Something old is new again.

The ARRL Board of Directors held its Second Meeting of 2008 July 18-19 in Windsor, Connecticut, under the chairmanship of President Joel Harrison, W5ZN. Radio Amateurs of Canada President David Goodwin, VO1AU/VE3AAQ, was a guest of the Board.

For several days over the past week, we saw a couple of sunspots -- but just like other recent dying Solar Cycle 23 spots, they faded quickly. This group, lasting from July 18-20, was number 1000. No sign of Solar Cycle 24 in recent memory, just a couple of false starts.

This week, Surfin' picks up where it left off last week with more hamming at the theme parks.

The ARISS school contact with participants from the European Space Camp 2008 at the Zanka Children and Youth Centre, near Lake Balaton, Zanka, Hungary was successful

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by OPDX - including a link to a website containing a complete listing of the participants in the 2008 RSGB IOTA Contest

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

Soyuz-ST should be launched from the new Russian Caribbean launch pad at Kourou in the first half of 2009

The Brunei Darussalam Amateur Radio Association members (BDARA) were yesterday presented with their team jackets that they will don during the upcoming 5th All Borneo Amateur Radio Festival

Technical Reference/DuplexersBasics on duplexersn type of duplexers and how duplexers works

Technical Reference/DuplexersSchematics of antenna couplers in french

Technical Reference/DuplexersThis article explain how to build your own antenna coupler with pictures and schematics, in french

Technical Reference/DuplexersSchematics of a homebrewed diplexer for VHF and UHF in german

Technical Reference/DuplexersUnderstanding, Maintaining & Re-Tuning Antenna Duplexers

The Amateur Radio Mars Orbiter P5A and the High Earth Orbit (HEO) P3E will feature in presentations given by AMSAT-DL on Saturday at the AMSAT-UK 'Satellite Weekend' which is open to all

An International Space Station Expedition 17 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants from the European Space Camp 2008 in Hungary today. The contact will be between onboard station OR41SS and ground station HA5KHC and should be audible all over Europe

The British Amateur Television Club (BATC) will have live streaming of the Amsat-UK Satellite Weekend which begins tomorrow. Watch it free from anywhere in the world!

Tony Dixon G4CJC takes another look at activity on the 10-metre band

The Group for Earth Observation (GEO) will be demonstrating live EUMETCast imaging during the AMSAT-UK 'Satellite Weekend' July 25-27th. The event is open to all

Southern Texas and Northern Mexico are currently threatened by hurricane Dolly. As usual, some Australian volunteers are assisting and supporting US radio amateurs by keeping a listening watch