Take In National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting During Hamvention

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Take In National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting During Hamvention

The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting, a short drive from Hamvention, has announced expanded hours for Hamvention weekend. The Museum is located at the site of the former Voice of America Bethany Relay Station in West Chester, between Dayton and Cincinnati, just off the I-75 Tylersville Road exit.

From 1944 thru 1994, six of the most powerful shortwave transmitters in the world broadcast to listeners seeking truth in Europe, Africa and South America from the Bethany Station. Every week millions heard programs in 50 different languages beamed globally from this hilltop. Those attending the 2019 Dayton Hamvention will have ample opportunity to visit. The Museum is located about 35 minutes from the main convention activities.

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Amateur Radio SSTV Art Expo

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Amateur Radio SSTV Art Expo

Until 23rd April 2019, Lucy Helton (KD2MFV) will be the artist in residence at SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland, collaborating with local Amateur Radio Operator Jón Þ Jónsson, TF3JA to transmit images vis SSTV.

The images, appropriated from the Reykjavik Museum of Photography’s collection, are of Icelandic glaciers photographed in a time before we knew climate change existed.

Amateur Radio Operators who receive the images are invited to forward back to Lucy at her website below

The received images will be reworked into an art piece which will become a QSL card.

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AMSAT-India Successfully Launches APRS Satellite

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The Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) payload on AMSAT-India’s AISAT-1 satellite is operational on 145.825 MHz following a successful April 1 launch on the PSLV-C45 mission. The payload was powered up on schedule over Europe, and AMSAT-India announced that DK3WN was able to digipeat through the satellite. AMSAT-India requests that radio amateurs use the payload and SatGates to feed the traffic.

The fourth stage of the PSLV rocket (PS4) will become an orbital platform in a 485-kilometre orbit hosting the APRS digipeater, an Automatic Identification System (AIS) from India’s space agency, ISRO, and an ionospheric analyzer from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST).