IOTA news from OPDX

Southgate ARC – Weekly IOTA News – compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW, editor of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin

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Red airglow over the Atacama Desert

Southgate ARC – On Thursday night, the normally dark skies of Chile’s Atacama Desert lit up with rippling bands of red light. It looked like the aurora borealis, but it was not

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NASA sending helicopter to Mars

Southgate ARC – The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet

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German ham radio regulator releases 2017 report

Southgate ARC – The German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has presented its report for 2017

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Foundations of Amateur Radio #153

Southgate ARC – The other week I participated in a contest. This particular contest was on the 80m band, around 3.5 MHz. The contest itself, while worthy of a mention, the Harry Angel Memorial Sprint, runs for 106 minutes and commemorates every year of Harry’s life, at the time, the oldest radio amateur in Australia. I made two contacts. Count ’em and weep. Two

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2017 CQWW CW Contest scoring change

Southgate ARC – A change in scoring methodology for duplicate contacts (dupes) in the CW weekend of the 2017 CQ World Wide DX Contest led to an inconsistency with the standards by which logs submitted for the SSB weekend of the same contest were scored

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Amateur Radio Parity Act language in NDA Act

Southgate ARC – ARRL reports Amateur Radio Parity Act language has been inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act

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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

Southgate ARC – Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports there have been no sunspots visible for approximately 60% of 2018

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SolderSmoke Podcast

Southgate ARC – Episode 204 of the amateur radio podcast SolderSmoke is now available

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QSO Today – Jim Millner – WB2REM

Southgate ARC – Jim Millner, WB2REM, has traveled and operated amateur radio in 72 countries including Cuba and Guantanamo Bay

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VK6WIA NewsWest

Southgate ARC – In the news this week the Austravel Safety Net, the Friday Night Tech Net, something about French Renards, Ham College, a Homebrew club proposal and a brand new amateur club on Christmas Island

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