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March 2009
   
31 March
  ARRL comments on FCC's proposed establishment of Rural Broadband Plan
    ARISS contact planned with Charles Simonyi, KE7KDP
    SolderSmoke 104:
    ARISS triple event - Miyahara, Japan, CAMUS, France and Sandburg, WA, USA
    John, G3ZBQ - SK
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    NATO Special Event Stations
    Austrian Special Event Station
    Volcanic clouds in motion
    South Africa has interesting satellite prospects
     
30 March
  Tony's 10-metre band report
    Live ARISS web TV broadcast - Cambridge, UK
    AMSAT booth volunteers for Dayton 2009
    Morse Code: Digital mode for interplanetary communication?
    500 kHz Permissions
    Bochum Earth-Venus-Earth pictures
    SV1BSX is Silent Key
    Radio astronomy gets grant boost
    New additions to ComReg website
    History This Week
     
29 March
  Big licence fee hike could hit SA Radio Hams
    SARL to respond to licence fee increases
    Broadcasters moving away from the 7MHz amateur allocation
    Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    First ARISS combined direct and telebridge contact
    Webcam watches construction of 1049 ft Miami tower
     
28 March
  Popular TCA columnist becomes Silent Key
    ARISS double event - Science Dream Association and Canino Middle School
    Unauthorized use of contest call
    Deliberate interference to International Space Station
    IOTA news from OPDX
    Morse testing available at NARSA rally
    The NZ4O Propagation Forecast #2009-09
    Lord Howe Island DXpedition update
    Propagation de K7RA
    EVE !!! - Radio Amateurs bounce a signal off Venus
    RSGB submission on 24-29GHz Automotive Radar
    DXpedition to Canary Island
     
27 March
  Charles Simonyi KE7KDP back in space
    Survey of UK Short Wave Listeners
    David Rankin 9V1RH/VK3QV - SK
    2 ARISS contacts planned in UK and California on Monday
    GB6GEO on the air for 2nd Global Geoparks Communication Event
    Activation of ARES Radio Operators in Manitoba to support Manitoba Spring flooding
    Ice jams cause additional ARES activation in Manitoba
    DX News from the ARRL
    New astronaut crew launches to International Space Station
     
26 March
  Space shuttle Discovery set to land Saturday
    ARISS contact with Italian school will be webcast
    All India Radio to change frequency
    Scramble for 15-minutes and have fun
    Fifth European Conference on Space Debris to address key issues
    Another Antarctic op and cruise being planned
    Curacao Contest Station available
    Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
    Spud Gun demo
     
25 March
  Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO to step down from ARISS and AMSAT duties
    Special Event Station celebrates 100 years of Naval Aviation
    Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein to leave FCC
    Amateur Radio Direction Finding Co-ordinator needed
    ARISS contact planned with Italian school
    True history of the American satellite Fleetsat-8 and UFO
    Brit Fader Scholarship Trust announces call for applications
    ARISS event - St. Joseph High School, Nepean, ON, Canada
    Tribute website to Ireland’s Radio Nova launched
    Sable Island DXpedition
     
24 March
  ARISS event - Cotswold School, Christchurch, New Zealand
    Texas heads for Mozambique
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    Chelmsford Intermediate Amateur Radio Course
    256 QAM for Freeview
    Deep Solar Minimum
    Anusat launch early April
    New DARC Secretary of International Affairs
    News from Gloucestershire Repeater Group
    FCC rules that digital voice repeaters are repeaters
     
23 March
  Licence renewals in Ireland
    HF Band Plan
    Revolutionary Yagi Antenna Feed System
    Brazilian satellite pirates busted
    IOTA news from OPDX
    Dayton Hamvention DX Activities
    K5D Desecheo Island DXpedition DVD
    History This Week
     
22 March
  Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    Register now for NATCON 2009
    London 70cm D-Star
    Oil spill clean-up supported by radio amateurs
    GB250RB at Horse Ploughing Match at Mossgiel Farm, Mauchline
    Emley Moor Beacons QRT
    International Naval Contest 2009
    World Moon Bounce Day
    1st KDMG RTTY Contest
    Mellish Reef update
     
21 March
  7100-7200kHz section of 40m in France
    Global Simulated Emergency Test scheduled for April
    Amateur radio social event
    FCC denies petition to increase size of Amateur Radio question pools
    The NZ4O Propagation Forecast #2009-08
    Hall of Science Amateur Radio Club likely to be evicted
    Propagation de K7RA
    New Australian D-Star repeater on-the-air
    World Radiocommunication Conference
    The Squid Pole antenna
     
20 March
  VK3 bushfires out - job well done WICEN (Vic)
    DX News from the ARRL
    Mellish Reef update
    Scheduled RAC AGM postponed
    Sporadic E season starting
     
19 March
  Kenyan HF and EME operation
    Visalia Contest Dinner
    Rare Hawaiian county to be activated
    Chatham Island QRT
    Burghardt to stop selling Amateur Radio equipment
    Argentinian Special Event Station
    Icom UK re-launches website
    New IOTA activation AS-192
    Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
    Rich Beebe, N0PV, SK
    SOHLA-1 Amateur Radio beacon activation
    Electronics in Space
    Crews move S6 and prepare for spacewalk
     
18 March
  F6ENO/p activating SOTA from the high mountains of France
    Special Event Call ZS08TV
    Discovery docks with space station
    AMSAT-India Newsletter
    D-STAR search site uses Google maps
    Bill Gipps, VE7ISV, new BC/YK Regional Director
     
17 March
  TK7P - Corsica
    ICQ Ham Radio Podcast
    Real offshore radio returns to the Netherlands for two weeks
    Amateur Radio Satellite SwissCube Slide Show
    Strumblehead Group on-air for CQ WPX SSB Contest
    Amateur Radio Space Station FM Repeater video
    UK Foundation holder talks to astronaut on space station
    UK Amateur Radio Licences as at 28th February 2009
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    New Radiowave Propagation E-List
     
16 March
  Irish 5 MHz renewals
    IC-7000 Hidden Menu
    Limerick Radio Club & Engineers Ireland.. Week of Wonder
    Amateur radio Grassroots Grants success
    Radio hams to activate Midway Atoll
    Russia and India both decide to adopt DRM
    NASA launches ISS webcam streaming video
    New book - Amateur Radio Exam Secrets
    IOTA news from OPDX
    Discovery launches
    When Britain ruled the radio waves
    SolderSmoke 103
    History This Week
     
15 March
  AMSAT at the Dayton Hamvention 2009
    Win an Icom IC-7200 in the 2009 Construction Competition
    Air Force approves AMSAT Keplerian element distribution
    SARL VHF/UHF Contest
    BPL home entertainment application
    Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    Two New Sunspots ?
     
14 March
  Countdown to broadcast stations leaving 7MHz
    Look for better 5MHz propagation
    The NZ4O Propagation Forecast #2009-07
    Call For Volunteers - Walk For Hunger May 3, 2009
    Bristol radio station gets 'Yellow Card'
    6m EME DXpedition by W7GJ to South Cook Islands
    South Yorkshire Microwaves 2009 11-12 July 2009
    Propagation de K7RA
    Proposal for a QRP Rock Concert
    Cub Scout's radio interest leads to company, success
    New Canadian Island and Lighthouse activation
    RCA donates station to Florida club
    Expedition 18 waiting for Shuttle visitors and crew replacements
     
13 March
  Amateur Radio Technical Discussion Reflector
    New VHF Managers Handbook available
    Stealth Bubble Gum antenna
    DX News from the ARRL
    GB5SPD St. Patrick's Day
    Foundation Course to be run at Wythall 18th April
    Intermediate Text Book changes for new syllabus
    ISS partners rule-out turning life on orbiter into reality show
     
12 March
  Tony's 10-metre band report
    Most important changes for the Amateur's services in Portugal
    Forthcoming GPS jamming exercises
    VK9LA news release
    'Workers vote for strikes at Airwave over redundancies'
    NASA shuttle launch targeted for no earlier than March 15
    Haiti Christian Mission operation
     
11 March
  Satellite debris begins to re-enter Earth's atmosphere
    GB4RND Red Nose Day Friday the 13th March
    Turkish Special Event Station
    Twisted Radio Beams
    Experimental results with two wireless power transfer systems
    Korean hams abandon operation
     
10 March
  NASA TV to air Tuesday's space station spacewalk
    Workers vote for strikes at Airwave over redundancies
    The VK9LA, Lord Howe Island DXpedition
    NASA Teaching From Space site - now available
    ARMAD / Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day
    French Amateur Radio balloon launch Tuesday 10th March
    CRG Annual Rally - April 5th
    International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
     
09 March
  New Date for GlobalSET - April 18th
    AO-27 satellite comes back
    Chatham Island DXpedition update
    Moroccan DXpedition
    Mozambique DXpedition
    Murtinas Posterior Lighthouse activation
    QSY of AMTOR Mailbox
    History This Week
     
08 March
  Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    BACAR team makes progress but delays launch until July
    Mozambique DXpedition
    Chichijima Island
    Clubs urged to take part in SARL PIO programme
    BBC Radio 4 to broadcast documentary about UK radio advertising
    Melt ice with variable resistance wire
    Pirate alert
    2009 RSGB Commonwealth Contest
    RSGB AGM to be streamed via the BATC website
    USA ARDF Championships June 5-7
     
07 March
  GB3WA taken out of service
    ISS crew for 19th Expedition announced at Russia's Star City
    Chatham Island DXpedition on-the-air
    Inaugural meeting of the Jersey Amateur Radio Repeater Group
    IOTA news from OPDX
    6th International DX Convention
    RSGB Convention details
    Propagation de K7RA
    John Moyle Field Day
    FCC revokes licence of convicted child molester
    ABC delays new digital radio service
     
06 March
  The NZ4O Propagation Forecast #2009-06
    Solar Cycle Progression
    GB5SPD St. Patrick's Day
    Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
    South Eastern Amateur Radio Group - 2009 AGM
    Wrexham Science Festival 2009
    Valuable contribution of Radio Amateurs involved in interception
    DX News from the ARRL
    School pupil develops Space Particle Detector
     
05 March
  IC-7600 PDF brochure now available for download!
    Nigeria EME and possible IOTA operation
    Desecheo team head for Netherlands Antilles
    World Amateur Radio Day - focus on service to the community
    Brunei Special Event Station
    IRTS AGM
    Red Nose Day 09
    FLDIGI Digital Modes Software
    AO-7 RTTY telemetry decoder
    Julius Genachowski nominated as next FCC Chairman
     
04 March
  ZL7T team to leave for Chatham Island
    New Executive Committee for EDR
    K5D Desecheo Postlogue Press Release 3/3/09
    OE100 Austrian Special Event Station
    Back to Africa
    New regulations for Radio Amateurs in Portugal
    Cardboard Congratulations!
    Argentina special callsign
    IOTA news
    Unlicensed broadcasters use microwave links
    Radio Caroline remembered
     
03 March
  DXpedition to Swaziland August 2009 - operators required
    Satellite operation from the South Atlantic
    New regulations for the Amateur and Amateur-satellite service in Portugal
    AO-7 still continues to surprise
    AO-27 may return, once again
    March 3 marks AMSAT's 40th anniversary
    Police track rise of pirate radio
    March 1939 - Germany's non-stop broadcasts to the world
    2009 International DX Convention
    Chatham Island DXpedition
     
02 March
  IOTA news from OPDX
    HF Surface-wave Extended Coastal Area Radar (SECAR)
    Local newspaper reports Amateur Radio Rally
    Australian Londoners - Radio Caroline video
    Charles Simonyi KE7KDP returns to space
    ARISS event - Padthaway Primary School, Padthaway, SA, Australia
    Police detonate Ham Radio equipment mistaken for bomb
    £10million Afghanistan radio station faces the axe - Sunday Mirror
    SolderSmoke 102: QRSS transistor count, Minimalism, 'net news, MAIL
    History This Week
     
01 March
  Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    SumbandilaSat launch delayed again
    Westlakes CQ Repeater Contest
    Richard Garriott, W5KWQ to speak at the AMSAT/TAPR Banquet during Hamvention
    SuitSat-2 meeting in Phoenix
    Amateur Radio Balloons Over North East Texas (ARBONET) weekly net
    Concept of Deleted Entities reinstated

 
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