Southgate Amateur Radio News for Tuesday 18 February 2014
 

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Idaho ham seriously injured in tower repair accident

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Robert Galindo KE7ADT was critically injured around noon last Thursday when
the winching cable snapped while he was working on his forty foot crank-up
tower

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BIS prepares for KickSat Sprite launch

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British Interplanetary Society (BIS) members Laurence de Bruxelle and Andy
Thomas G0SFJ have been working on three of the low cost ground stations for
the eagerly awaited KickSat CubeSat which will deploy 200 Sprite satellites
operating on 437 MHz

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Delfi-n3Xt transponder to be tested

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Delfi Nanosatellite Program Manager, Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has
announced tests for Feb 20-21 of the Delfi-n3Xt 435/145 MHz linear
transponder for amateur radio SSB/CW communications

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Chelmsford Intermediate Amateur Radio Course

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An Intermediate course run by volunteers from the Chelmsford Amateur Radio
Society (CARS) will start in March

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DARC makes CQ DL archive available to members

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The German national amateur radio society DARC has made available to
members all back issues of their CQ DL magazine online as PDF's

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Business as usual at ML and S!

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Despite the terrible images and footage shown by the UK News, we are
TOTALLY DRY at ML and S!

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FCC report on Process Reform

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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is inviting comment on Process
Reform

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ARISS contacts on Echolink and IRLP

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We have two contacts on Wednesday. Please join us in listening to the ISS
contact with participants at Delaware Township School and Marymount
University

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Wythall Rally 9th March near Birmingham

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Wythall Radio Club will be holding their 29th Radio and Computer Rally on
Sunday 9th March 2014 at Woodrush Sports Centre, Shawhurst Lane, Hollywood,
Nr Wythall, Birmingham B47 5JW

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Ham Radio CubeSat on ABC News

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Students working on the CubeSat project at Brown University, Rhode Island
were interviewed by Samantha Lavien for ABC 6 TV News