Southgate Amateur Radio News for Tuesday 29 March 2016
 

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ARRL tells FCC to restore balance of modes on 80 and 75 meters

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In comments filed on March 23 on its Petition for Rule Making (RM 11759)
seeking changes to 80 and 75 meters, the ARRL has told the FCC that its
primary objective is to 'rebalance' the bands by correcting a 10-year old
FCC error

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DXCC deletion of Kingman Reef

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The ARRL Awards Committee has voted to delete Kingman Reef (KH5K) from the
DXCC List, effective 29 March, 2016

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Rishworth School Space Program

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On March 7, 2016, after six months of planning, students at Rishworth
School launched to the stratosphere a payload containing a 434.250 MHz
transmitter, two Raspberry Pi computers, camera equipment, various sensors
and a BBC micro:bit

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The first wireless hack

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In this video Tom Scott describes the first ever wireless hack carried out
by Nevil Maskelyne in 1903. No, it wasn't called "hacking" back then: it
was called "scientific hooliganism"

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Juan De Nova DXpedition news

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After 2 days at sea on board the Antsiva and almost 2,000 contacts in the
log/mm, we are now at anchor off Juan de Nova. As stated on our permits, we
can not land tomorrow at dawn

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Propagation de K7RA

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All of the indicators we track were lower over the past week (March 17-23),
compared to the previous seven days. Average daily sunspot numbers declined
from 51.7 to 28.4, and average daily solar flux was 88.8, compared to 98.6
during the prior seven days

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Our Sun could also be a superflare Star

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An interesting story in ECN magazine relevant to radio communication