📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Editor’s Note: OnAllBands is pleased to post a series of articles written by accomplished amateur radio contester and DX Engineering customer/technical support specialist Kirk Pickering, K4RO. The articles, originally published in the National Contest Journal from 2008-11 and updated with current information, offer valuable insights for both contesters new and old. *** I’ve been off the air again lately, this time due to a lightning…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: rsgb.org — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originaleThe presentation This webinar briefly traces amateur radio satellite communication from the early OSCAR missions to today’s CubeSats, with a practical example of a FUNcube-1 telemetry ground station, building satellite trackers and antenna rotators. It looks ahead to future FUNcube developments, FUNcube+ and missions such as Jovian-1, whilst also considering how radio amateurs are now […]

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: worldwidedx.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale To those with lots of experience who have stayed “active” through all the years……… When the solar cycles hit “rock bottom”…….. does 11m do anything at all??? Ever???? Or is it “flat dead”!!!!!!!!!! I was just sitting here thinking about antenna topics and one of them is NVIS (near vertical incident skywave). This tends to happen when antennas are mounted “closer to the…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: amateurradio.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Before the DX Engineering radial plateThe vertical antenna I have is the Hustler 4BTV, which gives me 10–40m, and I am very happy with its performance. One shortfall for me is the method this antenna uses to fasten the ground radials. At the b…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale If you stopped by to see the latest from DX Engineering at Dayton Hamvention® 2026, it wasn’t hard to spot the Momobeam booth at the end of one of DX Engineering’s rows in Building One at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio—especially if you were in the market for a high-performance HF directional antenna. (Image/DX Engineering) Why was this…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: amsat.org — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale AMSAT News Service ANS-228August 16, 2026 In this edition: * Call for Presentations: 44th AMSAT Space Symposium* AMSAT CubeSatSim Featured in QST Magazine* More AMSAT Contests and Awards* Norwegian Amateurs Experiment with Satellite Voice Control* ARISS Receives Challenger-7 Recognition* Voting Still in Progress for Board of Directors* Satellite DXpedition To The Bahamas This Week* Changes to AMSAT TLE Distribution for August 14, 2026*…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: arrl.org — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale A brand-new young ham in Arizona got more than he was expecting after passing his amateur radio Technician class license exam earlier this month. Along with getting his call sign, KM7HFU, from the FCC, 10-year-old Reynaldo Mangual was presented by the Maricopa Amateur Radio Association (MARA) with an almost-new Yaesu FT-857D HF/VHF/UHF multimode transceiver, an LDG YT-100 automatic antenna tune…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale For the last several years, my emphasis in amateur radio has been on activating parks for the National Parks on the Air (NPOTA), Parks on the Air® (POTA), and World Wide Flora & Fauna (WWFF) programs. While I maintain a station at home, it seems to be used surprisingly rarely. Run by the ARRL in 2016, the National Parks on the Air program…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale The proposed federal legislation prevents HOAs from enacting restrictive antenna rules. Use the link in the article to send your letters of support. It’s quick, easy, and will make a difference. Also, we’ve included a link at the bottom so non-hams can send letters as well. *** If you haven’t done so already, now’s an important time to let your representatives in Washington,…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale For today’s product spotlight, we turn to the amateur radio experts at Hamplus, a Brazilian company founded by Celso, PP5CFS, and Marcus, PP5MS. The company’s well-built and smartly engineered products have been making the operation of multi-antenna stations simpler and more convenient for contesters and DX enthusiasts since 2008. DX Engineering is the exclusive North American distributor of Hamplus amateur radio gear. Find…