Two important deadlines are approaching for AMSAT's 2010 Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting being held on Friday, October 8 through Sunday, October 10

So far AREC (Amateur Radio Emergency Communications) volunteers have not been required in any major way to assist, following the earthquake that hit Christchurch in New Zealand

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, at 0435 hours (NZ local time), 4 September 2010. Several aftershocks of between magnitude 3.9 and 5.2 have occurred and more aftershocks are expected

A sad end to the search for a Glendale, Arizona, radio ham who went missing in mid August

AP2AUM from the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society reports that emergency communications support has been extended in the past week to include three more villages

Claims continue to steadily arrive for this limited edition operating award celebrating the Centenary of Organised Amateur Radio in Australia with more than 160 now issued

Solar conditions still continue to be fairly poor. As I write this on 3 September there are sunspots, but the solar flux is stubbornly in the mid to high 70s. There have been auroral conditions over the past few days and we can expect to see more unsettled conditions as the cycle progresses

Hynix will start manufacturing Memristors first demonstrated by HP in 2006. It will be the first time this new circuit component has been mass produced

A new Network Affiliated RAYNET Group is being formed in the mid-Pennine region of Lancashire

Over this past week four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29

A come and try ARDF event will be held at Sherrardspark Wood near Welwyn Garden City on Sunday 12 September

Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:

The following is a situation report from the Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section on Hurricane Earl. The good news is that Earl has weakened to a Category-1 hurricane. The other good news is that its track remains on target with ...

 The Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) organization has a new “interim” Chief. Outgoing USAF MARS Chief Allen Eiermann, K3LSR, retired at the end of May and was replaced by TSgt Jason E. Sandifer. Sandifer is a systems manager stationed at the Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC) at Scott AFB, Illinois. AFNIC is the headquarters of the national Air Force MARS organization...

Over this past week, four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1, two new sunspot groups -- 1103 and 1104 -- appeared, and on September 2, sunspot group 1105 arrived. Through August 26-September 2, the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51 and 52 and these same eight days saw the relative total ...

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ makes plans for emergency communications of the hurricane variety.  

As I write this, Connecticut and the Northeast are looking down the barrel of Hurricane Earl. It looks like my neck of the woods will only receive a glancing, but powerful blow, but points south and east of us will not be so lucky.

Having lived through direct hits fro...

The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea are to undergo constitutional status changes next month and result in a four new DXCC entities

In 1949 the 5 metre band (56 MHz) was taken away from UK Radio Amateurs and allocated to TV broadcasting

The Wednesday, September 1, edition of the BBC2 TV show Coast is now on the web and features an attempt to recreate the original war-winning experiment which proved that radar would work

The forthcoming Spratly Islands DXpedition is looking for some extra operators

ICPO - Islands, Castles and Portable Operations. Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet