Autumn 2019
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Amateur News
IOTA news from OPDX: Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin dlvr.it/RJWLFz #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
RTÉ to continue spending €250k a year on longwave radio service: RTÉ is going to spend €250,000 per year transmitting its Radio One station to the Irish diaspora in Britain – while closing down all its digital stations dlvr.it/RJWKP7 #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
DXCC Country/Entity Report: According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 10th November, through Sunday, 17th November there were 216 countries active dlvr.it/RJWKN3 #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
Access to 70 MHz, HAMNET for Class E requested: The German Amateur Radio Round Table (RTA) has again asked the Federal Network Agency BNetzA for temporary access to 70 MHz band as well as the use of HAMNET on 13 cm and 6 cm… dlvr.it/RJWJgH #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
South Eastern Amateur Radio Group: The November meeting of the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will take place on Monday the 25th of November 2019 in the Roanmore Social and Sports Centre, Cleaboy Road, Waterford, Ireland… dlvr.it/RJWJfM #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
WRC-19 Day-15: A Long Weekend: The slipping schedule saw slow progress on Friday and consequently full overtime on Saturday and Sunday for future agenda items (AI-10), small-satellites (AI-1.7), 5G mobile (AI-1.13) and 5GHz… dlvr.it/RJWHv1 #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
STARS Working Group: The objective of STARS is to defend, protect, extend, develop and promote the amateur radio service. The work of STARS is specifically directed to those areas of the Region where amateur radio activity… dlvr.it/RJWHrv #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
AmateurLogic 136: Turkey Fever: It’s just about Thanksgiving time here in the US and we’ll soon be suffering from Turkey Fever. Tommy’s shows how to make an Arduino Frequency Counter. Mike, VE3MIC joins us with a look at the… dlvr.it/RJWGz9 #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
IARU: WRC-19 Grinds On - Week 3: With just 3-1/2 days left for substantive work – the final session of the Plenary to approve texts to be included in the Final Acts is scheduled to end at noon Thursday, November 21 –… dlvr.it/RJWGyg #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
ITU WRC-19 Bingo: To relieve the tedium of boring meetings in WRC-19 Working Groups one delegate has created WRC-19 Bingo dlvr.it/RJSG06 #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
Happy 45th birthday AMSAT-OSCAR 7!: At 17:11 UTC on November 15, 1974 a Delta-2310 rocket lifted off from SLC-2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base, sending AO-7 into orbit along with NOAA-4 and Intasat dlvr.it/RJSFKh #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
Republic of Panama special event: Look for special station 3E1FP to be active until November 30th, to celebrate the 116th anniversary of the Republic of Panama dlvr.it/RJSFGq #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
Future Radio Amateurs: On Saturday, October 19, the strategy conference of the USKA on the topic "Future Radio Amateurs" took place in Bern, Switzerland dlvr.it/RJSDCl #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
IARU update regarding Amateur Satellite allocations: The second week of the World Radiocommunication Conference reports on the status of two issues affecting the amateur satellite service dlvr.it/RJSDBf #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
QSO Today - Kate Hutton - K6HTN: Kate Hutton, K6HTN, a retired Seismologist at CalTech in Pasadena, California, discovered CW, CWOPS, and passing traffic through the National Traffic System dlvr.it/RJSCFs #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
Australian bushfires: As bushfires consumed more than 4 thousand square miles in New South Wales alone, officials were bracing for the lates rash of blazes that they said could lead to the most dangerous bushfire week in the… dlvr.it/RJSCDl #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
ICASA responds to SARL request on type approval relief: SARL News reports the CEO of ICASA (communications regulator), Dr Mdimoeng has responded to the SARL's request for relief on the type approval requirements for… dlvr.it/RJS9xR #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
RSGB report on WRC-19 Days 13 and 14: The RSGB have released a report on days 13 and 14 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28 to November 22, 2019 dlvr.it/RJS9wy #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
POTA Mega Activation: Today, Saturday, November 16, 2019, Mega POTA Activation from PUERTO RICO, Maricao State Forest K-4678 dlvr.it/RJPRJd #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio
Propagation de K7RA: Even with little to no solar activity, it is amazing how many long distance HF contacts are possible, even without using weak signal modes such as FT8 dlvr.it/RJPRHt #hamradio #hamr #amateurradio