📌 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 2008-2011 and updated with current information, offer valuable insights for both contesters new and old. *** Welcome back to Contesting 101. In the last installment, we covered basic antennas…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: twiar.net — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originaleNASA wrote off the IMAGE satellite in 2005. Twelve years later an amateur in British Columbia, hunting for a classified spysat, found it still transmitting. That’s not even the strangest comeback on this list.

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: twiar.net — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originaleThe Federal Communications Commission voted July 22 to push satellite operators out of more C-band…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: daily.hamweekly.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale The Kuwaiti satellite QMR-KWT-2 will transmit special SSTV images celebrating the 5 year launch anniversary of the QMR-KWT-1 satellite. QMR-KWT 2 builds on the achievements of QMR-KWT 1, which was launched in 2021 as Kuwait’s first education-oriented CubeSat mission. That earlier project provided students with hands-on exposure to satellite development and operations, laying the groundwork for the expanded capabilities of the second mission….

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: twiar.net — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originaleLaunched in 2014, Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft completed its primary asteroid sample return mission all the…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: worldwidedx.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Hello Team, I was troubleshooting low drive of Turner Plus Three when used with Drake TR-4. The issue was that I had to dial mic preamp and rx gain on the radio to the maximum to get reasonable RF output on the wattmeter. The transceiver was working just fine with Shure 444, so the issue was definitely the Turner mic. I replaced all…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: daily.hamweekly.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Technical papers are sought for the Proceedings of the (second annual) Zero Retries Digital Conference (ZRDC) 2026, to be held at the Roundhouse Conference Center in San Ramon, California, USA on Friday, October 16, 2026. This coincides with the first day of Pacificon 2026. ZRDC 2026 is being hosted by the Zero Retries newsletter. Papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: amsat.org — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale AMSAT News Service ANS-207 July 26, 2026 In this edition: * HamGPT Launches Personal AI Copilot for Amateur Radio * Young Ham of the Year Recognition for Satellite Operator * FireSat Constellation Launches First Operational Satellites to Transform Wildfire Tracking * Amateur Radio and UmKA-1 (RS-40S) Satellite Celebrates “Day of the Moon” * HAMQ: The All-in-One iPhone Powerhouse for Satellite and Portable Ops…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: amateurradio.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originaleAPRS On the Air Let’s create a new Amateur Radio activity and supporting software that brings the activator-and-chaser game of Parks on the Air and Summits on the Air to APRS. K0TFU China is using Ham Radio in its territorial claim over the South China Sea An article goes into great depths to use decisions […]

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale As you work DX, you will eventually find yourself needing DXCC entities where there are either no ham radio operators or no permanent population of people—period. This gap is what most DXpeditions try to fill, bringing an amateur radio presence on the air so the community at large can work it. Everyone hears them on the air and likely sees the teams’ latest…