New National Shortwave Listeners Club

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A new club to cater to the needs of shortwave listeners and aspiring radio amateurs was launched during the week.

The club is called the National Shortwave Listeners Club and is running the HAREC online class that commenced on Tuesday last March 30th. This class will run for eight weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

There has been another massive demand for the classes and sixty-five prospective radio amateurs are attending the class on the Zoom platform. Revision nights continue weekly on Wednesdays for the two classes who recently finished their courses and will run until they can sit an examination that will hopefully be held soon, depending on progress made in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic.

The new SWL club will meet on Sunday nights at 2000 on the Zoom platform and will provide a forum where newcomers and others can meet and improve on their experiences in our wonderful hobby.

The club is affiliated to the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, Enquiries about the club, for the time being, can be directed to harectraining@gmail.com

Kanga Kits Closes Down - Business Up for Sale

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Kanga Products have taken the decision to retire, closing the business.

This due to continued ill health from Arthritis which is not getting any better.

Over the coming weeks, the business will be prepared for sale.

Kanga Products - https://www.kanga-products.co.uk/

Virtual Viewing of Orion Spacecraft Drop Test

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Engineers will drop a 14,000-pounds test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday 6th April 2021.

The test will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app and the agency’s website, and will livestream on multiple agency social media platforms, including the Facebook channels for Orion and Langley.

Participants include:

  • Debbie Korth, Orion Crew and Service Module manager, NASA’s Johnson Space Center

  • Jacob Putnam, data analyst, NASA’s Langley Research Center

The public may ask questions on social media using #AskNASA.

Media may send questions to Kristyn Damadeo at kristyn.damadeo@nasa.gov.

This series of drop tests began 23rd March 2021 to finalize computer models for loads and structures prior to the Artemis II flight test, NASA’s first mission with crew aboard Orion. Artemis II will carry astronauts around the Moon and back, paving the way to land the first woman and next man on the lunar surface and establish a sustainable presence at the Moon under the Artemis program. The current test series builds on previous tests and uses a configuration of the crew module based on the spacecraft’s final design.

For more information on Orion - http://www.nasa.gov/orion