Programs for Disabled Amateurs marks 57 Years

The Courage Kenny Handiham Program is marking 57 years of providing service, training and experience to disabled amateur radio operators. In celebration of the program's longevity and success, the Handiham Radio Club is holding a 48-hour QSO party and all currently licensed program members are encouraged to get on the air. The action starts at 1900 UTC on Friday the 26th of April and continues through 1900 UTC on Sunday the 28th April 2024. Operators will be on all amateur bands using all modes, including digital and VOIP to spotlight the Minnesota-based program and the club.

Operators will be calling CQ Handiham 57. Logs are required and due no later than June 1st. Contacts can request an anniversary QSL card by QSLing directly to the program.

More Details - http://www.handiham.org

ESRG March 2024 Key Messages

The Exams and Syllabus Review Group (ESRG) met four times during March. It has released these key messages from those meetings:

• We have been concentrating on v1.6 of the syllabus. It was sent to the Exam Standards Committee (ESC) for comments and we have spent the last month sorting through those and addressing them

• We have been preparing four new mock papers covering each licence exam, from Foundation through to Direct to Full. We had some 150 questions from the ESC and the

• Tutors’ Forum to review across those four papers

In addition, we had four question challenges from tutors which were considered but not upheld. We responded to the tutors with our decision

RSGB - https://rsgb.org/main/blog/esrg-minutes/2024/04/16/esrg-march-2024-key-messages/

Hytera Communications Banned from Worldwide Sale of 2-Way Radios

The latest chapter in a long-simmering patent dispute between Motorola and Hytera. A US federal court in the Northern District of Illinois has prohibited Hytera Communications, a major provider of two-way radios, from selling, distributing or importing its radios "until further notice," requiring the company to pay a daily fine of $1-million to the court if they do not comply.

Even as it acted in compliance with the US court injunction, Hytera separately announced it was withdrawing its own counterclaims against Illinois-based Motorola that it had filed in a Shenzhen court. Hytera has denied claims that its H-series radios have infringed on Motorola's trademark and copyright.

The US court injunction banning the radios' global sales came just as Hytera was preparing to show at ISC West, a major security conference being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, starting on 9th April 2024.

Source - https://www.arnewsline.org/news/2024/4/12/amateur-radio-newsline-report-2424-for-friday-april-12th-2024