Recent News
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12/20/2017 | Vietnam Vet, Radio Amateur Granted Dying Wish to Get on the Air One More Time
Vietnam War veteran John Nugent, WA2EQJ, got on the air for what likely will be his final time earlier this month, thanks to help from the Amateur Radio community.
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12/20/2017 | Veteran DARC Monitoring System Coordinator Ulrich “Uli” Bihlmayer, DJ9KR, SK
Ulrich “Uli” Bihlmayer, DJ9KR, who was active in the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club’s (DARC) Monitoring System for more than 40 years, died on December 16.
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12/19/2017 | US Schools, Groups Move Into Phase 2 of ARISS Selections
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has announced that 13 schools or organizations will advance to the next phase of planning to host Amateur Radio contacts with the ISS during the second half of 2018.
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12/19/2017 | World Radiosport Team Championship 2018 Announces Referees for Competition
World Radiosport Team Championship 2018 (WRTC 2018) has announced the 65 referees (63 on site and 2 alternates) that will monitoring the two-person competing teams during the competition July 14-15 in Germany.
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12/19/2017 | New IARU Region 2 Intruder Watch Coordinator Named
Carlos Beviglia, LU1BCE, of Buenos Aires, Argentina, takes over as the International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU R2) Monitoring System Coordinator on January 1.
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12/19/2017 | FCC Penalizes Marketer of Ham-Band Drone Audio-Visual Transmitters
The FCC has imposed a $180,000 civil penalty on a Sarasota, Florida, company that had been marketing noncompliant ham-band audio-visual transmitters intended for use on drones.
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12/18/2017 | One of Oldest US Radio Stations to Go Dark
One of the few US broadcast stations east of the Mississippi that sport K-prefix call letters — KQV in Pittsburgh — will go silent at midnight on January 1.
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12/18/2017 | Bouvet Island DXpedition is Nearing Show Time
he group mounting the 3Y0Z Bouvet Island DXpedition reports that it’s been sorting out the myriad details that have gone into planning the DXpedition to the second most-wanted DXCC entity.
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