Southgate Amateur Radio News for Sunday 17 April 2016
 

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Listen to Tim Peake on 2m FM

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On Monday, April 18 at 3:56 pm BST (1456 GMT) UK radio amateurs will have
the chance to listen to Tim Peake GB1SS transmitting on 145.800 MHz FM from
the International Space Station (ISS)

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Emergency Communications Exercise in Portugal April 17

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Radio Amateurs in Portugal belonging to the Emergency Communications Group
REP-SCERA will be taking part in a Civil Protection exercise on April 17
between 0800 - 1200 UT

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Catch the signal of e-st@r-II CubeSat

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The CubeSat Team of Politecnico di Torino invite the amateur radio
community to participate in a competion to receive signals from their new
satellite e-st@r-II which launches April 22

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9-year-old in CQ World-Wide WPX Contest

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Hope KM4IPF achieved over 50,000 points in the CQ World-Wide WPX contest
held March 26-27

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How school children exposed Soviet secret

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BBC News reports on the Kettering students who monitored Soviet satellites
and discovered a secret launch site

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Radio ham transmits 1000 miles on Voice Power

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Many of us tried the old 'two tin cans connected by a string' experiment as
kids. Michael Rainey AA1TJ never quite forgot it

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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

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Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be
at low to moderate levels