An international team of operators will be active as 7O6T from Socotra Island (AS-028) very soon (within a week) and through May
17th.
The team has obtained the license and is enroute to Sanaa.
They
plan to have six stations on the air (5x Elecraft K3 and Kenwood TS-590).
Activity will be on 160-10 meters using...
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Archive for April, 2012
We Are Makers
MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites.
The brief DIY satellite segment, with a picture of the Amateur Radio satellite OSCAR-7 starts 10:00 minutes into the video.
Watch Dale Dougherty: We are makers
London Hackspace work on HackSat1http://www.uk.amsat.org/2482
2E0HTS...
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Student CubeSat First-MOVE – Vacuum Test Video
First-MOVE is an amateur radio CubeSat being built by students at the Technical University of München.
MOVE stands for München Orbital Verification Experiment.
The 1U CubeSat carries a CCD camera and has two deployable solar panels carrying a new generation of solar cell – triple junction GaAs / Ge.
The transceiver, supplied by ISIS, uses a UHF uplink and VHF...
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7O6T Yemen DXpedition to Get Underway Today
04/30/2012
The Daily DX is reporting that the 7O6T Yemen DXpedition will start 2100 UTC Monday, April 30 and will continue through 2100 UTC May 15. Yemen currently sits at #5 on DX Magazine’s most wanted list, behind North Korea, Navassa, Bouvet and Heard Island. The ARRL DXCC Desk will review the 7O6T DXpedition’s documentation before granting approval for the operation...
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Radio: KFI, KHJ shared frequency in early days (California)
Radio historian Jim Hilliker sent some new material after last week’s column regarding the 90th birthday of KHJ (930 AM) and KFI (640 AM). It appears there is some documentation of KFI’s first broadcast after all.
The Los Angeles Times ran a story in the April 15, 1922, edition that centered mainly on the Times-owned KHJ and its first broadcast – complete with...
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Ham radio operators prepare for the Big One (Massachusetts)
More than four years after the Great Coastal Gale of 2007, and in the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, Lee and a small cadre of amateur radio junkies are preparing for the worst and having a great time doing it.
With concerns growing over the dangers posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where shifting tectonic plates pose the risk of creating huge earthquakes...
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Kites Fly On Cold Day In Wellsburg (West Virginia)
WELLSBURG – Vanessa Clark and her grandson Christopher Sommerville got the chance to experience something together for the first time on Saturday – flying a kite.
Both Bellaire residents, Clark and her grandson were among the dozens of people who traveled to Brooke Hills Park, Wellsburg, to fly kites during the seventh annual West Virginia Kite Festival. Organizer...
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Raymond Steliga, 91
RINGWOOD – Services were held for Raymond Steliga, 91, of Oakland, who died on Saturday, April 21, 2012. He was the father of Laurie Steliga of this community.
Born in Elizabeth, Mr. Steliga lived in Oakland for more than 50 years. He was a co-owner and co-operator of Imperial Home Builders. Also, he was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. A ham radio operator known as KA2HQK,...
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Whistle-like signal in Amateur Radio 40m band
OZ9AEC has found a strange signal in the 7 MHz band using his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle with an HF up-converter.
A strange whistle-like signal received on the 40 meter band using Gqrx software defined radio receiver and a Funcube Dongle equipped with a shortwave converter. The signal appears to be amplitude modulated with suppressed lower side band ( just like UVB-76 )
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Inventor who was making of Chelmsford celebrated
HUNDREDS of people turned out to see a genuine Titanic-type radio room and witness how life-saving messages are beamed round the globe to mark 100 years since the disaster.
Almost 500 people went to the International Marconi Day celebrations at Chelmsford council’s industry museum, Sandford Mill, on Saturday.
loud and clear: Sisters Chloe and...
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