Welcome to the weekend Amateur/Ham Radio News update from “Big Island ARRL News”.
Views expressed in this news summary are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Content provided by http://www.southgatearc.org, 10 February 2019.
Accessed on 11 February 2019, 0520 UTC, Post 866.
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org
Please click link or scroll down to read your selections. This report covers the period 08 February 2019 to 10 February 2019. Following the post, I’ll have a few announcements of general interest to Hawaii Island radio amateurs.
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News for Sunday 10 February
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Philippines ham radio Class D seminar
In 2018 ‘Gadget Addict‘ was invited by the Philippine Amateur Radio Association to make a video of their one-day seminar to get the 50 watt 144 MHz Class D amateur radio license |
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Cricket World Cup Amateur Radio Marathon
The RSGB is organising an International Amateur Radio Marathon on the HF bands to celebrate the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup which is being held in England and Wales between 30 May and 14 July 2019 |
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QSO Today – Richard Dillman – W6AWO
Richard Dillman, W6AWO, is the founding member of the Maritime Radio Historical Society, where they preserve the skills, traditions, and folklore of maritime telegraph operators, from the California Bay Area coastal station, KSM
The “Summer of Love” brought Richard to California, in the Sixties, to pursue broadcast engineering and a 30 year career with Greenpeace |
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Toledo man reflects on 50 years in radio business
The Toledo Blade interviews radio amateur Jerry O’Reilly W8JOR. What other people might call a museum, Jerry O’Reilly calls a hobby. Mr. O’Reilly has been fixing, building, and collecting radios for nearly his entire life |
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Uganda DXpedition – callsign update
The Italian Dxpedition Team (IDT) will be using the following callsigns for their DXpedition to Uganda between March 13-25th: 5X3C (not 5X0T) for CW,SSB and RTTY, 5X3E (not 5X0X) for FT8 |
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News for Saturday 9 February
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WIA hands-over exams to UTAS/AMC
Australia’s WIA News report the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) have congratulated the University of Tasmania and Australian Maritime College (AMC) in being selected by the ACMA as the preferred provider for the delivery of amateur radio examination, callsign management and associated services |
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VK6WIA NewsWest
This week’s theme is history. We have items on an early radio club in the Perth Hills, a search for German aviators and a story on ‘number stations’ |
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Propagation de K7RA
Solar wind pushed geomagnetic indicators higher last week (on February 1-2), and average planetary A index rose from 7 (for the seven days ending January 30) to 11.6 on January 31 through February 6 |
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News for Friday 8 February
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Foundations of Amateur Radio #192
How effective is your station?
We tend to spend most of our energy looking at antennas and power to evaluate how well our station works. Based on a better antenna or more power, you’re likely to make more contacts is the general gist of the process |
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New IOTA on Ice DXpedition
We are proud to announce that a new IOTA island will be activated for the first time by a small international team during this very cold winter with local temperatures on the island dropping to around -20C |
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BFI Archive: Radio Servicing
This film offers a fascinating glimpse back to a time when radios and other electrical items were repaired, rather than just replaced |
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DX News from the ARRL
The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands |
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Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio Notes;
Doug Wilson (KH6DQ) has begun another series of free Technician License classes on Hawaii Island. The Hilo class began on 08 February 2019 at Hilo’s Aupuni Conference Center. The next class is set for 14 March 2019, 1830 HST, at the West Hawaii Civic Center in Kona. For details, please contact Doug via email at douscelle@aol.com.
Alan Maenchen (AD6E/KH6TU) is taking registrations for his April 2019 online CW class. According to Alan, the class “is an on-line video chat meeting twice a week for eight weeks for an hour each. Since this is an internet based virtual classroom, no commute is needed. You can do this from home. Technician class hams can participate and practice their skills on their 80, 40, 15, and 10 M CW allocations.” For details, visit this site:
https://cwops.org/cw-academy-2/.
The Puna Emergency Radio Club (PERC) needs licensed Hawaii Island radio amateurs to provide communications support for the Sunday, 17 March 2019, Big Island International Marathon. According to comms coordinator Sean Fendt (KH6SF), the race is “a prime opportunity to practice in-the-field radio skills, learn new operating techniques and network with fellow hams and others who help with the marathon.” For details, call Sean at 430-1884 or send an email to sean@sfendt.net.
For the latest Amateur/Ham Radio news and information, please check the blog sidebars and links. These news feeds are updated daily and weekly. Thanks for joining us today.
Aloha es 73 de,
Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
Public Information Coordinator
Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section
https://bigislandarrlnews.com
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