Don’t be fooled tomorrow with AP1RIL fools jokes on the air or DX Clusters. Intro: April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day is a day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbors,…
Two day’s ago I’ve worked with the Saint Petersburg amateur radio station on “Echo-link”. His call sign was really surprised me. It was UH1AAC (novice class call sign). Another one was UA8AA (from UA9X region) also sounds very strange.
The first World’s astronaut Yuri Gagarin, visits club’s radio station U5ARTEK and operates as U5ARTEK/KEDR. (“KEDR” was his call sign in Space.). Unfortunately the rumor that Yurij Gagarin was a Ham with the call sign UA1LO was not true. Additional amazing fact (1956): To everybody?s surprise, the Soviet amateurs are allowed to work the West…
The Royal Commonwealth Society recently invited Mrs Bharathi VU2RBI, Chief Coordinator of the National Institute of Amateur Radio (NIAR) to present a testimony on the eve of Commonwealth Observance Day. At the event, which took place on the 8th March 2010 in Westminster Abbey, London in the presence of Her Majesty Queen of England, the…
The Russian Woodpecker was a notorious Soviet signal that could be heard on the shortwave radio bands worldwide between July 1976 and December 1989. It sounded like a sharp, repetitive tapping noise, at 10 Hz, giving rise to the “Woodpecker” name. The random frequency hops disrupted legitimate broadcast, amateur radio, and utility transmissions and resulted…