Select as required  Please note All data on this website has been taken from various sources including the ARRL and the RSGB with permission.  The data is provided as a source of information to radio amateurs and no guarantee to accuracy can be given.  Accordingly, you are recommended to check out all data with the original providers for confirmation of its validity in case of any queries that may arise. Made with Xara Web Designer 6 General Information INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO UNION Region 1 News  www.iaru-r1.org SPANISH FISHERY ON AMATEUR BANDS Written by DK2OM   Sunday, 25 July 2010 23:18 Spanish fishermen are daily abusing 3500, 3510, 3550, 3590, 7000, 14000, 21000, 21222, 21395 kHz in USB,  various times. Often working with the voice scrambler “CRY 2001”. They only use private names, no ship names or idents. Talking to them is wasted time. They are reacting very bold and obscene. PSE use these QRGs for legal Amateur traffic! Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 08:59 CHURCH DIVINE SERVICE ON 28 MHz Written by DK2OM   Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:55 Church divine Service from Ireland has been observed on 28105 kHz (FM) in 2007.  The problem has been solved by the Irish amateurs and the Irish PTT. Now the Church Divine Service is back again with illegal transmissions on 28265 kHz in FM. We need your observations and reports! Send your mails to dk2om@<no spam>darc.de (or) dj9kr@<no spam>darc.de Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:58 Successful end to the World Cup for Region 1 From IARU Region 1 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON 2010 The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially runs from 1st June to 30 November each year and  Tropical  Storm Alex has become the first 'named' storm of this year. Amateur Radio continues to play a part  in gathering and distributing information for the weather and emergency services each year.  Radio Amateurs in Region 1 are reminded that the following frequencies may be in use by nets in  North and Central America to track and deal with the consequences of these severe weather events.  It is possible for Region 1 amateurs to cause unintentional QRM to these nets so please listen  carefully if operating near these frequencies:  14.300 MHz is used by the Maritime Mobile Service Net daily and as well as handling traffic from  Maritime Mobile Stations, also gathers weather reports from maritime stations to assist forecasters. 14.325 MHz is used by the Hurricane Watch Net and the net is established whenever it appears that  a storm may affect the US mainland. The net gathers weather information and links to the American  National Hurricane Centre.  14.265 MHz is used by the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio  Network ( SATERN )  provides  Health and Welfare traffic links for those in affected areas as well as supporting the Salvation Army  Disaster relief response should a hurricane strike. Frequencies used in Cuba  3.740 MHz 7.045, 7.080, 7.110 MHz Frequencies used in Central America; Red Centro Americana :  7.090 and 3.750MHz   Guatemala: 7.075 MHz   Nicaragua: 7.098 MHz Mexico (FMRE) 3.690 and 7.060 MHz Cuba and Mexico co-operate with long distance relays on 40m when propagation makes this  possible. Local emergency communications groups may also activate if a hurricane approaches their area and  those frequencies would be announced at the time. LIGHTNING  I have added a page called Lightning which is linked to the EUCLID website. This site may be of use to radio amateurs in determining the risk of lightning damage to aerial systems and other electronic devices such as televisions and computers. What is EUCLID ? EUCLID (EUropean Cooperation for LIghtning Detection) is a collaboration among national lightning detecting networks with the aim to identify and detect lightning all over the European area. The countries involved are Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and France. At the moment the complete network consists of 75 sensors, in these 13 countries, contributing to the detection of lightning. The information coverage ranges from the Golf of Biscay to Warsaw and from Sicily to the North of Norway. There is no other project like EUCLID in the world, with so many lightning people connected together and compiles lightning information in Europe for a mutual area of interest in common ideas and results. The Euclid network provides lightning data for Europe with homogenous quality in terms of detection efficiency and location accuracy. Individual participating networks receive real-time access to the complete Euclid data and use this data to serve clients for national lightning data. Each network retains its national independence and provides lightning data for individual user applications in their own country as well. BRIEF RESUME OF GW8PSJ  Working for the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) I led a small team doing PCB layout and electronic design work and after taking my engineering degree in Communication Systems and Techniques became an Air Traffic Engineer and was involved in a new radar data processing system for the London Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton. It was during this period that I developed an interest in amateur radio and became licensed in 1978 and experimented with the manufacture of aerials and linear amplifiers for VHF use. After further training as a technical author I worked in the Technical Publications Department for a number of years. Then finally becoming part of the Telecommunications Reporting Department monitoring the reliability and performance of telecommunication equipment used by NATS and creating monthly and statistical analysis reports of the ATC engineering equipment and services. In 1995 I took early retirement from NATS and took a number of jobs finally becoming an inspector in the Quality Assurance department of a large transport group. This entailed producing weekly, monthly and annual statistical reports, setting up monitoring and company procedures until I retired permanently in 2004. My current shack consists of an Icom-7400 transceiver covering the HF/VHF bands feeding via a MFJ-948 ATU into an 84ft long doublet which gives good coverage on the 80/40/20/17 metre bands. For the VHF/UHF bands I use an Icom-E208 into a Moonraker 2m/70cms/6m vertical co-linear. I am happy to receive suggestions or requests for other pages to be added. Please email me at GW8PSJ-WEBMASTER@<no spam>YAHOO.CO.UK RETURN TO TOP Made with Xara Web Designer 6 00190