Here are the latest Amateur Radio news, events, and commentary compiled by the UK-based Southgate Amateur Radio Club.
Views expressed in this Amateur/Ham Radio update are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Accessed on 17 July 2022, 2103 UTC.
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- QSO Today – Frank Roman, KC8VKA
- Iceland provides practical training for new radio hams
- TF1A will be operating portable on QO-100
- Grant: Scholarships for Hampton University students
- Interference causes EV makers to drop AM radio
- Cinema film has CW message
- The ZS2 QSO Party this afternoon
- Azores
- 40th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting announced
- Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
| QSO Today – Frank Roman, KC8VKA
Posted: Frank Roman, KC8VKA, was born in Puerto Rico, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, enlisted in the Navy, and served in Vietnam
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| Iceland provides practical training for new radio hams
Posted: The national amateur radio society of Iceland, the IRA, held an ‘open day’ on Saturday, July 16, to help those who had just passed their ham radio exam
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| TF1A will be operating portable on QO-100
Posted: The IRA report Ari Johannesson TF1A plans to operate portable using the QO-100 geostationary satellite amateur radio transponder from various locations in Iceland over the summer months
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| Grant: Scholarships for Hampton University students
Posted: Amateur Radio Digital Communications say: Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service
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| Interference causes EV makers to drop AM radio
Posted: Radio World reports the Electromagnetic Interference generated by Electric Vehicles is causing some EV automakers to drop AM (medium wave) radio
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| Cinema film has CW message
Posted: The recently released and praised biographical film ‘Explorer’ of Sir Ran Fiennes life has a fair number of clips of HF radio operations, with his late Wife, Ginny, and Laurence (Flo) GM4DMA now KL7L included
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| The ZS2 QSO Party this afternoon
Posted: The ZS2 QSO Party is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs in the Eastern Cape and radio amateurs in Southern African countries
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| Azores
Posted: Jim, W6PQL, will once again be active as CT8/W6PQL from Pico Island (HM58rn) between July 14th and September 6th
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| 40th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting announced
Posted: AMSAT announces the 40th Annual AMSAT Space Symposium and General Meeting will be held on Friday through Saturday, October 21 – 22, 2022 in Bloomington, Minnesota
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| Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
Posted: Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be at low levels
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