Amateur / Ham Radio Field Day Demonstrates Science, Skill and Service

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Cedar Valley Amateur Club, Eastern Iowa DX Association and Rockwell Collins Amateur Radio Club will be joining together to run an amateur radio field day taking place 27/28 June 2015 at Faye Clark Park in Hiawatha.

Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary amateur radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur Radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

“Hams can literally throw a wire in a tree for an antenna, connect it to a battery-powered transmitter and communicate halfway around the world. Hams do this by using a layer of Earth’s atmosphere as a sort of mirror for radio waves. In today’s electronic do-it-yourself (DIY) environment, ham radio remains one of the best ways for people to learn about electronics, physics, meteorology, and numerous other scientific disciplines, and is a huge asset to any community during disasters if the standard communication infrastructure goes down.”
— Sean Kutzko KX9X of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

German Museum Joins Museums on the Air

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The UK based Museums on the Air has now gained probably the most famous German Technical Museum in the list of Museums taking part in the MOTA weekends on 20/21  and 27/28 June 2015.

The Deutsche Museum in Munich is actually 'on the air' every day with a permanent display of radio history and an operational ham radio station.

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Alfred DL8FA tells ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio European Correspondent Ed Durrant DD5LP the main aim of the volunteers manning the display is to explain the history of radio to visitors and perhaps attract some new Hams.

Operation of the station takes place between 11am and noon each day and on the two MOTA weekends, the DOKDMM group are trying to have more than one operator present so that the public can be informed of what is happening while the station is on the air. It will depend upon the volunteers whether the station DL0DM is active outside of the normal times, so those wishing to work this station need to be hunting for it at best between 0900 and 1000 UTC on 20/21 as the following weekend is the 

Deutsches Museum in Munich (in German) - http://www.darc.de/distrikte/c/dl0dm-im-deutschen-museum/

Digital Activity Days RDRC

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The Russian Digital Radio Club has invited the radio amateurs community to participate in the Digital Activity Days RDRC '01-10'. The objective of the Digital Activity Days is to establish as many contacts as possible between radio amateurs around the world and radio amateurs in Russia.

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Digital Activity Days from 00.00 UTC on 1st May till 23:59 UTC on 10th May, 2015.

15 types of modulation - CONTESTIA, DOMINO, HELL, JT65, JT9, MFSK, MT63, OLIVIA, PSK, ROS, RTTY, SIM-PSK, SSTV, THOR, THROB, across 9 bands 160 m, 80 m, 40 m, 30 m, 20 m, 17m, 15 m, 12 m, 10 m.

Digital Activity Days RDRC "01-10" 2015 Rules - 
http://www.rdrclub.ru/dni-aktivnosti-rtsrk/244-digital-activity-days-rdrc-rules