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ARRL Audio News--OPEN--In this edition . . .; ARRL Board of Directors Names 2007-2008 Award Recipients; NCVEC Holds Annual Conference via Telephone; ARRL Audio News ID--Satellite Update--BREAK; Look for the September Issue of QST in Your Mailbox; Former ARRL HQ Staff Member Glenn Swanson, KB1GW (SK); Station Manager Explains NN3SI's Silence; ARRL Audio News--News Briefs--CLOSE

As mentioned in last week's report, Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, is filling in for your regular reporter Tad Cook, K7RA. For the reporting period August 1-7, solar activity was at very low levels and the geomagnetic field was at quiet levels. Solar activity is expected to continue to be very low for the next several days. As for geomagnetic field activity, the Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning on August 6 for quiet to unsettled, and then unsettled to active conditions (with possible minor storm periods) on August 8 and August 9, respectively.

This week, Surfin’ finds Amateur Radio Web sites that are no more.

An elderly UK radio ham caused traffic chaos and sparked a police hunt earlier this week after setting out on a shopping trip to buy a new transceiver

A video of the Falcon 1, Flight 3 launch in which two Amateur Radio cubesats were lost is now available. It shows an earth-pointing view from onboard Falcon 1

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

Consultations have started over plans to close three sites in Warwickshire involved in antenna operations

Videos of the presentations given at this year's AMSAT-UK Colloquium are now available on the BATC video site

Freddy F5IRO and David F8CRS will be making visits to the Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe between now and 21st of August

The Rugby Observer's Simon Ward reports that a massive new suburb of Rugby, consisting of 6,5000 new homes, will be built on the former BT radio mast site

The opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games take place later today. Chinese Amateur Radio Special Event stations celebrating the Olympics will be on-the-air throughout the Games - continuing until Wednesday, September 17

On the 18 August 2008, 30 Tri-Service personnel from Blandford Camp and Headley Court will carry a stretcher from Plymouth to London. The stretcher will be a symbol of all those servicemen and women who have been injured on operations in recent years, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is hoped to raise support for our troops and raise much-needed funds for the Help for Heroes charity

The annual IARU Region 1 Amateur Television Contest takes place from Saturday 13th of September until Sunday 14th of September on all bands from 70 cm upwards

Members of Stockport Radio Society appeared this week on 'Northwest Tonight', the local BBC TV Magazine programme in North West England

Dutch police are searching for the person or persons who stole a low-power FM relay transmitter for public network Radio 4 from premises in the town of Wageningen

Morecambe Bay Amateur Radio Club (MBARS) will be holding an open day to celebrate the club's 25th anniversary on the 7th September, 2008

On Tuesday the UK regulator Ofcom published an illegal Broadcast fact sheet. It infers that the legacy VHF 70/80 MHz radio equipment in use by the London Fire Brigade can be subject to "blocking" when in close proximity to 100 watt transmitters operating on frequencies above 88 MHz

India will soon be getting their own satellite based navigation system. The Indian Regional Navigation system (IRNSS) will consist of a constellation of seven satellites

During the month of July, 65 countries visited the K9JY site. I’m still working on getting it to 100.

A true Log of the World — and thanks for visiting and commenting here.

Scot, K9JY

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AMSAT-UK held their 23rd Annual International Space Colloquium July 25-27 at the University of Surrey in Guildford. This annual event is a chance to talk to satellite designers and builders, as well as a place to discover how to use Amateur Radio satellites. The British Amateur Television Club (BATC) streamed the Colloquium live on the Internet and has placed videos of nine lectures on their Web site.