Geocities is closing on October 26 2009, and with it many ham radio related web sites will be lost. Currently Google index has 31,300,000 pages hosted on Geocieties.com and in particular, 6000+ pages related to Amateur Radio and 4000+ pages related to the Ham Radio keyword. This will mean that a large quantity of knowledge…
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Ham Radio and Earthquake in italy
At 01.39 GMT of 6 April 2009 a big earthquake has destroyed many villages around L’Aquila not too far from Rome. At time writing, over 150 deads and 1500 injured are reported by medias, along to tens thousands of people that will have to spend many night without coming back to their houses. Ham Radio…
QSL.net is moving
The K3TKJ world wide famous free web hosting service, QSL.NET and QTH.NET is going to be relocated elsewhere. Started in late 1996 by Alan Waller, the domain, host thousands of radio related informations, from personal home pages, to club sites, technical articles, and lot’s of valuable ham radio related documentation. The new owner will be…
Megahertz-Magazine QRT
After 26 years “Megahertz Magazine” one of the oldest printed magazine an amateur radio in France, close. At the home page, the editor explain reasons of QRT, and one of main causes, along to the increasing costs of productiond and postage is the influce of Internet on the world wide business of amateur radio. According…
WebSDR: a Tunable Virtual Radio from Holland
That’s become a funny game during our last local net on 2 meters. The screenshot you can see here behind is an online tunable radio working on 80 40 and 20 meters band from Holland. We did enjoy comparing the delay beetween our receivers and the live feed coming form this web radio, and it…
Italy extend 40 meters band
Starting from 13th May Italian Minister of Telecomunications announced that the frequencies between 7100 Khz and 7200 khz have been assigned to the amateur radio service in secondary status with a power limit of 24dBW (251 W EIRP!). Italian hams were expecting the extension of the 40 meters band starting from 29th March 2009, but…
IRAQ: Ham Radio operators keep hobby alive
An interesting article on Iraqui amateur radio operators condition has been published on the Los Angeles Times. Many Iraqui hams have dismissed their stations because initially either US troops and Iraqui police were supicous that their transmissions are a tool of the insurgency. During the Saddam period however looks like things were not so much…
AMSAT UK Site Hacked !
Surfing the net this evening, I jumped into the AMSAT UK site looking for satellite informations. The site reuslts hacked as you can see in above picture. A quick jump to archive.org revealed that the amsat site has been implemented using Joomla a popular open source content management system that too very often release security…
Yaesu to be acquired by Motorola !
Motorola announced today the intention to acquire 80% of Yaesu parent company Vertex Standard. Current owner will remain with 20% forming a joint venture. Who knows if this merge will offer Yaesu technical development new founds and resources to be implemented in next generation Yaesu products, or if this merge will sign the decline of…
DXTuners is back
DXTuners is back online. After this spring shutdown, looks like the system is starting up again, maybe thanks to Kelly SM0NHC or maybe not. This is not clear yet. Looks like this new system will host selected remote stations only and subscription will be free of charge.