Southgate Amateur Radio News for Friday 24 February 2017
 

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ARISS opens window for proposals to host contacts with space station crew

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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is
seeking proposals from schools and formal or informal educational
institutions and organizations - individually or working in concert - to
host Amateur Radio contacts next year with ISS crew members

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Ofcom ending ham radio monthly statistics?

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Ofcom has not provided any monthly amateur licence statistics since the
first week in November

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Assembling the BITX-40

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Dave Casler KE0OG has released a new video about building the popular
BITX-40 7 MHz SSB QRP transceiver kit

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ARISS contact re-scheduled for two schools in France

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As announced in the preceding bulletin, an International Space Station
contact has been planned for astronaut Thomas Pesquet FX0ISS with Ecole
primaire Elie Desplan, Boissières, France and Marie Castang, Saint Dionisy,
France

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Radio ham remembered in West Donegal

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The Donegal Democrat newspaper reports on plans to remember radio amateur
Manus McClafferty EI7EQ who provided a link to Mir Space Station during the
collapse of the Soviet Union

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Disney Research demonstrates open-air wireless charging

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Disney Research has invented a new method of wirelessly charging mobile
devices that could someday allow amusement park patrons to walk about
freely while also getting their mobile devices charged

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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