Southgate Amateur Radio News for Friday 12 August 2016
 

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Ham Radio BIRDS CubeSat Constellation

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The BIRDS constellation, planned to deploy from the ISS in 2017, will
consist of four 1U CubeSats (BIRD-B, BIRD-J, BIRD-G and BIRD-M)

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FCC 'Symbol Rate' rule making proposal open for comment at least until
October

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In a July Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in WT Docket 16-239, the
FCC proposed to revise the Amateur Service Part 97 rules in response to the
ARRL's so-called 'Symbol Rate' Petition for Rule Making (RM-11708), filed
in late 2013

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HamRadioNow: Change is Hard

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You think we're talking about the Hamvention® move, right? Nope. We
recorded this program the day before the move was announced, but a
technical glitch kept us from uploading it then

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K7AGE Builds The ZZRX-40 Receiver Kit

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In this video Randy Hall K7AGE introduces a simple 40 meter receiver kit
which was highlighted on the cover of QST July 2016 magazine

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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

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Dutch license revocation

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The Netherlands national society VERON report the regulator Agentschap
Telecom is revoking over 200 amateur radio licenses due to non-payment of
registration fee

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Foundations of Amateur Radio - episode 62

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Does your portable log look like the dog ate your homework? This week I
look at what you can do to make it work for you and make a log that you can
take home to show and tell

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Ham radio operators to play key role

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The Hindu newspaper reports radio amateurs are going to play a key role
during the Krishna Pushkaralu as an alternative medium of communication for
the officials monitoring the festival for 12 days

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New EURAO member associations

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EURAO, the European Radio Amateurs' Organization, has welcomed two new
organisations to its growing membership

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Ham radio license courses in Flanders

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The Belgium national amateur radio society the UBA reports Foundation
training courses are being held during the summer months