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Foundations of Amateur Radio

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Soldering Irons and Software - The activity of amateur radio revolves
around experimentation. For over a century the amateur community has
designed, sourced, scrounged and built experiments. Big or small, working
or not, each of these is an expression of creativity, problem solving and
experimentation

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RAC Canada Day Contest: Celebrate Canada's Birthday on the air!

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The global pandemic continues and we want to make sure that all
participants in the RAC Canada Day Contest on Thursday, July 1 help us to
celebrate Canada's birthday safely

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Wooden satellite expected to launch end 2021

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The ARRL reports the WISA Woodsat project, being sponsored by plywood
supplier WISA in an unconventional PR initiative, is poised to place a
wooden satellite into orbit by the end of the year

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RCI English section: goodbye

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Canada's international broadcast service from the English language team of
Radio Canada International has come to an end. RCI, (originally the
International Service, CBC-IS) was initially created towards the end of the
Second World War

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Another satellite constellation prepares for launch, this one aimed at
next-gen connectivity for IoT devices

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Not keen on a 5G mast in your street? At least it'd be harder for crackpots
to burn down 'a flying cell tower in orbit'

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Military Radio and the SAS

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BAREC, Bendigo Amateur Radio and Electronics Club are holding their May
meeting - 'Military Radio and the SAS' with John Trist VK2MOP. John served
as an SAS patrol signaller and instructor and will provide a very
informative presentation on military radio

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China's Mars rover touches down on the red planet

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China's space program took a major leap today when it successfully landed
the Zhurong rover on Mars, marking the country’s first landing on another
planet. Teams will now prepare to roll the rover off its landing platform
and onto the dusty Martian surface to begin a mission to search for
evidence of water and hints of past life