Amateur Radio News 11 2019

Amateur Radio Stories:

Here is a recap of what happened in the web this week, through the eyes of the DXZone and other ham radio sources on the web.

• IOTA news from OPDX
  Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin…
• GQRP Club Founder the Rev. George Dobbs, G3RJV, SK
  The founder of the GQRP Club and Amateur Radio author the Rev. George Dobbs, G3RJV, of Littleborough, England, died on March 11. He was 75. Dobbs was reported to have been in ill health for some time and had been living in a care facility, where his …
• ITU Strengthening Emergency Telecommunications in the Americas
  In the aftermath of disasters, alternative telecommunication systems are often needed to fill in for systems that have been damaged or destroyed. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) says its members consider emergency communication as a p…
• IOTA news from the DARC 
  Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club…
• ARRL Announces 2019 Teachers Institutes on Wireless Technology Sessions
  As part of its educational outreach through the Education & Technology Program (ETP), ARRL will offer three sessions of the Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology in July. These week-long workshops will be held at ARRL Headquarters in Newingto…
• Propagation de K7RA
  After no sunspots over the entire month of February, sunspot group 2734 appeared on March 5. So far the new sunspot numbers are 14, 17, and 14 on March 5-7. I believe this was the longest consecutive period (33 days) with no sunspots on this declinin…
• Survey: FT8 Growing as DX Mode in an Era of Waning Propagation
  In the 2018 update of his survey of modes used on the air, Club Log’s Michael Wells, G7VJR, says the number of Club Log users uploading at least one FT8 contact to the site grew from 8,000 in 2017 to 14,200 in 2018. Wells worked with data from Club…
• ARISS contact planned for students in Calgary, Canada
  An International Space Station school contact has been planned for David St-Jacques KG5FYI with North Point School for Boys, Calgary, Alberta, Canada…
• Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
  Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to remain at low levels…
• St Patrick’s Day Award
  Ireland’s South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will be active in the St Patrick’s Day Award which takes place 12 noon on the 16th March to 12 noon on the 18th March UTC…
• Infoline issue 388 posted
• NASA coverage for next Space Station crew launch and docking
  Two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are set to join the crew aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, March 14. The trio’s arrival will return the orbiting laboratory’s population to six, including three NASA astronauts…
• IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter February 2019 available!
  The IARUMS Region 1 Newsletter February 2019 is now available.  Click here!
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• How to support AMSAT
  AMSAT relies on the support of our members and the amateur radio community to Keep Amateur Radio in Space…
• Reunion Island
  Croatian operators from the Radio Club Marjan (9A1CBM) and Radioclub Kastilac (9A1CIG) will use the special callsign, TO19A, between April 27th and May 8th…
• Help support a ham
  Mike, V51MA, has been a very active ham in Namibia and he has been through a lot of difficulty. We should help to get him back on the air soon…
• More Mentors Needed for New ARRL Emergency Communications Course Sessions
  High interest in the recently announced updated ARRL Introduction to Emergency Communications (EC-001) course is prompting a call for additional class mentors to help meet the demand, which ARRL Lifelong Learning Manager Kris Bickell, K1BIC, says “…
• Canada’s Amateur Radio Population Showing Continued Growth
• DX News from the ARRL
  The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands…
• GNU licensed KLog Logbook software v.0.9.7 released
  Jaime, EA4TV, released KLog v.0.9.7, a multiplatform free hamradio logging program which is able to run in Linux, Windows and macOS…
• FCC requesting comments on two ham radio license proposals
  The ARRL reports the FCC has invited public comments on two separate proposals on amateur radio licensing…
• Hans Zimmermann, HB9AQS/F5VKP, Receives IARU Diamond Award
  The Administrative Council of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has recognized Hans Zimmermann, HB9AQS/F5VKP, for his success over many years in gaining recognition, at the International Telecommunication Union and other international bodi…
• VK6WIA NewsWest
  NewsWest for 10th March 2019, History of Amateur Radio edition. NewsWest is the VK6 news programme by, for and about Radio Amateurs…
• Reminder: Daylight Saving Time Begins in Most of the US on March 10
  In most of the US, Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins on Sunday, March 10, at 2 AM local time. Set clocks ahead by 1 hour. The start of DST does not affect Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or simply Zulu (Z), a…
• March GEO Newsletter available for download
  The March PDF of the weather satellite publication GEO Newsletter produced by the Group for Earth Observation is now available for free download…