Recovery of the Titanic Radio Room
For some reason, of all the ships that have sailed the oceans, it’s the unlucky ones that capture our imagination. Few ships have been as unlucky as the RMS Titanic , sinking…
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13 Colonies Contest
2020 Event Dates / July 1 (9AM Eastern) to July 7 (Midnight Eastern) (July 1, 2020-1300 UTC to July 8, 2020-0400 UTC) YOU DO NOT NEED ALL 13 COLONIES TO GET THE…
BUM OF THE MONTH
The BUM OF THE MONTH will continue tomorrow June 7 at noon at Jabby Joe’s Bar & grill in Mckees Rocks. You will need a mask to enter and the entrance will…
Venerable AO-7 Satellite
The nearly 46-year-old AO-7 amateur satellite made a remarkable contact possible on May 4 between Diego Feil, LW2DAF, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (GF05rk), and Tom Ambrose, ZS1TA, in Cape Town, South Africa…
Zoom Meeting – Greenbank Telescope Tour
Steel City, Skyview, North Hills, Unv. of Pittsburgh, WACOM Will all receive their invites via there club email reflectors We will be hosting another joint club zoom meeting on May 27th at…
Hot Spot on Keystone West Room
Click on Image For Full Size We are currently working on adding a link to the Keystone-West Room. This will let users using a MMDVM Hot Spot or any other model to…
WTWW Tour This Wednesday Zoom Meeting
Welcome Skyview Members & Steel City Members & North Hills Members To the first Joint Zoom Meeting between our clubs. This week meeting is another special tour this time it is the…
WLS RADIO 890 KC
The Sears & Roebuck Co. founded WLS ( WORLDS LARGEST STORE) on April 12,1924. In 1938, the station’s transmitter was moved to Tinley Park, Illinois In 1931 and the station’s power was…
United Nations Amateur Radio Club
From the ARRL.ORG website The president of the United Nations Amateur Radio Club, James Sarte, K2QI, reports that during the UN Headquarters building lockdown as part of the “Stay Home” mandate, the…
JS8Call now supports APRS over HF
JS8Call is an experiment to test the feasibility of a digital mode with the robustness of FT8, combined with a messaging and network protocol layer for weak signal communication on HF, using…
Trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz
On Tuesday the 7th of April 2020 , a remarkable contact was made with the FT8 digital mode on 432 MHz between D4VHF on the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of…
Skyview Train Trip to W1AW
Well WC3O and the Skyview Radio Society team made into big times when this past Wednesday Gordon West interview Cookie about their train trip to W1AW headquarters on HAMNATION podcast. Click on…