The following ISWL club callsigns will be used throughout the month of January 2018: GX4BJC/A - Operated from Clacton on Sea, in Essex, by George, G1IPU (/A WAB Square TM11 - England, IOTA EU-005, WLOTA 1841). MX1SWL/A - Operated from Seckington, in Staffordshire, by Geoff,...

EURAO report that between 14-28 January 2018 , the special callsign TM20SLR will be on air in memory of Saint-Lys Radio, the service so much appreciated by all the navigators and their families, by all the crews of the ships at sea, by all the radio amateurs and SWLs of HF, and in...

UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI / GB1SS should launch on a Soyuz to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday at 1103 UT from Baikonur in Kazakhstan  Launch events are taking place at in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London as  well as at 17 Science and Discovery centres...

ARISS have announced details of the first of the school amateur radio contacts with UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI  Tim will be using the special International Space Station (ISS) call signGB1SS during his 6 month mission.  Students will be able to put a number of...

NASA orders SpaceX crew mission to International Space Station NASA took a significant step Friday toward expanding research opportunities aboard the International Space Station with its first mission order from Hawthorne, California based-company SpaceX to launch astronauts...

A series of videos which trace the changes in Australian hobby electronics  In this episode of "State of Electronics", they explore the 1970's & early 80's when the retailing of electronics to hobbyists exploded onto the Australian scene. This period saw the rise of Dick Smith...

After two days of blizzard conditions the weather forecast is enablingVI0ANZAC to be on air from Casey Base in the Australian Antarctic Territory. As part of the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) ANZAC 100 program it plans to be operating on November 22, from 1pm (AEDT) or 0200...

22 November, 2015 In this week's propagation report, Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be at low levels. All visible sunspots are stable with a very low probability of solar flares. If you want to do your own frequency predictions, the expected effective sunspot...

An International Space Station contact is planned for Dragonskolan, Umea, Sweden. The event is scheduled for Wednesday 25 November 2015 at 09:44 UTC, which is 10.44 CEWT. This will be a telebridge contact between NA1SS and VE4ISS. Signals from the ISS will not be audible in Europe. The contact will...

On November 22, 2015 SSTV and Digitalker transmissions were made from the SPROUT amateur radio satellite on 437.600 MHz FM (+/- 9 kHz Doppler shift). These transmissions are planned to take place every Sunday (Japanese Standard Time). Many FM radios can be switched been wide and narrow deviation FM...