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 28 November 2021, 1337 UTC.
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- ARISS contact is scheduled for students at Colegio Pumahue Temuco, Temuco, Chile
- QSO Today – Stephen Houser, N1SH
- UK EMF regulations: New interim guide for microwavers
- EMF Compliance in latest Galway newsletter
- 10-year-old radio ham launches his 3rd high-altitude APRS balloon
- New law hits AIS beacons
- Analyzing starlink satellite downlink communications with software defined radio
- Radio Caroline on 648 khz power increase – reception report request
- Vintage Ham Radio Gets Brain Transplant
- Govt asks Indians to not subscribe to Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink
| ARISS contact is scheduled for students at Colegio Pumahue Temuco, Temuco, Chile
Posted: This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students in Temuco, Chile and Astronaut Raja Chari (KI5LIU). Amateur radio operators using the CE6TC call sign will operate the ham radio ground station for this direct contact
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| QSO Today – Stephen Houser, N1SH
Posted: Stephen Houser, N1SH, was essential to helping Rex Harper, W1REX, present his Build-A-Thons at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expos with multi-camera coverage of Rex’s project demonstrations
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| UK EMF regulations: New interim guide for microwavers
Posted: The UK Microwave Group (UKuG) has made available interim EMF compliance guidance for radio amateurs operating in the microwave bands
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| EMF Compliance in latest Galway newsletter
Posted: The Winter 2021 issue of the Galway Radio Club Journal, free to download, is packed with good articles including EMF Compliance by Steve Wright EI5DD who takes a look at the RSGB EMF calculator
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| 10-year-old radio ham launches his 3rd high-altitude APRS balloon
Posted: 10-year-old radio amateur Max W0MXX has been building Amateur Radio APRS transmitter payloads to act as tracking beacons and launching them into the stratosphere
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| New law hits AIS beacons
Posted: A new law introduced by Beijing appears to have resulted in ships turning off their automatic AIS beacons (161.975 MHz or 162.025 MHz) when in Chinese waters
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| Analyzing starlink satellite downlink communications with software defined radio
Posted: Often, mere curiosity is sufficient to do something. This is also the case with people trying to analyze the communication setup and protocol which SpaceX is using with their Ku-band based Starlink satellites
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| Radio Caroline on 648 khz power increase – reception report request
Posted: The opportunity arose to boost our power on 648 AM. This was beyond the ability of the existing Nautel machine. High power AM transmitters are not easily sourced now
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| Vintage Ham Radio Gets Brain Transplant
Posted: Old radios didn’t have much in the way of smarts. But as digital synthesis became more common, radios often had as much digital electronics in them as RF circuits. The problem is that digital electronics get better and better every year, so what looked like high-tech one year is quaint the next
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| Govt asks Indians to not subscribe to Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink
Posted: Elon Musk’s SpaceX does not have the license to offer broadband internet services in India, said Ministry of Communication on Friday. It asked citizens not to subscribe to the service
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