Southgate Amateur Radio News for Thursday 12 June 2014
 

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GB1JSS Summer Solstice: Radio Hams to gather at Galleywood Common

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Special event station GB1JSS will be active during the Summer Solstice on
Saturday, June 21, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The event is open to all radio amateurs and listeners

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FCC okays changes to Amateur Radio exam credit, test administration,
emission type rules

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In a wide-ranging Report and Order released June 9 that takes various
proceedings into consideration, the FCC has revised the Amateur Service
Part 97 rules to grant credit for written examination elements 3 (General)
and 4 (Amateur Extra) to holders of 'expired licenses that required passage
of those elements.'

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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report

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Another poor week but the weekend did rescue things.
SO1WS (Poland) popped up for a short while. I have big doubts about that
one’s authenticity. ZX14 and ZY14 stations proliferate and are of course
special Brazilian calls for the World Cup starting Thursday with Brazil v
Croatia

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RAC President adds High River to upcoming Alberta tour

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Foothills Amateur Radio Society to get special visit by Geoff Bawden
VE4BAW, President of the Radio Amateurs of Canada

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Queen shown radio ham's Raspberry Pi balloon payload

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On Monday, June 9, more than 350 of the UK’s most successful and most
promising technologists were invited to Buckingham Palace by the Queen and
the Duke of York for Tech at the Palace

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Two 434 MHz balloons launched for school

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Cambridge News reports on the High Altitude Balloon flights, with 434 MHz
trackers, that radio amateur David Akerman M0RPI carried out for pupils of
St Alban's Primary School