Southgate Amateur Radio News for Thursday 7 June 2018
 

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Radio ham astronaut named as Minister for Science

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Radio amateur and astronaut Pedro Duque KC5RGG / ED4ISS has been named as
Minister of Science in the new Spanish Government

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Early start for 434 MHz balloon launch

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Students at Enfield County School will be up early on Saturday, June 9 -
their high altitude balloon transmitting on 434.314 MHz launches at 03:30
GMT (04:30 BST)

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Homebrew SSB transceiver

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Al Williams WD5GNR writes on Hackaday about the videos by Charlie Morris
ZL2CTM showing the design and construction of an amateur radio SDR SSB
transceiver

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Tony's 10m Band Report

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Best of the DX, EH1EH (Spain), FY5KE (French Guiana, YB725SBY (Indonesia),
AO18FWC (Spanish World Cup). There was quite a lot of DX about with Friday
and Saturday needing 4 contacts to get into the list

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HEMA Activity Day

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HEMA, the Humps Excluding Marilyns Award, is a programme similar to SOTA
which involves chasing and activating summit

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FCC proposes $2.8 million fine against manufacturer

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The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to come down hard on a
manufacturer whose devices could potentially transmit without authorization
in certain radio frequency bands

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MSF Outage 14 June 2018

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The MSF 60 kHz time and frequency signal broadcast from Anthorn Radio
Station will be shut down on Thursday 14 June from 10:00 to 14:00 BST

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Update your Amateur Radio library and support YOTA 2018

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By purchasing a book from the SA Amateur Radio Development Trust online
bookstore, you will support YOTA 2018 when 80 young radio amateurs from 34
countries converge on South Africa in August this year