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Foundations of Amateur Radio

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/foundations-of-amateur-radio-21-05-2022.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The other day I was woken by the sound of a thunderclap. It was shockingly
loud and came out of the blue. A few moments later, it happened again. I exploded out of bed, rushed to the shack, disconnected the beacon power and switched the antenna coax to 'safe'

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QSO Today Bruce Prior, N7RR

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/qso-today-bruce-prior-n7rr.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Bruce Prior, N7RR, loves to operate SOTA in Washington State’s great
outdoors where he has cataloged for SOTA all of the available mountain
peaks in the state

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RSGB Jubilee activities

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/rsgb-jubilee-activities.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

It isn’t long now until the RSGB’s Platinum Jubilee activities kick off

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Radio hams mill about at John O'Groats

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The John O'Groat Journal reports members of the Caithness Amateur Radio
Society (CARS) took part in a contact event May 7-8 in the British
mainland's most northerly mill at John O'Groats

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VK6WIA NewsWest

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/newswest-21-may.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

NewsWest for Sunday 22nd May 2022 is the New Amateurs edition, where we
welcome newcomers to the hobby, and lean our stories towards informing
newbies and those who appreciate the occasional reminder

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RSGB Commonwealth Games activities

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/rsgb-commonwealth-games-activities.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

The Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham later this summer. It
will see around 4,500 athletes from 72 nations and territories, compete in
19 sports across 14 competition venues

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Hackaday: RIP John Birkett, Part vendor extraordinaire

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/hackaday-rip-john-birkett-part-vendor-extraordinaire.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Jenny List G7CKF writes on Hackaday about John Birkett G8OPP who passed
away on April 30 aged 93

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Technology neutral licences for phone companies

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2022/may/technology-neutral-licences-for-phone-companies.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Ofcom and the RSGB developed the successful technology neutral amateur
radio licence in 2006. Now Ofcom is proposing making mobile phone company licences technology neutral

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Keplerian data

Posted: http://www.southgatearc.org/keps/keplerian-data.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Special thanks to Space-Track.org for the following Keplerian data

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RSGB review of 2021

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The RSGB has published a review of 2021 on its website and have released on YouTube a standalone version of the RSGB President’s AGM review

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Propagation de K7RA

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Solar activity was up, up, up this week, with average daily sunspot numbers increasing from 74.4 to 134.1, and average daily solar flux from 120.3 to
157.3

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