VHF operation in Antarctica

UK Radio amateur operator Cathy Collness M0RTW is taking up the post of Radio Communications Officer at the Rothera Research Station.

In 2013 Cathy took the Foundation and Advanced amateur radio training courses run by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS).

Cathy describes the VHF communications system at the base on her blog - http://passyourmessage.com/2014/09/11/vhf-repeaters-and-frequencies/

Amateur radio ham receives Nobel Prize

Radio amateur Professor William E. Moerner WN6I has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Moerner, WN6I, of Los Altos, a chemistry professor at Stanford University, will share the prestigious award equally with two other researchers — Eric Betzig and Stefan Hell — for their work in high-resolution microscopy / nanoscopy.

For many years scientists had believed that an optical microscope could never yield better than 0.2 micrometer resolution. The three scientists over came that limitation through what the Nobel panel called “the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy.”

Read the Stanford News article - http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/moerner-nobel-prize-100814.html

Founder of JOTA is SK

Les Mitchell G3BHK, known as the 'father of JOTA', passed away on Monday, October 6

He was one of the Radio Scouters at the Jamboree in 1957 that gave birth to the idea of a Jamboree On The Air (JOTA). The first event was held in 1958. To many he was known as the father of JOTA.

In 2000, recalling the first event, Les wrote "Little did I think when I drew up the plans and rules for the first event in 1958 that it's popularity would increase and spread around the world. Even more astonishing is the fact that after all this time it still holds it's popularity and now has a participation of some half a million Scouts and Guides in over one hundred countries involving some ten thousand amateur radio stations. In fact it has become the largest international Scout event ever."

Radio Scouting - Les Mitchell G3BHK - http://www.radio-scouting.org.uk/index.php?page=the-founder-of-jota