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Current Amateur Radio status on board the International Space Station

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The VHF handheld radio model that has been used by the ARISS program to
connect students worldwide with astronauts on board the International Space
Station (ISS) for over 16 years has given an error message and is unusable
at this time

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Electronics Notes website launched

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The Electronics Notes website has been launched. The new site has been born
out of the old Electronics+Radio website and contains a wealth of
information about electronics including amateur radio, antennas and
propagation, radio technology, and everything you want to know about
electronics and radio technology

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SOTA S2S event growing to be a major event

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The SOTA Summit-to-Summit (S2S) event on Saturday 22nd. October 2016 from
0630 - 0830 UTC (announced in a previous Southgate News release), now has
44 summits scheduled to be active, this in 19 different associations across
three continents

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Science Discovery Day at Sandford Mill

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The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society will be operating GX0MWT from the
Sandford Mill Science and Discovery Day on Sunday, Oct. 23

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OZ7IGY - 10 GHz beacon now on Next Generation Beacons platform

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Today the 10 GHz OZ7IGY beacon has been migrated to the Next Generation
Beacons platform

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Change in IARU Secretary

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Rod Stafford, W6ROD, has retired as IARU Secretary after seven years of
service in that position

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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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The Orionid meteor shower peaks tonight

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Earth has entered a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the
annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak during
the night of Oct. 20-21 with as many as 10-20 meteors per hour

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Georgia Section Manager changing on November 1

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Georgia Section Manager Gene Clark, W4AYK, of Albany, has announced that
he's stepping down at the end of October, after serving since October 2009