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The next meeting of the QSY Society Amateur Radio Club will be held Tuesday, June 4, at the East Fishkill Community Library at 348 Route 376. Topic will be Field Day, followed by the usual roundtable discussion. There will be a review of Field Day plans, with operating tips and a demonstration of Morse Code operation. The full version of this story is available only to subscribers. Subscribe now...

NASA is looking for far-out ideas. NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking Phase II proposals for continuation of promising studies selected during the first phase of the visionary program. The NIAC program funds cutting-edge concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions, enable new capabilities, or significantly alter...

First picture from ESTCube-1 ham radio CubeSat The first picture taken by the amateur radio CubeSat ESTCube-1 in space has been released. ESTCube-1 was launched from Kourou in the Caribbean on May 7 at 0206 UT on an ESA Vega rocket into a 704 km orbit. The hard work of the first two weeks has paid off and the CAM team, leaded by the University of Tartu...

Thames ARG: 5 Day Camping Break The Thames Amateur Radio Group has returned from its five-day camping and radio trip to the Essex village of Downham, close to Billericay. Members of the group arrived at the venue, the Crowsheath Fishery, on Wednesday the 15th of May, setting up caravans, tents and motor homes for the get-away. A good percentage of the Thames ARG membership are...

The Buffalo (NY) office of the National Weather Service will conduct a Skywarn spotter training seminar May 29 at the Livingston County Fire Training Facility, 3360 Gypsy Lane, Mount Morris, the Livingston County News reports. The training session, sponsored by the Genesee Valley Amateur Radio Association, begins at 7 p.m. will last about 2 hours. There is no cost...

For the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Amateur Radio Society – M0OCT- June, July and August will be very busy months for the group. June will see members assisting NE Derbyshire RAYNET with the Communications at the Ashgate Hospice Midsummer Night Walk. The following Weekend sees the Group provideing Communications for the Chesterfield Canal Festival. Then, looking...

A large number of South African Radio League members have already registered to operate on the 5MHz band. The SARL recently purchased licenses for two frequencies, 5250 and 5260 kHz. The two frequencies are only available to SARL members who have registered. Check the website on www.sarl.org.za and select ‘Propagation Research’ in the left hand panel...

Harry, AC8G, is working with Gill, J39AL, to arrange a team for the CQWW DX SSB Contest (October 26-27th) with time for individual DXing. Available to the team are antennas, towers, etc. for a large MULTI-MULTI contest station. About all that is needed are ops, transceivers (with accessories) and computers. Depending ...

On Sunday morning, approximately 3,500 runners took to the streets of Hull’s historic city centre for the Jane Tomlinson Hull 10k. Logistical support to the event was provided by Yorkshire 4×4 Response, using D-Star communications provided by members of the East Yorkshire Emergency Communications Group. The combination of Icom IC-E92D and GPS microphones allowed vehicles...

The Guardian newspaper reports that Major Tim Peake has been selected to fly on a five-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. Tim Peake, from Salisbury in Wiltshire, was chosen for astronaut training in 2009 from 8,400 applicants. Since then has been undergoing training in a number of locations around the world including Köln in Germany,...