A Russian MAI-SSTV event is planned from the International Space Station for Wednesday, June 5 from 12:00-16:00 GMT and June 6 from 11:30-15:30 GMT

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In this Contesting edition of NewsWest, we have information on the Trans-Tasman, the IARU HF, the Winter VHF/UHF field day, the VK Shires, Remembrance Day and the International Lighthouse lightship weekend, a full bag

Earth is about to have a close encounter with a meteoroid swarm

AMSAT-UK reports their amateur radio payload on the ESEO satellite has been activated

In the only contested Section Manager election this spring, ARRL members in Utah have re-elected Mel Parkes, NM7P, as Section Manager for a new 2-year term of office that starts on July 1

The first Opera contact, via QO-100, reported by EA5DOM. Probably, the first Opera transmission on this bird, Works like a charm

VERON reports the Netherland's communications regulator Agentschap Telecom has given tips on preventing interference from solar panels

The BBC reports that at the North West 200 event there were more than 150 medical and amateur radio personnel on the ground

The IET Archives tell the story of Belfast's Eric C.S. Megaw 6MU / GI6MU in the field of amateur radio during the 1920s

WN.com reports Radio News was an American monthly technology magazine published from 1919 to 1971

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands

Not a bad week at all. Still the Spanish AM70 stations are dominating things. I’m up to 65 th in the UK, still needing AM70L and AM70P on ten metres (on FT8 of course). A couple of weeks to go yet. Just got my Gold certificate, some way to go for the Platinum!

Moonraker is pleased to announce that it has secured an agreement with MFJ Enterprises to distribute its products in the UK and Europe

At the 2019 Hamvention, DARC announced the availability of the wonderful Rothammel’s Antenna Book into English

Around the Arctic Circle, VHF radio signals are starting to echo from Earth's upper atmosphere--a phenomenon called 'Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes.'

The Hindu reports members of Amateur Radio Society of Odisha (ARSO) want the state government to promote amateur radio

The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and IK1SLD, located in northern Italy. The contact will be audible in Europe on 145.800 MHz. Moreover, the event will be web streamed by the telebridge station

Newsweek reports Morse Code is 175 years old and still as useful as ever

An International Space Station school contact has been planned for David St-Jacques KG5FYI with participants at Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada on Monday 27 May, 2019