Southgate Amateur Radio News for Sunday 4 September 2016
 

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CEPT Novice Licence and HAREC changes

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Free and unbureaucratic short-term cross-border amateur radio operation is
set to be expanded to more countries outside Europe

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UK CubeSat Forum - Lunar opportunity

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SSTL and GES are looking for CubeSat passenger payloads on a Lunar mission

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Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D schedule under review

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As a consequence of the anomaly during the static fire test of the SpaceX
Falcon 9 on September 1, 2016, the planned integration of Fox-1Cliff and
Fox-1D on the Spaceflight SHERPA has been postponed

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ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Presentations

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The ARRL/TAPR DCC (Digital Communications Conference) will be held in St.
Petersburg, FL September 16 - 18, 2016

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Intermediate training course

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Sidmouth Amateur Radio Society in Devon will be be commencing a
Intermediate training course on the 6th October. These follow previous
courses where we have obtained good pass rates

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SETI Institute damps down 'wow!' signal report from Russia

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The killjoys at the SETI Institute - killjoys all over the world, really -
are damping down wild speculation that a Russian instrument has seen
a 'possible' alien transmission

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Radio hams propose emergency mesh network

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The Record reports the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club proposes creating a
network for emergency use

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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

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SARL National Field Day

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The second leg of the SARL National Field Day will be on the air from 10:00
UTC on Saturday 10 September to 10:00 UTC on Sunday 11 September 2016

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Weekend Auroras

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A stream of very fast moving (700 km/s) solar wind has surrounded Earth,
sparking geomagnetic storms on Sept. 3rd