On November 20th 2010, the Amateur Radio Club of the state of Guanajuato in Mexico will launch their second high altitude balloon project called SARSEM-ICARUS II, Mexican Aerostatic Sub-Space Repeater System by its initials in Spanish.

Ten secondary school students from around the Klang Valley were Wednesday able to communicate directly with NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock who is now at the International Space Station, using the amateur or ham radio.

A board of QSLs, or cards that are written confirmations of contact with another amateur radio operator, color the walls of the small IU Amateur Radio Club's office in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Cards from Croatia, Louisiana, Canada and other locations are pinned to a board demonstrating different places the club has contacted.

Indianapolis police and an area school district are investigating claims that officers are using radio frequencies without the proper permission.

John, a licensed ham radio operator and former police, fire and ambulance dispatcher who wanted to remain anonymous, told 6News' Jack Rinehart that late at night, he hears officers have conversations on a frequency licensed to Greenfield Schools.

Members of the Sussex County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) will be all eyes and ears during two popular area events in the coming days.

Paul Verhage and his team of students and amateur radio operators spent their Halloween morning with eyes toward the sky. When not looking upward, their gaze was fixed on high-tech tracking equipment and GPS units.

The original VHF and UHF Ericsson handheld radios in the Russian segment of the ISS, originally used for ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station), have been approved by NASA for use in the US segment of the space station.

A Ugandan broadcaster is playing hardball and is refusing to leave the amateur radio only portion of 40 metres. This, even after notification from the government, Radio Uganda continues to operate on the amateur radio frequency of
7 195 kHz.

...The ordinance provides for cell phone towers to be set back from residential areas the height of the tower plus 10 feet, and calls for towers to be camouflaged from view.

It is also requires amateur radio antenna to be limited to 36 feet, or 10 feet above building height.

Earlier this month, ARRL Marketing Manager Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, represented the League at the National Hamfest in the United Kingdom. Billed as the biggest convention in the UK, the National Hamfest “kicked off” Ham Week UK, October 1-10. Now in its second year, the hamfest is sponsored by both the Lincoln Short Wave Club and the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB). Ham Week concluded with the RSGB Convention -- formerly the HF Convention -- held October 8-10. According to Inderbitzen, the RSGB Convention is a smaller event than the National Hamfest, and includes lectures and presentations for HF and VHF interests, but no exhibits.