RSGB President honoured with RAYNET-UK award

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At the recent RAYNET-UK AGM, the Brian Tindill Shield was awarded to RSGB President John McCullagh MBE, GI4BWM for his outstanding contribution to amateur radio and RAYNET in Northern Ireland.

It highlighted in particular his outstanding contribution to providing emergency radio coverage during his voluntary service with RAYNET.

ARRL Members Raise $47,000 for STEM Education in Online Auction

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ARRL Members Raise $47,000 for STEM Education in Online Auction

ARRL® The National Association for Amateur Radio® is pleased to announce that the 19th annual ARRL Online Auction, sponsored by RT Systems Inc, raised $47,000 for amateur radio STEM education.

The event was held from 18-24 October 2024. In addition to hundreds of views, the auction saw 329 individual bidders vying for equipment, vintage books, “mystery junk boxes” from the ARRL Lab, and more.

There were 206 items up for bid and more than 1430 bids were recorded with 40 items finishing in overtime bidding. This year’s ARRL Online Auction grossed more than $47,000.

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HAMSCI Receives Grant

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Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D. (W2NAF), associate professor physics and engineering at The University of Scranton was recently awarded a grant of $1.8 million by the National Science Foundation to further the efforts of HamSCI, a network of ham radio operators helping to measure weather effects among the earth's ionosphere.

“... the grant supports the development of a network of 30 standardized receive stations capable of observing high frequency (HF) Doppler shifts, HF amateur radio Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR, pronounced “whisper”) transmissions, very low frequency (VLF) transmissions and natural radio emissions, and the geomagnetic field.”
— Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D. (W2NAF)

The grant will also fund 10 WSPRSonde transmitters to serve as a source of GPS-stabilized HF beacon signals and will tie into the existing WSPR network.

HamSCI has recently organized the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipse QSO Parties allowing hams to contribute to scientific studies aimed at understanding how the inonosphere reacts to solar eclipses.