European Radio Amateurs' Organization

Forgive my briefness. You'll discover why this space was left intentionally blank next week. It involves a broken capacitor, of sorts

Special thanks to AMSAT-NA (AMSAT.ORG) for the following Keplerian data

Sunspot numbers and solar flux increased this week (September 29 through October 5), as expected with the solar cycle progressing toward a probable peak in summer 2025

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IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group reports during the month of December, several youngsters under the age of 26 will become active with YOTA suffixes in their callsigns

The Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio or BACAR is planned to launch at 07:00 CAT on Saturday 8 October from the model aircraft airfield at Trichardt near Secunda

NewsWest for Sunday 9th October 2022 is the contesting Edition There’s news and information about contests coming up in the near future, and we talk a lot about PerthTech this week, because it’s coming up real fast.

Fox News reports a Maryland firefighter used his ham radio to send rescuers to Florida's Sanibel Island

This year's JOTA takes place October 14-16 and enables Scouts around the world to use amateur radio to contact each other

This year the RSGB is producing its first hybrid Convention

On Friday, October 7, 2022, from 15:14 GMT there will be a amateur radio contact from Antarctica with the International Space Station (ISS)

The ARRL Foundation Club Grant Program opened a second grant proposal period which began September 7, 2022, and runs until November 4, 2022, at 7 PM Eastern Time

Thanks to funding from the ARDC Foundation the Internet Archive is building an online Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), they are asking amateurs for material

The amateur radio satellite EIRSAT-1 features in a BBC News report, the launch window is now planned for mid-January to mid-February from the Kourou spaceport in South America

The talks given at the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be streamed live to a global audience over the weekend of October 8-9, 2022

A Working Group has hit the ground running to develop the Wireless Institute of Australia's response to the ACMA's proposal on Class Licensing and high power operation by Advanced amateurs

Conditions on Ten metres at the moment are phenomenal. There were over 3500 reported contacts on Saturday and 3600+ on Sunday

One of the biggest sunspots in years has just rotated over the sun's northeastern limb

Special thanks to AMSAT-NA (AMSAT.ORG) for the following Keplerian data.

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels