11 July 2020

• The Latest Episode of ARRL Audio News is Now Available

  Listen to the new episode of ARRL Audio News on your iOS or Android podcast app, or online at https://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/. Audio News is also retransmitted on a number of FM repeaters. Click here and then scroll down to see the list.

   

• Russian-Ukrainian "Radio War" Remains at a High Level

  The June newsletter of the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports that what’s being called “the Russian-Ukrainian radio war” continues apace.

  “The Russian-Ukrainian radio war remained on a high escalation level also in June,” IARUMS Region 1 Coordinator Peter Jost, HB9CET, said. “Almost every day, we heard the massive spiteful and provocative broadcasts. In...

• Introducing The ARRL Current

  ARRL has a new way to let members know when the digital editions of QST and other publications are available. Distributed via email, The ARRL Current offers a monthly overview of ARRL publications and member benefits. The inaugural edition launched in June.

  Subscribe now to receive each issue going forward. Manage your email preferences from your ARRL account (members must first be registered on...

• ARRL Seeks Awards and Programs Assistant

  ARRL has invited applications for the position of Awards and Programs Assistant at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. This is a full-time, non-exempt opening in the Radiosport and Field Services Department. The pay range is from $16.08 to 19.30 per hour.

  The Awards and Programs Assistant assists with all Radiosport and Field Services Department activities, with an initial priority on L...

• SP3L Wins the July QST Cover Plaque Award

  The winning article for the July 2020 QST Cover Plaque award is “A Vertical End-Fed Dipole with a Folded Stub” by Jacek Pawlowski, SP3L.

  The QSTCover Plaque Award -- given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue -- is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the August issue today.

   

• Annual KPH “Night of Nights” Has Been Canceled

  The Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS) and the National Park Service have announced that theannual KPH Night of Nights has been canceled due to COVID-19 precautions. This would have been the 21st such event, which commemorates what is believed to be the last commercial Morse transmission in the US.

  While KPH, KFS, and K6KPH will not be on the air for Night of NightsXXI, MRHS members will...

• QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Announces Full Lineup of Speakers
• Maritime Mobile Service Network Comes to the Aid of Vessel in Distress

  The Maritime Mobile Service Net (MMSN) on 14.300 MHz came to the assistance of a sailing vessel on June 25. MMSN control operator Steven Carpenter, K9UA, took a call on 20 meters from Ian Cummings, KB4SG, the skipper of the Mystic Lady, then some 40 miles east of Florida. Cummings reported that his engine had failed as he was attempting to return to his home port of Stuart, Florida. He not only...

• The August Issue of Digital QST is Now Available!
• THe K7RA Solar Update

  No sunspots this week. The pattern persists, and this surprises me. But Spaceweather.com reported a couple of weak, barely emerging spots, never numbered, and by their magnetic polarity were from new Cycle 25.

  We rely on NOAA for official sunspot numbers, and the most recent one reported was 11 on June 15. See ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/indices/DSD.txt.

  Average daily solar flux over the recent r...

• Intrepid-DX Group Announces Youth Essay Contest

  The Intrepid-DX Group, a US-based IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes amateur radio in developing countries, has announced its first Youth Essay Contest. The prize is a new Icom IC-7300 transceiver, which the winner must agree to keep and use for 1 year.

  Participants will prepare a two-page essay answering these questions: (1) What are your amateur radio goals? and (2) What can w...

• New Amateur Extra Class License Manual and Extra Q&A Now Available
• Prominent Radio Amateur Helping to Lead US Convalescent Plasma Expanded Access Study

  Well-known contester, DXer, and National Contest Journal (NCJ) Editor Scott Wright, K0MD, has been “substantially” stepping back from ham radio while offering his expertise to the US convalescent plasma COVID-19 Expanded Access Program. The study began in early April under the leadership of Dr. Michael Joyner, MD, of the Mayo Clinic; Dr. Peter Marks, MD, PhD and Dr. Nicole Verdun, MD, of the US...

• New IARU Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Coordinator Appointed

  The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council has appointed Martin Sach, G8KDF, as global Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Coordinator, succeeding Tore Worren, LA9QL.

  “EMC is a major challenge for all radiocommunication services,” theIARU noted. “Radio amateurs are experiencing increased interference caused by unwanted radio frequency emissions from a wide variety, and...

• Annual 13 Colonies Event Gets Under Way on July 1

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11 July 2020

• Foundations of Amateur Radio
  Homebrew radio for the 21st Century The hobby of Amateur Radio is essentially one of experimentation. Within our community we endlessly build things, from amplifiers to Yagis and every letter of the alphabet in between. With every experiment we grow the amateur radio sphere of influence just a little bit
• A SOTA wedding took place on 4th July 2020!
  David Wise KM3A and Lizzette Rodriguez K6LZT are both keen SOTA activators, and their marriage actually took place on a summit and in conjunction with a SOTA activation!
• ESA emits a guide to picking up ISS SSTV
  The Register reports on the new ESA tutorials explaining how to pick up the amateur radio Slow Scan TV (SSTV) tutorials transmitted from the International Space Station
• LunART- Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder
  The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments
• VK6WIA NewsWest
  NewsWest for Sunday 12th July 2020 is the contesting edition of NewsWest, which is pretty timely because there’s a few Aussie contests coming up, and we’ve got some handy information for those wondering if they should give contesting a go
• The super-sized nucleus of Comet NEOWISE
  Now we know why Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is so bright. It has an unusually large nucleus
• Eavesdropping video monitors with TempestSDR RTL-SDR
  This is not new, but the software is getting better and better.
• IARU HF World Championship
  The amateur radio HF World Championship takes place this weekend July 11-12
• Belgium: Amateur radio regs and exam consultations
  Belgium's communications regulator the BIPT has published two consultations relating to radio amateurs
• Old QSL card collection
  Jean Michel, F6AJA, wants to remind everyone to visit the Les Nouvelles DX (LNDX) Web page to see more than 18,000 old QSL cards in several different albums/galleries
• LO-94 the first amateur radio spacecraft in lunar orbit
  Nature carries an article about the spacecraft Longjiang-2/Lunar-OSCAR 94 (LO-94) which carried the first Amateur Radio communication system to operate in lunar orbit
• Learn from 70+ speakers at the first ever Virtual Ham Expo
  We are reaching out to let you know that despite the closure of all ham radio events, there is a great opportunity to join your fellow hams and us at the first ever QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo on Saturday and Sunday, August 8 - 9, 2020
• Monitoring compliance with the EU Net Neutrality regulation – 2019/20 update
  Ofcom has today published its fourth annual report to the European Commission on monitoring open internet access, also known as ‘net neutrality
• 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

11 July 2020

• Great Technical References from N1UL, Dr. Ulrich Rohde
• Proposed Shortwave Broadcast Station Prompts Objection
• The ARRL Letter, July 9, 2020
• The j-pole antenna is fixed...
• Yaesu FTM-300 APRS Setup Tutorial
• #66 Which 2m Antenna is best? - The Shootout (inc DX Commander) #UV5Army
• Fast & Easy Truck Antenna Mount
• Web hosting service now available for RAC affiliated clubs
• 11 year-old passes morse test
• Amateur Radio Newsline headlines for Ham Nation. July 8, 2020
• Sunspot Death Throes of Cycle 24 | Solar Storm Forecast 07.05.2020
• IC-705 and LC-192 Review by FB Girls
• Homebrew CAT and Programming Cable
• Ham College 66: Amateur Space and Earth Stations
• HAM Radionline 2020 statistics released