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Foundations of Amateur Radio #156

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The Internet of Digital Radio - The topic of how radio evolves and embraces
available technology is one that describes the hobby itself. From spark-gap
through AM, SSB and FM our community picked up or invented solutions to
make communication possible

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School STEM projects use Amateur Radio

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An Amateur Radio-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) initiative at an Arizona elementary school culminated on May 22, as
youngsters competitively deployed their own radio-controlled rovers to
explore a simulated planet set up in the Sonoran Desert

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Receive CubeSat signals for just $25

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Eric Evenchick VA3EVK writes on Hackaday about the low-cost approach to
CubeSat reception used by Thomas Cholakov N1SPY

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All Hands On Deck...

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This weekend you don't need to 'go down to the sea in ships' to participate
in a fun 'world wide event.'

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Back to homebrew

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Banbury Amateur Radio Society (BARS) has started a program to boost
homebrew. This is in two parts, understanding components and practical
understanding and building radio equipment

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Russian CubeSats to be deployed during spacewalk

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It is planned that two Russian CubeSats will be deployed from the
International Space Station in August during a spacewalk (EVA)

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Summer rover announcement

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Robert, KE4AL writes on the Amsat BB: As part of my plans to activate 43
grids this Summer, I will be operating from EN37 26-31 July, holiday style

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NASA selects mission to study solar wind boundary of outer solar system

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NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will
sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of
interstellar space

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BBC Radio 4 - The Bottom Line

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Will 5G revolutionise our lives? The next generation of mobile technology -
5G - will be rolled out from 2019. It will enable faster streaming on our
mobile phones and tablets and speed up the 'internet of things', allowing
thousands of computers to 'talk' to each other

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F-TROOP

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In last week's WIA News, we told you of probably VK's first Foundation
Members net using the catchy moniker 'F-TROOP.' Now from the west wing
comes news of VK's longest RUNNING 'new comers net.'

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Propagation de K7RA

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On May 30 at 0005 UTC the Australian Space Forecast Centre issued a
warning: "On 1 June geomagnetic activity is expected to increase to
Active and Minor Storm levels due to arrival of the co-rotating interaction
region and high-speed solar wind streams associated with the recurrent
trans-equatorial coronal hole."