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04/18/2016 | Radio Amateurs Asked to Keep 7.060 MHz Clear for Ecuador Earthquake Emergency Traffic
In the wake of the April 16 earthquake in Ecuador, the Amateur Radio community is being asked to keep 7.060 MHz clear for “Cadena HC” emergency traffic.
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04/12/2016 | First-Ever D-STAR Satellite to Launch in April
he first-ever satellite to carry a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) Amateur Radio payload into space is expected to launch on April 22 from Guiana.
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04/10/2016 | ARISS Commemorative SSTV Event Set for April 11-14
The oft-postponed Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) slow-scan television (SSTV) event commemorating the 15th anniversary of ARISS will take place this week.
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03/23/2016 | UK to Sell Off 750 MHz of Radio Spectrum
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced in the 2016 budget that 750 MHz of public sector radio spectrum would be “released” — that is, auctioned. The Amateur Service in the UK currently shares significant spectrum with the public sector...
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01/27/2016 | A VHF Contest in January — How Cool is That?
If El Niño has your weather upside down, perhaps the ARRL January VHF Contest will get you right side up and back in a contesting mood!
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12/29/2015 | Spain Gets New 5 MHz Allocation for 2016
Temporary permission for radio amateurs in Spain to operate at 5 MHz ended in November, but World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 established a new 15 kHz Amateur Radio allocation at 5 MHz. At the request of URE, Spain's IARU member society, the sec...
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12/21/2015 | North Korea on the Air for First Time Since 2002
Dom Gryzb, 3Z9DX, unexpectedly came on the air from the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea over the weekend.
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12/15/2015 | AO-85 Slow Scan TV Image Likely a Prank, Not a Test
A Slow Scan TV (SSTV) image that a Brazilian radio amateur reported receiving on December 13 from Fox-1A (AO-85) was most likely a prank, not any sort of official test of the satellite’s SSTV capabilities. AMSAT Vice President for Engineering Jerry Bux...
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