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- Scotch Tape (TM) the worlds most powerful tape ?
(Nov 24, 2008)
- Propagation Service Center renewed
(Nov 21, 2008)
- "Daventry Calling The World" now online
(Nov 07, 2008)
- New lifeline for Bletchley Park
(Nov 07, 2008)
- 4 hams on Next Shuttle Mission
(Nov 07, 2008)
- Appointment with Ofcom
(Oct 20, 2008)
- 'Broken' £2.4bn radio put troops' lives in danger
(Oct 14, 2008)
- Woman Rescued In 3,700-mile Alert
(Sep 05, 2008)
- Intek MT-5050 Professional PMR-446 Radio Review
(Sep 04, 2008)
- Message from National Associations Radioamateurs of Georgia
(Aug 24, 2008)
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News: Scotch Tape (TM) the worlds most powerful tape ? |
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Posted by: kc
on Monday, November 24, 2008 - 10:45 AM |
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In the 1950's the Russians knew that an ordinary roll of Scotch (TM) tape could be used to create X-rays?
Now Researchers at UCLA are looking at the the power that comes from peeling tape from a roll in a vacuum. And they have discovered that a mere piece of tape can produce an enormous amount of power, which came as a big surprise to them.
In an article being published in the Journal Nature, researchers are suggesting that the finding could lead to the production of inexpensive and easy-to-use equipment that could be used by paramedics on accident scenes or for places where electricity is not available.
Full story & source Wireless Institute of Australia & Geek News Central via Sothgate ARC.
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News: "Daventry Calling The World" now online |
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Posted by: kc
on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:59 AM |
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'Daventry Calling The World' now online
The book Daventry Calling The World is now available on the BBC Engineering website as a PDF download.
The description at http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-world.htm says
"In 1998 Norman Tomalin published his book Daventry Calling The World and in 2008 he very kindly agreed that it may be published on this web site.
This book is a very good historical record and it is the result of a great deal of work by Norman. It complements Don Bowman's reminiscences about Daventry and it is well worth reading both."
Download the PDF from
http://www.bbceng.info/Books/dx-world/dx-calling-the-world-2008a.pdf
Thanks to Mike Barraclough for spotting this.
Taken from Sothgate ARC's news page
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News: New lifeline for Bletchley Park |
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Posted by: kc
on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:58 AM |
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Britain's code-cracking and computing heritage has won a lifeline in the form of a donation from English Heritage.
BBC News report that the grant of £330,000 will be used to undertake urgent roof works at Bletchley Park - where Allied codebreakers worked in World War II.
Discussions are also in progress on a further three-year, £600,000 funding programme for the historic site.
Read the full BBC story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7710966.stm
Source Southgate ARC's news page
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News: 4 hams on Next Shuttle Mission |
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Posted by: kc
on Friday, November 07, 2008 - 11:57 AM |
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With two weeks to go before launch, the astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour are keeping up a thorough training schedule for the 15-day mission.
The busy flight to the ISS includes four spacewalks and the transfer and set-up of more than seven tons of equipment and supplies inside the orbiting laboratory.
Endeavour?s main payload is a space-age moving van called Leonardo that is stuffed with new crew quarters and the other equipment needed to enlarge the station?s resident crew to six members. The equipment includes a filtering system designed to filter wastewater to make it potable.
Commander Chris Ferguson and his six crewmates, of whom four are licenced radio hams, are scheduled to lift off to the International Space Station at 7:55 p.m. EST on Nov. 14.
Ferguson will be joined on STS-126 by Pilot Eric Boe and Mission Specialists Donald Pettit, KD5MDT, Steve Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, KD5TVR, Shane Kimbrough, KE5HOD and Sandra Magnus, KE5FYE. Magnus will replace space station crew member Greg Chamitoff, KD5PKZ, who has been aboard the station for more than five months.
She will return to Earth during the next shuttle mission,
STS-119, targeted to launch in February 2009.
Source Southgate ARC
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News: Appointment with Ofcom |
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Posted by: TheGovernor
on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 02:17 PM |
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Appointment with Ofcom very soon to discuss issues regarding abuse on the amateur bands and repeaters. Ofcom need to address this, rather than ignore. Ofcom have a responsibility it is the independent regulator and competition authority for communication and have been undersigned by the Secretary of State to enforce the Wireless Telegraphy Act. If there are any issue that you would like us to raise, then please send your comments to us and we will submit these, on your behalf. We will let you know the outcome of the pending meeting in due course.
The Wireless Telegraphy Act!
Abuse of radio comes in several forms on amateur radio. However, most of it is designed either to deny access to the spectrum or to offend and annoy by causing deliberate interference, using offensive language, playing music, pirating call signs, keying out other users etc. On the amateur service, abuse is most commonly aimed at open access facilities such as voice repeater so as to cause a nuisance to the maximum number of people and attract attention. Less common, but just as serious, is the abuser who targets individual operators or specific radio services.
The Wireless Telegraphy (Content of Transmission) Regulations 1988 makes it an offence to send a message, communication or other matter that is grossly offensive or of an obscene or menacing character. In considering such cases, it is important to remember that the courts need evidence that the language used in the alleged offence is worse than that encountered in everyday life.
Look forward to your support with the Petition to Mr Gordon Brown at number 10 to get his Government to enforce the Wireless Telegraphy Act and stop abuse on the amateur bands, especially repeaters.
Visit www.gb3ok.com/homepage for more details........
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News: Woman Rescued In 3,700-mile Alert |
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Posted by: fez
on Friday, September 05, 2008 - 12:54 PM |
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A woman has been airlifted to safety in Russia - after a distress signal was picked up 3,700 miles away by a Scottish RAF base.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7599683.stm
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News: Message from National Associations Radioamateurs of Georgia |
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Posted by: kc
on Sunday, August 24, 2008 - 09:49 PM |
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I would like to inform you, that all Georgian Amateur Radio stations stopping works with all Russian Amateur Radio stations and also, we would like to advise you and all amateur radio Societies, members and non-members of the IARU, (plus all other clubs too) do same. The reason - Russian occupation in Georgia.
73
Mamuka Kordzakhia, 4L2M
The President of The National Associations Radioamateurs of Georgia (NARG)
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