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ARES Volunteers Reported Responding to Severe Weather 02/16/2021 Weather gone wild might be an apt description of the conditions in many parts of the US, with sub-freezing temperatures in areas not prepared for that sort of thing. Aberrant weather seems to be happening across many US regions. Snow has fallen in Texas and Oklahoma, accompanied by record-setting temperature readings. The severe weather has caused power and telecommunications outages, and ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service ...

Fall DXpedition to Willis Island Set, Outing to Mellish Reef Postponed 02/16/2021 The Daily DX reports that a team from the Hellenic Amateur Radio Association of Australia ( HARAOA) is planning a November 3 – 13 DXpedition to Willis Island, which ranks #38 on Club Log’s Most Wanted List. The group has put off plans to include a stint from Mellish Reef, last activated in 2017. “With time away from jobs a consideration for the ops, Mellish is being put off to 2022,” said team leader...

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

The secondary mission is to perform scientific experiments involving radiation detection and take pictures of Earth. The solar-powered spacecraft, created by UL Lafayette’s CAPE Satellite Team, was launched with nine other CubeSats as part of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites ( ELaNa) program. A Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket attached beneath a wing of a customized Boeing 747 was dropped high above the Pacific Ocean. It climbed about 225 miles above Earth and then ejected the sat...

Former ARRL Southwestern Division Director Art Goddard, W6XD, SK 02/16/2021 Former ARRL Southwestern Division Director Art Goddard, W6XD, of Costa Mesa, California, died on February 13. An ARRL Life Member, he was 78. First licensed in 1956, Goddard was an electrical engineering graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Montana State University. He worked for Collins Radio and later for Boeing, from which he retired as an executive. After several years working with local governments ...

ITU News Magazine Covers World Radio Day, Includes Articles on Ham Radio 02/16/2021 ITU News Magazine highlights World Radio Day (observed each year on February 13), featuring two articles on amateur radio. Articles in the magazine include the evolution of radio throughout the ages, ham radio and emergency communications, and remarks by International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) President Tim Ellam VE6SH, regarding why World Amateur Radio Day (celebrated each year on April 18) is important ...

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

A “Perfect Coronal Mass Ejection” Could Be a Nightmare 02/10/2021 Space Weather considers what might happen if a worst-case coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth — a “perfect solar storm,” if you will. In 2014, Bruce Tsurutani of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Gurbax Lakhina of the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism introduced the “ perfect CME.” It could create a magnetic storm with intensity up to the saturation limit, a value greater than the Carrington Event of 1859, ...

Club Gets Double Duty from Minnesota QSO Party 2021 Operation 02/10/2021 The Mississippi Valley Amateur Radio Association ( MVARA) fielded a team to the parking lot of a local TV station to take part in the Minnesota QSO Party over the February 7 – 8 weekend. Not only did the group get some emergency exercise training but garnered positive publicity for amateur radio from the station’s news team. Using special event call sign W0M, 10 radio amateurs — including one newly minted Genera...

RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E Designated AMSAT-OSCAR 109 as Troubleshooting Continues 02/08/2021 The RadFxSat-2/Fox-1E CubeSat has been designated as AMSAT-OSCAR 109 (AO-109). The satellite, which carries a telemetry beacon and a linear transponder, along with radiation effects experiments, is a joint mission of AMSAT and the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt University. While the telemetry beacon on 435.750 MHz has not yet been heard, the transponder is partially operational a...