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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

Sunspots 1 147 and 1 149 are about to disappear out of direct Earth view. Fortunately a new and as yet unnumbered sunspot is forming on the eastern limb Read the Full Article from the SARC

Amateur radio club offer last chance to work ZS85SARL

For the SARL Field Day on 12 to 13 February, members of the Boland Amateur Radio Club will have the SARL’s birthday call sign, ZS85SARL, on the air and will it offer the last opportunity to radio amateurs, who have not yet made contact with ZS85SARL, to do so Read the Full Article from the [...]

ND9M/VQ9JC Maritime Mobile satellite operations planned

Jim, ND9M/VQ9JC plans to operate the amateur radio satellites from his merchant marine ship presently enroute from Diego Garcia (grid MI62) to Charleston, SC (FM03) via the Pacific Ocean Read the Full Article from the SARC

Long-Time HCJB Engineer Clayton Howard, W9KJZ (SK)

  The longtime host of a popular shortwave radio listeners’ program, Clayton Howard, W9KJZ, died January 27, 2011 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. He was 92. Howard served from 1941 to 1984 as an engineer with Radio Station HCJB, the missionary shortwave station in Quito, Ecuador. Clayton also began Andes DX International (ANDEX), a club for shortwave [...]

NASA TV to show arrival of ARISSat-1 at ISS

The arrival of the Russian Progress-41 flight carrying the ARISSat-1 Amateur Radio Experiment to the International Space Station will be televised live via NASA TV starting at 8PM CST (UTC-6) on Saturday, January 29 Read the Full Article from the SARC

US National Weather Service gets help from Radio Hams

There are 6,600 trained volunteer weather spotters across southern New England and a third of them are licensed Radio Amateurs Read the Full Article from the SARC

Army CubeSat SMDC-ONE

Radio Amateurs pioneered the development of CubeSat technology and demonstrated the communication capabilities of these small satellites. Now young US Army engineers are developing their own CubeSats at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama Read the Full Article from the SARC

QSL Manager updates

The G7 volunteer QSL sub manager, Martin Forrester, G7JWR has moved. Please check his new address on the RSGB website members’ area before sending C5 size SAEs to collect your cards Read the Full Article from the SARC

Radiofairs to hold amateur radio technical clinics at Kempton Rally

At the next Kempton Rally on Sunday 17 April, Radiofairs will be holding a group of technical clinics to help newcomers and old timers alike with any amateur radio problems Read the Full Article from the SARC

Double Blast on the Sun

Yesterday morning, a spectacular double eruption on the sun produced the strongest solar flare of the year so far (an M1-class event) Read the Full Article from the SARC

Ofcom release Draft Annual Plan slides

The UK regulator Ofcom has released the slides used at the public meeting about their draft Annual Plan for 2011/12 Read the Full Article from the SARC

New NZART Publicity and Marketing Officer

David Searle ZL3DWS has been appointed Publicity and Marketing Officer for the New Zealand National Society NZART Read the Full Article from the SARC