Lots of activity this month, starting today with the activation of of a number of German castles

An introductory workshop on Ham Radio for selected students of Engineering Colleges was organised on April 30,.2013 at the SJN Science Centre

Essex radio amateur George Smart M1GEO has published details of a Bluetooth Ham Radio Interface for Yaesu's CAT standard or Icom's CI-V system

Grimsby Amateur Radio Society would like to invite you to an Evening with Rob Mannion. As you may know Rob is the editor of Practical Wireless, and he has agreed to come to Grimsby to give us a talk

Aging television signal amplifiers are becoming a concern for sources of radio spectrum pollution as highlighted by a recent case of interference to aeronautical channels

The British Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society administration has changed from Steve Bryan to Mark Procter G1PIE, who has now taken over the reins

As well as getting publicity for amateur radio in the Timaru Herald, George Boorer ZL3PN has also been interviewed on Radio New Zealand

A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will launch from an atoll in the Pacific in the next few weeks to help scientists better understand and predict the electrical storms in Earth's upper atmosphere

On April 25 the inaugural meeting of the UK's newest club, the Bath and District Amateur Radio Club (BADARC) was held

Twelve amateur radio operators and members of the Oceania DX Group (ODXG), will be active as VK9NT from Norfolk Island (OC-005) between May 3-13th

The Timaru Herald carries a report about radio amateur George Boorer ZL3PN who is now able to use the 50 MHz band again

The Sun Journal reports on the amateur radio ISS school contact held at the Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine

Members of the ORARI Jawa Barat and YB Club DX, along with the Bandung Heritage Community will activate the special event station YE90PK between May 3-5th

ESA's Herschel space observatory has exhausted, as planned, its supply of liquid helium coolant, concluding over three years of pioneering observations of the cool Universe

Members of the Dutch Society of Radio Amateurs (VRZA Afd. Kagerland) club station (PI4KGL) will be active as 9H25 (that is the whole callsign) from Qawra between May 20th and June 4th. Activity is to celebrate their 25th Holiday DXpedition to Malta

The following ISWL club callsigns will be used throughout the month of May 2013

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Polyvalente de Black Lake, Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada on 29 April

On April 17th 2013, Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) submitted the final documents called for in the contract it won to review the question banks used for exams for the Basic and Advanced certification of Canadian radio amateurs

The next important date on the amateur radio calendar is the SA AMSAT Space Symposium to be held at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria on Saturday, 18 May

The latest - Spring 2013 - edition of The 5MHz Newsletter is now available