Desember, 2019

• 31 Desember

  Yahoo Groups Shutdown has Ham Radio Interest Groups Seeking to Save Content

  12/31/2019 Yahoo Groups, which has hosted a considerable number of ham radio interest groups over the years, is shutting down. All previously posted content on the site became unavailable in mid-December, but Yahoo is processing requests to download content until January 31, 2020. Yahoo also has provided group administrators (“admins”) …

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• 31 Desember

  New 70-Centimeter Tropo Contact Record Claimed

  12/31/2019 Tropospheric propagation is being credited with enabling a 70-centimeter contact between the Cape Verde islands and Scotland that may be a new world record. Exceptional tropo conditions over the eastern part of the North Atlantic this past weekend allowed many stations in the UK and Ireland to make contacts …

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• 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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