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First school ham TV ISS link

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 08:00 AM PST
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The UK ARISS team achieved a world first at the Royal Masonic School for
Girls, Rickmansworth on Thursday, by receiving live ATV video from the ISS
during the contact. Using the HamTV transmitter, which has recently been
commissioned on board the ISS, Tim Peake was the first astronaut to use
this equipment during a two []

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Thinking Day next weekend

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 07:55 AM PST
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World Thinking Day will take place on 20 and 21 February. This is when
members of Girlguiding use amateur radio to try to contact other members
throughout the world as part of the celebrations of their founders’
birthdays. For further details and to add your station to the list of
participants go to www.guides-on-the-air.co.uk or []

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New 472kHz distance record set

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 07:51 AM PST
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Tuesday, 9 February saw a new record set for the longest DX on the new 600m
band. WSPR was used by Phil Dwyer, VK3ELV and Laurence Howell, KL7L, the
latter operating as WE2XPQ. The contact, from Victoria in Australia to
Alaska in the USA, is the first ever between VK3 and KL7 on the 472kHz []

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Latest RSGB Band Plans finalised

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 07:48 AM PST
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The latest RSGB Band Plans have now been finalised. They cover all 29 UK
amateur bands from 136kHz to 250GHz, including the special 146MHz band that
is only available by Notice of Variation to Full licence holders. The Band
Plans are available at www.rsgb.org/bandplans. They also appear in the
March edition of RadCom, which should []

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New digital voice gateway goes live

Posted: 12 Feb 2016 07:47 AM PST
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Stuart, M0SGS has been given granted an NoV to operate a Simplex Fusion
C4FM Digital Voice Gateway, call sign MB6ILE, on 431.075MHz. The gateway is
located in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, and serves the Leeds and Bradford area.
Transmission is via a 70cm folded dipole at about 630ft ASL with a five
watt output. The system []