May 2012

RSGB in a busy time

Posted May 15, 2012

The Radio Society of Great Britain has formed a Centenary Working Group headed by Rob Harwood G0HRT who is now planning a number of events next year for the RSGB's 100 years.

This comes on top of its Queen?s Jubilee plus the Olympic and Paralympic Games which will use special callsigns this year.

The 2013 celebration may include Special Event Stations, local club events and other activities that reflect the hobby.

Rob G0HRT is seeking volunteers among the RSGB membership and may be contacted through centenary@rsgb.org.uk in relation to ideas and suggestions.

VK100WIQ ready for 100th birthday

Posted May 15, 2012

Queensland gears up to celebrate the Centenary of the WIA in Queensland and the main activities will be a combined special call VK100WIQ and Centenary Award from June 1 through to July 31.

The Centenary has its origins at a meeting organised in 1912, by Sydney Victor Colville, a Broadcast Radio Engineer who held the amateur callsign XQF. From that meeting came the establishment of the Wireless Institute in Queensland.

A three day block is available to clubs on an on-line roster system of VK100WIQ will be announced soon and contact with ten clubs will qualify for the award.

Design of the award certificate and VK100WIQ QSL card will be revealed soon. A highlight will be the WIA President?s Centenary Luncheon, on Saturday July 21, at the Hervey Bay RSL, Pialba.

This is to be followed on the Sunday with a free Centenary BBQ, by the Hervey Bay Amateur Radio Club, who members will put VK100WIQ on air.

USA starts thinking about its century

Posted May 13, 2012

Plans to commemorate the highlights of the ARRL's first century and looking forward to what the second century may bring has begun with a call by its President Kay Craigie N3KN for everyone to put on their thinking caps.

Its centennial is 2014 but suggestions for the event are now being encouraged from individuals and clubs to help make this once-in-a-lifetime event truly special.

Kay N3KN, who signed off the VK100WA centenary celebration of the WIA, said that there will be Centennial theme publications and special sections of regular publications are in the works.

Local radio clubs are encouraged to develop public relations events in 2014 that are both meaningful to amateurs in your area and that are also tied in to the observance of the ARRL's 100th birthday.

Those celebrations could celebrate the anniversary of a club's founding, mark an Amateur Radio-related event in local history or honour outstanding radio amateurs who have made a contribution.

The ARRL encourages them to highlight the technologies and applications that make Amateur Radio just as exciting for Americans today as it was for people 100 years ago.

Three hams headed for ISS

Posted May 13, 2012

NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission, carrying three radio amateurs to the International Space Station (ISS).

Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba KE5DAR, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka RN3DT and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin RN3BS will is subject of a televised session on May 14.

The three will return to earth in September. The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft launch is expected the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and it can all be seen at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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