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Foundations of Amateur Radio

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So, you want to be an amateur?
The other day I stumbled on a social media post titled "So, you want to be
an astronomer..." by /u/Andromeda321 on reddit. Look it up if you're
interested how she puts together the prerequisites from her perspective as
an astronomer

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HRN 420: FCC allows remote testing!?!

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Norm Goodkin K6YXH visits with David W0DHG and talks about getting up and
running to do remote testing for Amateur Radio Licenses

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Denby Dale amateur radio club goes to Zoom

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Denby Dale continues its succesful club meetings over Zoom. We have been
holding weekly meetings with great sucess and speakers from outside the club

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WIA Future of Amateur Radio program

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Adrian VK4APM, Vice President of Australia's national amateur radio society
WIA, reports on the "fantastic" response to the WIA Future of Amateur Radio
program

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Amateur radio E-Book prices to fall

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The BBC reports the price of e-books in online stores is being cut
immediately after the UK Government brought forward plans to scrap 20% VAT
on online publications

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VK6WIA NewsWest

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NewsWest for Sunday third of May 2020 is the Amateur Radio history edition

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Special event callsign VI20SH

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The Radio Amateur Society of Australia have been issued with the special
event callsign VI20SH (stay home)

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IARU report May RadCom freely available to read online

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The IARU Secretary Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, reports that in response to the
Coronavirus outbreak the RSGB is making the May edition of RadCom freely
available to view on the web

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Reflected tsunamis mimic space weather

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New research just published in the journal Space Weather shows that
earthquakes and tsunamis can affect our planet's ionosphere as much as
powerful X-class solar flares do, causing GPS receivers to completely lose
lock

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Propagation de K7RA

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There were several sunspot appearances this week. Sunspot numbers on April
25 to 29 were 11, 14, 12, 0 and 24, giving a weekly average of 8.7. Average
daily solar flux changed from 69 to 69.2