Januari, 2020

• 6 Januari

  Amateur radio at the railway station with no trains

  An item has just been posted on the BBC Archive twitter feed about a Railway Station with no trains Halfway through the item, G3SCW who lived there is shown using his amateur radio equipment. https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1213852656936071168 • Our thanks to Norman G4AYU for spotting this item

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• 6 Januari

  DX Hall of Fame nominations

  Just a reminder that nominations for the 2020 “class” of the CQ DX Hall of Fame are due by March 1st. The CQ DX Hall of Fame honors those DXers who have gone “above and beyond,” not only in terms of their own on-air accomplishments but also in terms of …

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• 5 Januari

  Senegal visit

  Willy, ON4AVT, will once again be active as 6W7/ON4AVT some time in February 2020. His main activity will be on 60 meters using mostly FT8, with some CW and SSB, with a FT-891 with 100 watts into a HyEndFed antenna. QSL via the Bureau. For more details and updates, watch:https://www.on4avt.be/trip_to_senegal.htm

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• 5 Januari

  Arctic Blast Hamfest

  The Pioneer Journal report the Wadena Area Amateur Radio Club (WAARC) is preparing for the 2020 Arctic Blast Hamfest, Saturday, Jan. 11 at the Bertha Community Center. A hamfest, not to be confused with a day of eating ham, is a convention of amateur radio enthusiasts and combines a trade …

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• 5 Januari

  US tests ways to sweep space clean of radiation after nuclear attack

  The U.S. military thought it had cleared the decks when, on 9 July 1962, it heaved a 1.4-megaton nuclear bomb some 400 kilometers into space: Orbiting satellites were safely out of range of the blast. But in the months that followed the test, called Starfish Prime, satellites began to wink …

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