Southgate Amateur Radio News RSS Feed
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Got a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR dongle? Here's a very simple way to make
an APRS RX iGate
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If you have a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR dongle sitting around unused, you
can very easily set them up as an APRS RX only iGate. You don't need the
latest Raspberry Pi3, this will work on all models from the Zero upwards
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BATC Portsdown Digital ATV Project
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The BATC has initiated a new home construction project based around the
Raspberry Pi 3 Computer to produce an easy way to 'get on air' with Digital
ATV at relatively low cost
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HamRadioNow: New Frontiers in Wireless
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The ARRL's Brennan Price N4QX talks about the new technologies and
millimeter wave spectrum that will be so important to Amateur Radio's future
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Ham radio declining in Australia
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Phil Wait VK2ASD reports on WIA News that statistics point to a slow but
steady decline in Australian amateur radio licence numbers
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SARL National Field Day
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The South African Radio League National Field Day is on the air from 10:00
UTC on Saturday 11 February to 10:00 UTC on Sunday 12 February 2017
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VOA celebrates 75 years on the air
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A little more than seven weeks after the United States officially entered
World War II, a live, 15-minute shortwave radio broadcast was transmitted
into Germany from a small studio in New York City on February 1, 1942
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AMSAT Events
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Examples of these events are radio club meetings where AMSAT Area
Coordinators give presentations, demonstrations of working amateur
satellites, and hamfests with an AMSAT presence
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AOxWRD: World Radio Day 2017
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This year, the theme of the Day, February 13, is: 'Radio is You!'
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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP
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Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be
at low levels