Radio amateur Kenneth Hemstedt OZ1IKY is hoping to be the first-ever Dane to set foot on the remote Clipperton Island

Kraft are using amateur radio in their TV adverts to promote their Velveeta Shells and Cheese Original product

After experiencing issues with the Kenwood D700 on two consecutive school contacts, ARISS will use the Ericsson radio on the Columbus module for ARISS contacts until problems with the D700 are resolved

The Iowa High Altitude Balloon team says their iHAB-9 balloon flight is scheduled to launch February 16, 2013 at 16:00Z (9AM CDT)

The Iowa State Daily reports that amateur radio started at Iowa State university (ISU) over 100 years ago

Essex radio amateur George Smart M1GEO has made available course notes for the UK Advanced exam

The papers to be submitted to the IARU Region 1 2013 Interim Meeting in Vienna April 20-21 have been released

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to continue at low to very low levels. None of the currently visible sunspots are actively flaring

InnovAntennas America, Inc. and InnovAntennas, Ltd. (UK) today announced that Charles H. 'Chip' Margelli, K7JA has joined InnovAntennas. Chip will manage InnovAntennas' sales and marketing activities in the Americas and will also contribute to the company’s global strategic planning

Jim Heck G3WGM, Honorary Secretary of AMSAT-UK and project lead on the FUNcube amateur radio satellite project, will be giving a presentation on FUNcube-1 to the UKSEDS National Student Space Conference (NSSC) taking place in Bristol on February 23-24

This video shows the West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group hosting the largest ever ARISS contact at the South Florida Science Museum

In this video Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO talks about STRaND-1 which is aiming to be the world’s first smartphone satellite in space

The IARU Region 1 Monitoring Service reports on a mysterious Over The Horizon (OTH) radar causing interference in the 28 MHz amateur radio band

Average daily sunspot numbers hardly changed from last week and the week prior, but average daily solar flux bounced back to about the level it was from two weeks ago

ABC TV news report on 13 year-old 7th grader Lauren Rojas who developed a payload, sent it to the edge of space and successfully recovered it

The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 conference will be held later this year in Mexico. The Region 2 conference - held every three years - is attended by delegations from the national Amateur Radio societies in the western hemisphere that are members of the IARU. The ARRL is the IARU Member Society for the US

The BBC report that the world’s first 'smartphone-sat' STRaND-1 is ready to launch at the end of February

Please join us in listening to today's ARISS contact between astronauts aboard ISS and participants at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A report of the meeting between Ofcom and the RSGB which took place on January 23, 2013 is now available

Radio Amateurs of Canada announce the results of three recent Director elections