Amateur Radio Daily
Amateur Radio Daily is an aggregate of notable news happening in the world of Ham Radio.
Fleet Week Special Event Station In Progress
May 27, 2023Fleet Week special event station W2F will be on the air May 24th through May 30th 2023.
Radio Operators from in and around NY and NJ will be operating throughout the week from various locations to celebrate the annual visit of ships to NY Harbor.
QSL cards will be available!
Source: QRZ open_in_new
Indy 500 Special Event Station In Progress
May 24, 2023The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Amateur Radio Club is operating a special event station, W9IMS, to celebrate the Indianapolis 500.
The special event is running May 22 through May 28, 2023.
W9IMS will operate SSB on or near: 3.840, 7.245, 14.245, 18.140, 21.350, 28.340, 50.140 and 146.52 simplex FM.
Certificates will be available! See their QRZ page for more details.
Source: QRZ open_in_new
CQ World Wide WPX CW Contest This Weekend
May 24, 2023The WPX CW Contest takes place May 27 and 28 and is based on an award offered by CQ Magazine for working all prefixes.
CQ WPX CW Contest Dates
- May 27 - 28, 2023
- Starts: 0000 UTC Saturday
- Ends: 2359 UTC Sunday
Source: CQ open_in_new
Amateur Radio Daily on HamClock
May 24, 2023If you're a HamClock user and utilizing the RSS feature, you'll soon notice news items being populated from this very website! Amateur Radio Daily is pleased to be added as an additional news source on HamClock.
HamClock is a "kiosk-style" application designed by WBØOEW that "provides real time space weather, radio propagation models, operating events and other information particularly useful to the radio amateur." HamClock comes with a very robust set of features and ham radio related data widgets that are all customizable.
Thanks to WBØOEW for the add.
Head over to the official HamClock website to learn more.
Source: HamClock open_in_new
ARRL Hamvention 2023 Roundup
May 23, 2023The ARRL has compiled a summary of events for each day of Hamvention, 2023. The roundups feature updates on FreeDV, HamSCI, ARES partnerships, Logbook of The World, Volunteers on the Air, and more.
Summary for Saturday, May 20th
Source: ARRL open_in_new
Belgium to get 40 MHz allocation
May 22, 2023The UBA proposes to grant the radio amateur service access to the frequency range 40.660 – 40.690 MHz under the following conditions:
- On a secondary basis
- For holders of a class A operating certificate (HAREC licence)
- A power limit of 5 W ERP
- A bandwidth limit of 3 kHz
- On individual basis, after prior approval from BIPT
- It is mandatory to keep a logbook in which all transmissions are noted
This is an important development as Belgium now joins Ireland (EI), Slovenia (S5) and South Africa (ZS) with official amateur radio allocations on the 40 MHz band.
Source: EI7GL open_in_new
Tevel Satellites Added to ARRL Logbook of the World
May 21, 2023The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has recently added the Tevel satellites, numbers one through eight, to the list of acceptable satellites in its widely used Logbook of the World (LoTW) online system. Those who have made contacts using these satellites may now upload those QSOs to LoTW for possible confirmation, if the other station has done likewise.
More information about the Tevel Satellites is available here from AMSAT-UK.
Source: AMSAT open_in_new
New Kenwood TH-D75A Appears at Hamvention
May 19, 2023Its offical the new #Kenwood TH-D75A at @hamvention #Hamvention2023 #Kenwood pic.twitter.com/16B3UGHVDd
— Frank (@KG5AHJ) May 19, 2023
Source: Twitter open_in_new
Special Event Station 4U100QO on QO-100
May 18, 2023DX-Adventure is proud to announce a partnership with the United Nations Amateur Radio Contest DX Club (ARCDXC). On May 18, 19, and 20 they will make the very first QO-100 connections from the United Nations – Vienna International Center.
During this activation, we will also be active on HF with the call sign 4U1A.
Source: AMSAT-UK open_in_new
Contest University Livestream from Dayton
May 18, 2023Contest University happening at the Hope Hotel in Dayton, Ohio will begin livestreaming at 8:00am EDT on Thursday 5/18/2023.
YouTube livestream and presentation schedule.
Source: Contest University open_in_new