160m and 80m bands expand­ed in Japan

Effec­tive on 21 April 2020, Japan­ese ama­teurs can oper­ate in expand­ed fre­quen­cy seg­ments on 160m and 80m bands as described below.

160m band
1,800 — 1,810 kHz All Modes (New seg­ment)
1,810 — 1,825 …

Hi All,
The lat­est edi­tion of The 5 MHz Newslet­ter (No 24 – Winter/Spring 2020) is now avail­able for free pdf down­load from the ‘Exter­nal Links’ sec­tion of the Wikipedia 60m Band page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60-meter_band#External_links
or the RSGB 5 MHz page …

The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion is acti­vat­ing a spe­cial event sta­tion
DX0STAYHOME for the dura­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty quar­an­tine in the Philip­pines.
We encour­age every­one to stay home and oper­ate their ama­teur radio stations.

Eddie DU1EV, Pres­i­dent     …

Dear IARU Region 3 colleagues,

We have been watch­ing the devel­op­ing sit­u­a­tion on COVID-19 with seri­ous concern.

Ama­teur radio is gen­er­al­ly deemed to be a good prac­tice to keep prop­er social dis­tanc­ing. How­ev­er, spe­cial atten­tions should be paid in doing …