Januari, 2020

• 1 Januari

  Online Foundation Training

  Essex Ham’s free online Foundation training courses have restarted, and have been updated to support the new 2019 RSGB exam syllabus In 2019, close to 400 people took part in one of these courses. The courses are free, take place in an online classroom, and require 2-3 hours of study …

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• 1 Januari

  Earthing and the Radio Amateur leaflet updated

  Ian 2E0IJH has updated the RSGB EMC 07 leaflet ‘Earthing and the Radio Amateur’ to reflect the fact that Gas and Water pipes no longer require bonding if supplied by plastic service pipes as they have no reference to Earth RSGB EMC 07 Earthing and the Radio Amateur v4 is …

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• 1 Januari

  Virginia radio ham re-creates Fessenden broadcast

  Washington Post reports proof that the world’s first radio show was broadcast 113 years ago on Christmas Eve doesn’t exist, but the purported occasion is still marked annually during the holidays The newspaper says: Since 2012, radio engineer Brian Justin WI2XLQ has spent part of his holidays commemorating the apparent …

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• 1 Januari

  Foundation Online Statistics for 2019

  Essex Ham have released statistics for the eight free online Foundation courses that they ran in 2019 They note that this year’s numbers are lower than previous years, as they stopped for 5 months so that they could update the course material for the new RSGB syllabus. This meant re-recording …

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• 1 Januari

  Today is AMSAT CW Day

  You are cordially invited to take part in AMSAT CW Activity Day 2020 sponsored by AMSAT for all radio amateurs throughout the world. The 2020 event will be held in memory of Larry Brown, W7LB, and Keith Pugh, W5IU. Among their many contributions to AMSAT, they were the AMSAT 20-meter …

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