From MRHS:The National Park Service has notifed MRHS President Richard Dillman that the annual Night of Nights event can be run in the Park, and that limited staff access is permitted to ready station equipment and facilities for the event. It is a major milestone to return to BL and RS for Night of Nights, but we must operate under strict guidelines with limited numbers of vaccinated crew at

From MRHS: Special Bulletin 8/27/2020   MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 29 October 2020   "Special Edition" Dedicated to the True Believers Worldwide Executive summary:Call sign - WRJG440 Frequencies 8438.3, 12993.0 Mode - CW Power -  1 kw Date - Saturday 31 October Time - 1000 PDT/ 1700Z Duration - 2-

Usual time, 0001 UTC as July 12 turns into the 13th, but on amateur frequencies. From "RD:" Night of Nights 12 July When: Sunday, 12 July 2020 Description: Night of Nights http://www.radiomarine.org/ 12 July every year. The first transmission will be at 0501pm Pacific time (0000 UTC 13 July). As most True Believers probably know by now, the Point Reyes National Seashore has closed the park

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Some people got pretty upset about this.&nbsp; The fact is, however, that sdr.hu was only peripherally involved with KiwiSDR. The receivers incorporate code built on a fork of its owner's earlier OpenWebRX program, for which he gets compensation.&nbsp; There are four other ways to get to the receivers without logins, brain-melting CAPTCHAs, and requirements that you have a ham call or make one up

Noble Skywave is an interesting global military exercise, which is run in the manner of a ham radio contest. Teams get points for each HF contact, and distance counts. It is run out of Canada They do it every year in the fall "DX Season." The aim is to develop HF interoperability proficiency. The Canadian Forces Joint Signal Regiment (CFJSR) is the lead. Typical participants include regular,

IARU: The CEPT Conference Preparatory Group met this week in Ankara, Turkey. Items of interest to the amateur service which were finalised were: - Agreement to a European Common Proposal (ECP) on allocating 50-52 MHz to the amateur service in Region 1 on a secondary basis with a footnote listing those countries where the amateur service will have a primary allocation in the band 50-50.5

20 meters has been wretched today due to a persistent geomagnetic storm. Instead of the usual daytime 14325 kHz USB, they are using 7268 kHz LSB. Signals are good into the US East Coast. One amateur relayed an emergency station setting up in Nassau, Bahamas. The message was that the weather station is destroyed, and the US consulate evacuated. It also appears that Internet weather stations in

You can still hear them. A UDXF member reports hearing NOAA 42 on 8918.00 kHz, working New York oceanic ATC on the Caribbean (CAR) MWARA net. This is a WP-3 operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the "weather bureau"). The pilot reported that he was going operational below 15,000 feet. Sometimes the USAF "Hurricane Hunters" come up on these frequencies.&nbsp; Their

The heroic True Believers of KPH have made some more transmitting antennas active after the damage last winter. Here is the revised frequency list for Night of Nights XX, which begins tomorrow (US time) at the traditional 0001 UTC. That's July 13 on the Prime Meridian, but still July 12 (local time/date) in North America, including at the station location in Point Reyes National Seashore. The

That is the question, and the answer will come at this year's WARC-19 and the future WARC-23. The re-allocation of the entire two meter band was not widely opposed at a European meeting, when France brought up a Thales proposal to use it for some kind of commercial airband cellular service. As we know only too well, governments consider corporations to be more important than people, and they

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With the government shutdown over, the National Park Service has re-opened the KPH receive building to normal use. All call signs should be on-air this Saturday. But, as always, there's a catch.&nbsp; A strong storm took down trees, destroying a number of feedlines to antennas. The damage includes broken poles and snapped wires, and generally it's a mess. Repairs will take time and cost money.

Here's a screen shot from about 15 minutes ago, on the 12 MHz frequency via the SDR at KPH using the big TCI antenna in a low-noise location.&nbsp; Faxes received in this manner usually print just fine, so the problem is not caused by remote Internet reception. Note the extremely noisy signal, the downward displacement of the white tone, the absence of a black tone, and the distortion

For several weeks now, all NOJ radiofax transmissions from USCG in Kodiak, AK have been off-frequency and severely distorted. It's possible to get something resembling a chart by tuning to wherever the white frequency is at the moment, but even then it's fuzzy at best.&nbsp; Signal strength is not the problem, because the distortion happens on all frequencies and time slots, regardless of the

The Russian "Squeaky Wheel" marker has been around for many years.&nbsp; It's a channel marker for a military network. It used to be designated XSW, but then Russian voice traffic appeared, and it was changed to S32. Today, however, the sound has changed, at least for now.&nbsp; It's now three audio frequencies instead of two, so the "wheel" really needs oil. This spectrogram was made from the U

I sent my column in this morning, so it was time for something important to happen. It always does after I don't have time to put it in. This time, it's HFDL rolling out System Table number 51.&nbsp; It adds a new ground station, number 10.&nbsp; The coordinates, return to a site in southwestern Korea. The Google Earth image is a bit old, but it does show a definite antenna farm under

This affects both 490 and 518 kHz. Kerkya is using the same letters and time slots. The only differences are the transmitter location and government operators. This notice was transmitted in NAVTEX bulletin KA69: ZCZC KA69 051500 UTC NOV 18 KERKYRA RADIO NAVWARN 216/18 ITALIAN NAVTEX STATION SELLIA MARINA (V) OFF AIR HELLENIC NAVTEX STATION KERKYRA (K) HAS ASSUMED RESPONSIBILITY BROADCASTING

Your radio isn't busted.&nbsp; A variety of events affecting the Earth's magnetic field have caused one of the longest geomagnetic storms in recent memory.&nbsp; The K index has reached 7 on a number of occasions in the last three days, and this is expected to continue on and off.&nbsp; K is back to 7 as of this writing.&nbsp; Surface events such as ground currents in Norway have taken place. We