Januari, 2020

• 1 Januari

  Earthing and the Radio Amateur leaflet updated

  Ian 2E0IJH has updated the RSGB EMC 07 leaflet ‘Earthing and the Radio Amateur’ to reflect the fact that Gas and Water pipes no longer require bonding if supplied by plastic service pipes as they have no reference to Earth RSGB EMC 07 Earthing and the Radio Amateur v4 is …

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• 1 Januari

  Virginia radio ham re-creates Fessenden broadcast

  Washington Post reports proof that the world’s first radio show was broadcast 113 years ago on Christmas Eve doesn’t exist, but the purported occasion is still marked annually during the holidays The newspaper says: Since 2012, radio engineer Brian Justin WI2XLQ has spent part of his holidays commemorating the apparent …

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• 1 Januari

  Foundation Online Statistics for 2019

  Essex Ham have released statistics for the eight free online Foundation courses that they ran in 2019 They note that this year’s numbers are lower than previous years, as they stopped for 5 months so that they could update the course material for the new RSGB syllabus. This meant re-recording …

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• 1 Januari

  Today is AMSAT CW Day

  You are cordially invited to take part in AMSAT CW Activity Day 2020 sponsored by AMSAT for all radio amateurs throughout the world. The 2020 event will be held in memory of Larry Brown, W7LB, and Keith Pugh, W5IU. Among their many contributions to AMSAT, they were the AMSAT 20-meter …

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• 1 Januari

  Ring In the New Year with Straight Key Night!

  12/31/2019  It’s time to break out (and/or dust off) the brass and set some time aside on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to take part in Straight Key Night (SKN). The annual event begins at 0000 UTC on January 1, 2020 (New Year’s Eve in US time zones) …

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