Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync. The sun generates immense magnetic fields as it spins. Sunspots—often broader in diameter than Earth—mark areas of intense magnetic force that brew…
A “Dnepr” launcher set to lift off from Dombarovsky, near Yasny, Russia, on November 21 will carry more than two dozen satellites from 13 countries. Individual satellite teams are now in Yasny preparing their payloads for launch. Several of the satellites will carry Amateur Radio payloads, marking this as the largest single deployment of ham…
OMG. Next day, the Radar came on 10m again and killed whole band. The RADAR Killed 10m BandWatch this video on YouTube Recently, ham radio operators around the Globe increasingly complain on the terrible RADAR QRM on 80m, which is blocked whole band. 10m Band also killed by RADAR Signals. SAVE THE HAM RADIO PLANET!
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 (the Americas) has published a revised IARU Region 2 Band Plan for all allocations from 137 kHz to 250 GHz, effective September 27, 2013. The member-societies of IARU Region 2 adopted the new plan during their triennial General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, in late September. Delegates from 18…
Best Practices for DXpedition Operating This week, I want to address DXpeditioners directly. DXpeditions during the past few months have been a problem. To be honest, some of the operating has been very poor. (That’s a polite version of what I have been reading.) Some of the DXpedition operators recruited for these operations seem to…