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February 2010
Centre Victoria RadioFest 14 February
Submitted by Arvadmin on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 17:12The theme this year is 'Reach for the skies'. This due to there being aeronautical amateur television, astronomical telegazing and hunting scarce sunspots on the photosphere.
Silent Key Mark Dods VK3ZR
Submitted by Arvadmin on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 17:01Mark Dods VK3ZR had an established a career in the electronics industry when in the late 1970s became an enthusiastic radio amateur.
Sunspots here they come
Submitted by Arvadmin on Tue, 09/02/2010 - 16:50Spaceweather http://spaceweather.com reports a big sunspot or group, known at 1045, has produced three M-class and about a dozen C-class solar flares since it appeared on Saturday 6 February.
The hidden cost of amateur repeaters
Submitted by Arvadmin on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 17:29From time to time we hear about the funding difficulties experienced by clubs who run a repeater, often not for the benefit of their members but for the wider amateur radio community.
The Australian who put man on the moon
Submitted by Arvadmin on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 17:11An article in the December, 2009 issue of Lo-Key, the journal of the Australian CW QRP Club, noted the important work of an Australian radio amateur.
Tracking ships from space
Submitted by Arvadmin on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 17:09Two new receivers are soon to be tested from the International Space Station to help keep track of large ships at sea.
Old club callsign being maintained
Submitted by Arvadmin on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 17:08The RMIT University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering is again the custodian of the VK3MT amateur radio callsign.
The IARU Region 3 Operating Award
Submitted by Arvadmin on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 17:06This is available for contacts made since the 5th of April 1982 with countries which have IARU member societies in the Asia Pacific region.
Home security system QRM
Submitted by Arvadmin on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:59Reports are starting to appear about a security and home control system that uses the spread spectrum protocol at 100 milliwatt, and at a distance of 100 metres its emissions make the 40 metre band un
