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DARC report the broadcast station Télédiffusion d'Algerie has been causing interference to the 21 MHz primary amateur radio band

VERON report a 144 MHz bicycle mobile competition will take place during this year's DNAT amateur radio event

The UK Microwave Group (UKuG) has made available on their site the proceedings from the Cambridge Moonbounce (EME) conference

NOAA forecasters have issued a geomagnetic storm watch for Aug. 18th and 19th when a series of CMEs is expected to graze Earth's magnetic field

Tickets are on sale now at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo website. We offer a free ticket to students and kids under 18 years of age

In an effort to make the SolderSmoke YouTube channel more useful, and to help me reach the goal of 4,000 viewing hours (which I need in order to get YouTube to pay me!) I recently put PlayLists on my YouTube channel

The 25th International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) event will take place throughout the upcoming weekend

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

This was not a bad week for me. I got Top spotter on Friday. Not much real DX though, mostly I’d worked the 10m stuff before.

On Tuesday, August 16, BBC TV's Josie Hannett interviewed 8-year-old Isabella Payne about her amateur radio contact with NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS on the International Space Station

According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 7th-August, through Sunday, 14th-August there were 213 countries active

AT75RADIO and AT75CW - Special Event Call Sign commemorating 75 years of Indian Independence. Operator is VU2CW, Handle is Rajesh. QTH is Gurgaon in North India

Members of the Israel Amateur Radio Club will activate 5 lighthouses and participate in the upcoming International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (ILLW), August 20-21st

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

The next free amateur radio Foundation Online training course run by volunteers from Essex Ham starts on August 21 - places still available. Register Now

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW

This coming weekend, 20-21 August, is a great opportunity to chat to a lighthouse and work some rare DX

Essex press report Andrew Brown M0ONH has been using a special amateur radio callsign GB8PCA to raise awareness for prostate cancer - after he was diagnosed with the disease himself

IARU Monitoring System (IARUMS) Region 1 newsletter says in July, like every month for many years, Over The Horizon Radars were the most numerous transmissions causing interference to our HF amateur radio bands

In this episode, Martin Butler (M1MRB) is joined by Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, Ed Durrant DD5LP and Chris Howard M0TCH to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode's feature Edmund Spicer M0MNG previews International Lighthouse and Lightships Weekend 2022