SumbandilaSat amateur radio operation may resume soon Ingenuity and innovation by the SumbandilaSat ground control team has resulted in bringing the satellite back to life with a real possibility that Amateur Radio communication may resume next month while the satellite is in sunlight. The gro... full article...

On November 18, the FCC released a Report and Order (R&O), defining new rules for the 60 meter (5 MHz) band. These rules are in response to a Petition for Rulemaking (PRM) filed by the ARRL more than five years ago and a June 2010 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). In the February 3 edition of th... full article...

While two hurdles still remain to be cleared, the effort to gain a new amateur medium frequency (MF) allocation reached a major milestone on Thursday, February 2 at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) in Geneva, Switzerland. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumn... full article...

IARU Special WRC Report No. 2 Rod Stafford W6ROD, Secretary International Amateur Radio Union, has released a further report on WRC-12 taking place in Geneva. The procedures used by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) before and during a World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) se... full article...

K1JT addresses World Radiocommunication Conference Professor Joe Taylor, amateur radio operator K1JT and 1993 Nobel laureate in physics, briefly addressed the plenary session of the 2012 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 3, 2012. Afterwards, he was awa... full article...

WorldRadio founder Armond Noble, N6WR, Silent Key Armond Noble, N6WR, founder and publisher of WorldRadio magazine for 37 years, died February 1 in Sacramento, California after a short illness. Noble, publisher of Sacramento-based International Travel News magazine, was hospitalized about two ... full article...

Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1799 – February 3 2012 Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1799 with a release date of February 3rd, 2012 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a Q-S-T. Amateur radio is still live and well at WRC 2012; an Arizona ham files a petition with the FCC to exp... full article...

On Session’s Third Day, NGO Committee Recommends 15 Organizations for Special Consultative Status with Economic and Social Council, Postpones Action on 45 The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations continued its consideration of new applications for consultative status with the Economic and ... full article...