Januari, 2020

• 2 Januari

  AMSAT at the Thunderbird Hamfest

  AMSAT will be at the Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club‘s annual hamfest on the morning of Saturday, 11 January 2020. The hamfest will be at Glendale Nazarene Church, at the northwest corner of 59th Avenue and Cactus Road in Glendale, Arizona. More information about the hamfest is available at: http://www.tbirdfest.org/ Information …

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• 2 Januari

  Yahoo Groups shutdown – Radio ham preserves archives

  ARRL reports that on hearing of the Yahoo Groups shutdown Andy Majot K5QO took the initiative to download archives of Yahoo Groups devoted to individual amateur radio gear and upload them to his website “I hope to have them hosted in perpetuity for future hams to use,” Majot told ARRL. …

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• 2 Januari

  Update on the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) program

  There have been some recent developments with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) program in Canada. First, a bit of background. There are four levels of ARES organization: National, Section, District and Local. Sections are geographically-based administrative units organized to deliver RAC services to non-government organizations and governments through the …

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• 2 Januari

  Hamilton veteran wants to revive ham radio

  CBC News report how amateur radio was used to connect Canadian soldiers abroad with families at home In 1978, John David was surprised to discover — upon calling his parents in Hamilton, Ont. from the Golan Heights — that a five-minute conversation cost $20, a hefty chunk of change for …

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• 2 Januari

  Region-1 144 MHz tropo record now extended to 4,776 kms

  Over the last week, there has been some remarkable conditions on the VHF bands allowing lots of DX contacts across Europe. While this is in itself nothing new, it has coincided with a sea duct running down as far as the west coast of Africa. On the 28th of December, …

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