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93-Year-Old WWII Veteran Still Taps Out Morse Code:

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 04:08 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37983


We might live in a world where knowing how to write code is gold, but for
93-year-old Merle Taylor there is only one code: Morse code. Taylor learned
Morse code at 20 when she signed up to help Canada and the war effort. Her
war-time job was to teach it to the pilots through the British Commonwealth
Air Training plan. "There were 59 airbases built across Canada to
accommodate the boys from England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand,
Australia and Canada. It was that group of boys that I taught Morse code
to," Taylor said while sitting in her basement outside Antigonish -- where
she still taps out Morse code. "It's a signal that will get through because
of the sharpness where a voice couldn't. And the other thing is you could
send a secret message." Taylor has a network of people, mostly in Europe
and eastern North America where the signal is carried the strongest, with
whom she "chats" with using the old technology three times a week.


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Sending Messages of Remembrance from John McCrae's Birthplace:

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 04:08 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37982


Members of the Guelph Amateur Radio Club gathered around a transceiver at
the birthplace of John McCrae in Guelph on Thursday. They were sending out
messages of remembrance; telling listeners about the McCrae House and about
his famous war poem In Flanders Fields.
Amateur radio, or ham radio, is a popular hobby enjoyed by enthusiasts
around the world.


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VK6WIA -- NewsWest for 13/11/2016:

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 02:32 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37981


Focus edition showcasing clubs in Amateur
Radio. The activation in commemoration of the 75'th
anniversary of the loss of HMAS Sydney off
the coast of Geraldton here in Western
Australia with special callsign VI6SYD75.


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Foundations of Amateur Radio -- #75:

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 02:32 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37979


What do push button telephones have to do
with Amateur Radio and how we use this
technology every day and more importantly,
how does it work?


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630 Meter Berlin Treaty Commemorative Special Event is Sunday, Nov 13 (UTC)

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 01:05 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37978


Participants in the ARRL WD2XSH 630-meter experiment, Canadian radio
amateurs, and members of the Maritime Radio Historical Society
(MRHS) will join together for a special event operation on Sunday,
November 13 (UTC) on 630 meters (the evening of Saturday, November
12, in US time zones).


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Chinese Students' FM Transponder Satellite Launched:

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 01:03 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37977


"Dream 1" (CAS-2T), a "technical verification satellite" for the
CAMSAT CAS-2 series of Amateur Radio satellites, was launched on
November 9 on board a Long March CZ-11 rocket.


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Propagation Forecast Bulletin #46 de K7RA:

Posted: 11 Nov 2016 01:02 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/37976


At 0002 UTC on November 9, this geomagnetic warning was distributed
by Australia's Space Forecast Cent