Recent News
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05/14/2018 | AMSAT Names Alan Johnston, KU2Y, as AMSAT Vice-President, Educational Relations
Alan Johnston, KU2Y, will become AMSAT’s Vice-President, Educational Relations, AMSAT President, Joe Spier, K6WAO, has announced.
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05/12/2018 | Informal Amateur Radio Nets Being Maintained in Wake of Volcanic Eruptions in Hawai’i
Two informal informational nets remain open on the island of Hawai’i (“The Big Island”) in the wake of recent and ongoing volcanic eruptions and seismic activity.
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05/11/2018 | Norway Introduces 2 × 1 Contest Call Signs
In response to calls from Norway’s contesting community, the Norwegian Communication Authority (NCA) recently announced that it would permit the use of 2 × 1 contest call signs for individual radio amateurs.
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05/11/2018 | Three CubeSats with Amateur Radio Payloads Deployed from ISS
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that three CubeSats carrying Amateur Radio payloads, including one with a V/U linear transponder, were deployed from the International Space Station (ISS).
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05/11/2018 | Amateur Radio Parity Act Language Inserted in National Defense Authorization Act
ARRL is praising the work of House lawmakers in getting Amateur Radio Parity Act language into the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019.
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05/11/2018 | The K7RA Solar Update
A single spot has appeared on the Sun
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05/10/2018 | CQ World Wide DX Contest CW Logs to be Rescored Using Original Scoring Method
A change in scoring methodology for handling duplicate contacts in the CW weekend of the 2017 CQ World Wide DX Contest led to an inconsistency with the standards by which logs submitted for the SSB weekend of the same contest were scored.
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05/10/2018 | Space Station Digital Amateur Television Signal Not Being Seen on the Ground
The signal from the digital amateur television (DATV) transmitter aboard the International Space Station (ISS) cannot be detected on the ground, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has reported.
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