Archive › October 2026 › Week 42
Monday, 12 October 2026
15 stories published this day (UTC).
Societies & IARU 10
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Release Candidate October 2026
AREDN opens its October 2026 release candidate process, starting with nightly build 20261012-e3528941, ahead of the 4.26.X.0 stable release. The build fixes a kernel bug that left some Mikrotik IPQ40xx devices unable to reboot.
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News from the VRZA board's shack
Uit de Shack van het VRZA Bestuur
The Dutch amateur society VRZA raises the upper age limit for youth membership from 21 to 30 and welcomes PA3WOB back onto the board. It also reports more membership applications since exam fees became reimbursable.
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Remote Web Receiver at Sauðárkrókur Out of Service
VIÐTÆKIÐ YFIR NETIÐ Á SAUÐÁRKRÓKI ÚTI.
The WEB-888 web-based receiver installed at Sauðárkrókur about three weeks ago is offline and will be replaced by a KiwiSDR-2. The new unit has been configured by TF1A and is expected to be installed locally soon.
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JARL WorldWide RTTY Contest
The Wireless Institute of Australia lists the JARL WorldWide RTTY Contest, a radioteletype operating event organised by the Japan Amateur Radio League.
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Talk: Pitfalls of grounding a freestanding antenna mast
Vortrag: Fallstricke bei der Antennenerdung eines freistehenden Antennenmasts
DARC hosts an online talk on Wednesday 14 October at 20:00 on how lightning behaves when it strikes a freestanding antenna mast. DF4KJ, a VDE lightning protection expert, covers metal and fiberglass masts, foundations and shack buildings, with a Q&A afterwards.
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80th Anniversary of ARI La Spezia
80° Anniversario di ARI-La Spezia
ARI La Spezia marks its 80th anniversary (1946–2026) with a commemorative radio event on 16–18 October open to hams and SWLs worldwide. Special station II1PM operates on Saturday 17 October, while section station IQ1SP is active all three days.
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Report on the annual September field day 2026 of the cooperating local VERON and VRZA branches
Verslag van de jaarlijkse september velddag 2026 van de samenwerkende lokale afdelingen van de VERON en VRZA
A report on the September field day run jointly by the VERON Wageningen and VRZA Zuid-Veluwe local branches. It was a short outing, carried by a core group of regulars plus some visiting club members.
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FunkWX - shaken ionosphere
FunkWX - durchgeschüttelte Ionosphäre
After the weekend's geomagnetic storms, CME effects continue and fast solar wind from a coronal hole is expected later. Geomagnetic activity should be mostly quiet with some active spells, flare risk is raised, and DX conditions may stay disturbed in places.
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Current contests, week 42/2026
Aktuelle Conteste KW 42/2026
DARC lists the contests for calendar week 42, 12 to 18 October 2026. Highlights include the JARTS WW RTTY Contest, the Worked All Germany Contest and the Stew Perry Topband, alongside many regional and VHF/UHF activity evenings.
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HF Kontestimaraton Rules 2027
HF-Kontestimaratonin säännöt 2027
The Finnish amateur radio league's contest committee has released the rules for the 2027 Kontestimaraton, the national HF contest series. The rules document is available for download from the league's site.
DX & contests 3
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C57DX – The Gambia
Branco, YU1FW is active from Banjul, The Gambia, as C57DX. Operation so far has been on CW and FT8, with further details expected on his QRZ page.
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J3/N9GB – Grenada
N9GB plans a holiday-style operation from Grenada between October 31 and November 6, 2026, as J3/N9GB. Activity covers 40 to 6 m on CW, SSB and FT8, mostly in the evenings. QSL via EB7DX.
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ZC4MK – Cyprus SBA
G0KOM returns to the Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas in late November as ZC4MK, operating from Melanda Beach. He plans to take part in the CQWW CW contest, with some activity the week before. QSL via G0KOM.
Community & news 2
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What do you think of this artwork for the ham radio EMF Explorer
KB6NU is developing a ham radio badge version of the EMF Explorer, a simple build-it-yourself circuit. Artwork from an artist is in progress, PCB layout help is being arranged, and readers are asked for feedback on the design.
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Ham Radio 101: Why You Hear Stations That Don’t Hear You
An explainer on why an operator can hear a distant station that cannot hear them back. It covers differences in receiver sensitivity, antenna gain and local noise levels between the two ends of a contact.