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Ham radio licensing issues in South Africa

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The SARL interacted this week with a senior councillor of ICASA and
expressed the League’s concern about the complicated license renewal
process, long delays, and in many instances unfamiliar terminology used in
the process leading to applications being rejected

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Ham radio exams to resume in the Netherlands

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VERON has announced that the first amateur radio exam to be held in 4
months will take place on March 17

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QSO Today - Steve Hicks - N5AC

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FlexRadio is the Platinum Sponsor at the next QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo. I
wanted to bring back an interview that I had with Steve Hicks, N5AC, VP of
Engineering at FlexRadio. Steve will be a speaker at the Expo

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Malaysian radio hams in newspaper

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The Star reports on the public service work carried out by members of the
Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitters' Society

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Bitcoin transfer via ham radio

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A Bitcoin article describes how Rodolfo Novak VE3NAK and Sam Patterson
KE8KRX used amateur radio to transfer Bitcoin using JS8call on 7.077 MHz

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QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo

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It's almost 'show time' as the 2nd QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will go live
next Friday evening 1800 PDT. I hope that you will come

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Two YouTube channels - one common purpose

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Using the power of simultaneous Livestream on both their YouTube channels,
two amateur radio operators are raising public awareness on behalf of a
Detroit area ham who has been diagnosed with end-stage renal failure

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Monster antenna system

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Here's a video of an extraordinary antenna. ZL3SV uses a 2x320mtr Dipole

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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

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Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be
at low levels. There are two sunspot regions with simple magnetic
configurations visible. No solar flaring is expected