(Adapted from viennawireless.net)

From arrl.org

On Wednesday, August 13, 2025, the Kopernik Observatory in Vestal, New York, will be running a High Altitude Balloon Camp for local high school students.

The AARC Net Coordinator and Net Controller staff recognize that there are times when a topic cannot be sufficiently expounded upon in the two-minute time frame allotted. To do so might interrupt the logical flow of the thoughts being presented. However, please keep in mind that others on the net, especially commuters, mobile units and other participants with time constraints are patiently awaiting their turn to speak or to check in or out. Therefore, please be polite and take extra time (rekeying the repeater) sparingly and only when appropriate.

The 2025 ARRL Alabama State Convention at the Huntsville Hamfest is August 16 – 17 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. There’s a full slate of activities happening around the event, and you can navigate them easier through the ARRL Events app.

The app includes the event’s full program, so you can browse and schedule forums, preview the extensive list of exhibitors, and find affiliated events.

ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® reports that amateur radio operators, including volunteers serving in the ARRL® Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) were active in monitoring the potential impacts of tsunami waves following an earthquake off the Russian coast on July 29, 2025. The quake registered 8.8 on the Richter scale, and prompted tsunami concerns and warnings around the Pacific rim.

(From the Amateur Radio Newsline Facebook feed)

HamSCI – The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation is preparing for a series of upcoming meteor scatter (MS) experiments. Operating will take place during two well known meteor showers: August 11-12th, 0000 to 2400 UTC, for 48 hours (Perseids) and again on December 12-13th (Geminids).

This is a combination 'special event' and a contest to generate contact data during meteor scatter events using 10 meters and 6 meters. Contest rules can be found at www.hamsci.org/msqp.

(Disclaimer: posted due to the increasing interest in POTA by members. Also, the webmaster is a native Kentuckian.)

Murray State University Amateur Radio Club

Kentucky State Parks on the Air

Purpose

(From ARRL Contest Update newsletter, July 30, 2025)

The ARRL 222 MHz and Up Distance Contest is this weekend, starting at 1800 UTC on Saturday, August 2, and concluding at 1759 UTC on Sunday, August 3. Stations may be contacted on any authorized mode on the 222 MHz through 241 GHz amateur bands. Full rules and contest details are available at www.arrl.org/222-mhz-and-up-distance-contest.

Martin “Marty” Newingham, AG3I, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has been appointed Vice Director of the ARRL Atlantic Division, effective July 15, 2025. Newingham will serve the remainder of a term that expires December 31, 2026.

He replaces Martin J. “Marty” Pittinger, KB3MXM, who resigned from the position in April.

Newingham is an ARRL Life Member and a Gold level contributor to the ARRL Diamond Club.

ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to oppose part of an application that would impact the 70-centimeter amateur band for telemetry, tracking and command (TT&C) of satellites. The application, from AST & Science, LLC (AST), requests “unprecedented authorization to 430-440 MHz for a constellation totaling 248 satellites to communicate with five ground stations using up to five channels with up to 256 kHz bandwidth.”

Francis Donovan, W3LPL, gave an excellent presentation on 6-Meter Long Distance Propagation on Thursday, July 17th at the membership Presentation Meeting.

For folks that were unable to attend or that would like a copy of Frank's Power Point presentation, please email secretary@w3vpr.org.

Due to the size of the Power Point deck (> 2 megabytes) we can't upload it to the website.

The Anne Arundel Radio Club operates several repeaters.

2-meter repeaters

The Crownsville repeater (147.075+ PL 107.2) is our main repeater and is located on the Anne Arundel County tower on Harkins Rd, near the Maryland Public Television tower. There are additional input sites (voter repeaters), all using the same frequency and PL tones, located as follows:

The github page is here:

https://github.com/VA3HDL/hamdashboard

MFJ has announced it will shut down manufacturing of its own brand as well as those marketed under other brand names. The company will continue to sell current in-stock inventory.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced an upcoming change to the Commission Registration System (CORES) that licensees use to pay any application or regulatory fees, manage or reset a password on an existing FRN, or request a new FRN. Beginning March 29, 2024, multifactor authentication will be implemented. Users will be prompted to request a six-digit secondary verification code, which will be sent to the email address(es) associated with each username. The user will then need to enter the code into CORES before they can continue.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a job opening that might be a good opportunity for recently graduated amateur radio operators who have knowledge of the spectrum and RF.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a job opening that might be a good opportunity for recently graduated amateur radio operators who have knowledge of the spectrum and RF.

The National Weather Service Baltimore/Washington Skywarn has added an additional Skywarn Basics Class to the schedule.

The new class would be held at the University of Maryland School of Public Health in College Park. The class is scheduled for Saturday, April 20 from 3:30-5:30 pm. There is another class arlt the Prince George's County EOC on April 18 and at the Alleghany County Department of Emergency Services in Cumberland on May 17.

To register, go to https://www.weather.gov/lwx/skywarn.