Welcome to the “Southgate Amateur Radio Club News” updated from Big Island ARRL News.
Views expressed in this Amateur/Ham Radio News summary are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Content supplied by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club.
Accessed on 08 August 2019, 1510 UTC, Post 1068.
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org.
Please click link or scroll down to read your selections. This report covers the period 05 August 2019 through 08 August 2019.
News for Thursday 8 August
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Tony’s 10m Band Report
As if to copy Stoke City this week, Ten Metres has been poor, very poor. The odd bit of DX but really a good showing by F4CXO as top spotter. His shack looks particularly tidy and organised for a Radio Ham! |
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ICQPodcast reaches 300 show milestone
Back in 2008, a father and son team decided to experiment with a new publishing technology -podcasting. They committed to publishing ten shows and see if anyone was listening |
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HamSphere 4.0 5 years later
HamSphere 4.0 Five years have passed !
Summer 2014 on August 15 exactly, a UFO arrives in the world of radio amateurs and radio enthusiasts, this new program happens to simulate the propagation on the amateur bands radio 10 to 160 meters |
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News for Wednesday 7 August
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LZ19YOTA from the 9th YOTA summer camp
LZ19YOTA is the call sign that will be used during the 9th Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) Camp, to be hosted by the Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs (BFRA) between 11 and 17 August |
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News for Tuesday 6 August
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Midsummer auroras in the USA
This morning a fast-moving stream of solar wind hit Earth’s magnetic field. First contact produced a G1-class geomagnetic storm and auroras in northern-tier US states visible even through city lights |
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19th Global Symposium for Regulators
Small-Satellites, High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) and 47 GHz were among the topics discussed at the ITU-D 19th Global Symposium for Regulators in Port Vila, Vanuata, July 9-12 |
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First UK 288 GHz CW contact
Video of the first UK two-way CW contact at 288 GHz which took place at Higham in Kent on August 2, 2019, between Roger Ray G8CUB/P and Chris Whitmarsh G0FDZ/P |
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AMSAT in special 300th edition of ICQ Podcast
The popular ICQ Amateur Radio Podcast has been running for over 11 years and on August 4, 2019, the ICQ Podcast team released their 300th edition which features an interview with Treasurer and Past President of AMSAT Keith Baker KB1SF |
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St. Paul Island DXpedtion
ATTENTION JA Hams: — URGENT
Many JAPANESE Hams are trying to contact CY9C on FT8 in Normal Mode; CY9C cannot contact you unless the FT8 WSJT-X Software is set to DXpedition Mode — Fox Hound. |
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Bouvet Island DXpedition video
3Y0I Team member Mietek, SP3CMX, has put together a 27:19 video on the team’s first attempt to go to the island called ‘The Road To Bouvet’. They say ‘Buckle up’ to view it |
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DXCC Most Wanted
The ‘DXCC Most Wanted‘ entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of July 29th. The list contains 340 entities |
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ICQPodcast Episode 300 – AMSAT US with Keith Baker KB1SF
In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Dan Romanchik KB6NU and Frank Howell K4FMH to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is AMSAT US with Keith KB1SF |
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DXCC News
The following operations have been approved for DXCC credit |
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DXCC Country/Entity Report
According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 28th-July, through Sunday, 4th-August there were 209 countries active |
IOTA news from OPDX
Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin |
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Hawaii Island Amateur/Ham Radio News:
The Hawaii QSO Party will run from 0400Z 24 August to 0359Z 26 August. For Hawaiian radio amateurs, that means 6 pm HST Friday through 5:59 pm Sunday. Work as many stations on as many bands and modes as you can. You cn find the complete rules here: http://www.hawaiiqsoparty.org/Rules/HQP/HQPRules-2019-A.html
“Grid Madnesss 2019”, the Hawaii Island-based VHF/UHF Simplex Contest, is set for Sunday, 15 September 2019, from 1300 to 1700 HST. You can find the revised contest package here: https://gridmadness.blogspot.com
Doug Wilson (KH7DQ) is offering one more free Technician License Class this year. The class begins on Thursday, 17 October 2019, at the Keaau Community Center in Keaau, Hawaii Island. For details, please contact Doug Wildson at douscelle@aol.com
For the latest Amateur/Ham Radio news and information, please check the blog sidebars and links. These news feeds are updated daily. Thanks for joining us today.
Aloha es 73 de Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
Public Information Coordinator
Hawaii County, ARRL Pacific Section
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