Welcome to the “Southgate Amateur Radio Club News” update from Big Island ARRL New.
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.
This report covers the period 20-22 March 2020.
Accessed on 22 March 2020, 1555 UTC, Post 1362.
Source:
http://www.southgatearc.org
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Coronavirus: IARU Contests
Radio amateurs will share the concerns of everyone about the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak. Governments all over the world are advising “social distancing” to slow the spread of the virus and to give health services the chance to cope |
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Attention: Members of NZART
Based on the Prime Ministers public address at 12:00 pm today (Saturday 21 March 2020) I have made the decision to close the office of NZART HQ from Monday 23 March 2020 to all personal visits |
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Remote from rare IOTA and DXCC
It is possible now if you are a Ham to have REMOTE from many QTH in the world exept some countries like North koréa, etc |
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News for Saturday 21 March
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Foundations of Amateur Radio
What level of preparedness are you at?
An often repeated statement about the purpose of our hobby is related to emergency preparedness
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VK6WIA NewsWest
Well this has been a week dominated by Covid-19 and attempts to mitigate spread of the virus both here and world-wide.
Our hobby is often seen to be already to significantly self-isolating but yes we do like to be both educated and to have social contacts and so, unfortunately a fair part of this bulletin is notices of cancellations of meetings and events |
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EU to impose VAT on low value parcels
Elektor magazine reports on an EU regulation that will adversely impact electronic hobbyists, including radio amateurs, in the 27 EU member countries |
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Propagation de K7RA
On Wednesday, Spaceweather.com reported a new emerging Solar Cycle 25 sunspot in the Sun’s Northern Hemisphere, but it was not yet numbered. By the next day (yesterday) it had already faded away into nothingness |
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OARC suspend meetings
Following the government’s advice regarding Coronavirus. Oldham Amateur Radio Club Greater Manchester are temporarily suspending all club meetings |
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The Space Weather Woman
The Sun Flares for Cycle 25 – The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW |
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TDARS suspends all meetings
Like other organisations and clubs in the current Corona virus situation, the Telford and District Amateur Radio Society (TDARS) has suspended all face-to-face meetings for the time being |
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Eddie DeYoung, KS4AA SK
I am Eddie De Young’s wife, Mina DeYoung. Eddie’s most recent callsign was, KS4AA, but he had too many others to mention all of them. I would like to let you and others know Eddie passed away on 25 February 2020. He died of liver cancer within 3-weeks of diagnosis. Sadly, it happened so quickly |
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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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Aloha es 73 de Russell Roberts (KH6JRM)
Public Information Coordinator
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