Amateur Radio News

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Australian pico ballooner honoured

Posted: 07 Jun 2016 08:04 AM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...noured.525364/

Australian pico ballooner honoured



The Wireless Institute of Australia has recognised the record breaking
achievements of Andy Nguyen VK3YT by naming him in its WIA Merit Award
program, while one of his pico party-type balloons VK9WI flew at high
altitude.



Andy VK3YT was given the WIA Technical Excellence Award for his work with
the pico space balloons, including one that circumnavigated the Southern
Hemisphere nearly three times....



Australian pico ballooner honoured

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Repeater Group Lawsuit

Posted: 07 Jun 2016 06:01 AM PDT
http://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thre...awsuit.522682/

On June 4th, 2015, Ken Bryant (K1DMR) sued the 42 repeater owners that had
repeaters on the PRN System at that time. Ken Bryant filed this lawsuit
after he was asked not to use the linked System because he was observed
contacting radio operators over the air in order to sell radios for his
business, North Georgia Communications.



ok so we all know about the bad apples in every area of the world for ham
radio right? well if you want to continue to use it for free then you might
want to...



Repeater Group Lawsuit