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Skills Night Monday Sept 19

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The next Skills Night, hosted by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society
Training Team, starts at 7pm on Monday, September 19. This free event is
open to all

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WIA seeks 50 watts output for Foundation

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In WIA News, Director Roger Harrison VK2ZRH sets out the Wireless Institue
of Australia's thinking on the future direction of the Foundation licence

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Amateur Satellite 5.7 GHz LNA

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The AMSAT-NA site carries a picture showing the mechanical prototype of the
5.7 GHz Low Noise Amplifier which will be used in the Phase 5 Lunar and
Phase 4B Geosynchronous amateur radio satellite projects

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Cooby Creek 50 Year Celebration

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The Darling Downs Radio Club (DDRC) is celebrating the 50 year anniversary
of the opening of the Cooby Creek Tracking Station with the special event
callsign VI50CC which will be active from October 1 to October 31 2016

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BATC Convention

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The 2016 Convention for Amateur TV will be held at the RAF Museum Cosford
on 24 and 25 September 2016

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Foundations of Amateur Radio - Episode 67

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How to melt the coax in your station, or rather, how not to melt it. What
causes it to happen, how do you deal with it and what should you be on the
lookout for?

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WA Amateur Radio weekly news for VK6

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This weekend it's Club Focus time on NewsWest, Where Clubs can promote
themselves. There's a few regulars missing this time around, however we do
have input from some groups

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Overseas US Ham Radio Exams

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In his blog Dan KB6NU asks should US amateur radio license exams be given
outside the USA?

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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
remain at low levels

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Teen gets top ham radio license

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The Harrison Daily reports on the achievement of 13-year-old Nicholas Stone
KF5LKW in getting his Extra Class amateur radio license

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Ham radio: A last resort when phone lines fail

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If disaster strikes, there is a form of communication that can still get
through, ham radio