News for Tuesday 09 February |
Portuguese Navy Radio Telegraphy Centenary
The 'Portuguese Navy Hamradio Club – NRA' and the Navy itself feel proud to announce a double Special Event. In this month of February we celebrate the 1st centenary since radiotelegraphy began official service in the navy |
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Alcatraz Island DXpedition
Alcatraz Island is being activated on 80-15 metres and the Amateur Radio satellites from February 11-14 |
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3G phone power limits
An Ofcom consultation aims to increase the power limits of 3G mobile licences to improve mobile phone coverage |
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Army’s new 'smart radio' may revolutionize communications
Everybody loves their smartphone because they can get GPS, the Internets, and all of its fun surprises. They can even make a phone call once in a while. But what if there were a computer program that would allow your device to not only receive phone calls, but also to automatically adjust to receive WiFi signals and television broadcasts, track GPS, access HAM radio or walkie-talkie frequencies? |
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Ham radio satellite demo - San Pedro, CA
Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his 'Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT' multimedia session at the February 19, 2010 meeting of the K6AA United Radio Amateur Club in San Pedro. All are welcome to attend |
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Mystery of Windermere street where gadgets go haywire
A street in Windermere is causing motorists grief because for some unexplained reason car remote controls and similar devices will not work when they park there. Amateur Radio gets a very brief mention in this report |
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DXCC News
Bill Moore, NC1L, ARRL Awards Branch Manager, reports on recent operations approved for DXCC credit |
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RTTY Survey
Don, AA5AU, invites all RTTY contesters to participate
in a new 'RTTY Contesting Survey' |
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Dayton Hamvention Top Band Dinner
Top Band enthusiasts are cordially invited to the 21st annual Top-Band Gathering on Friday evening of the 2010 Dayton Hamvention weekend |
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News for Monday 08 February |
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Endeavour in Orbit
About two minutes into flight, the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters propelling Endeavour into space successfully separated and fell away.
The shuttle and its crew have safely attained low-Earth orbit
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2010 Visalia IDXC IOTA Dinner
The 15th annual Islands On The Air (IOTA) Dinner will be held on Friday, April 16th, in the Plaza Room of the Holiday Inn Hotel, Visalia, California in conjunction with the 61st annual Visalia International DX Convention |
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IRTS supporting Engineers Week 2010
Following the success of last year, IRTS, the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, together with local radio clubs, is once more involved in Engineers Week organised by Engineers Ireland from 8th to 13th February. This year sees an expanded number of locations and sessions |
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HAMNET Report 7th February
HAMNET is a voluntary group of South African radio amateurs who make their unique communication skills available to assist and help others in distress during and after disasters. Hamnet National Director Francois Botha, ZS6BUU provides this audio report on recent activities |
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Repeater meeting
The keepers of Sligo, West Tyrone and Fermanagh Amateur Radio Repeaters are among an expected strong attendance for talks and an equipment demonstration led off by John
McCullough GI4BWM, Chairman of the RSGB Emerging
Technology Coordinating Committee |
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FO-29 status update
The JARL FO-29 command team report that, after long eclipse periods caused a negative power budget on FO-29 in early November, 2009 which took it off the air temporarily, the command team have switched the satellite from continuous operation to scheduled operations |
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EI7DAR Online Receiver
Dundalk Amateur Radio Society have now added a web controlled Icom IC 75 HF receiver to their website |
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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 07 February |
AMSAT activities at Orlando Hamcation
AMSAT will once again have a major presence at the Orlando Hamcation, which takes place next weekend, 12-14 Feb at the Central Fairgrounds, 4603 West Colonial Drive, Orlando |
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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
Solar activity is still at low levels. Currently sunspot 1 043 is still the only active region on the visible surface of the sun. The effective sunspot number is expected to be between fifteen and twenty for the coming week |
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Poor operating a cause of concern
Participants in the SARL President's Net last Sunday voiced their concern over poor operating procedures and the use of inappropriate language on the air |
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Canvey Rally - today
The South Essex Amateur Radio Society's 25th Annual Canvey Radio Rally takes place today, Sunday 7th February 2010, at the Paddocks Community Centre, Canvey Island, Essex |
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Yelagiri repeater re-activated
Due to the untiring efforts and commitment of a team of Chennai Hams, the third and highest point repeater in Chennai range has been re-activated at Swamimalai / Yelagiri Hills |
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NZ Intruder Watch
The Monitoring Service Coordinator has recently sought the approval of the NZART Council and the National System Trustees to use the National System - e.g. 439.875 MHz periodically to encourage more participation in monitoring the HF bands to report intruders throughout New Zealand |
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News for Saturday 06 February |
CQ Magazine files rule change request on 97.113
One of America's leading ham radio publications is joining the movement to modify section 97.113 of the Amateur service rules. This, to permit hams in the employ of government or relief agencies to take part in disaster training drills |
Lynemouth D-Star repeater now on-line
GB2RS News reports that a new D-Star digital repeater node, GB7NE at Lynemouth in Northumberland, has now been connected via the Internet to the D-Star network |
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Powering CubeSats
An electric propulsion technology for miniature satellites aims to give them more mobility and may eventually allow them to take on deep-space missions |
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Propagation de K7RA
As soon as sunspot 1041 went over the horizon at the end of January, sunspot 1043 emerged, high in our Sun's northern hemisphere |
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News for Friday 05 February |
AMSAT-UK Colloquium - Call for Speakers
This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2010 which will be held at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, UK on Saturday and Sunday, 31 July and 1 August 2010 |
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Sunspot Chart on the up
The ISES solar cycle number sunspot progression chart was updated on February 2 and it shows a long awaited upturn |
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Repeater tower comes down
The Iowa Great Lakes Amateur Radio Club's repeater tower used by the WB0WOE/R repeater on 146.610 MHz was damaged by ice build up and a video of its dismantling is now on YouTube |
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RAL Microwave Roundtable
The RAL Microwave Roundtable takes place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in Oxfordshire on Sunday, April 18 |
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GB6GEO in The Herald
The Plymouth newspaper The Herald reports that Radio Amateurs will be taking part in the 3rd Geopark festival, May 22-23 |
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Seeing radio waves with a light bulb
Diana Eng, KC2UHB demonstrates how, by using a low power amateur radio transmitter and a simple light bulb receiver circuit, we see how radio waves and electromagnetic induction transmit energy and signals wirelessly through the air |
Foundation Course at Wythall
Wythall Radio Club, near Birmingham, will be running an Amateur Radio Foundation Class starting Monday 29th March and every Monday until the 26th April |
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Vulcan XH558 reaches 50
The Vulcan XH558 celebrates its 50th birthday on May 25 and there is a YouTube video and online birthday card for people to sign |
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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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News for Thursday 04 February |
HAMNET Haiti Call Out
HAMNET is a voluntary group of South African radio amateurs who make their unique communication skills available to assist and help others in distress during and after disasters. Listen to this report from Hamnet's Bruce Hepburn ZR6BDH who has just returned from Haiti as part of the SA Rescue Team |
Youth DX Adventure
In October 2009 team TI5N came up with the idea of a youth DX adventure. The purpose being to foster an interest in Ham radio for deserving youth interested in the hobby |
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Dash7 on 433 MHz
Products based on the Dash7 wireless networking scheme developed by Savi Technology use 433 MHz which is allocated globally to Radio Amateurs |
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AmateurLogic.TV Episode 26
George shows us how to use the Kenwood TS-2000 as a Software Defined Radio with Winrad.
Peter experiments with the WSPR Weak Signal mode. And Tommy teaches us how to easily create Time Lapse Videos.
Plus plenty of viewer email |
52nd JOTA report available
A report on the 52nd Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) held on October 17-18, 2009 is now available for download |
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Temotu Islands DXpedition
After the great success of his last H40FN DXpedition to Temotu OM Siegfried, DK9FN, decided to make another DXpedition there this year |
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Tony's 10-metre band report
Wow talk about chalk and cheese, it’s more like a bicycle v a Ferrari. Look at Saturday and Sunday. OK the weekdays were not good but the two days at the weekend make a stark comparison |
Antarctica Tour
Thair, W2APF, traveling aboard the ship National Geographic Explorer, is visiting the Antarctic region from February 8 until March 5 |
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Owen Garriott QSO with JY1
Nader, S2NH has found this video, posted by JY5MM, which features a 1983 contact between astronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL, flying on space shuttle Columbia, and the late King Hussein of Jordan, JY1 |
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RF powered rockets
High power RF could be used to power future rockets to Mars - the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) is a high power, radio frequency-driven magnetoplasma rocket that promises to dramatically reduce Inter-Planetary journey times |
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FO-29 status report
The JARL have issued an update on the 23 year-old Amateur Radio satellite FO-29 |
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News for Wednesday 03 February |
Buddies in St Lucia
9 operators from the 'Buddies in the Caribbean' DX association which specializes in 'ultralite' DXpeditions with 100 watts or less power, will be active as J6/homecall until February 11th |
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FM Radio 'scrappage scheme'
The UK Goverment aims to stop FM broadcasting in 2015 but with over 100 million perfectly good FM radios in the UK there have been calls for a 'scrappage scheme' to be introduced |
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Annobon Island DXpedition
Radio amateurs Elmo EA5BYP and Javier EA5KM will be active as 3C0C from Annobon Island (AF-039) for 15 days in April.
The actual dates will be announced shortly.
The duo plan to have two stations active on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and RTTY |
Formation of WARC Century Club
Following some interest from members of the 30m Digital Group, the WCC (WARC Century Club) has been formed, to promote friendly non-contest activity on 30, 17, and 12 meters |
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Morse radio Recognition
In a CD about World Amateur Radio recently issued in Sweden, amateur radio operator John J. Bautista ZB2EO, is listed amongst the 370 most astounding ham radio operators in the world |
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