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This weekend’s AMSAT-UK Space Colloquium to be webstreamed

The 2010 Space Colloquium – the 25th held by AMSAT-UK, is taking place this Saturday and Sunday, July 31 and August 1, at the Holiday Inn in Guildford, England. You can watch it live on the web! Read the Full Article from the SARC

Smart Metering Implementation Programme Consultation

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is holding a consultation on Smart Meters. There are fears the meters could use polluting Power Line Communications (PLT/PLC) Read the Full Article from the SARC

Vanuatu DXpedition gets YJ0VK callsign

This DXpedition, with a team of four Australian radio amateurs, will be operating for six days, 0001 UTC on 27 August through to 0100 UTC on 2 September Read the Full Article from the SARC

Dave Raycroft’s ICPO Bulletin

ICPO – Islands, Castles and Portable Operations. Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet Read the Full Article from the SARC

Government Agencies Introduce User-Friendly Federal Register

While the Federal Register may be the ultimate record of the business of the USA’s Executive Branch, it can be a difficult document to navigate. The Register publishes approximately 80,000 pages of documents each year in the form of Notices, Proposed Rules, Rules and Official Documents; this is where all new and amended rules to [...]

The Bands “Heat Up” for the 2010 ARRL UHF Contest

VHF/UHF weak-signal operators across North America are making the final tests on their stations in preparation for the ARRL UHF Contest, coming up the weekend of August 7-8. Most VHF+ weak-signal operation takes place on the two lowest bands of the VHF spectrum — 6 and 2 meters; however, there is a lot of activity [...]

Super-charged network operates in Smith River, aiding ham radio operators

Del Norte County, California, is the base of operations for the largest network of amateur radio operators in the world, according to Jeff ‘Shorty’ Stouffer, a ham radio operator and owner of the Western Intertie Network (WIN) Read the Full Article from the SARC

Operating illegal FM stations is ‘terrorism’ in Pakistan

The Pakistan government has brought a new bill to amend the Anti-Terror Act in the Senate with proposals of several measures to make the law more stringent and rigorous Read the Full Article from the SARC

ACMA proposes temporary use of amateur radio 70cm band

Wireless Institute of Australia directors have attended a briefing presentation by the Australian regulator ACMA on the proposed re-arrangements for the 400 MHz band (403 – 520 MHz) that includes the 70cm amateur radio spectrum and the UHF CBRS band Read the Full Article from the SARC

Contest University UK 2010 sponsored by Icom UK

Icom UK will again be sponsoring Contest University UK (CTU) at this year’s RSGB Convention to be held at the new venue of Horwood House near Milton Keynes, on Saturday 9th October 2009 Read the Full Article from the SARC

Funeral of Gordon King G4VFV

The funeral of Gordon King G4VFV will take place on Wednesady August 4th at St. Mary’s Church in Brixham. The funeral takes place at 2pm Read the Full Article from the SARC

Tony’s 10-metre band report

A slightly different format today. The DX actually heard by some one is in red and the DX spotters are in blue. It’s an odd thing but there are not many that fall into both categories i.e. are both transmitting and spotting Read the Full Article from the SARC