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IOTA news from the DARC
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Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
04/09/2020
SRAL - The Finnish Amateur Radio League
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In the world-wide amateur radio community, social distancing is not an issue. The ham radio network operates by radio waves with signals flying high and wide, across all borders near and far
04/09/2020
Special event callsign VI2020STAYHOME
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The Radio Amateur Society of Australia have been issued with the distinctive special event callsign VI2020STAYHOME
The Space Weather Woman
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New Bright Signs of Cycle 25 | Solar Storm Forecast - The latest space weather forecast from Dr Tamitha Skov WX6SWW
04/09/2020
Minute by Minute - Norwegian TV
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In the summer of 2011, NRK (Norway’s equivalent of the BBC) set a Guinness World Record. They broadcast live, continuously, minute-by-minute from 11 cameras set up on MS Nordnorge during a Classic Voyage North
Coronavirus: On-line knowledge sharing
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Don Beattie G3BJ reports on the IARU Region 1 site that Member Societies ARA (Algeria) and ARAT (Tunisia) have started this week a series of online knowledge sharing sessions for their members and the public
04/09/2020
Special Calls OH*PYSYKOTONA and OH*STAYHOME in Finland
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Finnish radio spectrum management, TRAFICOM, has authorized Lahden Radioamatoorikerho ry, OH3AC; to use ten ' OH*PYSYKOTONA' special calls 4.4.2020-3.7.2020
04/09/2020
Coronavirus: International understanding and help
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Germany's DARC reports in 2018 and 2019, Reinhard Kühn, DK5LA, supported the Harbin Institute of Technology in China with the EME system for the Chinese Longjiang 2 moon mission
04/09/2020
Centenarian radio amateur on BBC Radio Solent
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Bill Sykes G2HCG from Milford-on-sea celebrated his 100th birthday on April 8 and was featured on BBC Radio Solent
04/09/2020
Latin America and Carribean Contest on HamSphere 4.0
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Welcome to our first HamSphere 4.0 Latin America and Caribbeans contest. You can work with everyone for distances points, but our Latin American and Caribbean friends will give you 10 extra points for each valid QSO and multipliers for their countries. Beam you antennas to South America and Caribbeans
WIA Board elections
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Mr John Marshall, the returning officer of the Wireless Institute of Australia, has declared that in accordance with The WIA Constitution, Clause 14.1c and the Regulations (as amended November 2017) nominations were called for three positions which will be vacated in 2020
COVID-19 and radio amateurs in IARU Region 2
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After the COVID-19 pandemic began, up to April 2, 2020 the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has reported 247,473 confirmed cases and 5,600 deaths in America
04/09/2020
Historic first trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz
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On Tuesday the 7th of April 2020, a remarkable contact was made on the FT8 digital mode on the 432 MHz band between D4VHF on the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa and FG8OJ in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean
04/09/2020
Tony's 10m Band Report
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Not a great week but Sunday conditions really came to the front. We had great weather in the UK and a lot of folk were in their own gardens keeping warm but safe and some, including me, fired up the barbeque. TI2CC (Cost Rica), ZW60DF (Brazil special), HP1ELV (Panama) and J68HZ were all very popular
04/09/2020
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