Welcome to the “Southgate Amateur Radio Club News” update from Big Island ARRL News.
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Accessed on 21 July 2019, 1510 UTC, Post 1047.
This report covers the period of 18 July 2019 through 21 July 2019.
Source: http://www.southgatearc.org.
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QSO Today – Phil Erickson – W1PJE
Phil Erickson, W1PJE, sits on a million watt UHF transmitter, where he is a group leader at the MIT Haystack Observatory. There he studies the atmosphere and radio propagation |
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The IARU represents Amateur Radio at CEPT meetings
The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 reports that a further meeting to address the topic of Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) took place earlier this month.
A subgroup of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) Committee SE24, charged with work on a report on generic WPT devices, met in Copenhagen, Denmark in early July. |
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VK6WIA NewsWest
NewsWest for 21st July has a focus on New Amateurs, with hints and tips from Andres, Peter, Bob and Jeff, and of course we have Roy blasting off with helpline |
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Radio amateurs help sick man
Ham radio enthusiasts from Bihar have been instrumental in uniting an elderly person from Jalpaiguri with his family members. |
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News for Saturday 20 July
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ILLW nears 300 entrants
Entries for the 2019 International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend are nearing the 300 mark with recent rarer entries from Serbia, Malaysia, Cuba, Hawaii, Market Reef and Mexico. |
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Foundations of Amateur Radio #215
What’s allowed on our bands?
Recently there was a discussion on social media about the legality of various types of transmissions. Before I get into the specifics, it’s worth looking at some of the rules around this. I will point out that this isn’t exhaustive, but it gives you an idea of what I’m talking about |
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144 MHz threat: SSA meets regulator
On July 11 Sweden’s national amateur radio society, the SSA, met the communications regulator PTS to discuss the threats to the amateur bands |
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New ham radio regulations for Peru
IARU Region 2 reports new Amateur Radio regulations have come into effect in Peru. Novices are no longer forced to upgrade within 3 years |
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Propagation de K7RA
Very low solar activity continues. Over the past week, average daily solar flux changed insignificantly from 67.1 to 67. There were no sunspots |
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The Space Weather Woman
A Cycle 25 Storm Launch & Aurora Highlights – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW |
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Radio ham in Golden Book of World Records
The New Indian Express reports that radio amateur Sanil Deep VU3SIO has been Controller of the BC-DX Net, aimed at shortwave broadcast station dxers, since 1990. The net meets every Sunday on 7085 kHz |
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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 18 July
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Tony’s 10m Band Report
GB19 stations did well, I did another GB19LL slot. It was OK but I enjoyed the Spanish King’s competition more and the Spanish AM70URE also.
There are still plenty of special events going on. I did manage to work OJ0Z (Market Reef) but on 20m. They were on 10m but not when I was on. |
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Dutch 2 meter propagation experiment on local television
On Friday July 19 the local television station Omroep Flevoland will pay attention to the 2 meter propagation experiment held on July 20.
In a full hour broadcast, free to air and internet, Johan PA3JEMwill explain why it is important that the 2 meter band must stay exclusive for the radio amateur services |
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Amateur Radio Kids Day in Elizabeth
Members of the Tri-County Radio Association and the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club will jointly conduct a special Ham Radio Day for Kids activity on Saturday, July 27, 2019 |
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Radiation doubles around the Moon
A NASA radiation sensor in orbit around the Moon has detected a doubling of cosmic rays, making 2019 one of the worst years of the Space Age for astronauts to travel into deep space |
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MP uses Morse code to wish happy birthday to GCHQ
The Irish News report morse code sounded in the Commons as an MP wished happy birthday to a British intelligence agency. Conservative MP Alex Chalk held his phone up to a microphone in the chamber to allow the long and short beeps spelling out the message to be heard |
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Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio News:
The annual Hawaii QSO Party will be held from 23 August 2019 through 25 August 2019. You can download the rules and procedures here: http://www.hawaiiqsoparty.org/
“Grid Madness 2019”, the Hawaii Island-based VHF/UHF Simplex Contest, is set for Sunday, 15 September 2019, from 1300 to 1700 HST. You can download the revised contest package here: https://gridmadness.blogspot.com
Doug Wilson (KH7DQ) will offer one more free Technician License class this year. The new class begins on Thursday, 17 October 2019, at the Keaau Community Center in Keaau, Hawaii Island. For more information, please contact Doug at douscelle@aol.com
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Aloha es 73 de Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
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Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section
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