Accessed on 11 April 2018, 2049 UTC, Post #522.
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Here are the top Amateur/Ham Radio news stories from Monday, 09 April 2018, to Wednesday, 11 April 2018, compiled by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club. Views expressed in this news summary are those of the reporters and correspondents.
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Tony’s 10m Band Report
It seems to me that conditions are getting worse.
This last week not even the weekend produced the usual increase in activity.
I worked the odd Eu station but I’ve been mainly on 18MHz.
Most popular DX 7Q7EI (Malawi), 5V7SM (Togo), FY5KE (French Guiana) and a few others |
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ISS ham radio link-up for UK school
A contact between Kings High School for Girls in Warwick and the International Space Station is planned for Thursday, April 19 at 1205 UT (1305 BST).
We strongly encourage our girls to develop their interests both inside and outside the classroom. This culture of empowerment led one of our girls to apply to ARISS Europe for a highly prestigious link-up to the International Space Station |
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Australian Callbook
Australian amateurs might be interested in a new callbook program from Tim at MapAbility (home of the Global Overlay Mapper)
It takes the latest VK licensing data and georeferences it to create an up-to-the-minute callbook that can be visualised on Overlay and Online maps |
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Israel 70th anniversary special event
Look for special event stations 4X70A, 4X70E, 4X70I, 4X70L, 4X70R, 4X70S and 4Z70IARC to be active between April 19th and June 27th. Activity is to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary |
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Austrian special event
The Amateur Radio Section of ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) and the Documentary Archive Radio Communications/QSL Collection will operate for 72 hours only, a special event station with the callsign OE18M on Friday, April 20th to Sunday, April 22nd |
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Geomagnetic storm in progress
A minor G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress on April 11th as Earth moves through a high speed stream of solar wind |
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News for Tuesday 10 April
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World Amateur Radio Day
Every April 18th, radio amateurs worldwide take to the airwaves in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day |
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Broadcasting pioneer Clyde Haehnle dies at 95
The eyes of broadcast engineer Clyde Haehnle always glowed like an old radio tube when he talked about the Voice of America complex on Tylersville Road or WLW-AM’s unprecedented 500,000-watt transmitter under WLW’s tower down the road |
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Tracking aircraft with a Raspberry Pi
Essex Ham describes how to turn the RaspberryPi with a £10 USB dongle into a receiver capable of decoding live transponder data from nearby aircraft and showing them on a map |
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DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 1st April, through Sunday, 8th April there were 226 countries active |
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IOTA news from OPDX
 Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin |
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Please send your Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio news items to kh6jrm@arrl.net at least two weeks prior to your event so I can notify our local print and broadcast media in a timely manner.
Thanks for joining us today.
Aloha es 73 de
Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
Public Information Coordinator
Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section |
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