European Radio Amateurs' Organization

South Hobart Primary School, South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, August 27 at 06:43 UTC via station K6DUE in Greenbelt, Maryland

The dedicated team of Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) volunteers will be starting their next Foundation evening course on Thursday September 2

Aficionados of amateur radio digital communications are gearing up for the 29th annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), September 24-26 near Portland, Oregon

Towards the end of last year, technical staff from South Africa's regulator, ICASA, finalised the PLT regulations and submitted them to the ICASA board for approval and publication in the Government Gazette

The Spanish amateur radio team ARMIC ONCE EA3RKR has received special authorisation to set-up a ham radio station and transmit from inside Barcelona Cathedral - and you could operate the station too!

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Fredy, DE0MST of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

The Spanish amateur radio group Federacion Digital EA will activate several special event stations during the 75th bicycle race La Vuelta a Espana from Aug 27 till Sep 20

Two ARISSat Amateur Radio satellites should be shipped to Russia in September with a launch slated for January 2011

The Saba 2010 team has completed all preparations for the activation of Saba beginning 10/10/10. As you know by now, that is the likely date that the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist and several new DXCC entities will be created as a result

Alan Kung, BA1DU has released this week's operating schedule for the amateur radio satellite HO-68

Prasad, VU2PTT (also W2PTT), Contest Manager for the Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI), reports: We have news from our Ministry of Communications that the 6 meter band has finally been allocated for Amateur Radio use

A video showing reception of the first signals by the SUPSI team from the Amateur Radio CubeSat TI-SAT HB9DE, launched July 12, is available on YouTube

This contests runs again on Monday 6th September 2010 at 2100 NZST (0900 UTC). The revised rules brings the contest up to the modern standard that radio amateurs can now reach with home brew equipment

SA AMSAT has introduced SAT Network, a regular discussion on satellite on an INTECNET basis. The first SAT Network will discuss the payload options for the proposed SA AMSAT payload. It will be on the air on Sunday 29 August 2010 at 19:30

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW

Ovidiu, YO2DFA, informs that the Romanian Amateur Radio Federation (FRR) is inviting all radio amateurs all over the world to participate in the annual YO DX HF Contest, August 28-29th

A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

Hamcall have produced an Amateur Radio World Prefix Map which is unbranded, i.e. there are no amateur radio manufacturer's logos on them, so their maps should appeal to ALL radio hams

On August 1st, Spain began its 'Summits On The Air' activations. Not many up to now.. but the first area activated was EA1. Several amateur radio ops from EA1 went to summits that weekend to put a SOTA station on the air for the very first time. Watch these 3 videos

A video of the Amateur Radio contact between young people at Camp Cavett and Doug Wheelock KF5BOC (NA1SS) on the International Space Station is now on YouTube