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Foundations of Amateur Radio

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Introduction to the terms of contesting - One of my favourite activities is contesting. Essentially it's a time-limited activation of your station for
the purposes of testing your skill and station against other participants. Contests are controlled by rules as varied as the amateur community itself

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The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo is here

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The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo is here, live today, March 12-13, and then on-demand for 30 days afterwards. Join thousands of fellow operators to
improve your knowledge, network, and get exposed to new ideas, equipment,
and practical techniques. No need to spend a dime on travel - participate
from your home or office!

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Grassroots effort uses shortwave radio to broadcast VOA in Ukraine, Russia

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A grassroots funding effort is underway to raise money to transmit Voice of America programming into Eastern Europe through shortwave radio, a more
dated form of technology that can circumvent Russia's crackdown on tech companies

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Raspberry Pi based DDS-VFO for Drake 4-Line

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Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday about a Raspberry Pi-based DDS-VFO project for a vintage Drake 4-Line station

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Link FM fined for inciting violence and offensive content

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Ofcom has today imposed a financial penalty of £2,000 on The Pakistan
Muslim Centre (Sheffield) Limited after our investigation found that its community radio station, Link FM 96.7, broke our broadcasting rules

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VK6WIA NewsWest

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NewsWest for Sunday 13th March 2022 is the Contesting edition, and we give
you quite a serving of next weekend’s John Moyle Memorial Field Day, and we talk about some of the things that make contesting work better for you

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Register now for free Foundation Online amateur radio training course

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The next free amateur radio Foundation Online training course run by
volunteers from Essex Ham starts on March 20 - Register Now

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A CME is heading for Earth

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Earlier today the sun launched a full halo CME into space

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Boat anchor twins get a little digital help staying on frequency

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In the ham radio trade, gear such as the old Drake units [Dr. Scott M.
Baker] has in his radio shack are often referred to as 'boat anchors'. It refers to big, heavy radios that were perhaps a bit over engineered
compared to the state of the art at the time they were designed

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Propagation de K7RA

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On March 11 at 0431 UTC Australia's Space Forecast Centre issued this
warning

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