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Views expressed in this Amateur/Ham Radio News summary are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Content provided by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club.
Accessed on 01 February 2020, 1925 UTC, Post 1303.
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org/
Please click link or scroll down to read your selections. This post covers the period 30 January 2020 to 01 February 2020.
News for Saturday 1 February
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Foundations of Amateur Radio
How I host a weekly amateur radio net for new and returning amateurs
If you’ve ever had the pleasure or misfortune to hear an on-air net, you might have considered, however briefly, how that net came to be, how it’s run and what’s involved behind the scenes to make it happen |
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ANFR newsletter released
France’s National Frequency Agency (ANFR) has published the January 2020 edition of their newsletter Frequency News |
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Propagation de K7RA
This week we finally saw the return of sunspots, over seven of the last eight days, January 24-30. Average daily sunspot numbers rose from 0 to 11.1, while average daily solar flux jumped from 71.2 to 72.9. |
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Southgate News is now on ShortWaveRadio
We now have a regular Sunday morning news broadcast on ShortWaveRadio.de
So tune in every Sunday at 10am UTC on 3975 and 6160 kHz.
The programme is repeated at 14:00 UTC on 6160 kHz and at 16:00 and 21:00 UTC on 3975 kHz |
News for Friday 31 January
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Maine Bicentennial Special Event
Briefly, the Maine Bicentennial Special Event committee, formed from members of the Wireless Society of Southern Maine, along with KB1ZUN and AB1YO from the PenBay ARC, have organized an amateur radio Special Event that recognizes the Original 9 Counties of the State of Maine. |
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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 30 January
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Tony’s 10m Band Report
An absolutely rubbish week on ten metres. Sunday was the best day with loads of /B stations about. On Thursday J68GD (St Lucia) was on 10m, probably the best of the DX
Yesterday I worked VP5D (Turks and Caicos Is) using FT8 Fox & Hounds on 17m. Incredible. David’s QRZ page has a full set of instructions for using that mode. Most excellent and helpful. I commend that page to you |
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Quartzfest Hams of YouTube video
Quartzfest, a week-long ham radio, camping, learning and living event, took place January 19-25 in the Sonoran Desert, near Quartzsite, Arizona |
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New IARU website
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has completed the transformation of their website |
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ATV on the Microwave bands video
At the 2019 Microwave Roundtable hosted by the Cardiff University Amateur Radio Society (CUARS), Noel Matthews G8GTZ gave a presentation on Amateur Television (ATV) |
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