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QSO Today with Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR from FlexRadio

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Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR, is the founder and CEO of FlexRadio that is now
on the cutting edge of building advanced software defined radio (SDR)
platforms for amateur radio, as well as for government, business, and the
military. Gerald is a leader and pioneer in the development of SDR leading
to the founding of FlexRadio

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CME to sideswipe Earth this week

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Over the weekend, a dark filament of magnetism on the sun blew up, hurling
a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. NOAA computer models confirm that
the CME should sideswipe Earth on Feb. 23rd or 24th

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One Megawatt of Peak AM Power - Saving the Voice of America Delano Relay
DL-8

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In 2007, the Voice of America ceased operations at the Delano Relay site in
Central California. The site is destined to be bulldozed along with several
relics of Collins Radio Company's Broadcast Communications Division

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Curacao

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Operators Dan/N1ZZ, Don/AF4Z, Walter/WB5ZGA and Vince/K4JC, will be active
as PJ2T from Curacao (SA-099, WLOTA 0942) in the ARRL DX SSB Contest (March
6-7th) as a Multi/? entry

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Austria special event

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The Cornish Radio Amateur Club's official International Marconi Day (IMD)
Award program was canceled due to the Corona virus situation

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What is Ronja?

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Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) is an User Controlled
Technology (like Free Software) project of optical point-to-point data
link. The device has 1.4km range and has stable 10Mbps full duplex data rate

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Willis Island DXpedition news

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Members of Hellenic Amateur Radio Association of Australia (HARAOA) have
announced their dates for the Willis Island (VK9/W) [OC-007] DXpedition

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Mauritius first satellite, MIR-SAT1, handed over to JAXA for deployment

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Mauritius was the winner of the 3rd round UNOOSA/JAXA KiboCube Programme in
2018, whereby Mauritius was awarded (by JAXA) the opportunity to build and
deploy, for the first time in its history, a 1U Cube Satellite through the
International Space Station (ISS)