Here’s the latest Amateur Radio News compiled by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club.
Views expressed in this Amateur/Ham Radio News update are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Accessed on 09 October 2021, 1258 UTC.
Source:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGlkPQRGnJsxprLJjKffZwTTGzq
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- Foundations of Amateur Radio
- 2×1 Contest Callsigns for VK
- Amateur non-assigned licence tenure
- ARISS contact is scheduled for students at Mary Hare School (for the deaf), Newbury, UK
- ACMA approve issue of 2×1 ham radio call signs
- BBC TV archive clip of 1949 ham radio contact
- Svalbard: JW6VDA will be on FT8/FT4
- VK6WIA NewsWest
- WIA Board comment
- Digital Mobile Radio
- Propagation de K7RA
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Posted: The art of storing information in such a way that it doesn’t devolve into random gibberish is an ongoing battle in the evolution of the human race. Egyptians five thousand years ago were perfectly happy storing information using hieroglyphs. They used it for well over three thousand years, but today you’d be hard pressed bumping into anyone on the street who knows one, let alone one thousand characters
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Posted: The hard work performed by a sub committee of active contesters, led by The Radio Society of Australia (RASA) has finally been realised with the announcement from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on the release date for the new 2×1 Contest Callsigns
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Amateur non-assigned licence tenure Posted: As a result of recent amendments to the Radiocommunications Act 1992, Australia’s ACMA now has discretion to issue apparatus licences for a term of up to 20 years
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ARISS contact is scheduled for students at Mary Hare School (for the deaf), Newbury, UK Posted: This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students at the Mary Hare School, Newbury, UK and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, amateur radio call sign KG5GNP. Amateur radio operators in Newbury using the GB4MHN call sign will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact
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ACMA approve issue of 2×1 ham radio call signs Posted: Australia’s ACMA recently conducted a survey seeking the views of the amateur radio community on allocation arrangements for 2×1 callsigns
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BBC TV archive clip of 1949 ham radio contact Posted: On October 6, 2021, the BBC Archive shared a clip of a news item about a radio amateur’s reception of BBC TV pictures in Cape Town, South Africa in 1949, it includes an on-air contact
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Svalbard: JW6VDA will be on FT8/FT4 Posted: Between October 12 and November 1 Tom OH6VDA/LA6VDA will be active as JW6VDA in Longyearbyen (JQ78tf) on Spitsbergen (EU-026)
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Posted: NewsWest for Sunday 10th October 2021 is the Contesting edition, and as well as looking at contests coming up, there’s an analysis of the recently released Remembrance Day Contest results on how we in Western Australia fared, and how we went about it
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Posted: This is WIA President Scott Williams, VK3KJ and wherever you are in Australia or in fact overseas, I hope this announcement finds you safe and well in these very challenging times
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Posted: DMR is Digital Mobile Radio, a fantastic World Wide Amateur Radio version of RF technology
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Posted: Sunspots were visible every day this week, but numbers were lower. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 58.4 to 30.7, and average daily solar flux was down 2.9 points to 86.9
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