Organització Europea de Radioaficionats

Depending on the weather, the next General Meeting will be held at 1pm on Saturday, August 6 at the cafe at Mount Penang Gardens. The day will start with a multi-transmitter fox hunt followed by lunch, the meeting and then perhaps a bit of portable HF

The SARL (South African Radio League) IT team would like to thank you for your patience while we sorted out some gremlins in the system

What's with the repeater offset again? - As a new amateur one of the initial perplexing issues you're confronted with is setting up your first radio to talk to the local repeater. The question is so common that it's almost an invisible rite of passage to a new licensee

The New Jersey Antique Radio Club hosted its annual Summer Tailgate Swap Meet and Ham Fest last weekend, attracting radio aficionados and vendors who shared their collections and knowledge of ham radios

A number of amateur radio clubs have closed down recently, the latest to go is the Clacton Radio Club in Essex

The latest version of the Ofcom amateur radio callsign database is always available on their Open Data page

Stephan Schmid HB9EAJ has made available a PDF (in English) describing his portable 7-band End-Fed Half-Wave (EFHW) antenna

Never before have so many rockets been launched. 2021 broke the all-time record, and 2022 looks to do it again

NASA’s Shane Kimbrough is retiring after 22 years, including 18 years as an astronaut. His last day with the agency is Sunday, July 31

The American Legion reports their Tennessee post has formed an amateur radio club

DARC reports on a meeting with representatives of the Federal Network Agency BNetzA which discussed the future of amateur radio exam questions and regulation of automatic stations such as HAMNET

NewsWest for Sunday 31st July 2022 is the Club Focus edition, where we’ve given space to Amateur Radio clubs to strut their stuff

The June report from the Board of Denmark's EDR notes the problem with lack of availability of training courses and suggests maybe as many as 50% who pass the exam never become active

The testing portion of the meeting will begin at 8AM. Attendees can take the amateur radio test for a Technician license or the upgrade tests for General or Extra certification

The RSGB have made their new look RadCom Basics magazine available as a free PDF

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/july/chinese-booster-rocket-tumbles-back-to-earth.htm

Not the busiest of weeks with three being the usual number of contacts to get into the lists. Spanish AO1s (Galicia) really dominated every day

BBC News report that Russia says it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and build its own station instead

Portugal's national amateur radio society REP reports on the recent 47 GHz moonbounce (EME) test by Miguel Pelicano CT1BYM

Following a generous grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), the National Science Foundation's National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) will soon launch a two-year project to engage BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ students in learning about the electromagnetic spectrum and the excitement of amateur— also called ham— radio