Southgate Amateur Radio News for Friday 15 January 2016
 

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Nepal students to speak to Tim Peake

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UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI will be using amateur radio to talk to
students at Brihaspati Vidhyasadan School in Nepal on Wednesday, January 20

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AmateurLogic 86: We're Back

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Peter introduces Satellite TV. Tommy explores FLRig with his Icom IC-7100
and Mac computer. Emile makes a cheap APRS Tracker. George visits a
transmitter site in the wilderness and more

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Tim Peake to make his first spacewalk today

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Expedition 46 flight engineers Tim Kopra, KE5UDN of NASA and Tim Peake,
KG5BVI of ESA (European Space Agency) will venture outside the space
station’s Quest airlock today to replace a failed voltage regulator that
compromised one of the station’s eight power channels last November

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Hams in Space: Project Oscar

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In early December 1961, a United States Air Force rocket took off from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a special payload

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Netherlands low-power AM broadcasting

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Marcel Rommerts reports on the Medium Wave site that The Netherlands may
open up the AM band to low power stations

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MUARC participating in SOS Week

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Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club will be partaking in SOS Week and activating
the last 2 weekends in January. Please listen out for us and we would look
to contact as many stations as possible on HF/VHF/UHF using our call sign
MN0VFW

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Gender imbalance in ham radio

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An astrophysicist writes on Reddit about why she will no longer use the
patronising and condescending term YL

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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