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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 15 2019 09:36 am
ICELANDIC CONTESTERS GET A BOOST
NEIL/ANCHOR: Contesters in Iceland have just gained even more room for
competing on 160 metres. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has that story.
JEREMY: Hams in Iceland have been given approval again this year to use
the frequency range between 1850 and 1900 kHz for a number of major
competitions, including the ARRL's separate DX Contests for SSB and CW,
along with the CQ World-Wide 160 metre competitions for SSB, and for CW,
and the IARU HF World Championship. Iceland's national amateur radio
society, Icelandic Radio Amateurs, reports that the Post and Telegram
Administration has authorised the use of this frequency range solely for
the purpose of participating in the contests, as in the previous eight
years. These are frequencies that are otherwise used by the Maritime
Traffic Service, which has given its own approval for the hams to operate
there. Hams in Iceland otherwise make use of the frequencies on that band
between 1810 and 1840 kHz using full power, or 1 kw on a primary basis.
The Post and Telegram Administration has told the hams that those with G
licences are permitted to use the allowable full power of 1 kW in that
temporary frequency range, but N licencees' operation cannot exceed 10
watts. So, if you're in any of the big contests with 160 metres this year,
be listening for call signs from Iceland. The president of Icelandic Radio
Amateurs, Jonas (Yo-NAS) Bjarnason, TF3JB, told Newsline that each licensee
needs to renew their request to the Administration individually by E-mail.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(SOUTHGATE)
**
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, Nigel, G3TXF, is operating as 3B8XF, from Mauritius
until the 24th of March. Beyond his plans to take part in the RSGB
Commonwealth and Russian DX contests on the 16th and 17th of March, he
will be operating CW and FT8. QSL via Club Log's OQRS and LoTW.
Meanwhile, if you've been waiting with the rest of us for the start of the
Bouvet Island DXpedition Three Why Zero Eye (3Y0I), here's an update: The
team's web page reported recently that the team has reassembled in Cape
Town, South Africa. Final vessel preparations are being made. As the team
says [quote] "Stay tuned for further news coming soon." [endquote]
**
KICKER: HIGH IN THE SKY BUT NOT ON AMATEUR RADIO
NEIL/ANCHOR: Finally, we report that the launch of a special CubeSat
project by Virginia students is on schedule - but it won't be on the
amateur bands, after all. The scheduled April 17 launch of four Virginia
universities' CubeSat constellation is going forward, but licensing
issues are keeping its UHF packet repeaters from using the amateur
spectrum, according to a report posted online by Mike, KQ9P, one of the
project's team members. The repeaters will instead operate at 401 MHz.
Students from four Virginia universities are participating in the project,
which is launching their trio of small satellites in Houston, on a
Northrop Grumman Antares rocket. Their destination is, of course, the
International Space Station. The Virginia Cubesat Constellation mission
is designed to deploy the three nanosatellites, so that they orbit almost
simultaneously. The CubeSats will be measuring various properties of the
Earth's atmosphere. The participating schools are the University of
Virginia, Virginia Tech, Hampton University, and Old Dominion University.
Mike wrote online that the team hopes that the next CubeSat project will
at last have an amateur radio payload aboard.
(ARISS, AUGUSTA FREE PRESS, SATNEWS)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE:
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and
our news team worldwide, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington, Indiana,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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