Southgate Amateur Radio News for Friday 21 February 2014
 

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GAREC 2014 heads for Alabama USA

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The Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference (GAREC) in August is hosted
by the ARRL South-eastern Division and the Alabama Huntsville Hamfest - a
Regional ARRL Centennial Event

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Oregon hams locate missing dementia patient

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Members of the Lane County Sheriffs Amateur Radio Operators, an ARRL
Affiliated Club, are being credited with the rescue of an elderly Eugene,
Oregon man

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Results of first Delfi-n3Xt transponder test

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Jasper Bouwmeester PC4JB, has announced results of the first test of the
Delfi-n3Xt CubeSat 435/145 MHz linear transponder that were carried out on
February 20

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Fox-1 CubeSat publicity handout

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AMSAT-NA have released a single page Fox-1 CubeSat publicity handout for
club meetings or hamfests

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Distributed Ground Station Network For CubeSat Communications

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Radio amateur Zachary J. Leffke KJ4QLP has written a Masters Thesis which
explores the concept of deploying a network of distributed ground station
receiver nodes for the purposes of increasing access time to the spacecraft

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Dave Raycroft's ICPO Bulletin

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ICPO - Islands, Castles and Portable Operations. Probably the most
comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet

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DX News from the ARRL

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The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX
activity on the amateur radio bands

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Digital ham radio comes to Pacific area

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The eMissourian reports that Aldermen in the city of Pacific, Washington
state, have approved the purchase of a D-STAR digital amateur radio repeater