Amateur Radio Newsline™ Report 1798 – January 27 2012 Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1798 with a release date of January 27th, 2012 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a Q-S-T. The FCC nixes a waiver request from Anchorage VEC that would have lead to instant re-licensing of ham... full article...

I though this was an interesting article that I found online! -- Dustin 84487 That’s how it’s done: R. Joseph Marcus, Director, Training, Indian Institute of Hams, demonstrating the use of Ham equipment at the National Youth Festival in Mangalore. Photo: Renuka Phadnis At the National Yout... full article...

The Chibis-M microsatellite, also known as RS-39 (RadioSputnik 39), was jettisoned from the Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft Tuesday evening (UTC). The satellite is designed to study atmospheric phenomena such as Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs) associated with lightning. RS-39 has CW beacons... full article...

Record set at Winter Hill The Port Lincoln Times reports that Rex Moncur VK7MO achieved an Australian amateur radio 10 GHz record last week of 843 kilometres by using aircraft reflections. The newspaper reports: Amateur radio enthusiast Rex Moncur set an Australian record last week, sending... full article...

SumbandilaSat beyond repair The defenceWeb site reports that South Africa’s second satellite, SumbandilaSat (SO-67), is no longer fulfilling its main purpose due to technical problems. Rob Olivier, head of Business Development at SunSpace, told defenceWeb that although contact can still be mad... full article...

RS-39 Chibis-M deploys tonight RS-39 will be deployed at around 23:18:30 UT on Tuesday, January 24, and radio amateurs are asked to send reception reports. RS-39 has CW beacons on 435.315 and 435.215 MHz that can be received directly by schools and colleges for educational outreach purposes. ... full article...

ARISSat-1 Voice Messages Mike DK3WN has collected and posted the audio files that we heard from the ARISSat-1 project. This is a wonderful piece of amateur satellite history! All 25 international greetings are there, including Yuri Gagarin talking to his ground crew during his historic flight... full article...

Disturbed solar conditions We are currently experiencing very disturbed solar conditions, which should create some interesting propagation over the next day or so. A large CME hit Sunday, which resulted in visible aurora being spotted in Northern UK/Scotland last night, but there is more to co... full article...