Archive › October 2026 › Week 42
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
27 stories published this day (UTC).
Manufacturers & gear 1
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How Do You Record a Live Podcast in Front of an Audience?
Heil Sound explains how to capture a podcast staged before a live crowd. It recommends a dynamic mic per host, separate recording tracks, a backup feed from the house mixer, and careful monitor placement to limit bleed.
Societies & IARU 18
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October 23 Youth Contest
OKTÓBER 23-i IFJÚSÁGI VERSENY RH
The Mecsek Radio Club organizes a youth contest on 23 October 2026 from 07:00 to 07:59 UT, marking the Hungarian national holiday. It runs in six 10-minute periods, with one contact per station, period and mode.
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October 23 Youth Contest on VHF/UHF
OKTÓBER 23-i IFJÚSÁGI VERSENY URH
A one-hour VHF/UHF youth contest on 23 October commemorates the Hungarian national holiday and gives young operators practice. Six 10-minute periods run from 08:30 to 09:29 UTC, organized by the Mecsek Radio Club.
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1956 Polish-Hungarian Memorial Contest and Activity
1956-os lengyel-magyar emlékverseny és aktivitás
Polish amateurs hold a short Hungary 1956 memorial contest on Friday, October 16, 15:00–17:00 UTC, with special callsigns such as HA70KFL and HA2GY featured. A two-week Budapest 1956 activity runs in parallel.
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WEDNESDAY at the radio club continues on October 14
STREDA v rádioklube pokračuje 14. októbra
The Czech Radio Club announces that its Wednesday club gathering continues on 14 October.
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H49A Solomon Islands DXpedition Hits the Airwaves and Passes 10,000 Contacts in Just 48 Hours
The H49A DXpedition to the Solomon Islands is on the air and has logged more than 10,000 contacts within its first two days of operation.
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Report for VERON youth members and other interested readers
Bericht voor VERON jeugdleden en andere belangstellenden
At the IARU 2026 conference, members agreed to set up an IARU Youth Committee chaired by Mario Lerma, EA1JAY. The existing youth working group has already organised several youth events, listed on the IARU Region 1 site.
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New receiver connected
NÝJA VIÐTÆKIÐ TENGT.
The new KiwiSDR-2 receiver in Sauðárkróki, Iceland, went online on 13 October and works well. It is reachable over the internet, and ÍRA thanks TF3GZ, TF1A and TF4WD for their help.
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7th EMC Level 1 Video Conference 2026
7. EMC-Level 1 Videokonferenz 2026
The USKA EMC group held its seventh Level 1 video conference on 29 September. Topics included IARU conference activities in Vienna, ENAMS 2.0 units under test, an EMC talk, the USKA direction-finder and a BAKOM sheet on heat pumps. The next meeting is 27 October.
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New radio amateur club in Sigulda
Jauns radioamatieru pulciņš Siguldā!
LRAL, with the Sigulda municipality and its Digital Centre, opens a free radio amateur club for pupils in grades 6 to 11. Weekly sessions cover operating, electronics, SDR, digital modes, fox hunting and exam preparation, starting 20 October.
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"Parlez vous QSO" connects radio amateurs across language barriers
„Parlez vous QSO“ verbindet Funkamateure über Sprachgrenzen
DDØUL maintains and has updated a multilingual set of QSO phrase and country-name lists, now covering 17 languages including new Portuguese and Ukrainian versions. It includes IPA pronunciation, editable LaTeX sources and PDFs, and is hosted on GitHub.
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Coltano becomes "Coltano Marconi"
Coltano diventa “Coltano Marconi”
The village of Coltano near Pisa has been officially named in memory of Guglielmo Marconi, who built Italy's first long-wave radiotelegraph station there in 1911. ARI representatives attended the ceremony on 12 October.
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RSGB Convention 2026 talks available on YouTube
Vorträge der RSGB Convention 2026 auf YouTube abrufbar
RSGB has put two livestreams from its 2026 Convention, held 9–11 October in Milton Keynes, on YouTube. Talks covered antennas, interference, AI, satellites and propagation, and the Saturday stream includes a discussion among four national and international society presidents.
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Radio amateurs' autumn day in Tampere in November
Radioamatöörien syyspäivä Tampereella marraskuussa
The Finnish Amateur Radio League holds its autumn meeting on Saturday 21 November at the Rientola centre in Tampere. Tampereen Radioamatöörit OH3NE organises a program beforehand, including a look at the club's new premises.
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League seeks new members for Swedish-language committee
Liitto hakee svenska utskottetiin uusia jäseniä
The Finnish Amateur Radio League is recruiting new members for its Swedish-language committee. The group translates league news into Swedish and can organise activities for Swedish-speaking hams.
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Noble Skywave 2026
Noble Skywave 2026.
Canadian Armed Forces, allied communicators and radio amateurs take part in the Noble Skywave HF exercise from 20 to 22 October. Teams try to establish long-distance links worldwide, and registration is still open to amateurs.
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Târgoviște hosted the European ARDF championships in 2026
Târgoviște verwelkomde de Europese ARDF-top in 2026
The 25th IARU Region 1 ARDF Championships took place 16–22 August 2026 in Târgoviște, Romania. Radio direction finding competitors from across Europe competed for European titles in the various ARDF disciplines.
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Radio weather: changeable geomagnetic conditions
FunkWX - wechselhafte Geomagnetik
Fast solar wind from a coronal hole is expected to bring unsettled to slightly stormy geomagnetic conditions, Kp 3–5. Flare risk remains slightly elevated, though current flare activity is low, and HF conditions are rated usable to good.
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A better version of FreeDV is out now
FreeDV har en bättre version ute nu.
FreeDV, the open-source digital voice mode for HF, has a new release, version 2.4.0. It now uses the RADE neural speech coder in place of Codec 2, and the free software runs on Windows, Linux and macOS.
DX & contests 6
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KC4/W1WCN – Antarctica
W1WCN is deployed at McMurdo Station on Ross Island, Antarctica, until March 2027. He plans to operate on HF as KC4/W1WCN when time allows. Ross Island counts as IOTA AN-011, and QSLs go via LoTW and eQSL.
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HK4Q/0 – San Andres & Providencia
Adrian, HK4Q operates as HK4Q/0 from Isla de Providencia (NA-049) on October 14–16, 2026. Activity is on HF using SSB and FT8, with QSL via LoTW.
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S21HRG – Bangladesh
The 13th Hussars Open Rover Scout Group activates special event station S21HRG for JOTA-JOTI 2026. About 100 unlicensed Rover Scouts are introduced to amateur radio under licensed supervision.
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Archived: DX World Weekly Bulletin
DX-World's weekly DXing newsletter, written by Björn ON9CFG since 2013, is now preserved in the Internet Archive through the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications.
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3DA0GY – Eswatini
Morten, LA9GY plans to be active as 3DA0GY from Eswatini between October 15 and November 2, 2026. He expects to operate from Piggs Peak in the Hhohho region, the same location as last year.
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CQWW SSB Contest ’26
The CQWW SSB contest, one of the year's largest DX contests, takes place on the last weekend of the month. Even non-contesters may find rare stations on the bands, and 10m conditions remain an open question.
Community & news 2
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LHS Episode #634: The Weekender CXLIV
Episode 634 of the Linux in the Ham Shack podcast is the 144th Weekender edition. The hosts share personal news and discuss a randomly generated topic.
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New DX Engineering Facebook Show Features the Best of Amateur Radio Content Creators
DX Engineering launches Creator Spotlight, a Friday 4 pm ET show on its Facebook page featuring amateur radio content creators, with early episodes covering K4OGO and KJ5MQE.