YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
01/14/2020 The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) this year is honoring 35 years of software-defined radio (SDR) technology with special call sign and special DOK. “In order to acknowledge the high importance of digital signal processing for communications technology in general, and amateur radio in particular, a special event station …
Januari, 2020
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15 Januari
Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Said, A41AA, SK
01/14/2020 The Sultan of Oman Qaboos Bin Said, A41AA, died on January 10. He was 79. The Diwan of the Royal Court has declared 3 days of mourning, with the flag flown at half-mast for the next 40 days. The sultan was the patron and sponsor of the Royal Omani …
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15 Januari
Tragic Drowning Cuts Short DXpedition to Rotuma
01/14/2020 DXer Antoine “Tony” N’Yeurt, 3D2AG, reported over the weekend that his 11-year-old son had died in an accidental drowning in Rotuma. 3D2AG had been active in a DXpedition on Rotuma — the 58th most-wanted DXCC entity, according to Club Log. No details of the incident are available. N’Yeurt resides on Fiji …
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15 Januari
Leadership Elections to Highlight January 17 – 18 ARRL Annual Board Meeting
01/14/2020 The ARRL Board of Directors will elect League officers when it meets for its 2020 annual meeting on January 17 – 18 in Windsor, Connecticut. The Board will hear nominations and then vote, as necessary, for ARRL president, first and second vice presidents, international affairs vice president, secretary, treasurer, …
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14 Januari
AMSAT-DL announces a new QO-100 down converter V3d
The first version of the AMSAT-DL down converter was built in early 2019, enabling many stations to become active on QO-100 for the first time. Since then, a lot of operating experience and new insights have been gained, which have flowed into the new board V3d. The AMSAT-DL DownConverter V3d …
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14 Januari
New Indian moon landing attempt
Work is going ‘smoothly’ on the Chandrayaan-3 mission to put a roverprobe on the moon’s surface, Indian Space Research Organisation chairman K. Sivan told a press conference. India is seeking to become only the fourth nation after Russia, the United States and China to put a mission on the moon’s …
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14 Januari
The sun swallows a comet
Yesterday, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory discovered the first comet of the new decade. Hours later it was gone, destroyed by the sun. Visit today’s edition of Spaceweather.com for the full story and a video of the comet’s death plunge
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14 Januari
Well-Known DXer and DXCC Card Checker Peter Glasmacher, DK5DC, SK
01/14/2020 Well-known DXer and DXCC card checker Peter Glasmacher, DK5DC/AA6HM, of Werl, Germany, died unexpectedly on January 12. An ARRL member, he was 68. Glasmacher served as the editor of the monthly DX column “DXtra” in CQ DL, the official journal of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC), to which …
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14 Januari
4W – Timor Leste 2020
The Lagunaria DX Group is planning a large scale DXpedition to Timor-Leste (4W) in October / November 2020. We currently have one team member in Timor-Leste negotiating with different ministries, companies and accommodation facilities. Right now we have positive feedback from all. We even already have a confirmed reservation for …
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14 Januari
Further changes to some BBC local radio medium wave services
In my blog posted in the summer of 2017, I explained the BBC’s plans for local radio and the reasons for the closure of some of our medium wave transmitters – which happened in January last year. This was the first stage of putting into action a plan that the …