Here’s the “Southgate Amateur Radio News” update from Big Island ARRL News.
Views expressed in this Amateur/Ham News summar are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Content supplied by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club.
Accessed on 22 March 2019, 1938 UTC, Post 918.
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org
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This post covers the period 20 March 2019 through 22 March 2019.
Commemoration of the 900 years of Knights Templar in Portugal
In order commemorate the 9 centuries’ of the Templars presence in Portugal a diploma will be granted to all the Ham radio stations who made contact with, at least, 4 of the castles on the air, next weekend, on 22nd, 23rd and 24th of March 2019 |
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Two thousandth KNH Round
Members of the Netherlands national amateur radio societies VERON and VRZA will be taking part in the 2,000th KNH Round on 145.225 MHz FM |
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Canadian artist to use HAARP to transmit SSTV
Concordia transmission artist Amanda Dawn Christie will use the world’s most capable high-power, high-frequency transmitter HAARP in Alaska to send art around the world and into outer space using Slow Scan TV |
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Geomagnetic storm warning for March 23
NOAA forecasters say that moderate G2-class geomagnetic storms are possible on March 23 when a coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field |
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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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News for Thursday 21 March
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Tony’s 10m Band Report
Well obviously Saturday and Sunday were the best days with the rest of the days nowhere. Star of the week without a doubt 5X3C (Uganda) along with KP3Z (Puerto Rico). There have been some spoof stations about. I can’t find TI/2KC2MXH but it looks wrong. If anyone knows better, let me know |
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News for Wednesday 20 March
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Club hosts ‘Ham License in a Day’ classes
Holland Amateur Radio Club members Bob Broene K8RJB and Tom Bosscher K8TB are looking for people who want to spend a Saturday afternoon studying for a ham-radio license |
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The unseen world of ham radio
The Dispatch reports on a vast, unseen world: Amateur radio operators using old and new technology to communicate globally |
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Ham Radio: Socialising via airwaves
Hailed as the first true social networking medium, ham radio continues to thrive even in this age of Twitter, Skype, Facebook and smartphones |
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Building a magnetic loop antenna
Antennas come in many shapes and sizes, with a variety of characteristics making them more or less suitable for various applications. The average hacker with only a middling exposure to RF may be familiar with trace antennas, yagis and dipoles, but there’s a whole load more out there |
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NASA mission reveals asteroid has big surprises
A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-up observations of particle plumes erupting from an asteroid’s surface |
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Aloha es 73 de
Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
Public Information Coordinator
Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section
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