Januari, 2020

• 15 Januari

  Leadership Elections to Highlight January 17 – 18 ARRL Annual Board Meeting

  01/14/2020 The ARRL Board of Directors will elect League officers when it meets for its 2020 annual meeting on January 17 – 18 in Windsor, Connecticut. The Board will hear nominations and then vote, as necessary, for ARRL president, first and second vice presidents, international affairs vice president, secretary, treasurer, …

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• 14 Januari

  AMSAT-DL announces a new QO-100 down converter V3d

  The first version of the AMSAT-DL down converter was built in early 2019, enabling many stations to become active on QO-100 for the first time. Since then, a lot of operating experience and new insights have been gained, which have flowed into the new board V3d. The AMSAT-DL DownConverter V3d …

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• 14 Januari

  New Indian moon landing attempt

  Work is going ‘smoothly’ on the Chandrayaan-3 mission to put a roverprobe on the moon’s surface, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K. Sivan told a press conference. India is seeking to become only the fourth nation after Russia, the United States and China to put a mission on the moon’s …

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• 14 Januari

  The sun swallows a comet

  Yesterday, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory discovered the first comet of the new decade. Hours later it was gone, destroyed by the sun. Visit today’s edition of Spaceweather.com for the full story and a video of the comet’s death plunge

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• 14 Januari

  Well-Known DXer and DXCC Card Checker Peter Glasmacher, DK5DC, SK

  01/14/2020  Well-known DXer and DXCC card checker Peter Glasmacher, DK5DC/AA6HM, of Werl, Germany, died unexpectedly on January 12. An ARRL member, he was 68. Glasmacher served as the editor of the monthly DX column “DXtra” in CQ DL, the official journal of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC), to which …

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