Desember, 2019

• 28 Desember

  The End of a Radio Legend

  Larry Thompson shared this link from Extreme Shortwave Listening I was saddened to recently learn that the wonderful nonprofit charity dedicated to shortwave radio everywhere, EarsToOurWorld.org, will be going the way of the Silent Key. I first learned about this through my association with Universal Radio, in Columbus, Ohio, a …

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• 28 Desember

  Scouts get trained to be Ham Radio operators

  Scouting magazine reports on how two assistant scoutmasters are training scouts to become radio amateurs The magazine article says: Assistant Scoutmaster Scott de Masi KC5NKW‘s subdivision was underwater — as were many parts of Kingwood, Texas, in the wake of the devastating Category 4 Hurricane Harvey in 2017.With roads flooded, …

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• 28 Desember

  WIA Annual Conference

  Season’s Greetings from the WIA Conference Organising Committee. The WIA Annual Conference will be held in Hobart Tasmania over the 8th to 10th May 2020 and registrations are open and selling fast. The conference theme is “Antarctic Gateway” and the weekend is setup to showcase the Antarctic past, present and …

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• 28 Desember

  98th anniversary of successful ARRL transatlantic tests

  A group of radio amateurs gathered earlier this month at W1AW to mark the 98th anniversary of the successful ARRL Transatlantic Tests. December, 1921, a message transmitted by a group of Radio Club of America members at 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was copied by Paul Godley, 2ZE, in Scotland. Reporting …

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• 28 Desember

  Meteor-M2-2 satellite ‘struck by micrometeoroid’

  Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday that the Meteor-M2-2 weather satellite may have been hit by a chunk of rock and radio amateur Dmitry Pashkov R4UAB was among the first to notice “The textbook operations of Meteor-M 2-2 wouldn’t last long, though, and as is often the case, an amateur …

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