Southgate Amateur Radio News for Tuesday 13 November 2012

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Polluting Draft Standard EN50561-1:2012 Approved

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Despite RSGB opposition, the CENELEC Working Group 11 have voted in favour
of draft standard EN50561-1:2012 for polluting Power Line Communication
apparatus

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Christmas Eve - Ham Radio satellite to flash morse code

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On Christmas Eve (Dec. 24) the Japanese students who built FITSAT-1 are
planning to active the satellite's LED optical array and flash a message in
Morse Code to Earth. The Morse message may be visible with the unaided eye

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Short path propagation charts from the UK

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Steve G0KYA has now updated his short path HF propagation charts for the UK
for the next three months – November, December and January

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Eclipser One

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On November 14th, a joint team - Stiinta and Tehnica Magazine, Cairns Ham
Radio Club and YO3KSR-Club, will try to launch a helium balloon right in
the middle of a solar eclipse from Australian Outback. The balloon will
have APRS tracking with YO4SJI-11 callsign

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Science fiction becomes real thanks to ham Fractal Antennas

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Chip W1YW continues to pull new fodder for boffins from a ham radio hat. He
recently announced that fractal antenna technology, developed from a need
for smaller ham antennas over a quarter of a century ago, has produced both
a human invisibility cloak, and a deflector shield

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RSGB Board proceedings released

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The RSGB has released the board proceedings for September 21/22 where it
was agreed to use WordPress Multisite for the Society's website

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Does anyone listen to AM ?

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In the last month, the BBC quietly switched off AM radio transmitters to
see if anyone noticed - and it seems not a lot of people did

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Mentor guides students as they construct amateur radios

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The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports that students at New Mexico State
University are being taught to build ham radio transmitters

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5 MHz Sunset Net frequency change

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Paul G4MWO reports the Sunday evening Sunset Net is moving to 5398.5 kHz