Transatlantic Tests Mark 99th Anniversary
On December 11, 1921, radio history was made when the signal from amateur station 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was heard...
Events
ARRL Releases a New Edition of Storm Spotting and Amateur Radio
The third edition of Storm Spotting and Amateur Radio is now available from ARRL. Storm spotting gives radio amateurs another way to...
FCC Hits Rugged Radios with Citation over Illegal Radios
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144 MHz signal from the Faroe Islands heard 3000kms away in Bulgaria during Geminid Meteor Shower – Dec 2020
Every year, the Geminid meteor shower peaks around the 14th of December, and many VHF radio amateurs make contacts by...
Certificates and other changes
We have made some changes to the CQ WW Contest online score reporting to support requests we have received from...
Remarkable 13,000 km opening on 6-meters between Australia and South America – 12th Dec 2020
At the moment, our colleagues in the southern hemisphere are in the middle of their summer Sporadic-E season and there...
ARISS: Celebrating 20 Years of Continuous Operations on ISS
Twenty years ago – November 13, 2020 – the Expedition-1 crew turned on the ARISS Ericsson radio for the first...
Mid-Winter Sporadic-E opening on 28 MHz – Sun 13th Dec 2020
The map below shows the FT8 signals that I heard on 10-meters on Sunday the 13th of December 2020. With...
The Columbian radio station on 93.1 MHz heard 4580kms away in Chile by TEP – Nov 2020
Over the last month or so, I've had several posts up on the blog about recent Trans-Equatorial Propagation (TEP) openings...
28 MHz gets quieter as the Solar Flux drops – 11th Dec 2020
In the last few days, I noticed a noticeable drop in the level of activity on 28 MHz as the...
