News for Thursday 25 April |
 Tony's 10m Band ReportSo FT4 is about to be launched. This is a contest specific mode to be incorporated into WSJT-X as I understand it. About half the transmit and receive time of FT8. Bring it on! Lots of AM (Spain) stations about but for me accolade of the week goes to LU9DCE (Argentina). Not only did he manage high popularity all week he managed to spot all his contacts. It all helps to show 10m is active and alive. |
Freedom Day (25 April) in Portugal is a national holiday, with state-sponsored and spontaneous commemorations of the civil liberties and political freedoms achieved after the revolution. It commemorates the 25 April 1974 coup and Portugal's first free elections on that date the following year |
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The school poster proclaimed 'Amateur Radio - Your Gateway to a Career in Engineering and Science' |
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To celebrate their 50th anniversary, AMSAT North America is making available a free PDF of the March-April 2019 edition of their journal |
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The Flying Beers International ARC will be running special event station using our club call K8FBI on Sunday May 5 from 11am until 5pm EST |
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Iceland's national amateur radio society, the IRA, reports on Finland's Nordics On The Air, held April 19-22, which was attended by IRA Youth representative Elín TF2EQ |
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Cosmic rays penetrating Earth's atmosphere are intensifying, and nearing a Space Age record for dose rates |
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NASA’s social media presence, which has grown from a few accounts more than a decade ago to dozens of channels with millions of followers, was honored Tuesday with a pair of Webbys and People’s Voice awards as part of the 2019 Webby Awards |
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News for Wednesday 24 April |
The Fair Lawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) will again partner with the National Park Service with a special event amateur radio station to be held at the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in Paterson, NJ |
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As a result of the recent SSTV event onboard the ISS, a large number of questions arose. The questions mainly centered on the crew's ability to troubleshoot equipment and make adjustments to the station |
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The Raspberry Pi Press have published a free PDF book - An Introduction to C & GUI Programming by Simon Long |
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The Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal reports Clinton Memorial Hospital recently donated surplus laptops to local amateur radio clubs |
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The West Bengal Radio Club (WBRC) - an organisation of ham radio enthusiasts, has been instrumental in helping a woman from Jharkhand to return to her village |
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News for Tuesday 23 April |
Joe Taylor K1JT has announced a new digital mode, FT4, which is 2.5 times faster than FT8 |
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been talking about a new event on the Amateur Radio calendar - designed to get people experimenting on air again. The FreeDV QSO party is now only 5 days away, starting at 0300 UTC Saturday 27th |
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This Saturday, April 27 is International Marconi Day, and HADARC will be operating VK2IMD, the only IMD station in Australasia |
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The Waitsburg Times (Washington State) reports an amateur radio enthusiast is setting up an emergency communication center and hopes to garner interest from new or future operators |
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April 18 was World Amateur Radio Day and the Telangana Today newspaper spoke to some radio hams in Hyderabad to understand why they took up this hobby |
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New sunspot group 2739 appeared on April 17, and the daily sunspot number rose to 24. The new sunspot has a polarity indicating it is still part of old Solar Cycle 24, the current sunspot cycle |
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News for Monday 22 April |
The entire 3Y0I Bouvet Team is home and all are resting after the Rebel attempt at Bouvet. 70 miles! 70 miles, 10 hours is all we needed and we possibly could have sheltered on the west side of Bouvet from the storm that wreaked havoc! |
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Every year the Cornish Radio Amateur Club organizes the International Marconi Day (IMD) event to celebrate the birthday of Guglielmo Marconi (April 25, 1874) |
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The South Eastern Amateur Radio Group picked up the award of the John Ash Chapman Shield at the Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) AGM in Athlone on Sunday the 14th of April. This is the 2nd time the club has been honoured with this award after first winning the award back in 2015 |
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The DKARS (Dutch Kingdom Amateur Radio Society) issues its own free PDF Magazine once every month |
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According to the AR-Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 14th April, through Sunday, 21st April there were 218 countries active |
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News for Sunday 21 April |
To mark World Amateur Radio Day, BRUZZ paid a visit to the Chair of ARISS-Europe, 91-year-old, Gaston Bertels ON4WF |
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Norfolk's radio hams will once again be trying to contact other amateurs around the world from Caister on Saturday 27 April 2019 as part of the International Marconi Day celebrations |
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Jack Worth, WA0QZK, is a retired pastor with over 50 years of amateur radio operating experience who likes to QSO on CW from the Warsaw Telegraph Office |
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Antennas out of sight and out of mind ... Previously I've spoken about the dynamic nature of your station. Even if from day to day use, nothing changes, things around you are always in flux. Propagation changes, power fluctuates and the environment in which your antenna operates is dynamic. Mobile stations even more so |
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Every May 5 is the festival of amateur radio enthusiasts in China - the 5:5 amateur radio festival - on Sunday, May 5 |
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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
News for Saturday 20 April |
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The May edition of HackSpace magazine, issue 18, featuring articles by radio amateur Jo Hinchliffe MW6CYK is available as a free PDF |
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NewsWest for 21st April 2019 is now available.NewsWest is heard across Western Australia and the rest of Australia and in other interesting places around the world |
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The Kathmandu Post reports Nepal's first satellite NepaliSat-1 was launhed to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, April 17 |
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The ARRL reports Hamvention® has announced that it will open the gates to all, without charge, on the final day of the annual gathering at Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia, Ohio |
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The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov |
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News for Friday 19 April |
Dave G4DPZ reports on a change to the URL used for Data Warehouse for the FUNcube amateur radio satellites |
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Trainee electronics engineer Chelsea Back writes in Design Spark about her first experiences with radio frequency circuits |
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WIA News reports the digital voice mode FreeDV Global QSO Party takes place Saturday April 27/28 |
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BT-EE, Hutchison-3, Telefónica-O2 and Vodafone asked Ofcom to vary their 3.4 GHz band licences, this includes higher total radiated power (TRP) in-block and out-of-block power limits |
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The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands |
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