GBARC Forum
Amateur Radio Weekly 10FEB2024 - Printable Version

+- GBARC Forum (https://www.gbarc.ca/ForumBB)
+-- Forum: Amateur Radio (https://www.gbarc.ca/ForumBB/forumdisplay.php?fid=5)
+--- Forum: NEWS (https://www.gbarc.ca/ForumBB/forumdisplay.php?fid=23)
+---- Forum: Radio News (https://www.gbarc.ca/ForumBB/forumdisplay.php?fid=54)
+---- Thread: Amateur Radio Weekly 10FEB2024 (/showthread.php?tid=1134)



Amateur Radio Weekly 10FEB2024 - Richard VE3OZW - 2024-02-10

[Image: arw-header-700.gif]

Issue 318 February 10th, 2024


Top links

The first Amateur Radio station on the Moon is now transmitting
The JAXA Ham Radio Club (JHRC), JQ1ZVI, secured Amateur Radio license JS1YMG for LEV-1, which has been transmitting Morse code on 437.41 MHz.
ARRL

Someone stole a Jasper radio station's 200-foot tower
"We're down here and the tower's gone."
AL.com

AMSAT CubeSatSim beta release
The official release of the new Beta CubeSatSim hardware and software is finally here.
AMSAT

Exploring SATNOG
A revolutionary approach to satellite ground stations.
N1JUR

Visiting VOA Site B
K4RLC tours the Edward R. Murrow Transmitting Station.
QRPer

Common CW abbreviations
A list of common abbreviations used in CW communications.
VE3IPS

FOSDEM 2024 videos now available
Synthetic aperture WiFi RADAR, GPU DSP acceleration, and more.
RTL-SDR

Will large satellite constellations affect Earth's magnetic field?
It will coat the stratosphere and ionosphere with metal aerosols at levels never seen before.
Hackaday

Magic Band Revealed
Jim Wilson K5ND recently completed the third edition of the book Magic Band Revealed.
K0NR

Taking the hiss out of QO-100
Even though the signals are mostly 59-59+15dB the background hiss is very pronounced and gets very tiring after a while.
M0AWS

Those darn wall-wart power supplies
It takes some of the legal liability burden off manufacturers if their product is powered by one of these adapters that isolates the somewhat dangerous 120 VAC from their equipment.
Radio World


Video

Radio Interface Board - Sneak peek
A pre-production sample of the DigiPi Hat from ELEKITSORPARTS. This is the first solder-less way to hookup your dual-band rig to a Raspberry Pi.
KM6LYW

Ham Radio Magic Tarp Antenna
As stealth as they come.
HamJazz