FOC QSO Party

WA7BNM Contest Calendar – 0000Z-2359Z, Mar 24

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CQ WW WPX Contest, SSB

WA7BNM Contest Calendar – 0000Z, Mar 24 to 2359Z, Mar 25

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ICQ Podcast Episode 262 – Upgrading To Your Next Radio

ICQ Podcast –

In this episode, Martin is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief, and this episode’s feature is – Upgrading to your next radio by Chris Howard M0TCH

ICQ Amateur/Ham Radio Podcast Donors We would like to thank our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit – http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate

PR Mention Bill Barnes N3JIX sponsored a Pennsylvania QSO Award in the name of ICQ Amateur/Ham Radio Podcast – http://ift.tt/2FRHZ0L

• Nigeria Next to Get 60GHz
• 2018 State of Ham Radio Survey
• 2m Radio Support for Long Distance Walker
• Irish Ham Radio Examination Report
• Trevor Baylis, Wind-up Radio Inventor Passes
• Reduced Power for Swedish Amateur Radio Operators
• Radio Drone Makes KH6JF/MM Accessible Using FT8
• Auction of Former Amateur Radio Spectrum
• First Tunisian Individual Ham Radio Licenses Issued
• D-STAR Repeater GB7IC Nears 2000 Registrations

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Radios spotted in The Walking Dead series

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Balázs Kovács, who notes that he discovered, “some radio equipment in the latest episode of The Walking Dead series”:

Can anyone ID the rigs above?  Please comment!

I’ll add this post to our ever growing archive of radios in film.

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Video: History of radio documentary

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who shares the following “Modern Marvels” documentary on the history of radio:

Click here to view on YouTube.

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Propagation de K7RA

Southgate ARC – No sunspots were observed between March 2 and March 15. One sunspot made a brief appearance on March 2, after a blank sun on March 1

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Ofcom publishes new guide to upcoming spectrum auction

Southgate ARC – Ofcom have just published a guide to how the upcoming spectrum auction will work

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No WiMo at Friedrichshafen

Southgate ARC – Antenna company WiMo have announced they will not be attending the Ham Radio 2018 event in Friedrichshafen on June 1-3

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‘It’s not real Ham Radio!’

Southgate ARC – Chris G7DDN describes the resistance to change by some radio amateurs over the years and asks ‘Do we need an exam anymore to get a licence?’

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International Space Station astronauts are calling CQ students

Southgate ARC – The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is seeking proposals from US schools, museums, science centers and community youth organizations (working individually or together) to host radio contacts with an orbiting crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) between January 1 and June 30, 2019

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GatesAir suspends sale of AM transmitters

Southgate ARC – When a prominent radio engineer passed along word to Radio World that he’d sought a quote from the manufacturer on a new transmitter but was told the company had discontinued the model and was assessing its AM line, they sought to learn more

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Essex Skills Night Monday

Southgate ARC – Skills Night takes place at 7pm on Monday, March 19 in Danbury Village Hall, Essex, this free event is open to all

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Early-bird bookings for AMSATSA Space Symposium

Southgate ARC – Bookings for the annual AMSATSA Space Symposium which will be held on 19 May 2018 at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria are now open

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JD1BLY Chichi Jima Island Ogasawara Islands. From DXNews.com

JI5RPT will be active again as JD1BLY, from Chichi Jima Island, IOTA AS-031, Ogasawara Islands 2 – 4 May 2018.

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630M Group Playing WSQ2 in VK and ZL:

eHam.net News – Recently the 630metre group has been very active on a new mode called WSQ2. This mode was developed by Murray Greenman ZL1BPU/ZL1EE and Con Wassilieff ZL2AFP/ZL2EE. After these two experienced some frustration with the weak signal non-QSO WSPR mode and slow QSO modes like Jason, they decided to create their own that was fast enough for QSO functionality. Enter WSQ or Weak Signal QSO mode – it uses Incremental Frequency Keying (IFK), making it moderately drift-proof and easy to tune. It has no error correction and even though it’s baud rate is slower than Jason each symbol carries more information. It is equivalent of typing about 5 wpm.

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630M Group Playing WSQ2 in VK and ZL:

Recently the 630metre group has been very active on a new mode called WSQ2. This mode was developed by Murray Greenman ZL1BPU/ZL1EE and Con Wassilieff ZL2AFP/ZL2EE. After these two experienced some frustration with the weak signal non-QSO WSPR mode and slow QSO modes like Jason, they decided to create their own that was fast enough for QSO functionality. Enter WSQ or Weak Signal QSO mode – it uses Incremental Frequency Keying (IFK), making it moderately drift-proof and easy to tune. It has no error correction and even though it’s baud rate is slower than Jason each symbol carries more information. It is equivalent of typing about 5 wpm.

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Scanner Group Hopes to Equip Citizen Patrols with Radios:

eHam.net News – The moderator of a Facebook group focused on local crime is seeking donations from its members to outfit a volunteer neighborhood watch program with radios. Jackson County Scanner Group administrator and co-owner Ryan Mallory is seeking about $4,000 from donors for radio equipment that will be used by the Scanner Group’s Citizens Patrol, a group of screened volunteers. Citizens Patrol members are already on the streets keeping tabs on their own neighborhoods and 73 crime-ridden areas, then relaying suspicious activity to police. “Watch and report — that’s all we do,” Mallory said. Currently the 150 invitation-only patrol volunteers are “working by cellphone,” Mallory said, collaborating with a combination of Facebook messages and a smartphone GPS app. Mallory said he’d like to move to a radio system similar to what trucking companies use, citing volunteer safety. “We need to keep our eyes up,” Mallory said. “We don’t want people tempted to use their phone while they’re driving.” Volunteers uncomfortable or unable to patrol who “have great minds that want to participate” could take notes as dispatchers, he added. Toward that end, Mallory plans to install a radio repeater on a volunteer’s property on Manor Hill, with the help of a team that includes three ham radio operators, a former electronics engineer, metal fabricators and database experts.

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Scanner Group Hopes to Equip Citizen Patrols with Radios:

The moderator of a Facebook group focused on local crime is seeking donations from its members to outfit a volunteer neighborhood watch program with radios. Jackson County Scanner Group administrator and co-owner Ryan Mallory is seeking about $4,000 from donors for radio equipment that will be used by the Scanner Group’s Citizens Patrol, a group of screened volunteers. Citizens Patrol members are already on the streets keeping tabs on their own neighborhoods and 73 crime-ridden areas, then relaying suspicious activity to police. “Watch and report — that’s all we do,” Mallory said. Currently the 150 invitation-only patrol volunteers are “working by cellphone,” Mallory said, collaborating with a combination of Facebook messages and a smartphone GPS app. Mallory said he’d like to move to a radio system similar to what trucking companies use, citing volunteer safety. “We need to keep our eyes up,” Mallory said. “We don’t want people tempted to use their phone while they’re driving.” Volunteers uncomfortable or unable to patrol who “have great minds that want to participate” could take notes as dispatchers, he added. Toward that end, Mallory plans to install a radio repeater on a volunteer’s property on Manor Hill, with the help of a team that includes three ham radio operators, a former electronics engineer, metal fabricators and database experts.

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Mysterious Anomaly: the Sun Without a Single Stain for 37 Days:

eHam.net News – The scientists noted that for thirty-seven days in the Sun no spots. The last time this occurred in 2009. This year is likely to be significant because the solar minimum has already exceeded two times the standard duration. How many more bodies will not activity? As a rule, at the end of one solar cycle lasts for eleven years, the activity of the main star is reduced to a minimum, but in our case this period was delayed. Most likely, the anomaly is related to the weakening of the solar wind and its magnetic field.

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Mysterious Anomaly: the Sun Without a Single Stain for 37 Days:

The scientists noted that for thirty-seven days in the Sun no spots. The last time this occurred in 2009. This year is likely to be significant because the solar minimum has already exceeded two times the standard duration. How many more bodies will not activity? As a rule, at the end of one solar cycle lasts for eleven years, the activity of the main star is reduced to a minimum, but in our case this period was delayed. Most likely, the anomaly is related to the weakening of the solar wind and its magnetic field.

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