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August 2005
   
 
31 August
  How I talked to Sergei, U6MIR
 
31 August
  Three People Plead Not Guilty To Yachting Couple's Murder
 
31 August
  IRLP - Saipan - Pacific Ocean
 
31 August
  The RV3ATS DX Club
 
31 August
  ARISS Event - World Expo, Japan Friday 2 Sept
 
31 August
  NASA facilities affected by Hurricane Katrina
 
31 August
  Svalbard JW/G6LVB/P Mini-Dxpedition report
 
31 August
  Amateur Radio Volunteers Involved in Katrina Recovery
       
 
30 August
  New PCSAT2 Telemetry Decoder Software
 
30 August
  Radio Amateur Code of Practice
 
30 August
  Internet Teaching of Amateur Radio Courses
 
30 August
  AMSAT election deadline approaching
 
30 August
  Ham Radio Ready as Residents Flee 'Potentially Catastrophic' Katrina
 
30 August
  Nasa's Discovery astronauts visit New York
 
30 August
  Japan Ham Fair 2005
 
30 August
  SSETI Express - Just 4 weeks until launch
 
30 August
  Amateur Bands Around the World
       
 
29 August
  Ariss delegates urged to cast an eye on future of ham radio in space
 
29 August
  FCC morse code decision would not affect CW sub-bands
 
29 August
  Nuacht as Gaeilge
 
29 August
  Silicon City Ham Meet 2005 - Bangalore
 
29 August
  Google Launches Open, Instant Communications Service
 
29 August
  Brazil first LABRE RN President PS113QB
 
29 August
  Special calls for 184th Costa Rica anniversary
 
29 August
  27th HamExpo - F5REF
       
 
28 August
  Birthday wishes to Sergei Krikalev from Kuwait
 
28 August
  Audio of QSO with Sergei, U5MIR on board ISS
 
28 August
  Amateur Radio Awareness Day to feature emergency power operating event
 
28 August
  SOTA 'Mountain Goat Award' goes to G1INK
 
28 August
  Contest News from the RSGB
 
28 August
  Sirius unveils wearable satellite radio
 
28 August
  Deutschlandradio switches two transmitters permanently to DRM
 
28 August
  New 70cms VK1 beacon
 
28 August
  Next NEARS space balloon launch September 3
 
28 August
  The Riverside ARRL Convention
 
28 August
  NASA announces digital TV service for Alaska and Hawaii
 
28 August
  Crew loads Progress and unpacks new gear
       
 
27 August
  IRLP - Battleship Missouri
 
27 August
  QSO with Sergei, U5MIR on board ISS
 
27 August
  Listen to GB2RS on your iPod
 
27 August
  Happy Birthday Sergei!
 
27 August
  Ipswich Radio Scouts at Gilwell Reunion
 
27 August
  Plug and Play Radio Telescope
 
27 August
  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Status
 
27 August
  Euroquartz offers surface mount oscillators on quick turnaround
 
27 August
  Wireless Institute of Australia appoints National Repeater Coordinator
       
 
26 August
  Conditions good for transatlantic FO-29 contacts
 
26 August
  The Kerguelen Island FT5XO DXpedition
 
26 August
  ARRL and Icom combine forces to expand contest plaque program
 
26 August
  FCC realigns amateur privileges for Region 1 and 3 licencees
 
26 August
  Take your exams at HF Convention
 
26 August
  SARTS 2005 Field Day
 
26 August
  South African provincial Hamnet meeting
 
26 August
  Digital radio tests start in Brazil in September
 
26 August
  ACBRO's 25th Anniversary Dinner
 
26 August
  NASA announces name change for balloon facility
       
 
25 August
  RSGB Exam Fee Increase
 
25 August
  Flatholm Island Expedition GB5FI 26-30th Aug
 
25 August
  Biker's Day at Martin Lynch's Open Day
 
25 August
  PCSAT2 PSK-doppler correction in HRD software!
 
25 August
  Digitally clean and zoom pictures in pro quality
 
25 August
  NASA/NOAA announce major weather forecasting advancement
 
25 August
  Kansas First Responders to get improved radio communications
 
25 August
  Three new Peter I DXpedition team members
 
25 August
  Peter 1 Island (Antarctica) Dxpedition - Your chance to support one of the team
 
25 August
  Major UK union says government should postpone analogue switch-off
       
 
24 August
  Ofcom - UWB interference report
 
24 August
  Eire proposes Licence for Life
 
24 August
  IARU Region 2 appoints new Monitoring coordinator
 
24 August
  Broadband via balloons experiment in Sweden
 
24 August
  Launch of Mobile-QandA.com cell phone forum
 
24 August
  Special event station GB0HTS
 
24 August
  BBC unions call for talks over use of material in CBC dispute
 
24 August
  AMSAT Symposium reminder
 
24 August
  GB2RS celebrates 50 Years
       
 
23 August
  Svalbard mini DXpedition - satellite only
 
23 August
  Space station crew talks with Ohio students at science centre
 
23 August
  IRLP - 48th annual Jamboree On The Air (JOTA)
 
23 August
  Unchain the music from your PC
 
23 August
  IARUMS - your support needed
 
23 August
  WIA board appoints National QSL Bureau Coordinator
 
23 August
  Mentalist shut down radio station
 
23 August
  BPL tales of two Texas towns
 
23 August
  ComReg Consultation Paper
 
23 August
  RAOTA AGM at Leicester Show
 
23 August
  RSGB QSL Bureau News
       
 
 22 August
  Antennas Live!
 
22 August
  Discovery is Home!
 
22 August
  AMSAT website technical review team formed
 
22 August
  Cray Valley Radio Society's Battle of Trafalgar celebrations
 
22 August
  Rare Worked All Britain square to be activated
 

22 August

  Try the difference with this FPGA trainer
 
22 August
  Answers to e-mail questions about foam loss
 
22 August
  ARISS student pursues astronaut career
 
22 August
  This Week in History
       
 
21 August
  Thailand AMSAT seeks help in building satellite module
 
21 August
  Three amateurs receive awards
 
21 August
  PCSAT2 PSK31 Transponder Mobile
 
21 August
  ARISS School contact - Sapporo, Japan
 
21 August
  Italian Red Cross to operate its first ever Amateur Station
 
21 August
  WIA to conduct 40m band plan review
 
21 August
  Remembrance Day contest logs
 
21 August
  Space Adventures offers private voyage to the Moon
 
21 August
  Calgary CBC staff to broadcast show on university radio station
 
21 August
  Far-right statements by Dutch users of US website - a criminal offence?
 
21 August
  Meteor scatter and Moon-bounce contacts from Bulgaria
 
21 August
  Where in the world are all the Hams?
 
21 August
  IRLP/Echolink - YL Friendship Net
 
21 August
  Discovery's return home delayed
       
 
20 August
  Space Shuttle Discovery hitches a ride home
 
20 August
  Auction of a gold Bird
 
20 August
  SchmartBoard to launch new product at Demo Conference
 
20 August
  No - the tower is not that high!
 
20 August
  California State Fair special event set
 
20 August
  Next ISS 'space tourist' gets amateur radio ticket
 
20 August
  Discovery's journey continues
       
 
19 August
  Former child actor faces 'ham radio couple' murder charge
 
19 August
  Operating PSK31 through PcSat2
 
19 August
  BBC Radio 1 documentary 'Radio Anyone' now on the web
 
19 August
  Safety of Shuttle crew 'jeopardized' say group
 
19 August
  AMSAT - New video available on the web
 
19 August
  IRLP YL Friendship Net
 
19 August
  ClandestineRadio.com helps in fight against hate radio station
       
 
18 August
  ISS crew to take Spacewalk today
 
18 August
  Space shuttle internet interest reaches new heights
 
18 August
  Danish radio station suspended for three months
 
18 August
  Safari on 40 metres
 
18 August
  SARL Radio Technology in Action open day
 
18 August
  Young Ham of the Year
 
18 August
  Gaza settlers' pirate radio station off the air
 
18 August
  New Freeview Channel 37 and more to come..
 
18 August
  Digital Dynamics Software releases VOIP Contact Dialer
       
 
17 August
  Icom support Special Event Station celebrating the bi-centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar
 
17 August
  NASA scientists closer to timely space weather forecasts
 
17 August
  Danes can watch public TV via computer without a licence
 
17 August
  Discovery waits for a 'lift home'
 
17 August
  Rally news from Ireland
 
17 August
  Krikalev sets 'time-in-space' record
 
17 August
  Sandford Mill Radio Museum Open Day
 
17 August
  International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend 20th-21st August
 
17 August
  More LEFARS exam successes
       
 
16 August
  Krikalev to break Space Record today
 
16 August
  OSCAR-11 is back!
 
16 August
  SchmartBoard to launch new 'open source' circuit design program
 
16 August
  ISS amateur radio status
 
16 August
  Earth dot Google attracts attention
 
16 August
  CBC locks out 5,500 employees - radio and TV programmes affected
 
16 August
  Peter I DXpedition 3Y0X, 2006
 
16 August
  Meteor-scatter contact between Wales and Bulgaria
 
16 August
  Kure Atoll, KH7 Dxpedition
 
16 August
  Glorioso Island, FR/G
       
 
15 August
  Licence statistics: You must look past the numbers
 
15 August
  UK cops arrest ham for 'incitement to racial hatred' on 20m
 
15 August
  BBC R&D team wins the IBC 2005 Technical Paper Prize
 
15 August
  Amateur Radio in Storm Chasing
 
15 August
  Howth Martello Radio Group
 
15 August
  Ham it Up in Niue
 
15 August
  The collection and study of radio stamps
 
15 August
  This Week in History
       
 
14 August
  PCSAT2 Telemetry
 
14 August
  Japan Amateur Radio League Ham Fair 2005
 
14 August
  Sergei Krikalev U5MIR - from Engineering and Aerobatics to Cosmonautics
 
14 August
  Introducing the SARL's own electronic QSL service - SA-QSL
 
14 August
  Italy joins no-code ranks as FCC revives Morse debate in the US
 
14 August
  ACMA publish BPL submissions
 
14 August
  2 metres 'well-oiled' in VU land
 
14 August
  Dirk Hartog Island IOTA activation
 
14 August
  The WIA's look at the history of JARL
       
 
13 August
  Save the Stanford Dishes!
 
13 August
  ISS PCSAT2 PSK-31 Transponder is enabled
 
13 August
  MRO Electra SDR post-launch checkout
 
13 August
  IRLP - bringing amateurs around the world together
 
13 August
  RSGB contributes to BBC documentary
 
13 August
  It's time to step up to the plate
       
 
12 August
  Spacecraft to launch Friday, August 12
 
12 August
  ARISS Looks to the Future
 
12 August
  Groundswell of opinion on BPL
 
12 August
  Pacific interference located
 
12 August
  EMR limits are a licence requirement
 
12 August
  9 lives - no fax - is this the 'cat's whiskers!'
       
 
11 August
  Coming Soon - the Icom IC-7000 - HF/VHF/UHF All mode transceiver
 
11 August
  NASA updates media on Space Shuttle external tank work
 
11 August
  Claim your QSL cards now
 
11 August
  IRLP - A lot going on
 
11 August
  Nepal FM receives OK from Supreme Court to broadcast news
 
11 August
  In search of rising DX stars
 
11 August
  SOAR calls for change of law
       
 
10 August
  Return to Flight crew happy to be home
 
10 August
  Commemorating the Navajo Code Talkers
 
10 August
  Additional spectrum to be made available for RFID equipment
 
10 August
  NASA's next leap in Mars exploration ready for launch
 
10 August
  Ham radio call ends father's anxious wait
 
10 August
  IRLP - and that's FM clear
 
10 August
  Video clips of UK landmarks wanted
 
10 August
  Take your exams at HF convention
 
10 August
  Conference papers published on the web
       
 
09 August
  Landing rescheduled for Tuesday
 
09 August
  The Adventures of Zack and Max 'Mady goes to England'
 
09 August
  802.11 WiFi shootout
 
09 August
  WIA rolls-out proposed draft syllabus
 
09 August
  20 years of ATV DXpeditions
 
09 August
  RAE classes in the Vaal Triangle
 
09 August
  GB2RS 50th anniversary celebrations plan
 
09 August
  RTI commemorates passing of UK Marine Offences Act
 
09 August
  State-run All India Radio back on air after theft
       
 
08 August
  Landing Day Arrives
 
08 August
  PCSAT2 1200 Baud Telemetry Display Page
 
08 August
  There's not much time left
 
08 August
  Hundreds file comments on FCC morse proposal
 
08 August
  RSGB Board and National Council elections 2005
 
08 August
  New ICASA ruling on conditions for issuing amateur radio station licences
 
08 August
  Special Boland Amateur Radio Club station for HF assessment
 
08 August
  Project Pandanus
 
08 August
  Serious HF interference hits Papua New Guinea
 
08 August
  Shortwave numbers stations to be the theme of a new movie
 
08 August
  This Week in History
       
 
07 August
  PCSAT2 - PSK-31 tests
 
07 August
  WRN welcomes the launch of the Sky Gnome
 
07 August
  First 50 MHz licences in Hungary
 
07 August
  World ham population ratios
 
07 August
  Nepalese radio station says it will defy government and carry news
 
07 August
  Ham radio operators assist in ocean rescue
 
07 August
  Junior broadcaster takes to the air
 
07 August
  Discovery's voyage nears an end
 
07 August
  A tribute to fallen Astronauts and Cosmonauts
 
07 August
  60th anniversary of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
       
 
06 August
  Discovery departs space station
 
06 August
  Time to say goodbye
 
06 August
  Raffaello returns to payload bay
 
06 August
  BBC Radio 1 documentary - Radio Anyone
 
06 August
  Ofcom consultation feedback
 
06 August
  PO-28 (POSAT-1) Java station control program
       
 
05 August
  Crew begins preparations for undocking
 
05 August
  Post Mission Management Team Briefing
 
05 August
  PCSAT2 update
 
05 August
  Hams Become "First Responders" as Conventioneers Forced to Evacuate
 
05 August
  Bonilla Chapter VII unfolds - looks like Enron
 
05 August
  Ofcom approves amendment to ICSTIS Code of Practice
 
05 August
  Digital communications conference set for September
 
05 August
  HF Interference
 
05 August
  Special Event Stations
 
05 August
  IMPORTANT: Ofcom - Have You Responded Yet?
       
 
04 August
  Special events and a little time off
 
04 August
  Crew completes historic spacewalk
 
04 August
  PCSAT2 successfully installed
 
04 August
  PCSAT2 heard + WB4APR's PCSat2 status update
 
04 August
  ISS Doppler frequency chart enhanced
 
04 August
  Propagation Tutorial
 
04 August
  Danish radio host to face court over call to 'exterminate' Muslims
 
04 August
  RTL starts DRM test transmissions to the UK on 7145 kHz
 
04 August
  The Blind Navigators' Trail
       
 
03 August
  Today's spacewalk to include 'delicate task'
 
03 August
  Crew preps for historic spacewalk and take a phone call from President Bush
 
03 August
  PCSAT2 installation scheduled for today
 
03 August
  VoIP modes critical for Hurricane Centre support
 
03 August
  NASA spacecraft completes successful Earth swingby
 
03 August
  Contest News
 
03 August
  The return of OSCAR-11
 
03 August
  Code talkers fight for tradition - Read this article from the Albany Times Union
 
03 August
  Special Event News
       
 
02 August
  Introducing the IC-V82 - High power VHF Handheld with Digital Capability
 
02 August
  Cargo Transfers and Spacewalk Prep Planned for Today
 
02 August
  Pittsburg suburb gets BPL on August 8
 
02 August
  Antique Radio Club of Illinois Special Event
 
02 August
  GB3SC beacon back on air
 
02 August
  VK6DXI wins DX competition
 
02 August
  Full RTA Open Day programme now available
 
02 August
  Local radio station calls on Danes to kill muslims
       
 
01 August
  Spacewalkers to replace station gyroscope today
 
01 August
  IRLP Node 3850 is back in partial service
 
01 August
  SARL IARU fund now over R21,000
 
01 August
  Launch of SSETI Express delayed
 
01 August
  Australian Remembrance Day 2005 Contest
 
01 August
  Radio amateurs among ValuJet Flight 592 Memorial cleanup volunteers
 
01 August
  President may nominate two new FCC commissioners soon

 
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