2025-12-06, 13:46:20
This is V_3___, Official Bulletin Station for Radio Amateurs of Canada with this week's bulletin.
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. YOTA Month 2025 event participation in the Americas
This special event is sponsored by IARU Region 1 YOTA (Europe/Africa/Middle East/Parts of Asia).
They are sponsoring an award for working YOTA stations all around the world.
Stations located within the Americas include:
In the USA: K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A
In Canada: VE3YOTA and VE7YOTA
In Mexico: 4AØYOA
In Curacao: PJ2YOTA
In Argentina: LT4YOTA
Stations will have the callsign suffix YOTA, except for the USA stations.
-- youthontheair.org website
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. LINK CONFIRMED BETWEEN RADIO EMISSIONS, AURORAS
Scientists have just made a new discovery about what exactly makes them happen - and curiously,
it's radio!
Scientists at the University of Southampton have confirmed what they consider to be an unmistakable
cause-and-effect relationship between radio emissions and sudden auroral eruptions.
The international team’s findings, have been published in the journal Nature Communications.
The researchers speculate that this will alter the means by which space weather is forecast.
According to published reports, the use of advanced ground-based observatories made it possible for
the researchers to detect and identify signature patterns of low-frequency radio wave emissions in the
magnetosphere that were immediately succeeded – repeatedly – by auroral explosions.
This discovery provides a missing piece for physicists who, until now, were never certain of the immediate
trigger behind the violent energy release that expresses itself as the northern and southern lights.
-- Travis Lisk N3ILS (via amateur radio newsline)
3. NEW RESTRICTIONS FOR SHORT-RANGE UHF RADIOS IN GERMANY
In Germany, amateur radio may get an unintended boost following major restrictions that the nation's
regulator has placed on the use of private mobile short-range hand-held radios known as PMR446.
PMR446, the popular short-range UHF radios enjoyed in much of Europe, could be enjoyed much less
in Germany this month after changes enacted by the regulator BNetZa. The regulator will prohibit
operators from using any external antennas with their radios and from using the radios as base stations.
PMR operators will also lose the ability to use their radios as repeaters or as Internet gateways -- two
functions widely available to amateur radio operators. The PMR radios, which operate on 16 frequencies
within the 446 MHz band, will be only be permitted to be used for so-called "peer-to-peer" mode.
Explaining these changes on his YouTube channel Funkwelle - the German word for "radio waves" -
Art Konze DL2ART told viewers that he expected PMR operating to drop off. He said that holders of the
new N-class entry level amateur licence have the ability to use relays and Internet gateways and can
communicate worldwide. Art reminded viewers that these changes closely follow similar restrictions
placed earlier this year on Freenet, Germany's licence-free personal mobile 2-way radio service.
-- Jeremy Boot G4NJH (via amateur radio newsline)
4. Current Canadian Special Event Callsigns
CALL Sponsor From To Event
VC9A VE9ACC 2025-12-01 2025-12-31 124th Anniversary of Marconi's 1901 Transmission
VE3YOTA VE3OMV 2025-12-01 2025-12-31 December Youth on the Air Month
VE7YOTA VE7VCK 2025-12-01 2025-12-31 December Youth on the Air Month
-- IC website
This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or clarifications?
Hearing none, This is V_3___ returning the frequency to net control.
Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager VA3PC
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. YOTA Month 2025 event participation in the Americas
This special event is sponsored by IARU Region 1 YOTA (Europe/Africa/Middle East/Parts of Asia).
They are sponsoring an award for working YOTA stations all around the world.
Stations located within the Americas include:
In the USA: K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A
In Canada: VE3YOTA and VE7YOTA
In Mexico: 4AØYOA
In Curacao: PJ2YOTA
In Argentina: LT4YOTA
Stations will have the callsign suffix YOTA, except for the USA stations.
-- youthontheair.org website
ONTARIO SECTION NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
2. LINK CONFIRMED BETWEEN RADIO EMISSIONS, AURORAS
Scientists have just made a new discovery about what exactly makes them happen - and curiously,
it's radio!
Scientists at the University of Southampton have confirmed what they consider to be an unmistakable
cause-and-effect relationship between radio emissions and sudden auroral eruptions.
The international team’s findings, have been published in the journal Nature Communications.
The researchers speculate that this will alter the means by which space weather is forecast.
According to published reports, the use of advanced ground-based observatories made it possible for
the researchers to detect and identify signature patterns of low-frequency radio wave emissions in the
magnetosphere that were immediately succeeded – repeatedly – by auroral explosions.
This discovery provides a missing piece for physicists who, until now, were never certain of the immediate
trigger behind the violent energy release that expresses itself as the northern and southern lights.
-- Travis Lisk N3ILS (via amateur radio newsline)
3. NEW RESTRICTIONS FOR SHORT-RANGE UHF RADIOS IN GERMANY
In Germany, amateur radio may get an unintended boost following major restrictions that the nation's
regulator has placed on the use of private mobile short-range hand-held radios known as PMR446.
PMR446, the popular short-range UHF radios enjoyed in much of Europe, could be enjoyed much less
in Germany this month after changes enacted by the regulator BNetZa. The regulator will prohibit
operators from using any external antennas with their radios and from using the radios as base stations.
PMR operators will also lose the ability to use their radios as repeaters or as Internet gateways -- two
functions widely available to amateur radio operators. The PMR radios, which operate on 16 frequencies
within the 446 MHz band, will be only be permitted to be used for so-called "peer-to-peer" mode.
Explaining these changes on his YouTube channel Funkwelle - the German word for "radio waves" -
Art Konze DL2ART told viewers that he expected PMR operating to drop off. He said that holders of the
new N-class entry level amateur licence have the ability to use relays and Internet gateways and can
communicate worldwide. Art reminded viewers that these changes closely follow similar restrictions
placed earlier this year on Freenet, Germany's licence-free personal mobile 2-way radio service.
-- Jeremy Boot G4NJH (via amateur radio newsline)
4. Current Canadian Special Event Callsigns
CALL Sponsor From To Event
VC9A VE9ACC 2025-12-01 2025-12-31 124th Anniversary of Marconi's 1901 Transmission
VE3YOTA VE3OMV 2025-12-01 2025-12-31 December Youth on the Air Month
VE7YOTA VE7VCK 2025-12-01 2025-12-31 December Youth on the Air Month
-- IC website
This concludes this week's bulletin. Does anyone require repeats or clarifications?
Hearing none, This is V_3___ returning the frequency to net control.
Bulletin sent from Official Bulletin Manager VA3PC