The next weekend 18-19 August 2012 is the annual "International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend". Many HF amateur radio stations shall be transmitting from lighthouses and lightships around the world.Usually they use CW and SSB, very rarely RTTY 45 baud - 170 Hz. For more information: * http://illw.net/ - International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend * http://illw.net/index.php/entrants-list-2012 * http://arlhs.com/ - Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society 73 Costas SV1XV Athens, Greece
Utility Planet is the official blog for the column of the same name in The Spectrum Monitor. It replaces Utility World in the discontinued Monitoring Times magazine. Utilities are all VLF/LF/MF/HF (and sometimes low-band VHF) radio communications except broadcasting, CB, and non-emergency amateur. If you understood the last sentence, you know enough to read this blog.