Special Australian Station for Fleet Air Arm Anniversary

VK75FAA is a special callsign celebrating the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Australian Navy’s aviation branch. Activity will continue until the end of October. The callsign will be used by amateurs around Australia on a rota basis.

A Special Radio Wave for the Queen

The John O'Groat Journal reports the Caithness Amateur Radio Society (CARS) held a contact event in celebration of the Queen's Jubilee on the weekend of 25/26 June 2022.

During the month of June, radio clubs were allowed to add the Q phonetic to their call sign – so Caithness club became Mike Queen zero Foxtrot November Romeo, MQ0FNR instead of MS0FNR.

CARS club secretary, Nigel Mansfield, said: "With thanks to Shirley Farquhar and the trust committee of the Castle of Mey we were allowed to operate from the castle grounds, thus giving the event a royal connection.

“Many members of the club attended to work the transmitter and contacts were made throughout Europe and the UK. Blessed with good weather the event was considered a success despite radio propagation signals being poor.”

— Caithness Amateur Radio Society (CARS)

The club aims to promote amateur radio activities with like-minded amateur radio operators, constructors (present and future) and short wave listeners. CARS is always interested in finding new members.

Caithness Amateur Radio Society (CARS) - http://www.qsl.net/ms0fnr/

ARRL Releases Executive Committee Minutes for June

Minutes of the ARRL Executive Committee Meeting, held 9th June 2022, are now available to download

Pending rulemakings: Attention continues to be focused on FCC inaction in resolving the multiple amateur proceedings that have been pending for a number of years. The lack of action across all the pending subjects and related strategies and plans were discussed.

Enforcement action: The FCC adopted a Notice of Apparent Liability and Forfeiture against a licensee for actions that allegedly included using an “amateur radio handheld” to transmit on a 151 MHz channel being actively used for forest firefighting purposes. The individual’s company also holds multiple commercial FCC Part licenses. We only know the account that the FCC published, but from that it appears that he disclosed his location and spoke freely with local officials.

A second enforcement action by one of the FCC’s field offices relates to a carrier that was constantly transmitted on 40 meters. It appears that a failure occurred at the station resulting in the station’s transmitter being placed in a constant “key-down” position while the operator was absent.

Download the minutes - http://arrl.org/board-meetings