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February 2010
   
28 February
  20m ROS frequencies are moved
    Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    Chile Earthquake Frequencies
    75th Radar Anniversary on BBC Essex
    Learn to program a PIC micro-controller in 4 hours
    Remembering the unit men – Bell
    NASA - Announcement of CubeSat Launch Initiative
    AMSAT preparing for Hamvention 2010
    Amateur satellite presentation at Edison Amateur Radio Network meeting
    21st Foundation Course success
    Original radar test recreated near Litchborough
     
27 February
  ROS interfering with international beacon network
    FCC allows robotic device in amateur radio band
    Ham radio hero VU2RBI to meet UK royal family
    Propagation de K7RA
    WCA & DMHP DXpedition to historical monuments in Portugal
    Sago offers compromise on tower rules
    WFF amateur radio operation - Cragbank Woods
    ON30ON - amateur radio special event station
    2010 Maritime Radio Day
     
26 February
  Ofcom - Current and Future Receiver Performance
    New Zealand's Radio Amateurs get 600m band
    Delayed QSL Card
    Amateur Radio data mode ROS - YouTube video
    On the Road with PW
    Ofcom - Fibre capacity in access networks
    New PowerLine Telecommunications website
    Automotive Electromagnetic Compatibility
    I.C.P.O. Bulletin (25 February - 05 March 2010)
    GB75BRS - Amateur Radio special event station
    DX News from the ARRL
    NoV's for Amateur Radio operation below 9 kHz
     
25 February
  FCC - No spread spectrum on HF
    Special Amateur Radio short contest callsigns
    ARRL Virginia Section Manager election results
    Sat-Nav threat from jammers
    OSCAR-11 Report
    BBC TV to cover Amateur Radio radar commemorations
    Indonesian Amateur Radio Satellite update
    Four radio hams to join Radio Arcala contest team
    NZ Amateur Radio repeaters - Kordia agreement
    Amateur radio Pacific tour
     
24 February
  GB75CH Great Baddow Chain Home Mast
    AmateurLogic.TV Episode 27: Hamfests
    German action on Plasma TV interference
    Space education through NanoSats and CubeSats
    RAF Amateur Radio Society - Airfields on the Air
    No ham radio licence for YT1AD in Yemen
    DARC partners with eQSL.cc
    Amateur radio balloon recovered
    ROS on HF outside scope of US Amateur Radio license
    1970's Amateur Radio SSTV pictures restored
    Listen to this week's ARISS ham radio contact
     
23 February
  IARU Region 1 Satellite Coordinator report
    438 MHz DGPS network to move to 444 MHz
    Amateur Radio Reverse Beacon Network
    5 MHz SOTA activation
    Amateur Radio Remote Operation
    Memorandum on PLT
    German TV reports on interference from plasma sets
    British planespotters arrested in India
    FUNcube frequencies announced
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    DXpedition to Kermadec Island (ZL8)
    G4RGA's Rally Guide - more updates
    Amateur radio special event station - Belgium
    History This Week
     
22 February
  Wellington Amateur Radio Expo-10
    South Eastern Amateur Radio Group - change of AGM venue
    Cambridge Amateur Radio balloon launch video
    Iceland's radio hams get access to 70 MHz and 500 KHz
    Digital Aurora Radio Technologies
    D-STAR Info newsletter
    New Manager NARED – Mervyn Halvorsen, VA3TSA
    Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
    G3VKR Silent Key
    Arecibo Dish active for World Moon Bounce Day
    K4T DXpedition
    Nominating period open for 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham Of the Year Award
     
21 February
  Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    Amateur Radio World Prefix Maps
    Ofcom PLA emails
    Clansman PRC-320 Amateur Radio video
    Amateur Radio mobile-to-mobile DX contact video
    Dealing with intruders on the amateur radio bands
    VK2BWI slow morse broadcast
    Amateur Radio data mode ROS proving popular
    ARISSat design review held
    College Satellite Night
    Radio Veronica founder 'Bull' Verweij dies at 100
    Amateur Radio Club to provide comms for NZ rally
    Antarctic Activity Week operation
     
20 February
  Propagation de K7RA
    Amateur radio balloon launch Saturday
    Monitoring-Matters
    New amateur radio digital mode - ROS
    UK CW operators sought for DXpedition
    GB2RS amateur radio news service in the North East
    Ofcom extend Aeronautical Spectrum Pricing consultation
    Repeaters at Lough Erne Amateur Radio Club
    IOTA news from OPDX
    IOTA DXpedition to the Isle of Eigg
    Jan/Feb EMC Journal available
    Groote Eylandt OC-141 VK8MM DXpedition
    First WCA, DCS & DCSR DXpedition to Castles in Switzerland
    Endeavour undocks from space station
     
19 February
  Dayton Hamvention - live broadcast
    Bath Buildathon Contest Rules 2010
    Daily Mail - AM/FM switch-off
    Mercury free light bulbs
    US Air Force - SDR's for Space
    APRS over PSK-63 now in APRS Messenger
    I.C.P.O. Bulletin (18-25 February 2010)
    DX News from the ARRL
    Application form for Istanbul 2010 Award
    Lost Icom IC-E92D
     
18 February
  NAQCC - Lifetime membership is FREE !
    Announcing the D-Star ScriptShop
    Grant Hopper, KB7WSD, appointed Northwestern Division Vice Director
    Lost ham radio gear - a happy ending
    Andorran amateur radio celebrations
    GB6GEO Weekend
    Car key fobs in Windermere
    Principal has good memories of first ARISS contact
    Sardinia DXpedition
    4 new IOTAs to be activated
     
17 February
  Astronaut studying for amateur radio licence
    Car key fobs in Windermere - more
    Abrolhos Archipelago Dxpedition
    Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, appointed Midwest Division Vice Director
    Town honours radio ham
    Remembering the unit men – Watt
    Unlicensed Merseyside Police drone grounded
    Upcoming ARISS contact with Doncaster Primary School, Doncaster, Victoria, Australia
    AS-127 St Martin's Island DXpedition postponed
     
16 February
  Move of GB3VHF beacon
    Car key fobs in Windermere
    Award and Qsl Cards ready for Portuguese Navy Radio Telegraphy Centenary
    Amateur Radio bands - intruder reports
    Don Keith, N4KC publishes twenty-first book
    Vodafone reveals 'world’s cheapest phone'
    The Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society e-Library
    Palestine 2010 DXpedition
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    Status for SA amateurs are Code Red.. standby requested!
    EchoLink for iPhone
    First WCA & DMHP pedition from Castles in Azores Islands!
     
15 February
  36th Annual Eastern VHF/UHF Conference
    Amateur Radio club raises funds for lifeboats
    Cross-channel balloon flight update
    IOTA news from OPDX
    Uruguay lighthouse activity
    Canary Islands Special Event
    Hamradiodeals update
    ITU digitises historical archives
    ZS10WCS news
    Yaesu VX-6E lost in Folkestone
    History This Week
     
14 February
  22 years of Key Note made available by FISTS CW Club
    Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    Port Elizabeth Home Construction Course to go ahead
    BACAR launch in the Western Cape
    ARRL announces Leonard Award winners
    Dengie Inter-Club Quiz
    WICEN Tasmania supporting fire service
    10 GHz contact across Bass Strait
    WIA Centenary Celebration - Canberra
    Police search for missing radio ham
     
13 February
  New edition of Radio Stations in the UK
    SpaceX Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral
    Propagation de K7RA
    Southern Ireland to sell-off 2.3 GHz
    W1AW to alternate digital mode schedule
    Get ready for the ARRL DX CW Contest
    George Dobbs at the Lough Erne Rally
    Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club to run Intermediate course
    Modifications to transmission mode on amateur TV repeater GB3TM
    Ham radio's roll expanding in Haiti
    Ham Radio Swap Meet - Perry, Iowa
    Daily Mail - Windermere Triangle
     
12 February
  DX News from the ARRL
    Successful launch for SDO
    RSGB Convention moves to a new venue
    I.C.P.O. Bulletin (11-19 February 2010)
    Portable ham radio on a windy day
    Cross Channel Balloon Flight
    Power Line Adaptor (PLA) interference update
    Wythall Radio Rally 21st March
    Live internet broadcast of Hamvention
     
11 February
  New DRM station
    New Software Defined Radios
    Sat-nav devices face big errors as solar activity rises
    Next WCA & DMHP pedition from Oeste DX Gang
    Greek TV station fined over ‘provocative’ weather forecaster
    Grenada operation
    NZART WARO Thelma Souper Contest
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    GB6GEO - Geoparks Communication Weekend
    Herbert 'Pete' Hoover III - SK
     
10 February
  Essex Morse Course
    LORAN-C shut down
    Doppler Tuning Project
    Bookings for PIC courses now open
    Amateur Radio operator killed in Connecticut explosion
    Intruder Watch
    UK Amateur Radio Licences as at 31st January 2010
    HamTests reaches new milestone
    Cuban HF Number Stations
    NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory webcast
     
09 February
  Portuguese Navy Radio Telegraphy Centenary
    SolderSmoke Podcast 121
    Alcatraz Island DXpedition
    Army’s new 'smart radio' may revolutionize communications
    HO-68 operating schedule Feb 9-21
    Ham radio satellite demo - San Pedro, CA
    3G phone power limits
    Mystery of Windermere street where gadgets go haywire
    Dayton Hamvention Top Band Dinner
    DXCC News
    RTTY Survey
     
08 February
  HAMNET Report 7th February
    Big sunspot sparks solar activity
    Endeavour is in Orbit
    IRTS supporting Engineers Week 2010
    Repeater meeting
    Latest 2M yagi G/T performance table published
    FO-29 status update
    IOTA news from OPDX
    EI7DAR Online Receiver
    2010 Visalia IDXC IOTA Dinner
    History This Week
     
07 February
  Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
    Poor operating a cause of concern
    Canvey Rally - today
    ZS10WCS operation moves to the Free State
    PE Home Construction Course in the balance
    Local press and politicians react to Greenville closure plan
    NZ Intruder Watch
    AMSAT activities at Orlando Hamcation
    Yelagiri repeater re-activated
     
06 February
  Powering CubeSats
    RSGB Spectrum Defence Fund reaches first milestone
    Lynemouth D-Star repeater now on-line
    RSGB responds to Ofcom WRC consultation
    I.C.P.O. (Islands, Castles & Portable Operations) UPDATE
    Propagation de K7RA
    CQ Magazine files rule change request on 97.113
     
05 February
  Sunspot Chart on the up
    Foundation Course at Wythall
    Repeater tower comes down
    Chelmsford Amateur Radio Intermediate Course
    TV interview with VU2YAM
    RAL Microwave Roundtable
    GB6GEO in The Herald
    Seeing radio waves with a light bulb
    AMSAT-UK Colloquium - Call for Speakers
    DX News from the ARRL
    I.C.P.O. Bulletin (04-12 February 2010)
    Remote control of a K3 by iPhone
    Northern Ireland's first D-STAR 'hot spot'
    Vulcan XH558 reaches 50
     
04 February
  Tony's 10 Metre Band Report
    HAMNET Haiti Call Out
    Dash7 on 433 MHz
    52nd JOTA report available
    Solar firestorm threat to 2012 Games
    Temotu Islands DXpedition
    Antarctica Tour
    Youth DX Adventure
    Owen Garriott QSO with JY1
    AmateurLogic.TV Episode 26
    FO-29 status report
    RF powered rockets
     
03 February
  February Monitoring-Matters published
    Morse radio Recognition
    Formation of WARC Century Club
    'World's first computer' Colossus cracked Nazi code
    NCVEC releases second Technician question pool
    Buddies in St Lucia
    FM Radio 'scrappage scheme'
    South Eastern Amateur Radio Group AGM
    Maritime DX Forum in Nova Scotia
    Annobon Island DXpedition
     
02 February
  Norman Fitch G3FPK Silent Key
    BBC Lord Haw Haw collection - update
    New website for Vange Amateur Radio Society
    EI7DAR SOS Radio Week videos
    QRP Quarterly - the Winter 2010 issue is published
    Listen to this week's ARISS contacts
    IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
    Amateur Radio Satellite Demo - Palm Springs CA
    Upcoming ARISS contact with Riley Ave. School, Calverton, New York
    70 MHz in USA ?
    Appleton Lecture: Small Satellites - Big Future
    2010 Visalia Top Band Dinner at IDXC
     
01 February
  IARU-R1 VHF/UHF/uW Newsletter
    BBC Lord Haw-Haw collection
    GB75CH Great Baddow Chain Home Mast
    King Hussein JY1 Video
    PLT/Plasma interference videos
    Contest use of 1810 to 2000 kHz in Spain
    WCA Happy BirthDay (WCA HBD) summary
    IOTA news from OPDX
    Firefly CubeSat to study thunderstorms
    3rd ZL3 Radio Buildathon
    61st Annual International DX Convention
    Canvey Rally
    History This Week

 
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