The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) automatically allows all radio amateurs to substitute their normal VK callsign prefix with the letters AX, every Australia Day. Our national day this year falls on Friday 26th of January. This gives radio amateurs the chance to be part...

The DARC report the hardware for the planned WSPR amateur radio beacons are now on their way to the Neumayer III base in Antarctica   This is a joint project of the Technical University of Munich, University of Bremen and the DARC e.V. The installation consists of a beacon transmitter...

Three CubeSats carrying amateur radio payloads were successfully launched on January 12 at 0358 UT on an Indian ISRO PSLV rocket. In total 31 satellites were deployed on this launch Two of the CubeSats, Fox-1D and PicSat, carry amateur radio FM transponders while CNUSail-1 has a...

The new IARU Region 1 Monitoring System free newsletter reports many Indonesian pirates were heard on December 30 in 7000-7040 kHz USB/LSB   They were active in 5 kHz increments, laughing, singing and talking.  The signals were rather strong in Europe.   The International...

AMSAT’s next Fox-1 satellite, Fox-1D, is scheduled for launch on January 12, 2018 at 03:58 UTC from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India  Fox-1D will launch as part of the PSLV-C40 mission on board a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with Cartosat, an imaging satellite for the...

The DARC reports that in 2017, the Federal Network Agency BNetzA withdrew about 460,000 products on the Internet, which could cause radio interference or electromagnetic incompatibility  A Google English translation says:  "The trend of recent years has it that many unsafe products...

   The French national amateur radio society REF has made the December 2017 issue of their magazine Radio-REF available as a free PDF  REF says:In order to make all French radio amateurs aware of the need to gather as much as possible to give themselves the means to defend...

6 January, 2018 No sunspots appeared from December 27, 2017 until January 4, 2018. As Solar Cycle 24 declines to a minimum over the next two years we should see longer and more numerous periods of no sunspots. On January 4 the daily sunspot number was 13, indicating 3 sunspots in one sunspot group,...

The Administrative Council (AC) of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) held its annual in-person meeting on September 15-16, 2017 in Landshut, Germany, immediately prior to the IARU Region 1 Conference  The AC is responsible for the policy and management of the IARU and consists of...

5 January , 2018 This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by AA4NC, K1ZZ, WB2TJO, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. FIJI, 3D2. Jim, WB2TJO is QRV as 3D2JS from Taveuni Island, IOTA...