EURAO Party - Winter 2021

The European Radio Amateurs' Organization has announced a new party on the air, this time with the motto: "with a simple dipole". This is not a contest, it is just a radio meeting with a few simple 'rules', better to call them recommendations.

Purpose: Probably the easiest antenna to build, the dipole is made up of just two pieces of wire cut to the appropriate length for the band to be used: a quarter wavelength on each side. More "sophisticated" versions may include a balun, but it works also without it. In any case, its simplicity does not diminish the great satisfactions that it can produce, quite the opposite. Try it and share with your colleagues, near or far away, and have fun.

When 20-21st February 2021, Saturday and Sunday, 00:00-24:00 UTC.

More Information - https://www.eurao.org/en/node/1161

UK Amateur Radio Operator Celebrates 100th Birthday

Tommy Knight, G2FUU celebrated his 100th birthday this month. He became interested in amateur radio when he left school because a friend was a radio amateur. Instead of waiting to be called up for WWII he decided to volunteer for the RAF and spent the war fitting radar into Spitfires.

After the war, he took his amateur radio licence and he has always been keen on overseas contacts. He has enjoyed regular skeds on Sunday mornings with radio amateurs in Australia, NZ and West Indies and occasionally he and his wife, Olive, met them in person for holidays.

Tommy is still very active on the air when he is able, especially as part of ROAR (Rotarians Over Amateur Radio) Net.