Southgate Amateur Radio News for Wednesday 16 November 2016
 

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ARISS contact planned for school in Barcelona, Spain

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An International Space Station radio contact has been planned for astronaut
Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD with Col·legi Asuncion de Ntra. Sra., Barcelona,
Spain. The event is scheduled Thursday 17 November 2016 at approximately
08:25 UTC

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HF Remote Operation

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Gary Pearce KN4AQ brings us the video of the talk by Lou Romero W4LT on HF
Remote operation given at the 2016 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications
Conference

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Essex 2m Activity Afternoon this Saturday

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To help boost 2m activity, the Thurrock Acorns Amateur Radio Club has
arranged an activity session from 1-5pm this Saturday, November 19 using
FM, SSB, CW and SSTV modes

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LoRa presentation at GRcon16

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Many radio amateurs gave presentations at the GNU Radio conference covering
subjects such as the LoRa, Internet of Things (IoT) and Software Defined
Radio

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Expedition Cruise

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Chuck, W7AUM, is currently on an expedition cruise on the 'National
Geographic Explorer' from November 9-29th. He sent the following to OPDX on
November 15th: "Last night on the gray line I made my first two contacts
from the ship as for the first time 20m and 15m opened up a little"

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ARRL Honorary Vice President, Director Emeritus Tod Olson, K0TO (SK)

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ARRL Honorary Vice President and Director Emeritus Tod Olson, K0TO
(ex-W0IYP), of Minnesota and Idaho, died on November 12 after battling
cancer for several years. An ARRL Life Member, he was 83