NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming return activities for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, KF5LJG, Victor Glover, KI5BKC and Shannon Walker, KD5DXB and Soichi Noguchi, KD5TVP of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from the International Space Station.

From left to right are Expedition 64 Flight Engineers and SpaceX Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi.  ... Читать дальше »

ARISS contact with school in Melbourne, Australia

An ARISS educational school contact is planned for Shannon Walker KD5DXB with students at St. Margaret’s School, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The contact is scheduled on Monday April 26, 2021 at approximately 10:12:59 UTC, which is 12:12:59 CEST.

The link to the ISS will be operated by the amateur radio telebridge station IK1SLD, located in northern Italy. Downlink signals will be audible in ... Читать дальше »

The UKEI Contest Club run one hour 80 metre contests both on SSB and CW every month from September to April.

The contests run from 2000 to 2100 and logs must be submitted by 2200. The logs are then adjudicated, and final scores are published by 2300.

The April UKEICC monthly 80 metres CW contest will be held on Wednesday next the 28th from 2000 to 2100.

The exchange is your 6-character Grid Locator and no signal report should be sent. Operation is confined to the band segment 3.510 to 3.560MHz. GW4J and the UKEICC callsign EI5G will be bonus stations in this contest. E ... Читать дальше »

The New Indian Express reports: In a time and age where there’s instant gratification, validation and criticism for everything we do, thanks to social media, imagine receiving a tangible form of communication through a letter or postcard from a stranger, from thousands of kilometres away. And, most importantly, something that is meaningful! Sending and receiving postcards is that to me. A meaningful hobby turned into a passion,” shares Jaisakthivel Thangavel, a professor (Journalism and Communications) at the University of Madras.

A seasoned philatelist and avid postcrosser, Sakthivel is most proud of his QSL card collection — a trove with over 2,000 cards from different parts of the globe. "QSL cards are exchanged between ha ... Читать дальше »

According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 18th April, through Sunday, 25th April there were 210 countries active.

Countries available:

3A, 3B8, 3D2, 3W, 4J, 4L, 4O, 4S, 4U1U, 4X, 5B, 5H, 5R, 5T, 5U, 5V, 5W, 5X, 5Z, 6W, 6Y, 7X, 8P, 8Q, 8R, 9A,
9G, 9H, 9J, 9K, 9M2, 9M6, 9N, 9V, 9Y,

A2, A4, A5, A6, A7, A9, AP, BV, BY, C3, C9, CE, CE9, CM, CN, CP, CT, CT3, CU, CX, D2, D4, DL, DU, E5/n, E5/s,
E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, EP, ER, ES, EU, EX, EY, F, FG, FK, FM, FO, FR, FS, FY, ... Читать дальше »

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