Southgate ARC

1. 61st Jamboree-On-The-Air has arrived

   3rd Limerick Scout Group rise to the challenge It's finally arrived! The 61st International Jamboree-On-The-Air starts today and will run for the next three days which will see over 1.5 million Scouts take part in the largest worldwide Scouting event

2. JOTA in Canada's SW corner

   Local Amateur Radio groups SARC, SEPAR and LARA will be providing communications in a demonstration of Emergency Communications on Saturday, Oct 20 starting at 0900 PST

3. Foundations of Amateur Radio #176

   Mistakes are common in all aspects of life. Sometimes they are only known to you, other times they are public knowledge and open to ridicule and lambasting. Getting on air for the first time is an accomplishment and often the initial source of mistakes, mishaps and great frustration

4. Ham radio volunteers needed in aftermath of Hurricane Michael

   News4JAX reports amateur radio operators are needed to help communication after Hurricane Michael

5. Norwegian radio ham prevented from leaving Chad

   ARRL reports a saga that has reached the diplomatic and foreign ministry level is playing out in Africa’s Republic of Chad, involving Norwegian radio amateur Kenneth Opskar, LA7GIA

6. K7AGE - New Ham Shack

   Randy Hall K7AGE recently moved to Gold Beach, Oregon and has released a couple of videos about his new amateur radio shack and workshop

7. RSGB Convention video released

   The RSGB have released the presentation given by IARU-R1 President Don Beattie G3BJ to the RSGB Convention in Milton Keynes on October 13 - So what has the IARU ever done for us?

8. Amateur radio lunar satellite LO-94 on Hackaday

   Al Williams WD5GNR writes on Hackaday about the amateur radio spacecraft LO-94 (DSLWP-B / Longjiang-2) which has been taking pictures from the far-side of the Moon

9. France: Consultation on WRC-19 position

   Earlier this year Ofcom held a public consultation on the UK position for the World Radiocommunications Conference 2019 (#WRC19), now in France the ANFR is carrying out a similar exercise

10. Ofcom: Spectrum Licensing Team survey

    At the end of Ofcom's Freedom of Information responses is an often overlooked link to a Spectrum Licensing survey on the performance of the licensing team

11. DX News from the ARRL

    The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands

12. Tony's 10m Band Report

    Another good week although Thursday and Friday were pretty poor. I managed St. Helena, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina and loads of Eu. (I even squeezed in the Dominican Republic but that was on 17m.)

13. FT8 to be permitted in 2019 ARRL RTTY Roundup

    The ARRL Contest Branch has announced that participants in the 2019 ARRL RTTY Roundup will be permitted to use the new FT8 protocol, which is part of the WSJT-X software suite

14. Impact of VDSL interference on Amateur Radio Service

    The RSGB has released an interim report - Determination of impact of VDSL interference on the Amateur Radio Service

15. Polluting LED lamp withdrawn from Jula stores

    The SSA reports Swedish DIY retailer Jula has agreed to withdraw an LED lamp that pollutes the RF spectrum causing interference to radio communications