Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ Athlone students to contact ISS—An ARISS educational school contact is planned between astronaut Shann...

+ New IARU VHF Handbook (v9.00) now available as free PDF—A new edition (v9.00) of the free IARU VHF Handbook covering the bands...

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As of 12/3/20 1:04am. Last new 12/2/20 4:05pm.

+ FCC to Require Email Addresses on Applications—Amateur radio licensees and candidates will have to provide the FCC wi...

+ December is YOTA Month—The month of December has been designated as YOTA month. The annual in...

+ Arecibo Observatory Instrument Platform Falls into Iconic Dish— The 900-ton instrument platform of the 305-meter radio telescope at A...

+ FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Departing Commission —FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has announced that he intends to leave the Commi...

+ RadioShack Purchased by Online Retailer—RadioShack® is back as an online retailer of electronics, offering som...

+ Powerful Solar Flare, Coronal Mass Ejection Occur on November 29—A solar flare from massive solar region 2786 at 1311 UTC on Sunday, No...

+ The K7RA Solar Update—Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Over the past week our sun has been ...

+ ARRL Asks FCC to Allow 3.4-GHz Operation until Spectrum is Occupied—In comments to the FCC, ARRL has argued that radio amateurs be allowed...

+ Yasme Foundation Announces Excellence Awards—The Yasme Foundation has announced the latest recipients of the Yasme ...

+ Coast Guard Proposes to Discontinue HF Voice Watchkeeping—The US Coast Guard has invited comments by January 21, 2021, on a prop...

+ Universal Radio Announces Closing —Ham Radio retailer Universal Radio, headquartered in Worthington, Ohio...

+ IARU Region 2 Executive Committee Approves Dues Reductions for Member-Societies—The International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU R2) Executive Com...

+ New York City-Long Island Section Manager Re-Elected in Fall Balloting—New York City-Long Island Section Manager Jim Mezey, W2KFV, has been r...

+ Former West Virginia Section Manager Ann Rinehart, KA8ZGY, SK

+ FEMA Seeking Reserve Telecommunications Operators—The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking telecommunic...

+ Dayton Hamvention Announces its 2021 Theme — “The Gathering”—“The Gathering” will be the theme for the 2021 Dayton Hamvention®. Ham...

+ Still Time to Apply for Foreign Service Information Management Technical Specialists-Radio Positions —The deadline to apply for US Department of State Foreign Service Infor...

+ ARRL Invites Members to Participate in #GivingTuesday on December 1—ARRL is taking part in #GivingTuesday on December 1. This global day o...

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+ Solar Report 0800 03 Dec 2020—Solar Flux: 105 | Ap: 4 | Kp 0

+ Observed Space Weather 0800 03 Dec 2020—No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.

+ Forecast Space Weather 0800 03 Dec 2020—No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

+ Flares 0800 03 Dec 2020—(0000 UTC) 6h hi C1.7(0145Z 12/03) 24h hi C1.7(0145Z 12/03)

+ Sunspots 0800 03 Dec 2020—SSN: 41 (12/02/2020)

+ Solar Wind 0800 03 Dec 2020—Solar Wind: 363 km/s @ 2.0 protons/cm3 Bz: 2020 Dec 03 0757Z at 0.5 n...

+ Global Conditions 0800 03 Dec 2020—Global HF Propagation Conditions for 0700Z on 03 Dec, 2020 High Latitu...

+ Solar Report 0715 03 Dec 2020—Solar Flux: 105 | Ap: 4 | Kp 0

+ Observed Space Weather 0715 03 Dec 2020—No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.

+ Forecast Space Weather 0715 03 Dec 2020—No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

+ Flares 0715 03 Dec 2020—(0000 UTC) 6h hi C1.7(0145Z 12/03) 24h hi C1.7(0145Z 12/03)

+ Sunspots 0715 03 Dec 2020—SSN: 41 (12/02/2020)

+ Solar Wind 0715 03 Dec 2020—Solar Wind: 392 km/s @ 2.0 protons/cm3 Bz: 2020 Dec 03 0712Z at 2.3 n...

+ Global Conditions 0715 03 Dec 2020—Global HF Propagation Conditions for 0600Z on 03 Dec, 2020 High Latitu...

+ Space Weather on Twitter—Follow our Twitter feed for hourly updates of space weather informatio...

+ Solar Report 0640 03 Dec 2020—Solar Flux: 105 | Ap: 4 | Kp 0

+ Observed Space Weather 0640 03 Dec 2020—No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.

+ Forecast Space Weather 0640 03 Dec 2020—No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.

+ Flares 0640 03 Dec 2020—(0000 UTC) 6h hi C1.7(0145Z 12/03) 24h hi C1.7(0145Z 12/03)

+ Sunspots 0640 03 Dec 2020—SSN: 41 (12/02/2020)

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As of 12/3/20 1:04am. Last new 12/3/20 1:04am.

+ QSLs: W5TEN, KF0IN—Both of these cards arrived yesterday! The QSO with John, KF0IN, was o...

+ Helping New Hams program getting started—Last week, 16 ARRL registered instructors convened to kick off  a new ...

+ Keysight: How to prevent ESD damage—Here are some tips from Keysight on how to prevent ESD from damaging y...

+ —Here are some tips from Keysight on how to prevent ESD from damaging y...

+ Operating notes: Working W1EAT on Thanksgiving, playing down to the competition—Appropriately enough for Thanksgiving, last night I worked Tom, W1EAT....

+ Group meets to discuss program to help new hams—Last week, I wrote about a couple of programs to help new hams and sta...

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As of 12/3/20 1:04am. Last new 12/2/20 9:08am.

+ 6000km TEP path on 144 MHz opens up between Buenos Aires and the Dominican Republic—Hot on the heels of the recent news items about the 5400km TEP opening...

+ Free IARU VHF Handbook—A new edition (v9.00) of the free IARU VHF Handbook is now available f...

+ SAQ Christmas Transmission cancelled—As a result of the prevailing circumstances in our society, we unfortu...

+ The Space Weather Woman—Solar Flux Hits New High and Big Flares Possible Now - The latest spac...

+ South Shetland Islands operation—Lee DS4NMJ belongs to the 34th team staying during winter on King Sejo...

+ IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club—Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur...

+ RSGB launches NHS charity auction as part of its 'Get on the air for Christmas' campaign—The RSGB is delighted to be running an NHS charity auction as part of ...

+ Online Talk: Getting Started in Amateur Radio—The Denby Dale ARS will be hosting an online talk on Zoom Getting Star...

+ Opportunity to participate in Eclipse Propagation Experiment—HamSCI is looking for amateur radio operators to help with a global ca...

+ Tool measures power-line EMI—Kenneth Wyatt KX7KW writes for EDN about a power line EMI adapter that...

+ ISS SSTV 145.800 FM Dec 1-2—The preliminary crew schedule shows a Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) ...

+ General User Radio Licence for Short Range Devices—New Zealand's RSN reports: The General user radio licence for short ra...

+ Ultra-Marathon—Pete, MM0TWX, Founder and CEO of the True Blue DXers Club (TBDXC), sen...

+ IOTA News from OPDX—Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW

+ 5400km TEP opening on 144 MHz between Argentina and the island of Aruba - Nov 2020—There have been some remarkable contacts made on 144 MHz recently via ...

+ Ham radio needs to embrace the Hacker community—Jenny List G7CKF writes on Hackaday about a blog post by Robert Bolton...

+ Major Solar Flare—Today, Earth-orbiting satellites detected the biggest solar flare in m...

+ Ham radio the world's greatest hobby—Emory Schley N4LP writes in the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper about the ...

+ IRTS HAREC classes—The second class being facilitated by the IRTS Training team commenced...

+ SETI lecture in Cork—THE Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has fascinated amateur r...

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As of 12/3/20 1:04am. Last new 12/2/20 3:48am.