Category: Hamfest

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• New Summer EURAO Party to Premier FT4 July 19, 2019
• HAL Communications Cofounder, President Bill Henry, K9GWT, SK July 19, 2019
  A cofounder and later president of HAL Communications, George W. “Bill” Henry, Jr., of Monticello, Illinois, died on July 17. An ARRL Life Member, he was 78. HAL Communications formally got its start in 1972 among hams and graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana, but the company’s history goes back a few […]
• EME SSTV Lunar Landing Commemorative Event Set July 19, 2019
  Moonbounce enthusiasts are invited to take part in a commemorative Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) slow-scan television (SSTV) party on 23 centimeters, marking the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing. The event gets under way at 2300 UTC on Saturday, July 20, at PI9CAM in the Netherlands. “We will start to transmit several lunar landing-related images on 1296.110 […]
• Scouts Attending World Scout Jamboree Set to Talk with Space Station via Ham Radio July 19, 2019
  Thousands of Scouts from some 160 countries who will attend the 24th World Scout Jamboree this summer in West Virginia will have the chance to witness an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact during their stay. The theme of the World Scout Jamboree, which opens on Monday, July 22, is "Unlock a […]
• The K7RA Solar Update July 19, 2019
  Very low solar activity continues. Over the past week, average daily solar flux changed insignificantly from 67.1 to 67. There were no sunspots.Average daily planetary A index changed from 8.4 to 5.9, while mid-latitude A index changed from 8.6 to 6.7. Conditions remain quiet.Predicted solar flux is 68 on July 19-26, and 67 on July […]