425 DX News reports that Rockall (IOTA EU-189) may be activated in the next few days

The Dayton Hamvention takes place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and DXers and Contesters will find plenty of activities to keep them busy

Contesting luminary Randy Thompson, K5ZD, has been named Director of the CQ World Wide WPX Contests, effective immediately

'Long Live Shortwave' was released on a vinyl LP back in 1979 and is now available on the web. The LP cover describes it as "a superb album devoted to DXing, plus a collection of authorised call signs and information on the worlds top shortwave stations"

Tired of listening to the B-52s or Gardening News on your I-Pod? Wouldn't you like to be able to carry with you the kinds of ham radio conversations that you listen to while in your radio shack? Tune in to SolderSmoke!

Wythall Radio Club are about to start their next Amateur Radio Foundation Course. The course will run for 6 weeks

After operating for 133 years the Thai Telegraph service has finally closed down

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by OPDX

A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW

71 Signal Unit, a reserve force unit, will be running their annual military/amateur HF communications exercise, Exercise Double Barrel 3, over the weekend of 24 to 25 May 2008, using the call sign ZS71SIG and active from Rawsonville in the Western Cape

Representatives from the AMSAT Engineering teams will be available to talk with you about their projects at the 2008 Dayton Hamvention

This is yet another opportunity for CubeSat developers from all over the world to get together to share ideas and knowledge gained from developing picosatellites

The U.S. government wants every cellular telephone tower in the country to have at least 8 hours of battery or other power backup at every one of the nation's cellular tower and other receive and transmit sites, but it has not addressed how the cell phone infrastructure will be able to handle the millions of calls that might be expected during a man made or natural disaster

Emcommwest, an ARRL Specialty Convention sported a record crowd of over 350 people this year in Reno, Nevada

If you see a lot of scouts in the halls and flea market of the 2008 Dayton Hamvention, it wont be an illusion. That's because Scout Leaders will be reaching out to ham radio operators at Hamvention to encourage them to provide more amateur radio opportunities to scouts back in their home towns

The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM) on May 8 seeking to raise fees for Amateur Radio vanity call signs

Again this week Earth residents saw a new, but brief sunspot from new Cycle 24, judging from the polarity of the spot, sunspot 993

A major DXpedition to Christmas Island has been announced for 8 to 20 July 2008

N2Y and N2J will be the Special Event call signs used for this year’s special event honoring the precious lives that were lost and giving thanks to the world that stood by us in time of need while this tragic event shattered lives throughout the globe

The Federal Communications Commission has denied a petition filed by two California hams asking that an additional repeater sub-band be created on 2 meters