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Saturday, December 26, 2015

News for Saturday 26 December

10-year commemoration of historic callsign G4ZU
 Christmas Day 2015 marked a ten year commemoration of the historic callsign G4ZU
 
 Gordon ‘Dick’ Bird G4ZU was responsible for the design of popular antennas such as the G4ZU Super MiniBeam and the ‘Birdcage’. 
 Dick passed away in 2005, and the callsign G4ZU was activated for the first time in ten years by Dick’s descendants ANZAC Gallipoli Centenary callsigns end
 What a respectful conclusion reached by the ANZAC-suffixed callsigns on December 20 — the day in 1915 that ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corp) left Gallipoli Tail slate for Marnach
 On 1 January 2016, the medium-wave transmitter site will finally close its doors after almost 60 years in operation, during which it gave generations of listeners their first taste of rock and pop and an opportunity to explore these new genres of music Real-time band conditions website
 The purpose of this experimental Web site is to provide 24–7–365 actual (REALTIME) band condition information to CW QRPp, QRPe and CW/SSB for Contesters interested in increasing their scores High-tech sneakers with High Definition displays
 Just when you thought you’d seen everything, it’s time to look down to video at your feet. The latest in wearables is footgear with a customised digital display TX3X DXpedition article
 An excellent article on the TX3X Chesterfield Islands DXpedition, with pictures, written by Gene, K5GS, is now available to read on the web Sala SW transmitter on the air today
 The Sala SW transmitter in Sweden will be on the air Saturday, Dec. 26 at 1100–1200 UTC (Radio Nord Revival) and 1200–1300 UTC (SDXF) Ham celebrates 105 years
 Believed to be the oldest active radio amateur in Australia, Darcy Hancock VK5RJ recently celebrated his 105th birthday

News for Friday 25 December

No 60m operation possible in VK
 While the Amateur Service gained a new band at 5 MHz at the World Radiocommunication Conference last November, it won’t be available in Australia and many other countries for quite a while Setting up a ham shack part 2
 Randy Hall K7AGE has moved home so he is setting up a new amateur radio shack. In this video he strings up a Par end fed quad band antenna PowAbeam Antennas website upgrade
 Richard Mason G6HKS has just completed a major upgrade of the PowAbeam Antennas website DX News from the ARRL
 The American Radio Relay League’s round-up of the forthcoming week’s DX activity on the amateur radio bands

IOTA news from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
 Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club

News for Thursday 24 December

Announcing K6TU Remote — iPad client for FlexRadio 6000 series radios
 Stu Phillips K6TU is please to announce the availability of the K6TU Remote iPad app for full control of the FlexRadio 6000 series radios QSO Today Bob Heil K9EID
 Bob Heil, K9EID, is no stranger to ham radio, as a pioneer in audio systems, not only for the rock and roll stars in the 60’s and 70’s, but for ham radio as well

Tony’s 10 Metre Band Report
 Very poor during the week but lifted by a lot of weekend activity.

Quite a few IARU stations about plus VI9ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) and J68HZ (St Lucia)

Pico balloon detected circumnavigating the earth
 The Aussie solar powered pico balloon PS-56 that had a catastrophic GPS tracking failure, has been tracked by its weak CW signal, having encircled the southern hemisphere Ham Radio operators convert to digital television
 TV Technology reports some radio amateurs are now on-the-air using high definition digital TV HamRadioNow: Digital ATV update
 In this video Ken Konechy W6HHC presents an update on Digital Amateur Television and the DATV Express, an exciter board to transmit DATV Growing sunspot crackles with flares
 A new sunspot (AR2473) is growing rapidly in the sun’s southern hemisphere, more than quadrupling in size in the past 24 hours Verulam Amateur Radio Club train school pupils
 Pupils from Sandringham School, St. Albans have passed their amateur radio Foundation exam as part of preparations for the amateur radio contact with UK astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS planned for early January 33rd Chelmsford Amateur Radio Foundation Course
 The Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS) will be holding their 33rd Foundation training course starting Thursday, January 14 ‘Wireless and the Earthquake’ in Radio Times
 The 1923 edition of the BBC Christmas Radio Times, available for download, includes articles by wireless operator F. A. Cobb and radio amateur William Le Queux 2AZ

News for Wednesday 23 December

ARISS postpones anniversary SSTV event
 The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Slow-Scan TV event set for December 26–27 has been postponed due to ‘complications in planning,’ ARISS has announced Geosynchronous Ham Radio Payload
 Phys.org interviews Hume Center Director of Research Bob McGwier N4HY about a geosynchronous satellite amateur radio payload which will aid disaster communications ARISS is 15
 15 years ago, on December 21, 2000, students at Burbank School in Burbank Illinois, U.S.A. lined up and readied themselves for a very historic event — the first school contact with the crew on the International Space Station

First Skills Night of New Year
 The first Essex Skills Night of 2016 will be on Monday, January 18, hosted in Danbury by the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society (CARS)

The Skills Nights are Inter-Club events attended by amateurs and SWL’s from clubs across Essex and beyond. 
 
 They provide an opportunity to try something new, share ideas, get help and advice, and socialise with others interested in the hobby

Spain gets new WRC15 5 MHz allocation for the next year
 At the end of November, the existing Spanish 5 MHz permission came to a close. Following the result of the WRC15 decision on 5 MHz the Spanish administrator has now permitted access to the new allocation 5351.5–5366.5 kHz, 15W max e.i.r.p. , 3 kHz max. Bandwidth using SSB and CW modes RSGB Survey 2015 update — Last Chance!
 Have you completed the RSGB’s Amateur Radio survey yet? You don’t need to be a member of the RSGB to have your say, and time is running out!

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