News for Friday 10 September |
 Transmission 2010
Transmission 2010 takes place on 18th and 19th September.
British Wireless for the Blind Fund invites you or your Club to take part in their annual competition to make as many contacts across the world as possible and raise money for a very worthwhile cause at the same time. It's not too late to enter, so click here now |
Dave Raycroft's ICPO Bulletin
ICPO - Islands, Castles & Portable Operations
Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet |
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QRP in the Country 2011
Tim Walford G3PCJ is pleased to announce that, following the first, and very successful QRP in the Country event this year, he will be hosting it again in 2011 at Upton Bridge Farm, Long Sutton, Somerset |
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RadCom EMC articles
The RSGB has made available PDFs of the RadCom ElectroMagnetic Compability (EMC) column from the past 21 years, providing a wealth of information about interference to Amateur Radio |
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BBC Proms 320 kbps AAC experiment
In a sign of the growing importance of web broadcasting, the BBC are running an extra high quality 320 kbps AAC Internet stream carrying the Proms |
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Listen to this week's ARISS ham radio contact
Please join us in listening to the ISS contact with the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Oslo on Saturday 11th September at 12:16 UTC. This will be a telebridge and the Ground Station will be LU8YY |
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News for Thursday 9 September |
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Tony's 10-metre band report
Very, very dead this week, shame really for those going portable but I think the weather was in their favour.
Nothing in the way of sunspots to report, but there have been some very colourful aurora this week |
VK100WIA is set for DXCC status
Thanks to the excellent efforts of WIA affiliated clubs rostered to activate VK100WIA, the special callsign has recently worked its 100th DX entity |
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Aberdeen D-Star Group
The new home for information about Aberdeenshire’s D-Star activity, local repeaters & local nodes covering the progress and work behind the GB7GD D-Star repeater located in Aberdeenshire. We also hope it will become a collection of information relevant to the UK D-Star Network |
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Gatwick Radio Weekend
Members, their families, and interested friends are invited to come along to the Annual Family Weekend, very close to Gatwick on the A217 at Hunters Moon |
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Power of cell-phone masts to double
The UK regulator Ofcom has announced that the maximum power output of cell-phone masts can double to 3162 watts, surprisingly abandoning its earlier quadrupling proposal |
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JARL Member Search
The Japan Amateur Radio League now provides a member search site so you can check if a QSL card can be sent via the JARL QSL Bureau |
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News for Wednesday 8 September |
ARRL introduces first Challenge Coin
This month, the ARRL and the Amateur Radio community celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service®, or ARES®.
To help commemorate this milestone, the ARRL has introduced an anniversary Challenge Coin |
Amateur Radio World Castles Award
Members of RZ1CWC, including Andrew RN1CW, Victor UA1CBN and Vlad UA1CIO will be active on 11 September 2010 from Ivangorod Fortress |
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Google to start TV service in US this autumn
Google will launch its new service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room |
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IET Lecture - Women in Radio
The talk is centered on the role of women in radio, but considers how ladies have been involved with technology, from the ancient world to the 19th century and then to the very early days of radio
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'Internet killed the radio star'
Our history has been filled with the fears of change as technology evolves and seems to displace the order we have been comfortable with. So it has been with this hobby, in some ways |
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News for Tuesday 7 September |
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HAMNET severs all links with IRESC
South Africa's amateur radio emergency communications organisation, HAMNET, has decided to sever its ties with IRESC.
Hamnet's move follows mounting concerns over the direction and leadership of IRESC |
YJ0VK DXpedition wrap-up
The four members of the YJ0VK team (Chris VK3QB, Allan VK2CA, Luke VK3HJ and Brenton VK3CBV) returned from Vanuatu on September 2nd, after 6 days of operation |
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Vuvuzela Morse Code
The Soccer World Cup may be over, but it seems we haven't yet heard the last of the dreaded vuvuzela. Just when you thought it was safe to remove your earplugs... |
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ZNS 1540 signal restoration likely to take 30 days
The Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB) has announced that the initial assessment of the damage caused by thieves to 1540 AM’s transmission facilities suggests restoration of the signal is expected to take around 30 days |
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News for Monday 6 September |
HAMNET Report
New Zealand was severely shaken by a massive 7.4 on the Richter scale earthquake in the early hours of Saturday morning sending people fleeing from houses and causing severe damage to many buildings. Listen to this report from Hamnet's National Director, Francois Botha, ZS6BUU |
50th Dutch Ham Radio Convention
On November 6, 2010, the 50th Ham Radio Convention will take place in The Netherlands organised by VERON, the Dutch radio society |
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Hamfest India 2010
Hamfest India 2010 organizing committee greets you and seek your kind attention and support to the Ham radio festival to be participated by radio hams all over India |
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SSB Field Day Videos
SSB Field Day took place over the weekend and both the Havering & District Amateur Radio Club and the Blackwood & District Amateur Radio Society have made videos of the event |
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Danish rocket launch postponed
Denmark's private venture rocket launch planned for Sunday, September 5 has been postponed following the discovery of a faulty valve |
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DXCC Country / Entity report
According to the AR-Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 29th August, through Sunday, 5th September there were 202 countries active |
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History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW |
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News for Sunday 5 September |
Emergency communications in Pakistan
The Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) reports that a cross-band emergency repeater is set to provide the first communications of its type to the flood hit Swat Valley, linking it to the rest of the country through a chain of 2-metre band repeaters |
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New Zealand Amateur Radio Day
The purpose of the New Zealand Amateur Radio Day is to promote our hobby to the public so that some may be encouraged to join the local club, take on classes and become amateur radio operators |
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Bonaire DXpedition
The upcoming Bonaire DXpedition plan to use the large antenna farm of Radio Netherlands between October 10-24 when they activate this new DXCC entity |
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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is still at low levels. A rash of small sunspots is breaking out across the sun's northern hemisphere. Unfortunately they all appear to be fairly inactive |
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Coachella Valley satellite demo
AMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his 'Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT' multimedia session at the September 14 meeting of the Coachella Valley Amateur Radio Club |
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News for Saturday 4 September |
AREC at the ready following big earthquake
So far AREC (Amateur Radio Emergency Communications) volunteers have not been required in any major way to assist, following the earthquake that hit Christchurch in New Zealand |
Christchurch Quake
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, at 0435 hours (NZ local time), 4 September 2010. Several aftershocks of between magnitude 3.9 and 5.2 have occurred and more aftershocks are expected |
A milestone for the WIA Centenary Award
Claims continue to steadily arrive for this limited edition operating award celebrating the Centenary of Organised Amateur Radio in Australia with more than 160 now issued |
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G0KYA's HF Propagation Prediction Report, September 2010
Solar conditions still continue to be fairly poor. As I write this on 3 September there are sunspots, but the solar flux is stubbornly in the mid to high 70s. There have been auroral conditions over the past few days and we can expect to see more unsettled conditions as the cycle progresses |
Memristors to be mass produced
Hynix will start manufacturing Memristors first demonstrated by HP in 2006. It will be the first time this new circuit component has been mass produced |
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Propagation de K7RA
Over this past week four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29 |
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