Michigan State University Amateur Radio Club Celebrates Centennial with Second-Century Special Event

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The Michigan State University Amateur Radio Club (MSUARC) turns 100 this month. The club, which holds the call signs W8MSU and W8SH, celebrated its centennial with a special event station on 19th October 2019.

“We’re celebrating a milestone. The club has been a licensed ham radio station for a century. It’s been on the air almost as long as radio licenses have been issued.”
— Gregory Wierzba Faculty Advisor

The Michigan State ham club was first licensed in the fall of 1919 as 8YG, later 8XBU, as the commercial broadcast station was separated from the Amateur Radio station. 8YG became WKAR. A few years later, 8XBU became W8SH, when the Federal Radio Commission created a new license category for Amateur Radio. Over the years, club members have been involved in original technological experimentation.

For example, on 22nd February 1969, Ralph Taggert, WB8DQT, with the help of Dave Sumner, now K1ZZ and the former CEO of ARRL, made the first US-to-Europe slow-scan TV contact, on 10 meters.

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New ARRL Online Groups for More Direct Communications

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New ARRL Online Groups for More Direct Communications

To enhance and improve communications between the ARRL leadership and staff and the members and prospective members, in a manner that enables both timely updates and collegial discussion, the ARRL’s Committee on Communication with ARRL Members is creating online forums where all amateur radio operators (ARRL members and non-members alike) can discuss issues and topics in two-way conversation with ARRL leadership.

This project is based on the success of the online ARRL-LoTW Group for the past several years, in responding to all amateur radio operators’ questions and in generating discussions about ways to improve this program. This effort has clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of online Groups as a means of achieving the desired interactivity.

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RSGB Youth Team Recruiting

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RSGB Youth Team Recruiting

The Youth Team exists to encourage young people into the hobby, and consists of young people and adults up to the age of 26 who understand the needs of that age range

The team has a Youth Champion and there are currently 10 members, based far and wide across the UK: from Peter in Swansea and Nathan in Northern Ireland; to Hamish in Orkney and Rebecca in Ormskirk.

They have skills ranging from electronic engineering to teaching and, of course, there are some who are still at school.

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