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Ham radio satellite transmits message

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A message by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai,
is being beamed across the world from space as the first to be transmitted
by the UAE’s Nayif-1 satellite

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University of Fairbanks HAARP ionospheric heating - and the Luxembourg
effect

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Over a series of days this week, research scientists re-led by UAFs Chris
Fallen KL3WX, activated the multi MeggaWatt HAARP HF transmitters at Gakona
Alaska and conducted a series of experiments using ionospheric heating,
focussing the huge RF power and harnessing the non linear nature of the
ionosphere at typically just less that the critical vertical maximum
frequency

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How to use Data Modes: Fldigi video

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This training video shows Fldigi's User Interface and basic Transmit and
Receive operations

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New Section Manager appointed in West Virginia

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Dan Ringer, K8WV, will become West Virginia's Section Manager starting on
March 1. He has been appointed to succeed Phillip Groves, N8SFO, who is
stepping down for personal reasons after serving since July 2015

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OSCAR number EO-88 for Nayif-1

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I hereby by the authority vested in me by the AMSAT-NA president, do convey
on Nayif-1 the designation Emirates Oscar 88 or EO-88

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'Ring of Fire' solar eclipse on Feb. 26th

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Something strange is about to happen to sunbeams in the southern hemisphere