on from our recent exam successes the Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club continues with the promotion, education and enjoyment of amateur radio

Broadcasting pioneer Clyde Haehnle dies at 95
The eyes of broadcast engineer Clyde Haehnle always glowed like an old radio tube when he talked about the Voice of America complex on Tylersville Road or WLW-AM’s unprecedented 500,000-watt transmitter under WLW’s tower down the road

News for Monday 9 April

Russian SSTV event to celebrate Cosmonautics Day
ARISS Russia is planning a special Slow Scan Television (SSTV) event from the International Space Station in celebration of Cosmonautics Day

Tracking aircraft with a Raspberry Pi
Essex Ham describes how to turn the RaspberryPi with a £10 USB dongle into a receiver capable of decoding live transponder data from nearby aircraft and showing them on a map

Jeri Ellsworth AI6TK will be AMSAT/TAPR Banquet Speaker
Entrepreneur and electrical engineer Jeri Ellsworth AI6TK will be guest speaker at the AMSAT/TAPR banquet which takes place during Hamvention 2018 in May

Photo: Jeri Ellsworth AI6TK

Space lightning over Europe
Red sprites (a.k.a. “space lightning”) are dancing over thunderstorms in Europe

The secret of success on VHF, UHF and microwaves
We could learn from radio astronomy when, after the war, the first large 76 metre parabolic dish was constructed at Jodrell Bank in the UK

DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 1st April, through Sunday, 8th April there were 226 countries active

IOTA news from OPDX
Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

News for Sunday 8 April

Special callsigns mark year of tragedy and bravery
1968 was a tragic year for New Zealand shipping, with the loss of the ferry Wahine and the grain ship Maranui plus a fire at sea aboard the liner Gothic

VK6WIA NewsWest
Welcome to NewsWest. It’s been a week since we devoured more hot cross buns and easter eggs than were good for us. Doesn’t time fly?

Germany – up to 10 million people could be hit by threatened radio shut down
The airwaves across many parts of Germany could fall silent next week due to a financial dispute between radio stations and an FM broadcasting provider

QSO Today Fred Cady KE7X
Fred Cady, KE7X, took his love of radio and electronics as far as he could go – that was to a PHD in Electronic Engineering where he settled into teaching at Montana State University

Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club to partner with the National Park Service for amateur radio special event station W2E
The Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) will partner with the National Park Service with a special event amateur radio station to be held at the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in Paterson, NJ

SARL Electronic Voting System now available to test
The new SARL Electronic Voting System is now online and available for testing by SARL members

5G is coming
BBC Click reports that the next generation of wireless technology will give us self-driving cars, smart cities and could even teach you to score a goal like Messi

Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at very low levels

News for Saturday 7 April

Foundations of Amateur Radio #148
Experience comes from doing …
During the week a friend reminded me that the process of determining what’s happening within a shack comes with experience

Movie features ham radio
The ARRL report the movie ‘A Quiet Place’, starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, features amateur radio

Photo: Scene from “A Quiet Place”

A hole in the sun’s atmosphere
An unusually wide hole in the sun’s atmosphere is facing Earth and spewing a stream of solar wind toward our planet. Estimated time of arrival: April 9th

Major Rove Announcement!
Announcing a major rove for satellite operators; the Springtime Rove to The Great White North!

VK Shires Contest manager needed
The March 2018 meeting of the WIA Board has just been finalised. At that meeting the board accepted this committee’s recommendations to conduct the Trans-Tasman Contest and the VK Shires contests under the banner of the WIA

National Seashore to host events commemorating Titanic, Marconi
The Cape Cod National Seashore will host two events commemorating wireless communication and the role it played to rescue survivors from the sinking of the Titanic

N.Z.A.R.T. Conference
Otago Branch 30 are your hosts for this year’s annual N.Z.A.R.T. Conference and cordially invites members and partners to join with us to celebrate the 92nd conference and also our own 90th year of operation

Propagation de K7RA
We only saw sunspots over two days of this past week, March 30 and 31 when the daily sunspot numbers were 11 and 12. There were no sunspots during the previous week, so the average daily sunspot number rose from 0 to 3.3

News for Friday 6 April

First UK 136 kHz ham radio transatlantic contact with USA
The ARRL reports UK radio amateur Chris Wilson 2E0ILY made what may be the first 136 kHz (2200m) transatlantic contact with a radio ham in the USA operating under FCC Part 97

End of mission for PicSat satellite
PicSat, launched January 12, carried an amateur radio FM transponder. Unfortunately following a loss of communications in March the team has had to announce the end of the mission

Could ham radio clubs embrace ‘Hour of Circuits’ program?
Dan Romanchik KB6NU shares his thoughts on what an amateur radio club might do as part of its public service remit

ARRL seeks new CEO
The ARRL is looking for what will be its 3rd Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in just over 2 years

RSGB supporting clubs to encourage growth and participation
Clubs around the country are doing great things to encourage new people into amateur radio and to help current radio amateurs to develop their skills at all levels. The RSGB provides a range of services to support clubs in these activities

Customer left with unwanted antenna after company collapse
Stoke-on-Trent newspaper The Sentinel reports on a radio enthusiast, Simon Blight, who found himself stuck with an antenna he doesn’t want

DX News from the ARRL
The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

News for Thursday 5 April

DSLWP Lunar satellites will transmit WSJT JT4G mode
Two microsatellites DSLWP-A1 and DSLWP-A2 carrying amateur radio payloads are planned to launch with the Chang’e 4 Relay satellite on a CZ-4C from the Xichang Space Center into lunar orbit in June 2018
Photo: Hu Chaoran BG2CRY tests 435/2250 MHz dish feed for DSLWP ground station

ARRL report on exam and license statistics
The ARRL warns that radio amateurs born 1945–65 will soon be ‘aging off the licensee rolls’

AMSAT at Hamvention
AMSAT’s plans for Hamvention 2018 for the dates May 17-20 have now been posted

Tony’s 10m Band Report
Jim, WB0IXI, asked, “What do you think about the possibility of reflecting 10m signals from the debris trail when China’s space lab comes down?
It would be interesting to know if any operators try this.”

I hadn’t thought of it and I don’t have the gear. But I know a VK who has. Unfortunately there was not enough time before it came down. If anyone did any scatter/reflecting off the debris please et me know.

Left: Tony Dixon G4CJC

Results of principal stage of auction for mobile airwaves
Ofcom has announced the outcome of the principal stage of its auction to release airwaves for 4G mobile and future 5G services

Royal Air Force Centennary
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the 80th of the RAF Amateur Radio Society (RAFARS)

Amateur Radio clubs, list your details on the Icom-UK website
Following the success of their listing of RYA Authorised VHF centres in the support section on our website for their sailing customers, Icom-UK have decided to add a similar section for RSGB registered clubs with the purpose of matching them with visitors interested in Amateur radio