NZ 5 MHz Amateur Band usage - ceases

NZART, the New Zealand National Amateur Society advises that unfortunately the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has advised us that they are not willing to approve another renewal of our 5 MHz trial allocation/licence.

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The ARRL report the German town of Bad Bentheim will receive nominations for the Golden Antenna Award

The ARRL story says:

For 50 years, the town has hosted Deutsch-Niederländische Amateurfunker Tage (DNAT), or German-Dutch Amateur Radio Days, during which the town stresses the importance of amateur radio as a public service.

Nominations (in PDF) are open until April 1, 2021.

A committee headed by the mayor of Bad Bentheim will choose the winner. The recipient will be invited to Bad Bentheim to receive the award, which will be presented on August ... Читать дальше »

The University of Western Australia is set to install an optical communications station capable of receiving high-speed data transmissions from space.

The communications station will be able to receive data from spacecraft from anywhere between low-Earth orbit, i.e. between 160km and 1000km above planet green to as far away as the surface of the moon - some 384,000 km.

Dr Sascha Schediwy, Astrophotonics Group leader at UWA and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy, said optical communications are an emerging alternative to radio waves and are expected to drastically improve data transfer capabilities from spa ... Читать дальше »

DX News from the ARRL

October 23, 2020

This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by W2GD, The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all.

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