The Philippines satellite Diwata 2 is coming alive – How a satellite is deployed, located, and tested Diwata-2 was launched on a Japanese H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center on October 29, 2018. It has an amateur radio payload providing APRS and Read more…
Year: 2018
IOTA News from OPDX…..
24 November, 2018 Island activities: NA-013. (Reminder) Operators Sergey/R4WAA, YL Elena/RC5A, Yan/RZ3FW, Yuri/RM0F and Yuri N3QQ members of the Russian Robinson Club, will be active as H7/R4WAA, H7/RC5A, YN4RRC, H7/RM0F and H7/N3QQ from Big Corn Island between November 26th and Read more…
DX News from the ARRL….
22 November, 2018 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. GEORGIA, Read more…
Solar Minimum conditions are in effect….
The sun is blank again today–the 191st day of 2018 that the sun has been without spots. To find a similar stretch of blank suns, you have to go back to 2009 when the sun was experiencing the deepest solar Read more…