Organisation Européenne des Radioamateurs

A group of multi-national ham radio operators are planning to operate from Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) and will be active between April 2-12th. The team has received a ten day visa issued by the Government of Kurdistan

A YouTube video shows KP4WK and KP4TR working the K4T DXpedition in Dry Tortugas using just 5 watts FM via the Amateur Radio satellite AO-51

The Mother Lode DX and Contest Club is pleased to host the 11th Annual Contest Dinner on Friday, April 16th, at the International DX Convention in Visalia, CA

On 11 March, 1910 a meeting of like-minded people in the Hotel Australia, Martin Place, Sydney, formed the Institute of Wireless Telegraphy of Australia, and soon after dropped the word 'telegraphy' from its name

The North Coast Contesters are pleased to announce that Joel Harrison, W5ZN, will be the main speaker at the 2010 Dayton Contest Dinner

A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a simulated mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a martian landscape

The Bottle Shop Net was formed in recognition of the large number of older valve radios still in use around Australia

A YouTube video shows KP4WK and KP4TR working the K4T DXpedition in Dry Tortugas using just 5 watts FM via the Amateur Radio satellite AO-51

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW

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

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is still at low levels. A pair of sunspots are currently visible on the earth facing side of the sun. The effective sunspot number is expected to be less than twenty for the coming week

The 3W6C-Team will activate Côn Có Island (AS-185) near Viet Nam on amateur radio satellites from April 10-18, 2010

This contest is primarily intended to activate the radios built at the Bath Buildathon events, but is open to all UK radio amateurs

The SARL National Convention will be hosted in Port Elizabeth by the Port Elizabeth Amateur Radio Society (PEARS) from 23 - 25 April

SpaceFlight Now reports that the test firing of the nine Merlin 1C first stage engines on the new Falcon 9 launcher was successful

Hamnet Western Cape announces the appointment of Paul van Spronson, ZS1PVS, as the new Provincial Director for the Western Cape

Reid, N0RC plans to operate on FM amateur radio satellites from Thule, Greenland (Grid FQ56) for one month starting March 23

As parts of earthquake-hit Chile were once again shaken by severe aftershocks, there has been further news of the role of radio amateurs, including them being a highly sought-after reliable source of information

The February issue of the IARU Monitoring System Region 1 newsletter describes mysterious signals from the Far East on 21312.4 kHz and lists the many intruders in the Amateur Radio bands