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Amateur Radio Parity Act passes in the US House of Representatives!

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'The bill is passed without objection.' With those words, Amateur Radio
history was made on September 12, when the US House of Representatives
approved the Amateur Radio Parity Act, H.R. 1301 on a voice vote under a
suspension of the rules

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Simulated emergency communication tests around the world

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A trend among groups of radio amateurs involved in emergency
communications is the use of disaster scenarios to test equipment and
learn lessons from what went right during an exercise, and what could be
improved

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Ledbury 434 MHz School Balloon launch

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Ryan Ing reports he will launch a high altitude balloon with a 434 MHz Slow
Scan Digital Video payload from John Masefield High School Thursday Sept 15

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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report

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Another poor week. I only managed a couple of Finish stations and a Russian
all week!

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SKYWARN Youth on the Air Net debuts

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The SKYWARN Youth On the Air Net is on the air, encouraging young radio
amateurs to get on the air and learn about the SKYWARN weather-spotting
network and basic weather facts

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Registration for YOTA Month December 2016

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The IARU Region 1 site reports that during the month of December, several
youngsters will activate call signs with YOTA as the suffix

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Ham radio at Wright Brothers National Memorial

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On August 29 John Brier KG4AKV was active on the FM amateur radio satellite
SO-50 for National Parks On The Air #NPOTA

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IOTA news from the DARC

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Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

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Young radio ham on the air from Vatican

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Martin Faraglia, aged 13, is one of the youngest radio operators in Italy.
Martin is the first young amateur radio to transmit from the Vatican Radio
operations room HV0A

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Kansas broadcaster heard in Finland

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The medium wave AM radio signal from broadcaster KRSL in Russell, Kansas
has been received almost 5,000 miles away in Finland

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Spooky eclipse of the Harvest Moon

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According to folklore, this Friday's full Moon is the Harvest Moon

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Judging a book through its cover

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New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine
pages of a stack of paper, using Terahertz radio waves