Remember that the next DARC club meeting—the famous April Old Timers’ Night—and our next board meeting, on April 7th, 2020, will be held on-line and over the air. The board meeting will use Google Meet; details about the apps for Android and IOS can be found in our March 21st news. The clickable link to […]
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that Rick Steves and I have a lot in common.
Rick Steves and I both understand the importance of preserving and cherishing history:
https://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/living-history%e2%80%af/
https://blog.ricksteves.com/blog/estonia-the-song-of-freedom/
For more posts that explain how much Rick Steves and I have in common, please see these earlier posts:
About Our Friendship With A World-Famous Travel Writer In Early Life And Continuous Livelihood
I’ve already received a few emails about the Stabo 3008e and the “how it looks” etc. The best way although not a Stabo is to show here the Jopix GS60 which although obviously different appears to share the same case (maybe Stabo perforated top) as the Stabo. So how it looks (I guess follow the […]
Here is the April 2020 “In The DARC” Newsletter
April 5, 2020. 1610 0430 CAN CHHA, Toronto (ON) 6731 km 1620 0430 CUB Radio Rebelde, Guanabacoa/CTOM2 (ch) 8504 km 1630 0429 USA KKGM, Fort Worth (TX) 8673 km 1640 0432 USA WTNI, Biloxi (Gulfport) (MS) 8350 km 1650 0423 CAN CKZW, Montréal (QC) 6250 km 1650 0425 USA WHKT, Portsmouth (VA) 7028 km 1660 […]
Current ham radio news Dear Amateur Radio operators using CW mode. Why don’t we send a support message for the fight against COVID-19? All in favour, please add “OCV” or “OCCV” standing for ‘Overcome the Corona Virus’ at the end of CW transmissions. Please share this post if you agree! Thanks de JL1KBS. via […]
I am very saddened by the death of CBS News employee Maria Mercader, who fell victim to the current SARS/Coronavirus outbreak:
I am very saddened by the death of Bill Withers.
From Southgate Amateur Radio News comes this: Spain’s national amateur radio society URE has talked to their regulator and obtained permission for unlicensed people to use amateur stations during the Coronavirus lockdown A Google translation of part of the URE announcement says: After the publication of Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, declaring the state […]
via Coronavirus: Spain grants special authorization to radio hams — Shortwave Listening UK
DXNL 2191 – April 1, 2020 DX Newsletter a free and weekly service of DARC Committee “DX” (http://www.darcdxhf.de) Editor: Klaus Poels, DL7UXG (e-mail: dxmb@darcdxhf.de) translation by: Oliver Bock, DJ9AO EA, Spain: The DXXE Group marks its 15th anniversary with the callsigns AO5DXX (operator Salva/EA5BB) and AO5DXX/8 (operator Juan/EA8RM) between April 1 and 15. QSL […]
Lots of messages about the modified version of the MH31 and also where to obtain these microphones. So! If you are outside of Germany you’ll need to use the contact seller option from eBay and await a return to the message from DO6RBA with shipping details. That’s it! Below we’ve the photo and also the […]
Ham radio enthusiasts prepare for all manner of natural disasters like floods, hurricanes, tornado, storms, anything that causes normal communication channels to temporarily fail. What we don’t train for is a viral global pandemic along with a complete shutdown of business and society. At least I don’t think we do. I’m not involved with many […]
A variety of people/outlets are warning of imminent civil unrest because of lockdowns/job loss/lack of food/etc. resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses. Express: Coronavirus riots to erupt ‘at any moment’ as Red Cross warns cities face ‘social bomb’ Europe has seen a substantial increase in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in […]
via Warnings of Coronavirus Riots/Civil Unrest — Lower Valley Assembly
As sad as the current strain of the SARS/Coronavirus is, though it is a despicable action; I can say that Riots and Civil Unrest are inevitable.
Matthew Parij 