Today, the 27 July, is your last chance to catch the IP1X team which is active from Gallinara Island, EU-083. The team is using CW and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL via OQRS, via the Bureau or directly to IU1JCZ. More information is available at QRZ.com Red, DL1BUG is active as TY5FR […]
Today, the 27 July, the UK Microwave Group 5.7 and 10GHz Contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC. Using all modes on 5.7 and 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The RSGB IOTA Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday the 26 July and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday 27 July. Using CW […]
It was a bit of a mixed bag last week. The first half saw settled geomagnetic conditions, but from the 22 July we had a disturbance thanks to output from a solar coronal hole. This saw the Kp index rise to 4.67 and ultimately 5. The stream from the Sun reached around 730 kilometres per […]
Meetings of Bolsover Amateur Radio Society take place on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Please note the change of venue. The club now meets at Hillstown Village Hall, S44 6LW from 8pm. Further information and reminders for meetings can be found on the Society’s Facebook page @bolsoverars. Contact Richard, G0RRZ on 07905 […]
Barnsley and District Amateur Radio Club has a meeting and social evening from 7pm every Wednesday. On Thursday, there will be a net on 144.5625MHz FM from 7pm. David, G4TMZ, g6aj@outlook.com Bishop Auckland Radio Amateur’s Club meets at Stanley Crook Village Hall on Thursday evenings from 7.30pm. Anyone wishing to study or take exams should […]
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Paul Watson, who shares the following recording. Paul notes:
“During the 1980s I was listening to shortwave radio from my home near London, in the southeast of England. I had a cassette recorder connected to the receiver and taped anything interesting that caught my ear. Little did I know that 40 years later the majority of these stations would have disappeared and I would have the opportunity to share these recordings with the world.”
This recording is part of a five-part compilation series Paul has created, grouping international shortwave broadcasters by region. The majority of the clips are in English and feature interval signals, station IDs, and sign-ons/offs—a rich snapshot of shortwave radio during its Cold War-era heyday.
This particular compilation focuses on: The Americas
All recordings were made during the 1980s, most in the first half of the decade. While frequencies and exact dates aren’t provided, Paul has kindly included timestamps noting when each broadcaster appears in the audio. These are listed below for easy reference.
We’re grateful to Paul for sharing this excellent audio time capsule, and for his efforts to preserve and document the golden era of international broadcasting.
The information that follows was posted on the IARU Global web site on July 18th:
AST & Science LLC (operating as AST SpaceMobile) currently deploys commercial satellites in Low Earth Orbit that utilize spectrum allocations within the 430–440 MHz amateur …
The CEPT ECC plenary meeting in June 2025 finalised and approved ECC Decision(25)01 that includes the technical and operational measures for the use of the frequency band 1258–1300 MHz by the amateur and amateur-satellite services in order to protect the …
