30th Clipperton DX Club Hamvention

It is the Poitou-Charente area and more particularly the town of Chasseneuil du Poitou which will accomodate this year the 30th annual meeting of the Clipperton DX Club. We will meet there on September 19th & 20th at the Campanile...

12/07/2008 | 83 Hits | Print | Email | Read more...

9M1 stations during the upcoming Asia-Pacific JOTA event

18 different 9M1 stations will hit the airwaves during the upcoming Asia-Pacific JOTA event on Aug 2/3. The scouts will activate their callsigns again during the World JOTA on Oct 18/19. They were spotted first on May 17/18. More details can...

28/07/2008 | 81 Hits | Print | Email | Read more...

California Hands-Free law to go into effect July 1

CALIFORNIA HANDS-FREE LAW TO GO INTO EFFECT JULY 1; HAM RADIO NOT AFFECTED SAYS COUNSEL A new California hands-free cellular telephone law goes into effect July 1, 2008. It, like many others around the country, prohibits using...

21/06/2008 | 58 Hits | Print | Email | Read more...

CEPT says NO to U.S. Tech & General

U-S hams who want to operate in countries that have CEPT universal licensing and want to use that reciprocal system had better hold an Advanced or Extra class license. I'm Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, with word that the European Conference of...

10/02/2008 | 167 Hits | Print | Email | Read more...

China to launch new HAMSAT in 2009

AMSAT says that China will likely launch a new ham radio satellite in 2009. The ham radio space agency says that it has received a report from Michael Chen, BD5RV, that indicates the CAS-1 amateur radio bird has completed its IARU frequency...

04/06/2008 | 111 Hits | Print | Email | Read more...