HAM RADIO NEWS AND RELATED ARTICLES (ENGLISH)

ARISS event 1000th Anniversary

06.11.2015 09:46
15 Years of the Presence of amateur radio in space ...   Amateur radio activity on the International Space Station (ARISS) dialed thousand event in a chain that began 15 years ago when the program established its presence in space. The inaugural ARISS contact took place on 21 December...

Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio Payloads Among Those Lost in Launch Explosion

28.10.2014 23:11
The GOMX-2 and RACE CubeSats were among more than 2 dozen satellites that were lost after an unmanned Orbital Space Sciences (OSC) Antares 130 vehicle exploded spectacularly shortly after launch at 2222 UTC on Tuesday, October 28, from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island on...

ILEGAL HAM RADIO USE

28.03.2014 11:43
Here is a summary of distracted driving laws and pending legislation in New England as of March 20th, 2014. Currently the only New England state where mobile amateur radio operation is against the law is Connecticut as a result of tough changes quietly enacted in July 2013 that went into effect on...

Cuban Hams can use 60m band

26.01.2014 19:36
Faithful to their promise of a new universal 60m ham band in the last WRC, the Ministry of Communications of Cuba approved this January the access of Cuban hams to this new band. The law approved on January 20 of 2014, from the Ministry of Communications of Cuba allows the use of the spectrum...

FCC FINES CB RADIO OPERATOR

22.01.2014 03:42
 December 20. 2013 the FCC issued an NAL against an Oklahoma man for operating a radio transmitter from his home without permission from the FCC.   A local FCC Enforcement Bureau agent using direction finding techniques detected strong signals coming from a home in Oklahoma. The agent saw...

New, Higher FCC Vanity Call Sign Fee Pending for Mid-September

14.08.2013 17:21
A new FCC’s regulatory fee of $16.10 to apply for an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will become effective sometime in mid-September, when the new fee schedule appears in the Federal Register. (ARRL will report the exact date as soon as it becomes available.) The FCC earlier this year had...

FCC Should Retain Oversight of Equipment Certification Process, ARRL Says

14.08.2013 16:48
08/13/2013 In reply comments filed July 31 on an FCC proposal to alter its Part 2 equipment certification process, the ARRL suggests that the Commission not be so quick to delegate greater authority to private telecommunication certification bodies (TCBs). The FCC’s equipment...