This year, Fire Prevention Week will be from Sunday October 4th through Saturday October 10th. In Ontario we will be using special event call sign VE3FIRE, operating as a Wild Card station, and in the US there will be stations using the call signs N0F through N9F along with KF2IRE, another Wild Card station. All twelve stations are working to highlight fire safety regarding the charging of lithium-ion batteries during Fire Prevention Week.

This event is not a contest. As we make contact with hams worldwide, this is more of a public service event where we will be giving tips to our contacts about the possible hazards inherent in overcharging lithium-ion batteries and tips on how to use and charge these batteries safely.

While this event is not a contest, a downloadable printed certificate will be available for those who work ten or more of the twelve stations. More about getting the certificate is available on the hamfire.com information site and QSL information is available on the VE3FIRE QRZ page.

Source: HamFire

Activate All RI aims to get all 61 of Rhode Island POTA parks on the air September 11–13. Think of it as a POTA take on a state QSO party: get a bunch of us out operating and give everyone else a weekend of Rhode Island parks to chase. Activating every park in a state over one weekend is one of those things we can actually tackle because we’re so tiny. Might as well put that to good use!

We start at 0600 EDT Friday September 11th and end 1800 EDT September 13th.

For hunters, it’s a chance to fill in missing parks toward Worked All RI, or just chase a few of us from home or park-to-park. The website has an activation schedule, live RI spots, and a tool that lets hunters import their POTA hunted-parks history and get a schedule for just the parks they still need.

Source: Rhode Island POTA

The following is a press release from SafecomLink:

The Software Behind the Next Generation of Pactor Modems

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, September 1, 2026 WiMo & SafecomLink today announced that SafecomLink for Pactor – Hamradio Edition is now available through WiMo Antennen und Elektronik GmbH, one of the world’s leading suppliers of radio-communications and antenna technology, serving the amateur radio, professional and commercial radio, aviation, marine, and industrial markets. Developed in close collaboration with the WiMo and SCS (Special Communications Systems) teams, the release brings the full power of the SafecomLink platform to the Pactor community, sold either bundled with a Pactor modem or as a standalone license, and positioned as the software that brings SCS’s new generation of modems to life.

OVERVIEW & AVAILABILITY

A software platform, purpose-built for Pactor

SafecomLink for Pactor – Hamradio Edition turns an SCS Pactor modem and a standard HF transceiver into a complete, modern HF digital-communications system, reliable long-range messaging, file transfer, internet email gateway, and AI-powered information access, the same capabilities trusted by 90,000-plus users worldwide, now tuned for the amateur-radio operator running Pactor. Crucially, SafecomLink integrates with every one of the modem’s features driving the hardware natively and exposing its full feature set through one clean, unified interface.

It is offered in the WiMo store three ways:

• Bundled with a DR-9400 Pactor modem (ready to operate out of the box)
• As a standalone 2-year license
• As a standalone lifetime license

THE COLLABORATION

Built hand-in-hand by WiMo, SCS, and SafecomLink

This launch is the product of a deep, months-long collaboration between the SafecomLink, WiMo, and SCS engineering teams. Drawing on SafecomLink’s long experience with amateur-radio operators and a close understanding of their real-world needs, SCS developed and refined modem features specifically to support SafecomLink’s requirements, so the hardware and the software were engineered around the same goals from the start.

For years we’ve listened closely to what ham operators actually need on the air, and in SCS and WiMo we found partners ready to build toward that vision with us. SCS shaped real modem capabilities around our requirements, WiMo made it effortless to put in operators’ hands, and the result is something none of us could have delivered alone. – Irad Deutsch, General Manager, SafecomLink

As engineers we care about one thing in the end: does it work flawlessly for the operator. Building these modem features hand-in-hand with SafecomLink is how we made sure the answer is yes, every time. – Hans-Peter Helfert, Pactor Engineering, SCS

Our customers want gear that simply works together, and that is exactly what this partnership delivers. SafecomLink’s understanding of the operator is remarkable, and pairing it with SCS’s modems in our store was an easy decision. We’re proud to bring this combination to the amateur-radio community. – Uli Zehndbauer, WiMo Antennen und Elektronik GmbH

WHY IT MATTERS
For the operator, the value is direct: a single, supported platform that unlocks the entire feature set of the Pactor modem, backed by three organizations working as one: hardware and software designed to work together, sold and supported through a trusted retailer, with the assurance that the software will keep pace as the modems evolve.

About WiMo & SCS
WiMo is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of amateur radio and radio communication equipment, serving the amateur radio community with a comprehensive range of antennas, radios, accessories, and technical solutions. SCS is the inventor of PACTOR, a protocol and line of HF radio modems used globally by sailors, ham operators, and emergency teams for reliable data communication.

About SafecomLink
SafecomLink is a grid-independent radio-data platform that turns standard HF, VHF, and UHF radios into sophisticated digital communication systems, reliable long-range messaging, file transfer, email gateway, and AI-powered information access even when traditional networks fail. With more than 90,000 users worldwide and support for 100+ radio models.

Learn more:

https://www.wimo.com/en/scs-pxdragon-dr-9400
https://safecomlink.com/plans-hamradio-operators

SafecomLink 1178 Broadway, New York, NY 10001 United States Website: https://www.safecomlink.com/

Source: SafecomLink