Ham Video now installed and ready for commissioning The Ham Video transmitter has been installed in the Columbus module of the International Space Station March 6, 2014 at approximately 10.00 UTC. The transmitter was powered on briefly and all control LEDs were nominal. Ham Video is declared ready for... More...

172293Two close calls for ZACUBE-1 CubeSat The amateur radio ZACUBE-1 satellite, launched with FUNcube-1 on November 21, 2013, recently had two close encounters with space debris The ZACUBE-1 team have issued this press release: Week nine of the year will go down as quite an eventful week for ZACUBE-1... More...

AmateurRadio Newsline™ Report 1908 – March 7 2014 AmateurRadio Newsline report number 1908 with a release date of March 7,2014 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. Thefollowing is a QST. 200 tiny satellites to be orbited in one launch this month; the ARRLrequests member comments on digital High Frequency operations;... More...

http://arvideonews.com/hrn/Ham_Radio_Now_300.png HAMRADIONOW.tv Episode 135: WW8N Tower Case or So You Want to Put Up a Tower... Good Luck With That A couple of weeks ago a story appeared on QRZ.com about the WW8N tower court case. Gary Wodtke WW8N sued his Ohio village when it denied him a variance... More...

OSCAR-11 / UOSAT-2 celebrates 30 years in orbit UOSAT-OSCAR-11 has now been in orbit for 30 years and remarkably its signal on 145.826 MHz FM (AFSK 1200 bps ASCII) is still being received. OSCAR-11, also known as UOSAT-2, was designed and built by a team of engineers at the University of Surrey in Guildford,... More...

The ARRL Letter March 6, 2014 Rick Lindquist, WW1ME, Editor The ARRL Letter on the ARRL website.] Your League: ARRL Board Requests Member Comments about Digital Modes ARRL Centennial: W1AW Centennial Operations Now in Idaho and Kentucky Science and Technology: Ham Radio Will Play a Role in "HI-SEAS"... More...

BBC TV: The Wave MessengersBeginning at the turn of the 20th century, Radio Officers manned the airwaves for almost 100 years. They were only replaced with satellite based systems towards the end of the last century. Ex R.O. Hamish Taylor of Harris guides us through this programme which seeks to recognise... More...

Let us hope this is not the beginning of the end: http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/news/companies/radioshack-store-closings/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Dan, K7DAN and VR2HF ... More...