Southgate Amateur Radio News for Friday 13 January 2017
 

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Essex Coastal Evacuation - RAYNET on Standby

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On the morning of Thursday, January 12 Tendering District Council placed
radio amateurs in Essex RAYNET on standby with anticipated deployment
within 24 hours

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ARRL lodges Illegal Drone Transmitters complaint

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In what it calls an 'extremely urgent complaint' to the FCC, ARRL has
targeted the interference potential of a series of audio/video transmitters
used on unmanned aircraft and marketed as Amateur Radio equipment

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ITF-2 CubeSat to deploy from ISS

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Toshihiro Kameda JJ3GRX / W3GRX Director of University of Tsukuba Satellite
project reports the CubeSat ITF-2 should be released from the ISS on Monday

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Prince Philip congratulates RSGB

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HRH the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT has congratulated the RSGB
on the 80th Commonwealth Contest, March 11-12

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AMSAT Phase 4 video report

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Bob McGwier N4HY and Zach Leffke KJ4QLP report on those aspects of the
Phase 4 geostationary transponder project that they are allowed to discuss

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Sunspots vanish

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So far this year, the sun has been blank more than 90% of the time. Only
one very tiny sunspot observed for a few hours on Jan. 3rd interrupted a
string of spotless days from New Year's through Jan. 11th

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World Castles Award 8th birthday

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On January, 14th will be eight years sharp since the date of World Castles
Award Program foundation

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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