Januari, 2020

• 20 Januari

  Contest Results

  Results of the IRTS 80 metres New Year’s Day counties contest have been published. Band conditions on 80 metres were good for the first hour of this short contest, but went downhill fairly rapidly after that. Stations in 28 EI and GI counties were active: Cavan, Longford, Louth and Monaghan …

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• 20 Januari

  AmateurLogic 139: Now With 2020 Vision

  Just how much faster is the Raspberry Pi 4? Tommy finds out. George has a free remote desktop solution with some unique features. Emile tries Vara Winlink. And Mike ventures into the “Box of Incomplete Dreams” for a QRP Labs WSPR kit. 1:21:07 to start 2020 out logically. [embedded content] …

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• 20 Januari

  Barry Shelley N1VXY is interim ARRL CEO

  ARRL reports at its meeting this weekend, the ARRL Board of Directors did not elect Howard Michel, WB2ITX, as the ARRL Chief Executive Officer Beginning Monday, January 20, Barry Shelley, N1VXY, will become interim CEO. Mr. Shelley was ARRL’s Chief Financial Officer for 28 years and CEO during 2018 before …

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• 19 Januari

  American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport’s weather radar by stealing spectrum

  The Register reports: Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America’s broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico. Boom Solutions, Integra Wireless, and WinPR were all found to be using devices for their point-to-point broadband that were “misconfigured,” according to the regulator this week. …

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• 19 Januari

  Satellite Status and Tracking API’s added to AMSAT website

  Thanks to an initiative by Heimir, W1ANT, AMSAT added Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to the AMSAT web site to make it easy for developers to write apps for mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). For example, the satellite status page www.amsat.org/status does not work well on small screens. …

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