The Michigan QSO Party will be held April 17 2021. More information may be found at https://www.miqp.org/Rules.htm

The COVID Pandemic requires some rule changes for the 2020 Field Day. Given the current state of affairs there will be rule changes in 2021. To learn more go to http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-to-extend-field-day-rule-waivers-from-2020-add-class-d-and-e-power-limit

The ARRL has released the updated schedule for W1AW. The schedule may be found at http://www.arrl.org/w1aw-operating-schedule

This year World Amateur Radio Day will be held on Sunday April 18th 2021. To learn more go to

There is a “contest” every month on VHF and UHF using the FT 8 mode. The dates are different for VHF and UHF each month. The next event is Apr 7 2021.To see the rules and get the dates go to https://www.ft8activity.eu/index.php/en/

The Surrey Amateur Radio Club produces a bimonthly newsletter, magazine, publication or whatever you would like to call it. This edition is 112 pages of interesting stuff. To read the it go to https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-march-april-2021-communicator.html

This much discussed event was to be in person. It has now been cancelled.

The Communication Academy deals with emergency radio communications. This is the their first year as a fully on line event. More information can be found at https://www.commacademy.org/

If you would like to participate in a survey being conducted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada go to the site below.

An agreement with the US FCC will allow US Amateur to continue to use the 3.5 GHz band until the process moves further along. The ARRL Bulletin is below SB QST ARL ARLB006ARLB006 Amateur Radio Gets a Partial Reprieve on 3.5 GHz Pending future FCC action, amateur radio secondary use of the 3.3 – 3.45 GHz band segment may continue indefinitely. The FCC, as part of a lengthy Second Report and Order (R&O) for commercial licensing of 3.45 – 3.55 GHz adopted on March 17, agreed with ARRL that continued access by amateur radio to 3.3 – 3.45 GHz should be allowed until consideration of the 3.1 – 3.45 GHz…