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Foundations of Amateur Radio

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The art of storing information in such a way that it doesn't devolve into random gibberish is an ongoing battle in the evolution of the human race. Egyptians five thousand years ago were perfectly happy storing information using hieroglyphs. They used it for well over three thousand years, but
today you'd be hard pressed bumping into anyone on the street who knows
one, let alone one thousand characters

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2x1 Contest Callsigns for VK

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The hard work performed by a sub committee of active contesters, led by The Radio Society of Australia (RASA) has finally been realised with the announcement from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
on the release date for the new 2x1 Contest Callsigns

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Amateur non-assigned licence tenure

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As a result of recent amendments to the Radiocommunications Act 1992, Australia's ACMA now has discretion to issue apparatus licences for a term
of up to 20 years

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ARISS contact is scheduled for students at Mary Hare School (for the deaf), Newbury, UK

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This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students at the
Mary Hare School, Newbury, UK and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, amateur radio
call sign KG5GNP. Amateur radio operators in Newbury using the GB4MHN call
sign will operate the ham radio ground station for this contact

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ACMA approve issue of 2x1 ham radio call signs

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Australia's ACMA recently conducted a survey seeking the views of the
amateur radio community on allocation arrangements for 2x1 callsigns

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BBC TV archive clip of 1949 ham radio contact

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On October 6, 2021, the BBC Archive shared a clip of a news item about a
radio amateur's reception of BBC TV pictures in Cape Town, South Africa in 1949, it includes an on-air contact

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Svalbard: JW6VDA will be on FT8/FT4

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Between October 12 and November 1 Tom OH6VDA/LA6VDA will be active as
JW6VDA in Longyearbyen (JQ78tf) on Spitsbergen (EU-026)

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VK6WIA NewsWest

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NewsWest for Sunday 10th October 2021 is the Contesting edition, and as
well as looking at contests coming up, there’s an analysis of the recently released Remembrance Day Contest results on how we in Western Australia
fared, and how we went about it

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WIA Board comment

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This is WIA President Scott Williams, VK3KJ and wherever you are in
Australia or in fact overseas, I hope this announcement finds you safe and
well in these very challenging times

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Digital Mobile Radio

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DMR is Digital Mobile Radio, a fantastic World Wide Amateur Radio version
of RF technology

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Propagation de K7RA

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Sunspots were visible every day this week, but numbers were lower. Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 58.4 to 30.7, and average daily solar
flux was down 2.9 points to 86.9

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