Desember, 2019

• 25 Desember

  Welcome YC9VCT As YBDXC#490

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• 25 Desember

  Commemorative ARISS Slow-Scan TV Transmissions Set

  12/24/2019 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will support slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions worldwide in memory of cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valery Bykovsky, and Sigmund Jaehn. Transmissions are scheduled to start at 1100 UTC on December 28 and continuing until 1820 on January 1. Transmissions will take place on …

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• 24 Desember

  OPS-SAT — First-of-its-Kind Space Laboratory — Launched on December 18

  12/23/2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that the OPS-SAT “flying laboratory” satellite lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket on December 18. According to ESA, the small, low-cost, test satellite was specifically designed for operational experimentation in space and includes the most powerful …

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• 24 Desember

  Virginia Radio Amateur will Recreate 1906 Fessenden Christmas Eve Broadcast

  12/23/2019 The Canadian inventor, experimenter, and entrepreneur Reginald Fessenden has been credited as the inventor of radiotelephony. Fessenden claimed to have made his first voice — and music — broadcast on Christmas Eve in 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, although his account is disputed. As he has done each December …

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• 23 Desember

  KL7RRC – Adak Island, NA-039

  

  Yuri, N3QQ informs his team have plans to be active from Adak Island, NA-039 (and possibly another rare IOTA) in June 2020. “..dates, tickets to Adak in hand..“, says Yuri. See here for full details. Furthermore, Yuri mentions the Russian Robinson Club (RRC) is now a non-profit corporation registered within …

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