AMSAT has received news from Japan that JARL/JAMSAT are collaborating with the Japanese University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) to send an amateur radio payload into a Venus transfer orbit with the primary JAXA Planet-C Venus Orbiter mission planned for May, 2010

The Novice Historical Society was founded to preserve the Novice experience which they consider as an important aspect of the history of amateur radio in the USA

An RSGB Train the Trainers session, hosted by the Sutton and Cheam Radio Society, will take place on Sunday 8 Feb in Banstead, Surrey

Special Event Station NI6IW can again be heard from the USS MIDWAY (CV41) Radio Room on January 10, 2009 from 1700Z - 0059Z to commemorate two historic events

Thanks in part to the AO-51 command team's support, activity in OSCAR SKN 2009 seemed at an all-time high

SolderSmoke! A show for electronics homebrewers!

The ISS has been operating with an uplink of 1269.650 MHz and downlink of 145.800 MHz. There have been many QSO's via this repeater mode along with interesting reports about doppler effects, signal strength etc

Hamas has accused Israel of interrupting its radio and television broadcasts in Gaza as Israel’s military offensive entered its second week. "The enemy is trying to break our frequencies… do not listen to this," said a broadcast on Al-Aqsa radio

Members of the 'French Polar Team' have been putting together some interesting information/pictures (with music) of the different polar and sub-Antarctic regions

Tom, K8CX, has done it again. He has provided DXers with 120 memorable DX sound clips from 2008

The E44M Palestine DXpedition is now active until January 11th. hey will have 3 stations on the air active with beams, verticals and wire antennas

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW

A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

On Saturday 3 January 2009, students invited by Technopolis Science Center located in Mechelen, Belgium, enjoyed a space talk with ISS Commander Michael Fincke, KE5AIT

Hal Lund, ZS6WB, reports that arrangements for the Namibian VHF and Satellite DXpedition are on track. There are still a few loose ends that need to be taken care of before the team leaves on Tuesday morning, the 6th of January

In 2006, Radio Shack announced that the company would no longer sell amateur radio gear. But back in 1930's the 'shack' was one of the prime mail order suppliers of ham radio gear and accessories. Now an animated 1939 Radio Shack catalogue is on-line for you to browse

Wythall Radio Club, near Birmingham will be running a 5-week Intermediate Licence course commencing Tuesday 27th January

The expected solar activity will be very low. The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet levels. The expected effective sun spot number for the coming week will be less than 5

Hamfest India 2009 is being conducted in Bangalore, South India, the Ham Capital of India on 7 - 8 November 2009

A great ham radio event has been revived that will provide a weekend of fun and excitement to every ham that participates