Southgate Amateur Radio News for Saturday 24 December 2016
 

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UBSEDS21 student balloon circumnavigates globe

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On December 11 Bristol students launched the UBSED21 high altitude balloon
carrying 434 MHz and APRS transmitters. On December 23 it completed its
first trip around the world

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MacLoggerDX Version 6.07 released

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Dog Park Software is pleased to announce that version 6.07 of MacLoggerDX
has been released

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Ireland gets 5 MHz

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The Irish Radio Transmitters Society have just announced that Irish radio
amateurs can use the WRC-15 band of 5.3515 MHz to 5.3665 MHz with immediate
effect

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Tony's 10 Metre Band Report

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Oh Dear me! A really thin week with Sunday just getting above double figure
contacts reported. Not much real DX about.
I worked IW3IEH and 2E0CIT on JT65

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Interference at the PI2NOS UK receiver eliminated

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Last week we posted the message about the new PI2NOS receiver that is
intended specifically for traffic from the United Kingdom. It soon became
clear that this new receiver encountered interference at the input and
therefore was rather limited in its performance. Martijn PD2NLX and Mischa,
PA1OKZ went on site to investigate…

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Ham Radio scanning using the Whistler TRX-1 on DMR

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Ham Radio has changed in recent years from traditional point to point
communication using Frequency Modulation and Single Side-band modes of
communication to Digital Modulation

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Propagation de K7RA

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Over the past reporting week (December 15-21) solar activity was little
changed from the previous seven days, although on two days (December 16-17)
there were no sunspots. Average daily sunspot numbers declined two points
from 13 to 11, and average daily solar flux bumped up one point to 73.2

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GB2RS Christmas Day bulletin published

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This will be the last podcast this year and the next will be the 8th.
January edition - there is no 1st. January edition of the GB2RS news
bulletin

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TX Factor GB2RS News Podcast

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All the very latest Amateur Radio news is now available via the TX Factor
GB2RS weekly podcast

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New products at Martin Lynch and Sons

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MLandS Ltd are pleased to announce we will now be stocking the full range
of Apache Labs SDR transceivers, Microset linear amplifiers and
accessories. Also, the full Bonito range of software and antennas will be
available from stock

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IOTA news from the DARC

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Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club