Months of hard work tracking various sources of malicious interference directed at the VE7RPTrepeater, owned and operated by the BCFMCA and located on Mt Seymour, have finally begun to pay off.

On September 25th the FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability, including fines totaling $7,000, to James Grinton, K7VNI, located in BellinghamWashington. A copy of this notice is attached for your information.

Grinton repeatedly and maliciously interfered with the operation of VE7RPTon a frequent basis. During the last 2 years Grinton directed his malicious interference and harassment at the President of the BCFMCA, jammed phone patches and periodically flooded the repeater with music and other forms of intentional interference.

Bersesuaian dengan misi Kepengakapan, para peserta Jambori Pengakap Johor ke-24 akan mengikuti  pelbagai aktiviti yang menarik dan salah satu aktiviti tersebut ialah komunikasi radio amatur.
 
Pelaksanaan aktiviti ini akan memberikan peluang kepada para peserta jambori untuk berkomunikasi menggunakan radio amatur bagi mewujudkan rangkaian perhubungan, persahabatan dan persaudaraan Pengakap di semua peringkat samada di dalam Negeri Johor sendiri sehinggalah ke peringkat Negara-negara Rantau Asia Pasifik

ARIS published in august issue of CQ Magazine

Motorola, Inc., now the corporate parent of Yaesu, has announced that its Malaysian subsidiary is working the Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitters' Societey (MARTS) to establish amateur radio clubs in up to 40 secondary schools around the country.

Lots of new hams don't understand that the S meter on their radio is only reporting the relative strength of the repeater system and NOT the signal strength of the station they are talking to unless they are in the simplex mode. When the repeater is transmitting, it may have an output greatly exceeding that of the station IT is listening to. Remember the station it hears on the input frequency of it's receiver may be on a hand held radio and only a few blocks from the "machine" or it could be a mobile radio in a vehicle out on the fringes of the repeater coverage area or a base station running a high gain antenna and 100 watts from the next county or in some cases, the next state.

Many hams use the wording, "BREAK, BREAK, BREAK", (the word "break" repeated 3 times in a row). This is accepted practice on the hf bands where noise may be a problem but on repeaters, usually noise is not a problem, so using "plain" language such as "EMERGENCY", REPEATED 2 OR MORE TIMES can be used to announce that there is an emergency and the frequency is needed to relay vital information....if you hear an "Emergency" call during your conversation with another station....stop transmitting, acknowledge the station calling the emergency and let them have the frequency immediately! Don't delay them by saying something on the order of "Stand by breaker" and then carry on your conversation with your contact. Seconds wasted doing this may save a life!  Listen to them carefully and write down the details of their emergency. They will give you the details of the emergency. Then pause for a moment and wait before you go back to him.......many other hams who heard the emergency call may be responding ALL at the same time.

SSTV adalah Slow Scan TV, iaitu satu mode komunikasi dalam amator yang mana dengan menggunakan mode ini kita boleh menerima dan menghantar gambar dan imej.

Dalam program SSTV from ISS ni saya tak pasti adakah kita hanya menerima gambar atau pun kita buleh jugak TX gambar ke ISS?

Macam Mana Nak Buat?

It seems impossible, but it's very true that most new hams don't know how to call CQ. And a lot don't know how to answer one, either!

We're all to blame for that. There just isn't as much “CQing” as there used to be, except during contests. One reason might be that we're mostly using transceivers with VFO control - as silly as that sounds. Here's the explanation: Back in the good old days (for me), we used mostly crystal controlled transmitters with separate, tunable receivers. The odds of having a crystal on exactly the same frequency as someone else who was on the band, and within range, at the same time was pretty slim. So, it was common to call CQ, then tune around, looking for answers.

KUALA LUMPUR June 26, 2008 - MARTS KL State Council will organize a Fox Hunt (Amateur Radio Direction Finding) on July 20, 2008.