Southgate Amateur Radio News for Saturday 11 June 2016
 

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Tim Peake's return to Earth

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Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra, KE5UDN of NASA, Flight Engineer Tim
Peake, KG5BVI of ESA and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP of
Roscosmos will undock their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the space station
at 1:52 a.m. Saturday, 18th June and land in Kazakhstan at 5:15 a.m. (3:12
p.m. Kazakhstan time)

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Radio ham in fatal fall from mast

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Radio amateur Andrew 'Milt' Jensen N5IA died Thursday, June 9 after he fell
50 feet off his tower on Mount Lemmon

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ISS Ham TV experiment

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An ARISS contact is scheduled Monday 13 June 2016 at 15:19 UTC for a school
in Canada. Astronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI, has announced his intention to use
the Ham Video transmitter

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241 GHz Ham Radio Tests

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A new video shows further testing on 241 GHz by John G8ACE with an improved
antenna and distance

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FCC rejects experimentation petition

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The ARRL reports the US regulator the FCC has turned away a Petition to
permit very low power Experimental Operation on amateur radio bands

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New Elecraft Roofing Filter at Waters and Stanton

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KFL3C-200 from Elecraft, is a new roofing filter which has six poles rather
than five seen in the previous models, significantly improving skirt
selectivity

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New Belize national ham radio society

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The IARU recently realised the reason it hadn't heard from its member
Society in Belize for 23 years was because the Society no longer existed

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Radio ham's key radio role in war effort

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The Crewe Chronicle reports at the outbreak of War in 1939, Joe Noden G6TW
was recruited by the UK Government’s radio secret services (RSS) to monitor
short wave frequencies on his Skyranger receiver

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Propagation de K7RA

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I thought it was too early in the decline of this solar cycle to start
seeing days with no sunspots (when the sunspot number is zero) but I was
wrong