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Jul 04, 2009 - 03:23 PM  


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News: Solar Cycle 24 Prediction
Posted by: 19DX072 on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 07:13 AM
CB Radio This is what was predicted in December 2006:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/21dec_cycle24.htm


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News: New Alfa Tango Website needs HELP!!! http://www.26alfatango.co.uk
Posted by: 26at016 on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 03:23 PM
CB Radio Hi All

I am 26AT016 Paul and have been with the Alfa Tango family for 29 Years Now.

I have just started a website for the ever growing number of 26 Division Alfa Tango members who now renew to Italy instead of England. This site has no closed to visitor sections and all info is available without registering.

This website carries loads of history of the Alfa Tango 26 Division including Photos, DX events, Memorabillia and lots of up to date info including the recently added page devoted to the monitoring of Cycle 24.

However what i am trying to do is contact old Alfa Tango 26 division members who have any old photos or information for the site. We have a couple of years that have no info at all and you may be able to help.

Please visit the site and if you have no info at least sign the guestbook to show your support.

The site is at http://www.26alfatango.co.uk

Thanks for reading

Paul 26AT016

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News: Wireless Survivors
Posted by: fez on Monday, December 08, 2008 - 03:49 PM
Ham Radio "Characters in the recent BBC remake of Survivors seem curiously ill-informed about how the UK's communications infrastructure would deal with the collapse of civilisation, so in an attempt to ensure Reg readers are better-equipped we present a wireless guide to the apocalypse."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/28/wireless_survivors

A nice read, Just makes you think.

Remember KISS, Keep it simple stupid.

Source: The Register

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News: SPECIAL EVENT STATION - GB50NG
Posted by: dean_aberdare on Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 10:45 PM
Ham Radio Special Event station for Nos Galan Races...

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News: Scotch Tape (TM) the worlds most powerful tape ?
Posted by: kc on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 10:45 AM
Radio Humour In the 1950's the Russians knew that an ordinary roll of Scotch (TM) tape could be used to create X-rays?

Now Researchers at UCLA are looking at the the power that comes from peeling tape from a roll in a vacuum. And they have discovered that a mere piece of tape can produce an enormous amount of power, which came as a big surprise to them.
In an article being published in the Journal Nature, researchers are suggesting that the finding could lead to the production of inexpensive and easy-to-use equipment that could be used by paramedics on accident scenes or for places where electricity is not available.

Full story & source Wireless Institute of Australia & Geek News Central via Sothgate ARC.

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News: Propagation Service Center renewed
Posted by: 19DX072 on Friday, November 21, 2008 - 09:18 AM
CB Radio Some of you might have seen [PSC] Propagation Service Center, a website dedicated to forecasting 11m propagation and solar activity. The website offers live conditions, short term and long term propagation forecasts, as well as a discussion forum and a propagation tutorial.


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News: "Daventry Calling The World" now online
Posted by: kc on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:59 AM
Broadcast 'Daventry Calling The World' now online
The book Daventry Calling The World is now available on the BBC Engineering website as a PDF download.

The description at http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-world.htm says
"In 1998 Norman Tomalin published his book Daventry Calling The World and in 2008 he very kindly agreed that it may be published on this web site.

This book is a very good historical record and it is the result of a great deal of work by Norman. It complements Don Bowman's reminiscences about Daventry and it is well worth reading both."

Download the PDF from
http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf

Thanks to Mike Barraclough for spotting this.
Taken from Sothgate ARC's news page

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News: New lifeline for Bletchley Park
Posted by: kc on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:58 AM
Radio News Britain's code-cracking and computing heritage has won a lifeline in the form of a donation from English Heritage.

BBC News report that the grant of £330,000 will be used to undertake urgent roof works at Bletchley Park - where Allied codebreakers worked in World War II.

Discussions are also in progress on a further three-year, £600,000 funding programme for the historic site.

Read the full BBC story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7710966.stm

Source Southgate ARC's news page

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News: 4 hams on Next Shuttle Mission
Posted by: kc on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:57 AM
Ham Radio With two weeks to go before launch, the astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour are keeping up a thorough training schedule for the 15-day mission.

The busy flight to the ISS includes four spacewalks and the transfer and set-up of more than seven tons of equipment and supplies inside the orbiting laboratory.
Endeavour?s main payload is a space-age moving van called Leonardo that is stuffed with new crew quarters and the other equipment needed to enlarge the station?s resident crew to six members. The equipment includes a filtering system designed to filter wastewater to make it potable.

Commander Chris Ferguson and his six crewmates, of whom four are licenced radio hams, are scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station at 7:55 p.m. EST on Nov. 14.

Ferguson will be joined on STS-126 by Pilot Eric Boe and Mission Specialists Donald Pettit, KD5MDT, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, KD5TVR, Shane Kimbrough, KE5HOD and Sandra Magnus, KE5FYE. Magnus will replace space station crew member Greg Chamitoff, KD5PKZ, who has been aboard the station for more than five months.

She will return to Earth during the next shuttle mission,
STS-119, targeted to launch in February 2009.
Source Southgate ARC

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News: Appointment with Ofcom
Posted by: TheGovernor on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 02:17 PM
Ham Radio Appointment with Ofcom very soon to discuss issues regarding abuse on the amateur bands and repeaters. Ofcom need to address this, rather than ignore. Ofcom have a responsibility it is the independent regulator and competition authority for communication and have been undersigned by the Secretary of State to enforce the Wireless Telegraphy Act. If there are any issue that you would like us to raise, then please send your comments to us and we will submit these, on your behalf. We will let you know the outcome of the pending meeting in due course.


The Wireless Telegraphy Act!

Abuse of radio comes in several forms on amateur radio. However, most of it is designed either to deny access to the spectrum or to offend and annoy by causing deliberate interference, using offensive language, playing music, pirating call signs, keying out other users etc. On the amateur service, abuse is most commonly aimed at open access facilities such as voice repeater so as to cause a nuisance to the maximum number of people and attract attention. Less common, but just as serious, is the abuser who targets individual operators or specific radio services.

The Wireless Telegraphy (Content of Transmission) Regulations 1988 makes it an offence to send a message, communication or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an obscene or menacing character. In considering such cases, it is important to remember that the courts need evidence that the language used in the alleged offence is worse than that encountered in everyday life.

Look forward to your support with the Petition to Mr Gordon Brown at number 10 to get his Government to enforce the Wireless Telegraphy Act and stop abuse on the amateur bands, especially repeaters.

Visit www.gb3ok.com/homepage for more details........




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