Southgate Amateur Radio News for Sunday 11 March 2012
 

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RAX-2 Success - Anomaly Detected

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Matt Bennett KF6RTB reports that the amateur radio CubeSat, Radio Auroral
Explorer 2 (RAX-2), has detected the communication-disrupting anomaly in
the upper atmosphere it was searching for

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The Hindu - Hams' Engineering Success

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K. G. Girish Babu VU2KGB uses computerised antenna design for VHF and UHF
wireless communication, and helped his son Rahul make an antenna, the
largest in India, which can track amateur radio satellites

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AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2012 First Call for Speakers

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The AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be held on September
15-16, 2012 in Guildford. The Colloquium attracts an international audience
from across Europe as well as North America and the Middle East

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SADC visitors to South Africa - new appeal to ICASA

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For the past two years the South African Radio League (SARL) has been
petitioning ICASA to set up a SADC arrangement similar to the CEPT
licensing agreement which allows visiting amateurs from CEPT countries to
operate in South Africa for up to three months

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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

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Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the Solar activity is once again on
the rise with huge sunspot 1 429 producing X class flares

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Connecting Students with Space

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GENSO is a worldwide network of education and amateur radio ground stations
linked together via the internet

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Howard Long, G6LVB featured speaker at the 2012 AMSAT/TAPR Banquet

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AMSAT is pleased to announce that Howard Long, G6LVB will be the featured
speaker for the evening event. Howard will be talking about his FUNcube
Dongle, the 64 - 1700 MHz Software Defined Receiver