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News for Saturday 28 January |
50th Anniversary Perth City of Light, John Glenn, ARISS contact
On the 20th of February 1962 a Mercury-Atlas 6 space craft called 'Friendship 7' was launched. In the hot-seat was Astronaut John Glenn.
During the first orbit of 3, the spacecraft came into radio range of the Muchea Tracking Station where the first Australian Space Radio contact was made by Gerry O'Connor who spoke with John Glenn as he passed overhead |
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Dayton Hamvention - Top Band Dinner
Dinner reservations and tickets are now available for the 23rd Annual Dayton TopBand Dinner on Friday evening, May 18th, at the Crowne Plaza - downtown Dayton, Ohio |
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Propagation de K7RA
This was another week in which average daily sunspot numbers declined, but average daily solar flux increased |
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News for Friday 27 January |
NASA's amazing high definition image of Earth
NASA have released a 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard their most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012
Right: A very low-resolution version of the original file |
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Announcing the 160m Band Utilization Chart
The '160m Band Utilization Chart' is exactly that. It is not a 'bandplan', nor even an 'unofficial bandplan'. Rather, it is an attempt to graphically portray the modes that are actually in use on 160m today |
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Youngsters to get studio chance
The Keighley News reporting on a radio studio training opportunity for youngsters mentions they could also become radio hams |
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Dave Raycroft's ICPO Bulletin
ICPO - Islands, Castles and Portable Operations
Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet |
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News for Thursday 26 January |
SumbandilaSat beyond repair
South Africa’s second satellite, SumbandilaSat (SO-67), is no longer fulfilling its main purpose due to technical problems |
Record set at Winter Hill
Rex Moncur VK7MO achieved an Australian amateur radio microwave record last week of 843 kilometres - by using aircraft reflections |
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RS-39 reception video
Nittin VU3TYG has made available a video showing reception of the new RS-39 (Chibis-M) satellite |
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Video of Project OSCAR talk
Lance Ginner, K6GSJ, describes the early days of Project OSCAR, which put Amateur Radio into orbit and lead to the foundation of AMSAT |
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Tony's 10-metre band report
A very poor week with Tuesday to Thursday as low as it’s been for quite some time. Saturday and Sunday really bounced back with loads of contacts each day. PJ4C (Bonaire) shone through the fog all week though HK0NA (Malpelo Island) was close in there and just pipped him to the top on Sunday. Lots of other DX about |
'Hack the Tubes' project
Erin King AK4JG has released a video of her amateur radio High Altitude Balloon mission for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Hack the Tubes' project for the class of 2016's early admissions |
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EI80IRTS Certificate
The Irish Radio Transmitters Society was founded 1932 and we are proud to celebrate our 80th anniversary in 2012. A special certificate, available to all amateurs and SWLs, is
being offered to celebrate this occasion |
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News for Wednesday 25 January |
RS-39 heard
On the AMSAT bulletin board Jakub Hruska reported receiving signals from RS-39 shortly after deployment. Nitin VU3TYG also reports hearing the satellite over India |
Logbook of the World support for CQ Awards
CQ Communications and the ARRL have signed an agreement to begin providing support for CQ-sponsored operating awards by the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic confirmation system |
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Dayton Contest Dinner Speaker
North Coast Contesters are happy to announce that 'Tree' Tyree, N6TR, will be the featured speaker at the 20th Annual Dayton Contest Dinner to be held on Saturday, May 19th, in Dayton, Ohio |
Satellite demo in Palm Springs This Saturday!
AMSAT area coordination Clint Bradford K6LCS will again be attending and demonstrating working ham satellites with minimal equipment at the third annual Desert Radio Amateur Transmitting Society (Desert RATS) HamFest this Saturday, January 28, 2012 |
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Hacking EU radio spectrum policy
A video of the presentation given by radio amateur Alexander List HB9/OE9LAJ of the Open Spectrum Alliance to hackers at the SIGINT 2010 event is now available |
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Recent solar disturbances
The disturbances have the potential of serious impact on terrestrial systems like communication and power systems |
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RS-39 Telemetry Decoder
Mike Rupprecht DK3WN has made available software to decode the CW telemetry beacons of RS-39 (435.315 and 435.215 MHz) |
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WRC-12 Day 1 - IARU-R1 report
The opening of WRC-12 took place in Geneva on January 23, 2012.
More than 3000 delegates from over 150 countries are represented |
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SI9AM live video broadcast
3 Belgian hams will be operating the amateur radio special event station SI9AM from the King Chulalongkorn Memorial in Ragunda, Sweden between January 25 and January 30, 2012, and plan to have a live video stream in operation |
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5 February 27th Canvey Radio & Electronics Rally |
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5 February Radio Active Rally |
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12 February Wakefield & DARC's Northern Cross Rally |
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12 February Harwell Radio & Electronics Rally |
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26 February Rainham Radio Rally |
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26 February 2012 Swansea ARS Rally |
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For more information on any of the events shown, please click here |
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