Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site for Saturday 16 June 2018
 

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Three balloons go up on Thursday

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:29 AM PDT
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Three high altitude balloon launches will take place from a site in
Welshpool on Thursday, 21 June 2018, conditions permitting. Starting
between 10.30 and 11.30am, the balloons will have a number of experiments
on board to look at various aspects of space flight. Involving a number of
schools in the north west, the launches are []

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70MHz experimental NoVs now easier

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:24 AM PDT
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Following agreement with Ofcom, the RSGB is pleased to announce that a new
much faster online process is now available for all Full Licensees to
access the 70.5-71.5MHz experimental band. Applications can now be made
online for a new, annually-renewable Notice of Variation. It works in a
similar way to the 146-147MHz NoV. This replaces []

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RBN adds FT8 spots

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:18 AM PDT
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The Reverse Beacon Network is beta-testing a separate Telnet feed for FT8
spots. You can find it at telnet.reversebeacon.net port 7001. This is in
addition to the existing feed on port 7000, which has been re-purposed as
CW-only. Also, Aggregator version five has been developed as a beta that
can handle FT8 spots received fromÂ*WSJT-X. []

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WRC-19 preparations underway

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:06 AM PDT
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Preparations for the next World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19)
have continued over the past few weeks with meetings at ITU in Geneva and
CEPT Project Team D in Estonia. Volunteers from IARU and member societies
have been engaged on two key agenda items of interest to amateur radio;
regarding a potential 50MHz allocation for Region []

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Upcoming satellite launches

Posted: 15 Jun 2018 07:05 AM PDT
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The Chinese amateur satellite organisation, CAMSAT, has released more
details about their satellites planned for launch later this year. CAS-5A
will carry two HF and two VHF-UHF transponders. CAS-6 will include a CW
telemetry beacon on VHF, a 20kHz wide UHF-VHF linear transponder and AX.25
4.8k baud GMSK telemetry. Meanwhile, two Russian CubeSats will be []