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QSO Party 9V1

In order to promote activity on the VHF/UHF bands, to provide an opportunity for newly licensed radio amateurs to have more QSOs and to encourage radio amateurs to work greater distances, we will have a QSO party on Sunday, May 29 from 14:00 to 16:00 SGT.

The QSO Party is open to all licensed radio amateurs in Singapore and surrounding regions. For further details please see the attached manual below.

9V FM QSO Party Manual – Mar 2026Download

IOTA Contest 2025 Pulau Ubin

On the way … 9V1HY
Arrival at Pulau Ubin
Operating table
Endfed for 40, 20 and 10 m
Monkeys searching for food
Sunrise
Early morning operation
9V1AV, 9V1RT, 9V1KG, 9V1HY, 9V1AZ, 9V1KV

Propagation was good, noise level acceptable. We operated on 40, 20 and 15 m in mixed mode (SSB & CW). 175 QSO in total, highest qso rate at 8 pm, 12 mn and 7 am.

IOTA 2024

This year’s IOTA team on St. John’s Island: 9V1AZ, Gopal; 9V1AD, Chuck; 9V1AV, JT; 9V1GH, Sanjeev with son Kush; 9V1JO, Johari; 9V1KG, Klaus; 9V1RT, Roland; and Sanjeev. 9V1RB with friend joined as day visitors. Station call sign was 9V1IO.

Meeting @ Marina South Pier
On the way …
Arrival at St. John’s Isl.
Our lodge
Rehearsal for NDP
Vertical for 20 m
End fed for 40 m and 10 m, vertical for 15 m
The team
Kitchen area
Sleeping hall
Roland and Chuck
9V1IO station

Thanks to Gopal for the whole organisation; to Haoyuan for letting us use his 7300 with PSU and PAC-12 antenna, Klaus for the Computer, Buddistick, endfed and Keyer, and Roland for the pole and camping trolley.

SARTS entry to IOTA Contest 2024

This year’s IOTA Contest takes place on Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th July 2024 from 1200 – 1200 UTC. Haoyuan 9V1HY is coordinating the Singapore entry, which will likely happen from Pulau Ubin or St John’s Island, likely travelling out on the Saturday morning, getting set up ready to start our time afternoon, then operating through the night before wrapping up on Sunday morning.

Anyone interested contact 9V1HY via telegram. For background on the contest, check the RSGB as it coordinates the event. There is more information about IOTA’s long term year round role and activities on that organization’s website.

Bear-10 Flight Announcement

  • Date/Time 19 May 2024 (Sunday) 06:45 SGT lift off.
  • Duration: a few hours
  • Call sign: 9V1WP-11
  • APRS: on 144.390 MHz
  • SSTV on 145.550 MHz

…weather permitting and with positive clearance by air-force controllers at time of planned launch. Flight plan has been approved by RSAF and CAAS, and payload approved by IMDA.

The weather Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio (BEAR) is expected to reach an altitude of 25 km or FL820.

Tour of former BBC Far Eastern Relay Station

On 15 September 2023 members of Singapore Amateur Radio Transmitting Society were given a tour of the facilities built for the BBC World Service in Singapore which closed in July 2023. Thank you to our hosts at Encompass, who now run the site, to James 9V1YC for organizing the tour, and to Kevin 9V1KT for the video. Hugh 9V1SA posted many of the photos taken by our members in a Wikipedia article about the site.

BEAR-8

from Chew, 9V1HP

Balloon Experiment with Amateur Radio (BEAR-8)

is expected to be airborne on Sunday 28 May 2023 (Sunday) from around 06:45 (SGT) or 22:45 (27 May, UTC). Payload DRA818V.

APRS on 144.390 MHz: Telemetry, location, altitude, temperature and pressure.
SSTV on 145.550 MHz, Periodic snapshot.

TEAM

Project Lead / Payload (2), 9V1LW
Flt Sys / Payload (1), 9V1WP
Flt. Lifting, 9V1FH
Flt. Tracking, 9V1CV
Flt. Co-ord, 9V1YP