Radio ham recognized for Skywarn work

Southgate ARC – The Daily Sun reports on Harold Lloyd W4OE who serves as a volunteer amateur radio operator with Sumter County Emergency Management

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German astronaut to make second trip to ISS

Southgate ARC – ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO, will be launched into space on 6 June at 11:12 GMT (13:12 CEST) alongside Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor

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Call for nominations – AMSAT Board of Directors

Southgate ARC – It’s time to submit nominations for the upcoming AMSAT-NA Board of Directors election. Three directors’ terms expire this year: those of Tom Clark, K3IO; Mark Hammond, N8MH; and Bruce Paige, KK5DO

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Radio hams prepare for natural disaster

Southgate ARC – Events happen frequently around the globe that serve as reminders how life as we know it can suddenly change as a result of a catastrophic event

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QSO Today – Jack Mandelman – K1VT

Southgate ARC – Dr. Jack Mandelman is on the short list for holding the most patents, over 700 Worldwide, in the area of semiconductor physics, while at the same time a successful ham radio operator working DX and CW

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IARUMS newsletter now available

Southgate ARC – The IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports on the situation in the 5 MHz secondary amateur radio allocation

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Come visit RAC at Dayton

Southgate ARC – For the eighth year in a row, Radio Amateurs of Canada will be operating a booth at the Dayton Hamvention, the world’s largest Amateur Radio gathering. This will be the second year for the Hamvention in its new location at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Exposition Center in Xenia, Ohio

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Canary Islands Day

Southgate ARC – Members of the Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles (Sección Comarcal de Las Palmas) club [EA8URL] will be on air with a special callsign, EG8CID, until May 30th

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Annual Armed Forces Day cross band communication test

Southgate ARC – In the USA, the Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) will sponsor the traditional military/amateur radio communication tests to mark the 67th annual Armed Forces Day Saturday, May 12

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Aiming high: Allen Park students are preparing to talk with astronauts next fall

Southgate ARC – Allen Park is the first in Lee County and one of 14 chosen nationwide for this year’s Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program

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DX News from the ARRL

Southgate ARC – The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

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Realtime band conditions website

Southgate ARC – The purpose of this experimental Web site is to provide 24-7-365 actual (REALTIME) band condition information to CW QRPp, QRPe and CW/SSB for Contesters interested in increasing their scores. It can also be of benefit to other Radio Amateurs to determine band conditions for Nets and casual QSO’s

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Irish Amateur Station Licence Examination

Southgate ARC – We wish to remind all potential applicants that the next Amateur Station Licence Examination will be held on Thursday 31st May in the ComReg Offices in Dublin

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Former Hamvention home ‘Hara Arena’ getting a new owner!

Southgate ARC – The ARRL Web page and ARRL Letter reports that the ‘Dayton Daily News’ is stating a Louisville, Kentucky-based developer, Michael Heitz, of Garrett-Day LLC Properties, is in the process of buying Hara Arena

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Bouvet Island DXpedition News

Southgate ARC – To the DX Community….. There have been several important milestones reached and decisions made in the last few weeks

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Additional frequencies for Ireland

Southgate ARC – In December 2015 ComReg (Ireland’s regulator) published a Draft Radio spectrum Management Strategy 2016-2018. The Society responded with a comprehensive submission to this draft and a summary of this was published in the March 2016 edition of Echo Ireland

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IOTA news from OPDX

Southgate ARC – Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

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