Just like every year, CARS shall be supporting the Cyprus Scouts Association and the Girl Guides Association of Cyprus members to participate in the international Jamboree on the Air scouting event.
JOTA-JOTI is the largest Scouting event in the world with over 1 million Scouts participating across 150+ countries.
On Friday, 12 October 2018, the unveiling of the bronze statue of Erricos Lanitis, 5B4GJ, was held at 6pm at the 23rd Larnaca Seasouts building. After that, followed a presentation of the book entitled “Erricos Lanitis the multitalented Scout” written by Dr. Marios Kyriazis.
It was more than fitting that the event took place during the month of October, during which the annual Scouts JOTA event takes place, as Erricos served for many years as the Cyprus Scouts JOTA organizer.
I am sad to announce that our dear friend and colleague 5B4AEA/W2OHN, Joe (Joseph) Fucetola Jr., has passed away last week, at the age of 95. The funeral was held last Saturday, 22 September 2018.
Joe was born in New Jersey, on 22 March 1923. He has been a licensed radio amateur since his teenage years. His love of radio communications begun through amateur radio, Continue reading
Members of the CARS Nicosia club are planing to participate in the IARU R1 Field day by setting up an HF station at “Mantra tou Kampiou” picnic site near Kapedes village using the callsign 5B4NC/P.
The IARU R1 field day takes place during the first weekend of September which this year is from 1/9/2018 @ 15:00 local time till 2/9/2018 @ 15:00 of September. Continue reading
Can you imagine? 23 teams, from all over Africa, Europe and USA travelled to South-Africa to take part in the annual Youngsters On The Air event. Yes, it did happen. 74 Young radio amateurs found their way to Gauteng, close to Johannesburg. This made it also happen that we had in total 7 African countries taking part, more then ever. 25 Persons had the opportunity to take part, after an intensive training, in a HAREC license exam. 20 Of them passed, great achievement, especially if you are aware that most of them don’t have the opportunity to take part in an exam at their home country. Continue reading
On August 21, 2018, at 21:31:40 UTC, an earthquake of 6.9 Richter, on the coasts of Venezuela was reported.
Karl Hleftschar, YV5YA, National Director of the National Emergency Network of the Radio Club Venezolano, reported that the YV5RNE Network is active on the 7088 kHz frequency. Continue reading
Homebrew is an amateur radio slang term for home-built, noncommercial radio equipment. Design and construction of equipment from first principles is valued by amateur radio hobbyists, for educational value, and to allow experimentation and development of techniques or levels of performance not readily available as commercial products. Some items can be home-brewed at similar or lower cost than purchased equivalents.
One of the greatest enthusiasts of homebrewing is Hans Summer G0UPL, an electronic experimenter and amateur radio innovator extraordinaire. Hans pays careful attention to compact and minimal parts count to achieve the design goals of his homebrew projects. Continue reading
The Radio Amateurs of “Cyprus from the Air”, Andreas 5B8AP and Manos 5B4AFQ are planning to activate the Akamas lighthouse during annual International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend which takes place on the third weekend of August. This year the event takes place on the 18th and 19th of August.
Outside of beacon signals, 4U1UN, the Amateur Radio club station at United Nations Headquarters in New York, has not been heard on the air since 2015, and only then under the commemorative 4U70UN call sign marking the UN’s 70th anniversary that fall, with operation from a ground-level garden area within the UN Headquarters complex. That could change soon. Continue reading
28 teams from various countries in IARU Region 1 as well as one young radio amateur from Region 2 will be arriving in South Africa for the start of YOTA 2018 on Wednesday 8 August.
The event will end on Wednesday 15 August with everybody leaving during the course of the day. The young people will be discussing and sharing ideas about amateur radio, learning new skills and of course making new friends. Continue reading
