ISS HamTV success On Saturday, March 8 test transmissions were made on 2422.0 MHz using the HamTV equipment on the International Space Station (ISS) The video was successfully received and was web streamed to a global audience via the Britsh Amateur Television Club (BATC) server at http://batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=4... More...

Industry Canada rolls out new Amateur Radio exam generator and updated question bank On March 6th, Industry Canada released a new set of amateur radio exam questions based on recommendations made by RAC and launched a new exam generator. "This is good news that we were eagerly anticipating." says Geoff... More...

172530Salvation Army puts new EDS Satern station 'on the air' The Salvation Army has announced that the FCC recently approved a new call sign for a newly created SATERN station located in the Salvation Army's Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi (ALM) Division's Emergency Disaster Services center. SATERN,... More...

The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) is pleased to present the popular "Contesting Tips for Little Pistols" by Dan Zeitlin K2YWE. Dan shares his collected wisdom and lessons learned for the little pistol. Topics included include: - Elements of Success - Contest Basics - a refresher - Strategy... More...

The free logging software Log4OM will include full support for SOTA in the next release including SOTA ID, Association, Region, Summit name, Points and Bonus points fields. We see SOTA as one of the fastest growing sectors in the ham radio awards and we will eventually include full award submission... More...

Ham Video now installed and ready for commissioning The Ham Video transmitter has been installed in the Columbus module of the International Space Station March 6, 2014 at approximately 10.00 UTC. The transmitter was powered on briefly and all control LEDs were nominal. Ham Video is declared ready for... More...

172293Two close calls for ZACUBE-1 CubeSat The amateur radio ZACUBE-1 satellite, launched with FUNcube-1 on November 21, 2013, recently had two close encounters with space debris The ZACUBE-1 team have issued this press release: Week nine of the year will go down as quite an eventful week for ZACUBE-1... More...

AmateurRadio Newsline™ Report 1908 – March 7 2014 AmateurRadio Newsline report number 1908 with a release date of March 7,2014 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. Thefollowing is a QST. 200 tiny satellites to be orbited in one launch this month; the ARRLrequests member comments on digital High Frequency operations;... More...