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December is YOTA Month when several youngsters from IARU Region 1 Member Countries will become active on the air with YOTA as suffix in the call signs

According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 25th November, through Sunday, 2nd December there were 227 countries active

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

Sunday, December 2, should see two more satellites carrying FUNcube payloads launched into orbit. With that launch, JY1Sat and ESEO will join FUNcube-1 (AO-73) and Nayif-1 (EO-88)

ARRL say Scouting’s Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) 2018 reports that total USA Scout participation in the annual fall event jumped by 36% from 2017

South Africa's ICASA/SARL Liaison committee met last week to discuss various regulatory issues affecting Amateur Radio

JY1SAT is a one unit CubeSat, dedicated to the memory of His Majesty the late King Hussein, the first founder of the HAM Radio in Jordan and holder of call sign JY1. This will be Jordan's first satellite

WIA Education Group aims to reduce barriers to entry with cost reduction, immediate delivery, quicker processing times as well as automating the process to ensure a smooth and quicker entry into Amateur Radio

Along with a successful career in California hightech, Paul Gacek, W6PNG, became an amateur radio operator

CQ-DATV 66 magazine is now available for free download

Turkey’s telecom regulator, BTK, in a government gazette notice of 29th November 2018, released two new Amateur Radio allocations

AMSAT relies on your donations to Keep Amateur Radio in Space. Please consider a donation to the AMSAT General Fund, the GOLF Program, or ARISS today!

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

Each November, Melbourne plays host to Comms Connect, Australia’s premier radio and wireless communications industry conference, during which the Australian Radio Communications Industry Association– ARCIA – hold their annual Gala dinner and awards presentation

The Times of India reports that, after reuniting a man with his family in south Tripura and tracing out the sister’s family of a 90-year-old woman from Kanchrapara, amateur radio operators of West Bengal have done it again!

Ofcom has fined business telecoms provider Cloud M Limited £50,000 for breaking rules that entitle customers to take their telephone number with them when they switch providers – a process known as ‘number porting’

Three space travelers, including two astronauts on their first flight, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on Monday, Dec. 3 for a six-and-a-half month mission

The theme for the NewsWest edition for the 2nd December is our club focus, as usual there’s lots more!

In May 2018, Radio Amateurs of Canada was pleased to introduce the special RAC 25th Anniversary Challenge Coin as part of its year-long celebrations. The coin was designed by Mike Hutchison and was custom-designed and manufactured by KingPins for RAC

At 2335 UTC on November 28 the Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning for December 1. "The effect of a high speed solar wind stream from a large and recurrent coronal hole may raise the geomagnetic activity to minor storm levels on December 1 and 2."