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From Benn Kobb's Experimental Radio News:


High Frequency stations

May 22, 2026

The FCC recently renewed the licenses of several shortwave
stations believed to be connected with high-speed automated
trading. These experimental stations are authorized to operate in
multiple HF bands with effective radiated power levels up to 1000
kW (1 MW).

Licensees renewed include 3DB Communication, 10Band, Toggle
Communications, Farside Communications and RCA Telecom.

The FCC formerly allowed these types of stations to avoid sending
station identification. As covered in ERN issue 14 and Radio
World, the FCC later removed that mysterious exemption.

New license conditions point to FCC plans

New conditions placed on the licenses read, "This operation under
the experimental license will not be renewed, extended, or
subject to modification" and "This license expires on either the
start date of a license issued for these operations by the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) or the expiration date
of this license, whichever is earlier."

The wording suggests that the FCC will graduate these stations
from experimental status to regular operation, licensed not by
the Experimental Licensing Branch but by the WTB which regulates
commercial stations other than broadcast media.

Another HF licensee, Delmarva Broadband Services, requested
renewal of its license for WJ2XXS in Yorkville, IL. "Delmarva is
operating at 60 watts average transmitted power and intends to
further reduce operations to 15 watts average power," the company
told the FCC.

"This operational approach is substantially below the maximum
power levels authorized in the existing grant (which includes
authorization up to 6000 watts PEP), and reflects Delmarva’s
continued effort to minimize interference risk while collecting
meaningful experimental data."

To access issue 15 of Experimental Radio News, go to
https://www.experimentalradio.news
 

A subscription to ERN requires only an email address.


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From Deutsche Welle:

Space race: Why Portugal is reaching for the stars

A spaceport is being built on a small Portuguese island in
the Atlantic. Is Portugal on the verge of becoming a space
nation?

Jochen Faget
May 31, 2026

Imagine rockets being launched from the Azores, an archipelago
out in the Atlantic Ocean, carrying Portuguese-built satellites
into space — and then picture reusable space capsules returning
to base.

While this may sound like a rather futuristic scenario, elements
of it could soon become reality. Portugal, after all, is working
hard to become a spacefaring nation, with the help of its many
highly skilled engineers and EU cooperation.

"Portugal has modernized considerably over the past 20 years,"
Portuguese Space Agency President Ricardo Conde tells DW. "Our
universities produce outstanding engineers. We have created human
capital that we can build on."

Conde, whose agency was founded in 2019, says about 80 different
companies now employ some 2,000 highly qualified workers across
Portugal's space industry. It generated a turnover of €200
million ($232.5 million) last year, according to Conde, with even
greater productivity expected this year.

This is "because we hold another trump card: the Azores," Conde
says.

Indeed, Portugal is presently building a spaceport on the sleepy
Azores island of Santa Maria.

"This will be a big deal," Ivo Vieira of space industry group AED
Cluster Portugal tells DW. "The European Space Rider spaceplane
is even slated to land there in 2028."

It will float down on huge parachutes and land right beside the
old runway, which was once built by the Americans during World
War II and is now barely ever used. Vieira says a rocket launch
is planned for 2030, which will send "a South Korean satellite
into orbit."

Several satellite communication antennas are already in operation
on the island, he adds.

Will Portugal seek to rival US spaceports?

Is Portugal in the process of establishing its very own Cape
Canaveral? Not exactly. Bruno Carvalho of spaceport operator ASC
says it will not rival the vast US rocket launch site.
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"It is much smaller and more of an addition to the European
Kourou spaceport in French Guiana," Carvalho explains. "We will
be a cost-effective launch site for smaller rockets with smaller
satellites, within the EU, which is strategically important."

The space port's remote location in the Atlantic also means
spacecrafts can safely land in the ocean without posing a
potential danger to anyone. Thirty-five people will work at the
spaceport once everything is set up and ready. This makes for a
far smaller and cheaper operation than US launch sites.

Carvalho also wants the site to tap into local resources and
hopes it could strengthen the local economy: "Maybe we can bring
back young people who have left the island."

The first Azores spacecraft landing could take place later this
year.

"Portuguese authorities have approved the first EU splashdown for
the Phoenix 2.1 transport space capsule," Marta Oliveira of ATMOS
Space Cargo tells DW.

Oliveira, co-founder of the German space logistics firm, aims to
deliver satellites to orbit at low cost using reusable capsules.
She jokingly describes her venture as "the FedEx of space."

For now, transporters are sent into space using SpaceX, though
that could change, says Oliveira, as "we are in talks with
European companies." The plan is for spacecraft to land in the
Atlantic, near the Azores island of Santa Maria, with "ASC
spaceport facilitating logistics and coordinating with the local
authorities, which is ideal for us."

Portugal's compact satellites

What is still missing are satellites.

"Three Portuguese centers are developing them," says Ricardo
Conde. "One is the CEiiA consortium in Porto in the north,
another is the Open Cosmos multinational at the university of
Coimbra in the center of [Portugal] and a third is based in
Lisbon, which mainly builds satellites in collaboration with the
armed forces."

They are small and used for commercial, military and mixed
applications such as communications, Earth and ocean observation
and, most recently, fighting wildfires.

CEiiA, which also develops mobility and aircraft technology, is
already making big progress.

"We entered the space sector in 2018," Andre Dias, who is
responsible for the consortium's downstream division, tells DW.
"Our aim is to develop an industry for high-resolution
satellites."

To achieve this, a research and development facility will be
established in Portugal's north, near the city of Guimaraes, to
"partner with the city and local university there, as we want to
increase our production capacity by a factor of four or five."

CEiiA has the capacity to build four civilian satellites,
weighing up to 500 kilograms (roughly 1,100 pounds), every year,
says Dias. He adds that demand is growing steadily and expanding
capacity could open the door to more international contracts.

One can see decentralization playing out between "the large
European space nations like Germanyand France and smaller
countries such as Portugal, so what we are seeing is a kind of
democratization of space travel," Dias says. "We are specializing
in small satellites that cost between €20 and 30 million, not the
big ones that can cost up to €500 million."

While aiming to build compact units, the Portuguese space
agency's plans are anything but modest.

"We will have 30 satellites in space by 2030, some of them in
collaboration with Spain," Conde tells DW. "We want to bring
international players to Portugal to work with them and are
building on European initiatives."

This also applies to the military sector, he adds, which is
becoming increasingly important.

https://www.dw.com/en/space-race-why-portugal-is-reaching-for-the-stars/a-77303795
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