ITU Corporation Re-purposes Linton Armoury Facility to House Iconic Amateur Radio Manufacturing

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ITU Corporation Re-purposes Linton Armoury Facility to House Iconic Amateur Radio Manufacturing

In a major expansion of its Indiana footprint, ITU Corporation has purchased the former Linton National Guard Armoury to serve as the new manufacturing hub for Hy-gain and Cushcraft. By acquiring these legendary brands from MFJ Enterprises, ITU is centralising production at the 15-acre Linton site. This new endeavour will bring between 20 and 50 new jobs to Linton.

Martin F. Jue, President and founder of MFJ Enterprises, Inc., is pleased to announce the sale of the renowned Hy-gain and Cushcraft antenna, rotator, and communication product lines to ITU Corporation, a 25-year-old Indiana engineering and manufacturing company.

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New Regulations for Hams in Norway

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New Regulations for Hams in Norway

NKOM – the Norwegian equivalent of PTS – has now published its update of the regulations for amateur radio in Norway. As we previously announced, the most important change is the introduction of a new entry-level certificate, or as it is called in the legal text, “limited license”. Just like our entry-level certificate, it will have simpler examination requirements than the “full license” (HAREC) but a number of limitations. Holders of a “limited license” are limited to a maximum of 10 W transmitter power. The frequency bands are all from 3.5MHz – 432MHz (but not the WARC bands 10MHz and 24 MHz). Compared to the previous revision version from November, some changes have been made. In addition to changing the name from “beginner license” to “limited license”, the most important things are:

The ban on remote control has been lifted for both "restricted licenses" as well as for stations in Norwegian "overseas" territories.

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Students are ‘Over The Moon’

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Students are ‘Over The Moon’

The moon missions of the 1960s were most certainly awe-inspiring, but for those of us who were perhaps young students here on Earth at the time, they were as distant an experience to us as the moon itself. Not so with Artemis II: With eight universities chosen by NASA to track the Orion spacecraft via radio, the moon became a close and almost palpable presence for the young.

Yes, tracking a moon mission can be a personal experience - as many students on several university campuses discovered. In Pennsylvania, Sawyer Mervis and Jake Wendt were up on a campus rooftop in the early morning hours with a parabolic antenna and other student-built equipment. They were collecting data for the US space agency NASA from the 248,655-mile flight around the moon. The receiving station had been a team project, with the Panther Amateur Radio Club at the University of Pittsburgh receiving guidance and support from faculty in various engineering departments.  

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