IARU Region 3 postal mail­ing address, “P.O. Box 73 Toshi­ma, Tokyo 170‑8691” has been no longer avail­able since 26 May 2020. Please use “3–43‑1 Minamiotsu­ka Toshi­­ma-ku, Tokyo 170‑8073, JAPAN” as shown in the Region 3 website.

Shizuo Endo JE1MUI…

IARU liai­son of ARRL, Rod Stafford W6ROD asked me to announce the fol­low­ing event to IARU Region 3 ama­teurs. I hope ama­teurs which are inter­est­ed in the mea­sure­ment par­tic­i­pate in the fes­ti­val event.

June 2020 Fes­ti­val of Fre­quen­cy Mea­sure­ment:…

 May 25, 2020

Kan­sai Ham Fes­ti­val (KANHAM) is largest ama­teur radio fes­ti­val in west­ern Japan.

We are hold­ing a con­test to coin­cide with the Kan­sai Ham  fes­ti­val, It will be the 10th year of the contest.

It used to be …

Regard­ing 5 MHz Newslet­ter URL, Paul G4MWO has informed me of the following. 

1. The lat­est edi­tion is acces­si­ble via the URL

“https://www.dropbox.com/s/koz6msf74mtk76t/5%20MHz%20Newsletter.pdf?dl=0”

which has the word ‘newslet­ter’ in it. 

2. The Archive is acces­si­ble via the URL

“…

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 …