European Radio Amateurs' Organization

Australia's communications regulator ACMA, is consulting on a new Class Licence that would mean amateurs would no longer have to pay charges and taxes for licence application and renewals

There's never been a better time to collect some nice wallpaper for the shack wall. Even if BCQP is not your target contest of the weekend, if you hear a BC station calling “CQ BCQP”, contact him/her, find more VE7/VA7s, keep track of the QSOs and send in a log

The Australian radio regulator (ACMA) released a consultation paper this week on proposed changes to the amateur radio service in Australia

After the previous site being live for more than 10 years, I have updated the G0KSC website to a new platform which is fully responsive so now works well on mobile and tablet devices

You may be aware that there have recently been some amateur radio licencing difficulties experienced in the Falkland Islands due to new communications legislation being implemented

Indonesia’s national amateur radio society, ORARI, reports on the first contacts from Indonesia via the Qatar-Oscar-100 geostationary satellite transponder

The Chair of IARU Region 1 Spectrum Affairs, Barry Lewis G4SJH, reports the IARU has agreed the first preliminary IARU positions for WRC-23

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS

The Anadolu Agency reports Levent Tamay rediscovered amateur radio when he was suspended from his job due to the pandemic

The Hindustan Times reports radio amateur Vilas Rabde VU2VPR has created a Web-based Software Defined Radio (WebSDR) for school students

Trent Fleming, N4DTF, of Germantown, Tennessee, has been named CQ magazine's VHF-Plus Editor, CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU announced today

For the first time ever, a telecommunications satellite has used an iodine propellant to change its orbit around Earth

Essex Ham have produced a useful page giving brief details and links for online amateur radio training courses for the Foundation, Intermediate and Full exams

ICASA has informed the SARL that amateur radio Licenses will increase by 3.3%. The new fees are published on the SARL website

The next free amateur radio Foundation Online training course run by volunteers from Essex Ham starts on February 7

http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2021/january/icqpodcast-qso-today-expo.htm

SARL and AMSATSA will join forces on 20 February 2021 to present an online VHF/UHF workshop on the BlueJeans platform

Jerry Weisskohl, AC4BT, always had a love of radio and short wave listening

Here is a challenge for you and your club. Phillip ZS6PVT and Danie plan to run a WRARC (ZS6WR) club station in the SARL FM VHF UHF contest on 6 February

A revised version of the RSGB-Ofcom EMF calculator was released a few days ago, it addressed font/formatting issues