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December 2006 |
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31 December |
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Hunting Lions
in the Air |
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AM radio in the
UK has no future, according to Daily Telegraph |
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Ham radio enthusiasts
come in loud and clear |
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Scouting
Ireland Centenary Callsigns |
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DXPORTAL - A Search
Engine for Ham Radio! |
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Special Event Call Sign
LZ50DX |
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CQIR - Ireland Calling |
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30 December |
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Amateur Radio
at ASE conference |
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Birthday
beacon QSY |
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Ham radio
more than just a hobby |
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YLE ends shortwave broadcasts
on 31 December |
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ROAR - Rotarians of Amateur
Radio |
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TMF Radio apologises
for interrupting funeral with fireworks |
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29 December |
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Propagation
de K7RA |
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OSCAR-11 Report
29 December 2006 |
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Get set for AJ2007 -
The 21st Australian Scout Jamboree |
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South African Radio
Ham dies in Antarctica |
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ISS
crew member talks to students via ham radio |
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DX News from the
ARRL |
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28 December |
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Angus Tait, ZL3NL,
wins top award |
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'Beijing model
1' IRCs expire in 3 days |
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A voice heard
at sea |
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Voice of Russia launches
new website |
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Buyer Beware! |
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Irish
Theory Examination |
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New Dutch station
TMF Radio has launched |
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27 December |
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AFRI75 IRTS 75th
Jubilee Dxpedition 2007 |
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ARISS Event
- Kashiwabara Community Center, Sayama, Japan contact |
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New Foundation
and Intermediate Syllabus available |
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Blow to Cornwall as
Arthur, Merlin and Guinevere face redundancy |
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Possible Aurora |
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Internet disrupted
by triple Taiwan quakes |
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26 December |
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FCC dismisses BPL
complaints in Manassas, Virginia |
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Straight
Key Night is January 1, 2007 |
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ARRL Challenges
FCC Dismissal of Virginia BPL Interference Complaints |
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FSDXA St. Brandon
DXpedition |
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Setting
the Standard(s) |
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If you hear this on
2 metres, blame the USB hub |
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ARRL Kids Day
is Sunday, January 7 |
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25 December |
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Christmas Eve
was the 100th birthday of radio broadcasting.. or was it? |
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Multiple
amateur satellites deployed from Shuttle |
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New Amateur
Radio Examination Manual |
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GeneSat-1
continues operations |
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ARISS event
- Sayama, Japan - December 27 |
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HNY QSO Party 2007 |
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History This
Week |
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24 December |
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NASA's KSC
providing assistance to Santa on Christmas Eve |
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ANDE and
RAFT limited USER operations authorized |
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RAFT
heard with Hand Held |
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Special Canadian
prefixes celebrate 100 years of voice radio |
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'Hello' Campaign
Finale to Showcase Ham Radio's Past, Present and Future |
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Propagation
de K7RA |
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Short
range FM transmitter devices legalised in Ireland |
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APRS History
Lesson |
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SARL Youth Net
to celebrate its 50th transmission this week |
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BBC
World Service Discovery - Fessenden: King of the Radio Waves |
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23 December |
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New Tassie 'F'
calls shine during VK7 Bushfires |
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USA to use
former TV Freqs for Broadband Emergency Comms |
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Afghanistan
launches spectrum mobile monitoring station |
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Queen Elizabeth’s
speech to the Commonwealth available as podcast |
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Eutelsat awards
contract to build W7 communications satellite |
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ABC Brisbane to
move due to breast cancer risk |
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Time is running
out for the Waffle |
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Discovery crew
arrive home for Christmas |
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Flight
controllers wave off first landing opportunity |
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22 December |
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DX News from the
ARRL |
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Evidence is mounting:
the next solar cycle is going to be a big one |
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Space
shuttle cleared for Friday landing |
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New RSGB
Spectrum Forum External Matters Page |
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10-year-old
Carrollton girl gets amateur radio license |
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Amateur radio
satellite FCAL successfully deployed from Shuttle |
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21 December |
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Crew
checks out heat shield and deploys scientific satellites |
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AMSAT-UK
- ANDE Satellite Telemetry Page |
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Telemetry
plan for ANDE and RAFT amateur radio satellites |
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75 GHz
to be subject to spectrum trading |
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Now Showing -
The ARS Sojourner |
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Northern Star
project to continue with new name after another setback |
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20 December |
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Discovery undocks
ending eight-day stay at the space station |
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GeneSat-1 Telemetry
Decoder |
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CBC programme
features FCC's Morse action |
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RAFT
and ANDE are APRS satellites to be deployed on Thursday |
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Maximising
the benefits of the digital dividend |
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RFE private guards
monitor, photograph passers-by: Pravo |
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VHF-UHF-uW Papers
for IARU Region 1 Interim Conference – Vienna 2007 |
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Radio licences:
Security of Tenure – release of discussion paper |
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Those new
FCC rules on Morse code |
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Radio, TV Martí
to be aired locally in South Florida: Miami Herald |
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19 December |
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Spacewalkers
fold solar array |
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Christer
Fuglesang talks from space with students in Sweden |
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Eagle Prototype
Parts Received |
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Skype founders aiming
for broadband television: report |
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HAM radio for disaster
management |
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Droitwich
Calling |
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AMSAT files Petition
for Reconsideration with the FCC |
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Blue Streak Rocket
- video now available online |
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Alleged 'callsign
hijack' leads to licence hearing |
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18 December |
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Changes to
AO-51 CTCSS access tone |
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Shuttle
crew to deploy three satellites Wednesday |
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Fifty years of transmitting
at BBC Woofferton 1943 - 1993 |
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South
Eastern Amateur Radio Group weather station |
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YARP announces
new amateur radio bursary scheme |
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IARU
Region 3 Directors Meet |
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Crew prepares
for fourth spacewalk |
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History This
Week |
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17 December |
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Amateur radio
satellite GeneSat-1 successfully launched |
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Morse to be
demonstrated on TV at Royal Institution Lecture - Channel 5 |
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Astronauts
complete space station rewire, but problems force a fourth spacewalk |
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Spectacular
Auroras |
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SolderSmoke #44 |
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Mt Beauty
BPL Emission Measurement Report released |
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WICEN Victoria
on stand-by as bushfires rage |
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16 December |
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US
morse code requirement scrapped |
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FCC
to drop Morse testing for all amateur radio license classes
- ARRL statement |
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ARISS Event
- Thunmanskolan, Knivsta, Sweden contact |
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Propagation
de K7RA |
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Space station glitch
possibly caused by solar flare |
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Raynet
take part in tunnel exercise |
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WAB launch
UK winter awards |
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Spacewalkers
to complete ISS re-wire on Saturday |
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Solar flare
disrupts China’s shortwave radio communications |
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15 December |
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IARU Region 1 Vienna
2007 - HF papers now available |
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DX News from the
ARRL |
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FEMA announces
severe solar weather |
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EU frees
frequencies for short range devices |
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Galileo
green paper on satellite navigation applications |
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Microwave Scatterpoint
2005 newsletters now available |
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Spacewalkers
perform electrical re-wire work and move carts |
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14 December |
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German U-boats
on the air |
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Solar Flares and
Geminid Meteors |
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Christmas Eve Transmission
From Grimeton Radio/SAQ |
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Switching broadband
provider |
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RTÉ to start
DRM tests on 252 kHz |
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Dayton Hamvention
now accepting 2007 nominations |
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VOA building in
Bethany named 'historic place' |
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SARJ takes
charge as arrays track the sun |
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EU Spectrum
Management - Viviane Reding speech |
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P6 solar
array wing retracting |
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13 December |
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Curbeam,
Fuglesang complete first spacewalk; P6 solar array to retract Wednesday |
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Ireland
80m Counties Contest |
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The 2006
Geminid Meteor Shower |
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New! DominoEX with
FEC and cool tools |
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Hundreds
of complaints following end of Dutch analogue terrestrial TV |
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FCC investigates possible
ham license hijacking |
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12 December |
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December
15th band-warming party |
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ISS
amateur radio status (Dec 2006) |
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4m band
celebrates 50 years |
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BBC trials
'Push-VoD' technology |
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Chelmsford
Calling Test Transmissions - 104.4 MHz |
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Analogue
TV broadcasts in the Netherlands have ended |
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SolderSmoke #43 |
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Crew
inspects wing and prepares for first spacewalk |
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ITU delegates
see amateur radio e-comms demo |
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11 December |
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Telford
Microwave Workshop |
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Ofcom
announces proposals for the UK's largest spectrum auction |
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German students
miss opportunity to talk to ISS |
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SumbandilaSat
with amateur radio payload ready for launch |
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Catastrophic disaster
to strike Maryborough |
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World
Scouting Centenary opens Down Under |
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BPL ramp-up or just
more hype? |
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Send your
name and callsign to the Moon |
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We have liftoff
- Discovery on the way |
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Burnt down Basque
radio station Gure Irratia asks for help |
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Russians suspected
of deliberately disrupting BBC Russian service FM transmissions |
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History This
Week |
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10 December |
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Discovery’s
night launch sends STS-116 to space station |
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RAFT,
ANDE, MARSCom and GeneSat-1 satellites going up this week |
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Head of ERO
Retires - replaced by Mark Thomas (Ex-Ofcom) |
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Last chance
for Federal CFC contributions to AMSAT this week |
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Data Over Mains
chip uses 3 - 30 MHz |
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AMSAT-UK
initiates push for Region 1 Microwave Satellite Allocation |
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DARC HQ
looking for historical photo material |
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Space
shuttle astronauts depart for the launch pad |
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The countdown
continues; tanking is under way |
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09 December |
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FCC revokes
Amateur Radio license of convicted felon |
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Propagation
de K7RA |
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RCF Raffle winners
announced |
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North Wakefield RC to
run GB0WAP - Worldwide Antarctic Program station |
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Asia-Pacific
broadcasters hit by satellite interference |
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DRM can breach
DRM: Guy Kewney |
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New UK Amateur Licence
- IR 2028 Document |
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Poor
weather delays Shuttle launch until Saturday |
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08 December |
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Ham
radio trio's launch postponed until Saturday |
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DX News from the
ARRL |
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Strong
Solar Activity |
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BBC
World Service Discovery - Fessenden: King of the Radio Waves |
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Section Manager
for Saskatchewan |
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New world record
achieved in Solar Cell technology |
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Unlicensed
broadcasters in Belgrade to be shut down next week |
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Ofcom
sets Digital Switchover related licence conditions |
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Update on implementation
of Cave Report |
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07 December |
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Ham radio trio
launch today |
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Mountain-top Radio
Videos |
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RSGB QSL
Bureau News.. |
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New Licence
Conditions |
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Danish Radio
Amateurs gain another 4 metre segment |
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ARISS
Event - Erweiterte Realschule Weiskirchen, Germany |
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Project Diana
- 61st anniversary |
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Interview
with Bob Heil, K9EID |
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06 December |
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Mission Management
Team Update |
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Lakshadweep
Islands Dxpedition |
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Major Solar
Flare |
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Adherence
to VHF and UHF bandplan essential |
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The PEARS
HF QSO Party |
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VK3 birthday
beacon now on air |
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KiwiDxlist |
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05 December |
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Discovery all
set for Thursday lift-off |
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UK
Amateur Radio Licences as at 30th November 2006 |
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Updated RSGB Bandplan
now available |
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Special Prefixes
for Mexican Stations |
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RSGB HF and VHF
Contest Committees to merge |
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Military
Radio Signal Jams Garage Doors |
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SolderSmoke #42 |
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04 December |
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Straight Key Night on Oscar
2007 in memory of K7RR |
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Alaska 10
meter Beacon AL7FS at new location |
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RFID Made Easy |
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Broadcasts
in English B06 (Winter 2006) Edition |
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New broadcasting
museum opens in Hilversum |
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EI5IA Silent Key |
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New
Radio Club seeks Donations |
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KiwiSAT
project leader gives launch date as late 2008 |
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History This
Week |
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03 December |
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GeneSat-1 Launch
Planned for December 11 |
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Ham radio
astronauts prepare for new crew member |
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Notice on
counterfeit ICOM transceiver IC-V8 and its accessories |
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A New Paradigm
for Lunar Orbits |
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May launch
for KiwiSat ? |
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ARRL
500 kHz Experiment |
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G3PFR
wins UK Microwave Group award |
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NZ: Public
Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) |
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December's
STS-116 launch includes three amateur satellites |
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02 December |
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Space legend
visits GB4FUN |
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FCC
says interference charges have no merit |
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Clothes that can light
up and send morse |
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Ofcom
advertises DAB national radio multiplex licence |
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ESA’s
first Swedish astronaut to fly to the ISS |
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Propagation
de K7RA |
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01 December |
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QRP from Iraq - YI9TU |
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Murray
Niman G6JYB Appointed RSGB Microwave Manager |
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Irish Theory
Examination |
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IARU readies
display at Telecom World 2006 |
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DX News from the
ARRL |
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New Amateur
Radio Award for 2007 |
