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News for Wednesday 16 May

New RSGB General Manager
Graham Coomber G0NBI has been appointed as General Manager of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB)

Tony's 10-metre band report
Another chalk and cheese week. 7O6T (Yemen) and 6O0CW (Somalia), (not pirates then) seemed to swap top spot all week. There was pretty fair of DX all about but these two are, to say the least, very unusual.
Tony also hears from Big Dave, VK5MRD who, after several months absence from the airwaves, has just treated himself to a brand-new Icom 7410.

Left: Tony Dixon, G4CJC

   
G6WRW and M0YHB activate in the USA
In December 2011, Helen Bennett M0YHB went on a work trip to Albuquerque and Carolyn Williamson G6WRW tagged along for a short holiday
Other news
AmateurLogic.TV 39:
NAB 2012 Las Vegas

Recorded live at National Association of Broadcasters NAB Show 2012 in Las Vegas. Join co-hosts George Thomas, W5JDX and Randy Hall, K7AGE for a Vegas Vacation at NAB 2012
Metro Newspaper – The next space age: Cuberty
The May 14, 2012 edition of the UK newspaper the Metro carried a story by Ben Gilliland about CubeSats
Partial eclipse to mark end of Dayton
The end of the Dayton Hamvention on May 20 will be marked by a partial eclipse of the Sun
   
IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Klaus, DL7UXG of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
Follow The Torch award
The 'Worked All Britain Awards Group' supports a special award on the occasion of the Olympic torch relay through Great Britain
   
Tiny radio transmitter fitted to beetle
Dr. Erin McCullough used minature radio transmitters fitted to beetles to track their movements

 

News for Tuesday 15 May
60 metre consultation
Industry Canada has begun the consultation process to see final approval for the use of six channels on the 60 metre band. As part of the consultation, Industry Canada is seeking input on five items. Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) feels it is important for amateur radio operators to comment on this proposal and indicate their preference for the rules governing the frequencies going forward
ON0EME 1296 MHz Moonbounce Beacon
This is possibly the first amateur radio beacon to beam signals off the Moon. It's aim is to encourage people to try and receive EME signals
Egyptian Radio Amateurs Society Youth Activities
IARU Region 1 Youth Coordinator Lisa Leenders PA2LS reports on amateur radio youth activities in Egypt
Student’s project could go into space
GoErie reports on the work of students from Penn State Behrend who developed a super-capacitor based energy storage device to replace the silver–zinc battery on ARISSat type satellites
Viêt-Nam Radio Hams to visit Spratly Islands ?
Following a recent Malaysian DXpedition, radio amateurs in Viêt-Nam are discussing a possible DXpedition to Truong Sa in the Spratly Islands archipelago
Chinese Space Station Transits the Sun
A photographer in France has caught China's experimental space station, the Tiangong-1, passing directly in front of the sun
St Kilda DXpedition EU-059
GM7WCO/P will be active from the remote island group of St Kilda EU-059 on the far west coast of Scotland from the evening of Wednesday 16 May 2012
Scam Warning
The South Bristol Amateur Radio Club has recently received two very similar e-mails from overseas amateurs concerning a confidence trick perpetrated in the name of one of their members
Farnsworth contact successful
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact was held between youth at Farnsworth Aerospace PK-8 Magnet School in St. Paul, Minnesota and on-orbit astronaut Don Pettit, KD5MDT on Monday, May 7

 

News for Monday 14 May
FDIM - Seminars to be streamed on internet
The Four Days In May (FDIM) amateur radio QRP event takes place May 17-20 and the seminars on Thursday will be streamed live to a global audience
D-Star for London 2012 Olympics
GB7OK the London D-Star repeater server has been updated with Jonathan Naylor, G4KLX's IrcDDB software and, thanks to G4TSN, we can access all D-Star reflectors unlike old G2 software. We can now also access the Dplus, XRF and DCS reflectors

ARISS contact with Maani Ulujuk Ilinniarvik (MUI), Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada
An ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) school contact has been planned with participants at Maani Ulujuk Ilinniarvik (MUI), Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada on 14 May.

The contact should be audible over the west coast of the U.S.

DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 6th-May, through Sunday, 13th-May there were 222 countries active
CASHOTA Activity Weekends
This annual event is held over 2 weekends - the 19th & 20th and also the 26th & 27th May 2012 - to allow individuals to activate or chase castles and stately homes, as well as other historical locations
GB2TMI Mills On The Air video
The Denby Dale Amateur Radio Society have released a video of their operation at Thwaite Mill in Stourton, Leeds for Mills On The Air weekend
IOTA news from OPDX
Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin
W5KUB live webcast from the Dayton Hamvention
Tom Medlin, W5KUB will once again be broadcasting a continuous live audio and video stream from the world's largest and best-known Hamfest
European Football Championship 2012 on the Air
EFC 2012 is an on-the-air activity which promises to be a great deal of fun
Bay Area Maker Faire May 19-20
Ham Radio and the UK Raspberry Pi computer board will be among the attractions at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, May 19-20
History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

 

News for Sunday 13 May
How a Tiny Satellite Could Find Another Earth
Time Magazine carry a report on the work of radio amateur Sara Seager KB1WTW who is developing a CubeSat called ExoplanetSat, that will search for new planets
Left: Sara Seager KB1WTW
Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Interview
Terrell Brown K4TLB of the Guilford Amateur Society interviews Bill Pasternak WA6ITF of the Amateur Radio Newsline
National Amateur Radio Day
The South Africa Radio League has named 16 June as National Amateur Radio Day, celebrating Amateur Radio as a National Resource and its diversity as the most exciting of all scientific hobbies
RAYNET May 2012 Heritage Coast Walk
This video shows East Suffolk RAYNET Communications Support volunteers using amateur radio APRS during the Heritage Coast Walk and Half Marathon
TAPR Forum at Dayton Hamvention
TAPR will be found in booths 455-459 in the Ball Arena of the Hara Arena at the Dayton Hamvention. TAPR will feature several SDR projects which are gaining interest quickly in the amateur radio community. Details of TAPR projects and the group's plans for Dayton can be found in the PSR Digital Journal
Museums Day
National Museums Day is held annually in May. To recognise this event the Zululand Amateur Radio Club will be operating as ZS5ZLB from the Nongqayi Fort in Eshowe on Sunday, 20th May 2012
Radio Club are on the airwaves for 65 years!
The Ballymena Times reports on the Ballymena Amateur Radio Club formed 65 years ago
Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the Solar activity is at moderate levels but will increase as one of the largest sunspots in years, 1476, makes it way across the visible solar disk
60 metres 'Gazetted' in Canada
Finally, after a two-year wait from Industry Canada, they have Gazetted the request from Radio Amateurs of Canada for access to 60 metres
Old QSL Card Collection
Jean Michel, F6AJA, wants to remind everyone to visit the Les Nouvelles DX (LNDX) Web page to see more than 9900 old QSL cards in several different albums/galleries
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