After a long service to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and Amateur Radio generally around the world through the International Amateur Radio Union, Dave Sumner K1ZZ is to retire in May next year. On the ARRL full-time staff for 44 years, he had held various titles including Secretary, General Manager and the Chief Executive…
AMSAT-NA announced in late April 2015 that, if all goes according to plan, an Amateur Radio payload will go into space on a geosynchronous satellite planned for launch in 2017. The ARRL report that AMSAT-NA has accepted the opportunity to be a “hosted payload” on a spacecraft that Millennium Space Systems (MSS) of El…
“Association of Amateur Radio Kosova” (Shark) is not admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), although Pristina in the campaign, which cost a lot, helped the Dutch, Croat and Finn. On a recent poll in the IARU, “Republic of Kosovo” has not received the recognition in the world ether, because her admission to the…
Every year, the BBC broadcasts a special program to the scientists and support staff in the British Antarctic Survey Teamhttp://www.antarctica.ac.uk/ The BBC plays music requests and sends special messages to the small team of 40+ located at various Antarctic research stations. Each year, the thirty minute show is guaranteed to be quirky, nostalgic, and certainly a DX-worthy…
Radio manufacturer, Icom have a strong heritage of building the most sophisticated Amateur radio transceivers. Decades of technical expertise and engineering experience have brought top of the range models from the IC-781 to the IC-7800. Icom now are pleased to launch the latest generation of high end HF transceiver called the IC-7851! The IC-7851 is…