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SKYWARN Recognition Day On-the-Air Event is Saturday, December 3:

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 07:15 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38083


The annual SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) on-the-air activity will
take place Saturday, December 3, from 0000 until 2400 UTC (starts on
the evening of Friday, December 2, in US time zones).


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DX News -- ARRL DX Bulletin #48:

Posted: 23 Nov 2016 07:14 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38082


This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by
AJ9C, WB2TJO, QRZ DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, The Daily DX,
DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and
WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all.


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Riding the Radio Waves of Success at Norfolk Amateur Radio Club:

Posted: 22 Nov 2016 05:04 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38081


The award, in the "large club" category, was presented at the RSGB's annual
Hamfest event in Newark and recognised the hard work the club puts into
promoting the hobby and encouraging newcomers. Steve Nichols, Narc's public
relation officer, said the club's members were thrilled with the result. He
said: "We were very pleased to win the award, which recognises the massive
amount of work that goes on within the club to promote the hobby and
provide radio communications training." The club has more than 100 members,
a history dating back to the 1950s and has an active calendar of talks,
events, special event stations and courses. Its activities include putting
on special event radio stations to celebrate events such as inventor
Guglielmo Marconi's birthday and Railways on the Air, plus "Bright Sparks"
events for youngsters who are interested in electronics.


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Who's Jamming the Hams?

Posted: 22 Nov 2016 05:03 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38080


City's radio hams have been left baffled by cryptic signals in a foreign
language which are originating in the deep seas off the Arabian coast. They
have written to central government agencies asking for an investigation.
Mumbai's circuit of amateur radio operators -- or hams as they are called
-- is being rudely interrupted by indecipherable signals originating in the
high seas off the west coast, prompting the group to write to the union
ministry of telecommunications and other central government agencies to
probe the source of this suspect transmission. The blips, being picked up
by the radio operators' VHF wireless sets for five or so months now, became
a cause for concern only after they were traced to about 100 nautical
miles, or 185 kilometres, off the Maharashtra-Gujarat coastline. When the
hams homed in on the origin point with their direction-finding equipment
and antennae, they shot off urgent letters to the wireless advisor at the
ministry, the Prime Minister's Office and top defence officers apart from
the police, alerting them to the disturbance. The spokesperson for the
citybased group Ham Radio Operators, Ankur Puranik, told Mumbai Mirror that
the irregular signals are encroaching on the 144-146MHz bandwidth allotted
to their two-way radio transmission. About 70 of the city's 200 hams have
heard these fishy signals at various times of the day, but mostly at night.
What makes it all disquieting is that the signal dispatchers do not use the
mandatory call sign -- a unique identifier for transmissions and
broadcasting -- by which each ham in the world can be identified and
tracked, implying that they do not want their identity or location to be
known. "And they speak in a language we don't understand," Puranik said.


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Hytera Enters USA Amateur Radio Market:

Posted: 22 Nov 2016 12:45 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38067


GigaParts announced today the release of
five new models of amateur radios
manufactured by Hytera. Highly regarded in
land mobile radio for their quality,
durability and innovation, Hytera
dominates the DMR and Tetra markets in the
US and the rest of the world. Hytera is
the largest radio manufacturer to enter
the amateur radio market in North America.


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BridgeCom Systems BCD Duplexers Press Release:

Posted: 22 Nov 2016 12:45 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38065


Introducing the New BCD line of duplexers. There are five duplexers
available: BCD-144/440, BCD-220, BCD-144250 and BCD-440250. The BCD-144/440
is a small mobile style duplexer available in either VHF or UHF frequency
Bands. It covers VHF (136-174 MHz) or UHF (400-520 MHz) frequencies,
requires 5-8 MHz frequency split for up to 50W with 80 dB isolation. It's
small size allows it to mounted inside the BCR repeaters for a compact
installation.