C.I.R.A.S. Central Iowa Radio Amateur Society

So far AREC (Amateur Radio Emergency Communications) volunteers have not been required in any major way to assist, following the earthquake that hit Christchurch in New Zealand

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, at 0435 hours (NZ local time), 4 September 2010. Several aftershocks of between magnitude 3.9 and 5.2 have occurred and more aftershocks are expected

A sad end to the search for a Glendale, Arizona, radio ham who went missing in mid August

AP2AUM from the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society reports that emergency communications support has been extended in the past week to include three more villages

Claims continue to steadily arrive for this limited edition operating award celebrating the Centenary of Organised Amateur Radio in Australia with more than 160 now issued

Solar conditions still continue to be fairly poor. As I write this on 3 September there are sunspots, but the solar flux is stubbornly in the mid to high 70s. There have been auroral conditions over the past few days and we can expect to see more unsettled conditions as the cycle progresses

Hynix will start manufacturing Memristors first demonstrated by HP in 2006. It will be the first time this new circuit component has been mass produced

A new Network Affiliated RAYNET Group is being formed in the mid-Pennine region of Lancashire

Over this past week four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29

A come and try ARDF event will be held at Sherrardspark Wood near Welwyn Garden City on Sunday 12 September

The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea are to undergo constitutional status changes next month and result in a four new DXCC entities

In 1949 the 5 metre band (56 MHz) was taken away from UK Radio Amateurs and allocated to TV broadcasting

The Wednesday, September 1, edition of the BBC2 TV show Coast is now on the web and features an attempt to recreate the original war-winning experiment which proved that radar would work

The forthcoming Spratly Islands DXpedition is looking for some extra operators

ICPO - Islands, Castles and Portable Operations. Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet

The Beaver County Times reports Bob Pointer N9XAW flashed 'bye' - dash, dot, dot, dot; dash, dot, dash, dash; dot - in Morse code with a signal light from the third deck of LST 325 as it left a crowd lining the Ohio River at the New Cumberland Locks and Dam Tuesday evening

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

The DX fraternity is eagerly looking forward to the day that Heard Island VK0-H, in the top ten of the world?s most wanted DX entities, is activated again

The amateur radio special event station GB2STI will be operating once again this year on the 25th/26th September from the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland's base in Whitehead, Co Antrim, as part of the Natonal Railways on the Air

CQ magazine has launched a new, easy-to-navigate website, and is celebrating with a special web-only discount offer