Desember, 2019

• 31 Desember

  New England Radio Amateur Hosts Video on Tower Safety

  12/31/2019 Jim Idelson, K1IR, of Sudbury, Massachusetts, recently provided a club meeting program on ham radio tower safety for the Billerica Amateur Radio Society (BARS). Kayla Creamer, W2IRY, recorded and edited the presentation and made it available online. It runs approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. In his presentation, Idelson …

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• 31 Desember

  Computer Bulletin Board System Co-Inventor Randy Suess, ex-WB9GPM, SK

  12/31/2019 The co-inventor of the Computer Bulletin Board System, Randy Suess, ex-WB9GPM, died on December 10. He was 74. According to his obituary in The New York Times, Suess and IBM engineer Ward Christensen collaborated on the system in 1978, during the dial-up era, a year before Compuserve began offering …

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• 31 Desember

  [UPCOMING] ZC4UW – UK Sovereign Base Area, Cyprus

  A group from Cambridge University Wireless Society will be QRV from the UK Sovereign Base Area on Cyprus as ZC4UW from 2-7 January with a maximum of 4 stations. Ops are likely to include G3ZAY, M0BLF, M0VFC, G7VJR, M0ZXA, G7SOZ, M0WUT and M0BBB. The team will be QRV with 400W …

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• 30 Desember

  H44MS – Solomon Islands

  

  Bernard, DL2GAC recently got in touch to say he will be returning to the Solomon Islands on February 5 and staying until April 20, 2020. He plans to be active from his countryside QTH (Malaita Island – see picture) starting mid-February. QRV on SSB only, 80-6m.

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• 30 Desember

  Canadian lighthouse operation

  Operators Chris VE3FU (VO2AC), Frank VO1HP and Dave VE9CB (VO2AAA) will be active as VO2AC during the 2020 CQWW 160M CW Contest (January 24-26th) from the Point Amour Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada, on the south coast of the rare Labrador (LB) multiplier. Point Amour is located in …

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