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HF OTH Radar transmissions too numerous to count

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The IARU Region 1 Monitoring System newsletter reports in March the
ubiquitous Over The Horizon Radars made up about 60% of all interference
observations, 'one cannot even count them anymore'

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Updated Radio Frequency Exposure Rules become effective on May 3

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The Amateur Service is no longer categorically excluded from certain
aspects of the rules, as amended, and licensees can no longer avoid
performing an exposure assessment simply because they are transmitting
below a given power level

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Madison DX Club presentation on Lightning Protection

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Bob, W9EWZ, President of Madison DX Club,says: Please join us and our
special guest speaker for the Madison DX Club program for Tuesday, April
13th. All are welcome

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Sable Island CY0C DXpedition

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Murray, WA4DAN, sent out the following on April 10th: The Sable Island CY0C
DXpedition team was informed this week by the Parks Canada-Sable Island
manager that our scheduled October 2021 Sable DXpedition would have to be
postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic

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Belgian special prefix

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The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) has
announced that all Belgian radio amateurs and Belgian radio clubs may
replace the normal prefix 'ON' in their call-sign by the special prefix OS
during the period between April 18, 2021, to December 12, 2021

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MicroHAMS Digital Conference 2021

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The MicroHAMS Digital conference 2021 taking place Saturday, April 24, will
be streamed to the web

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National Shortwave Listeners Club

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The inaugural weekly meeting of the newly formed National Shortwave
Listeners Club was held on the Zoom platform last Sunday evening and
attracted 60 attendees

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IOTA news from OPDX

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Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW

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DXCC Country/Entity Report

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According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 4th
April, through Sunday, 11th April there were 212 countries active