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Tony's 10m Band Report

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/bands/10metres/2022/february/february-09.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Top DX of the restricted data set was probably VK9DX (Norfolk Is), FY5KE (French Guiana), Z22O (Zimbabwe) and TU5PCT (Ivory Coast) but there really
was a tremendous amount more

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Platinum Jubilee NoV now available

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/platinum-jubilee-nov-now-available.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The RSGB has published the Notice of Variation (NoV) that will enable radio amateurs licensed by Ofcom to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty
The Queen by using the special RSL ‘Q’

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Radio Emma Toc - celebrating wireless station 2MT - at 100!

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/radio-emma-toc.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

I'm pleased to let you know that I will be broadcasting another video
stream this coming Monday, 14th February, with the theme of celebrating wireless station 2MT

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Geomagnetic storm brings down Starlink satellites

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/geomagnetic-storm-brings-down-starlink-satellites.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

As many as 40 Starlink satellites are currently falling out of the sky--the surprising result of a minor geomagnetic storm last week

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APRS developer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, SK

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/aprs-developer-bob-bruninga-wb4apr-sk.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The creator of the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS), Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, died on February 7. An ARRL Life Member, Bruninga was 73

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RSGB releases Nominations Committee minutes

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/rsgb-releases-nominations-committee-minutes.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The RSGB has now released the minutes for the January 2021 and December
2021 Nominations Committee meetings, prior to this no minutes had been
released since 2018

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Tom and Jimmy slay the dragon - again!

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/tom-and-jimmy-slay-the-dragon-again.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

In May 2021, father-and-son SOTA activators Tom Read M1EYP and Jimmy Read
M0HGY (the G SOTA Association Manager), completed activating every SOTA
summit in Wales - or so they thought!

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Detection of the 8.4 GHz signal from Voyager 1

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/detection-of-the-8-4-ghz-signal-from-voyager-1.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The video of the Voyager 1 presentation given by radio amateur Daniel
Estévez M0HXM / EA4GPZ at the Fosdem 2022 event is now available

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Beijing Winter Olympics special event ham radio station

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/beijing-winter-olympics-special-event-ham-radio-station.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The national amateur radio society CRAC reports special event station BY1CRA/WO22 is now active on FT8, SSB and CW and will operate until the
games close

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WRTH 2022 B21 updates

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/wrth-2022-b21-updates.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

A pdf of updates to the B21 schedules in the International section of WRTH
2022 is now available free of charge

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Ofcom: The future of mobile markets and spectrum

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/ofcom-the-future-of-mobile-markets-and-spectrum.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Ofcom has set out their initial thinking on how UK mobile markets might
develop and how networks may need to evolve to meet future demand. They
have also set out how they might adapt their approach accordingly

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A radio ham for 67 years

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/a-radio-ham-for%2067-years.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

KTUU TV News interviews John Bury KL7QZ about his 67 years as a amateur
radio operator

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The future is knocking

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/the-future-is-knocking.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Michael Wehnert OZ5WU, of the National Executive Committee of Denmark's
IARU member society the EDR, has written an article 'The future is knocking'

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EURAO individual members by country in 2021

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/eurao-individual-members-by-country.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Once the 2021 financial year has been closed and the draft financial report prepared, today we want to highlight an interesting aspect of that report:
from which countries do the individual members of EURAO come?

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IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/iota/darc/index.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur
Radio Club

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