Januari, 2020

• 5 Januari

  Arctic Blast Hamfest

  The Pioneer Journal report the Wadena Area Amateur Radio Club (WAARC) is preparing for the 2020 Arctic Blast Hamfest, Saturday, Jan. 11 at the Bertha Community Center. A hamfest, not to be confused with a day of eating ham, is a convention of amateur radio enthusiasts and combines a trade …

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• 5 Januari

  US tests ways to sweep space clean of radiation after nuclear attack

  The U.S. military thought it had cleared the decks when, on 9 July 1962, it heaved a 1.4-megaton nuclear bomb some 400 kilometers into space: Orbiting satellites were safely out of range of the blast. But in the months that followed the test, called Starfish Prime, satellites began to wink …

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• 5 Januari

  Amateur Radio ‘Winter Field Day’ to demonstrate science, skill, and communication services

  Members of the Roanoke Valley Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the National Amateur Radio Winter Field Day Exercise, January 25 and 26, 2020. The Field Day site will be at Virginia Western Community College in the upper parking lot. For the last few years (Amateur Radio Operators) operators …

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• 5 Januari

  ZS6JON achieves 2m DXCC

  John Sygo, ZS6JON has finally completed the long overdue paperwork to receive his 2 metre DXCC through a mix of paper QSL cards and LotW confirmations on Tuesday 31 December 2019. John is well known worldwide in the VHF, UHF and SHF community as a pioneer in his field with …

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• 5 Januari

  QSO Today Amateur Radio Podcast Ward Silver – N0AX

  

  Ward Silver, N0AX, author of the QST magazine column, “Hands-On Radio”, editor of ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications, and author of many books on ham radio, was my guest in Episode 29 from February, 2015. As the new year begins, it seems a great opportunity to reach into the archive …

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