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Tony's 10m Band Report

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Locally GB100RAF is on air on any band that is open until next Sunday. I
did a rather poor FT8 few hours on Tuesday. The current version of FT8 does
not like the long callsign. New versions will soon be available. On FT8 I
am using G1RAF, I’m on Thursday so listen out Things have been lean again

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IARU-R1 Vienna Interim Meeting 2019

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The 2019 Interim Meeting of IARU Region 1 will be held in the Intercity
Hotel in Vienna Austria April 27-28

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Students use ham radio to talk to astronaut

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WWLP TV News reports Pathfinder Tech students contacted astronauts aboard
International Space Station using amateur radio

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Delcastle Technical School in Wilmington, Delaware US use G0KSC LFA Yagi to
contact ISS

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On 24 th October, Delcastle Technical Scholl in Wilmington, Delaware USA,
used a G0KSC LFA Yagi to make contact with the ISS.

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IARU-R1 VHF Handbook now available

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IARU Region 1 has made available version 8.12 of the VHF Handbook as a free
PDF. At the IARU-R1 interim meeting in Vienna 2016 it was agreed to
reorganise the VHF Handbook to make it more readable for all interested
users

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Ofcom to advertise Channel Islands DAB multiplex

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Ofcom is to advertise a new local radio digital multiplex licence for the
Channel Isles in the first quarter of 2019

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Nevada Open Day

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Nevada, in partnership with Waters and Stanton, are having their first
ever, combined open day, on Sunday 18th November from 10am to 4pm.
We will be opening up our huge warehouse to customers with a display of
used and vintage radios equipment, plus pallets full of clearance items at
silly prices

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Europes third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit

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The third MetOp satellite, MetOp-C, has been launched on a Soyuz rocket
from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to continue the provision of data
for weather forecasting from polar orbit

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Barbados op

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Operators Sigi DL7DF, Manfred DK1BT (and YL Gerlinde), Wolf DL4WK, Annette
DL6SAK, Reiner DL7KL, Frank DL7UFR and Jan SP3CYY will be active as 8P9AE
from Barbados between November 6-20th

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IOTA news from the DARC

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Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club