Year: 2018
Huge CenturyLink Outage Caused by Bad Networking Card in Colorado
A widespread outage on CenturyLink’s cloud network that lasted almost two days and hampered emergency phone service in Washington and other states was...
Canadian Military to Launch 3-satellite System
Canadian military to launch 3-satellite system to track vessels. Canada is preparing to launch a group of three satellites to track ships near...
Meet KE1NZY, 10-Year Old Amateur Extra
On Sunday, December 2, 2018, at around 4:30 pm, Mackenzie Pooler (KE1NZY), a ten-year-old from Hudson, NH, turned in her Amateur Extra Exam...
ISS Fan Club Closing Down
ISS Fan Club closing down on January 1st 2019 After almost 17 years of service to the amateur radio community, the issfanclub.com site...
Santa Net Started Nov 23rd 2018 on 3.916 MHz
From: VA7MPGThis is year number 13 for this net. To learn more about the net For the 13th consecutive year, The 3916 Nets...
Limited Edition RAC 25th Anniversary Challenge Coin
The Radio Amateurs of Canada have issued the following bulletin with respect to the 25th Anniversary Challenge Coin For immediate release: https://wp.rac.ca/limited-edition-rac-25th-anniversary-challenge-coin/ In May 2018,...
November 28, 2018 Public Awareness Test
On November 28th at 1:55 PM local time (2:55 PM local time in Quebec), a test of the Alert Ready system will be...
A Day of Remembrance
The Ode of Remembrance They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were...
Facebook – I Quit
Well after some thought, I shutdown my Facebook page. There were a few reasons why I did, but the main reason was the...
UKube-1 falls silent
UKube-1, the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat, was launched into space in July 2014. It completed its successful nominal mission fourteen month later...
