News for Saturday 8 January |
Rockhampton flood
The Rockhampton and District Amateur Radio Club has a good number of members on standby and registered with State Emergency Service and the Disaster Management Committee, with suitable equipment available for activation, if the situation worsens |
Propagation de K7RA
Average daily sunspot numbers were up nearly 24 points this week to 50, and average daily solar flux rose over 9 points to 89.5 |
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News for Friday 7 January |
Yasme Excellence Awards
The Yasme Excellence Awards are given to individuals who through their own service, creativity, effort and dedication have made a significant contribution to amateur radio |
ISIS 5th Anniversary and CubeSat Event
January 6 was the 5th anniversay of ISIS and to celebrate it they will hold a one-day international CubeSat and NanoSatellite event early in September in cooperation with Delft University of Technology |
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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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SAQ VLF reception video
Joze, S52AB has made this video of reception of the recent SAQ VLF alternator transmissions on January 03, 2011 |
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OSCAR-11 Report December
Clive Wallis G3CWV provides an update on the UK Amateur Radio satellite Oscar 11 which has completed over 26 years in orbit |
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Tony's 10-metre band report
The week was a very mixed bag, actually the week was bad with the weekends a little better.
There was the odd DX about OC4DX from Peru, ZL50VK special call in New Zealand, V5/DJ2HD Namibia and others.
Lots of reports this week, especially from old friend, Big Dave, VK5MRD |
News for Thursday 6 January |
Satellite meeting in Gauteng
Eddie Leighton, ZS6BNS, will be anchoring a meeting on satellites on Saturday 15 January at South Africa's National Amateur Radio Centre |
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DRM+ trial in the UK in first quarter of 2011
After the successful trial in Sri Lanka (November 2010) the DRM Consortium will mount a comprehensive DRM+ trial in the UK. The trial will take place in the Edinburgh area of Scotland in the first quarter of 2011 |
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2010 DX Sound Bites
Tom, K8CX, has done it again. He has provided DXers with 131 memorable DX sound clips from 2010 |
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Buddies in the Caribbean DXpedition
The 'Buddies in the Caribbean' DXpedition (Team #1), which specializes in 100 watts or less low power radios and the Buddipole portable antenna systems, will be going to Dominica, February 1-9th |
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News for Wednesday 5 January |
Radio Meteor Detection
Dr David Knight, G3YNH, the Chairman of the Norman Lockyer Observatory Radio Group (Sidmouth UK) has been carrying out tests on a viable means of observing meteors by radio |
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Satellite Presentation - Kentucky
AMSAT area coordinator Clint Bradford, K6LCS, will be presenting his 'Working Amateur Satellites With Your HT' session at the February 1, 2011 meeting of the Murray State University Amateur Radio Club |
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Engineering jobs at Ofcom
Ofcom have still got a couple of job vacancies in the radio engineering part of the organisation listed on their web site |
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DX0 - Spratly Islands DXpedition
The call DX0DX will be used for a big multinational amateur radio DXpedition to the Philippinian Spratly-Island Pagasa (AS-051), lasting January 6th through February 1st |
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News for Tuesday 4 January |
Maldives operation
Andrew, G7COD, will be operational from Adaaran Hudhuranfushi in the North Male Atoll, Maldives, AS-013 using the call 8Q7AK from 5th January to 16th January 2011 |
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Charlotte AM station ready in case of terrorist attack
WBT-AM (1110) in south Charlotte, North Carolina, is one of a dozen US commercial stations fitted out by the US government with an underground studio and transmitter, and a generator with 30-day fuel supply, designed to withstand a nuclear or terrorist attack |
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Hunting Lions in the Air
The radio amateurs and the Lions Club of Eshowe in South Africa are planning to observe Saturday 15 January as an opportunity for Lions Clubs to exchange greetings on the air via Amateur Radio |
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Spratly Islands DXpedition
37 amateur radio operators from 15 countries will take part in a three-team effort to put DX0DX on air between
January 6th and February 1st |
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Sable Island DXpedition update
Randy, N0TG, reports:
Storms that caused our failed attempt to access Sable on December 6th have continued throughout the month |
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News for Monday 03 January |
DXCC Country / Entity report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the
week of Sunday, 26th-December, through Sunday, 2nd-January there were 219 countries active |
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John Heaton G1YYH SK
AMSAT-UK webmaster, John Heaton, G1YYH, passed away peacefully in hospital on Christmas Eve |
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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 02 January |
F-1 CubeSat engineering model video
On December 31, the engineering model of the Vietnamese Amateur Radio satellite, F-1, was completed and a time-lapse video of the assembly is now available |
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Major effort to 'clean' SARL database underway
A team of volunteers under the leadership of the SARL Database Administrator, Colin de Villiers, ZS6COL, are working on the SARL database in order to update the call book and free-up many amateur radio call signs that appear not to have been in use for many years |
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Chelmsford Meeting - Chain Home Radar
On Tuesday, January 4, the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society will be showing a video on the development of the Chain Home Radar network in the late 1930's |
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New UK Record on 8.97kHz
On December 31, the 8.97kHz signal from Chris G3XIZ was received by M0BMU at a distance of 37km, a new UK record |
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Extra SAQ VLF transmission for NA
There will be an extra transmission for North America from SAQ, the Swedish Alexanderson alternator, on 17.2kHz CW on Jan 4, 00:00 UT |
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