Month: October 2018

15 October, 2018 Island activities: IOTA ANNOUNCEMENT. Roger Balister, G3KMA, announced that at the 2018 RSGB Convention 6 new IOTA groups that would be added to the IOTA Directory. The new IOTAs are as follows: EU-192 [SM/OH] – Kataja Island Read more…

At approximately 05:00 on Monday 11 November 1918, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage of Marshall Foch’s special train located in the forest at Rethondes in France on the western front. At 11:00 on this Monday, 11 November Read more…

Ken Oelke, VE6AFO, stepped up to the plate for his local amateur radio club and ended up making leadership in local and national Canadian amateur radio organizations the major focus of his ham radio activity. Ken is now the president Read more…

10/11/2018 The International Amateur Radio Union Monitoring Service (IARUMS) reports interference on 40 meters from various Russian sources. The Russian coastal over-the-horizon (OTH) radar “Sunflower” was very active on 40 meters and audible in Europe in the evenings, transmitting FM Read more…