Southgate Amateur Radio News for Sunday 15 July 2018

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WRTC 2018

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cq contest cq test ... The contest has been running for some hours now and
the competitors are wrestling each other for points. The bands are "very
busy" and finding a free frequency is exhausting

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ACMA 5-year spectrum outlook paper 'disappointing'

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WIA News reports on the draft 2018-2022 spectrum outlook paper published by
the communications regulator ACMA

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VK6WIA NewsWest

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It’s our NEW AMATEURS week, where we celebrate new, upgraded and returning
calls. We’ll also discuss about gear and portable operations. Onno talks
QRP and where you need to go, in order to obtain your license

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QSO Today - David Finell - N7LRY

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David Finell, N7LRY described himself to his future wife as a mad
scientist, coming from a ham radio family that encouraged deep learning of
the subjects that interested him

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The SARL Winter QRP Contest on Saturday

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The QRP contests are intended to be fun activities to promote QRP operation
between radio amateurs

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The ZS2 Sprint on Sunday

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This is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs in the
Eastern Cape and radio amateurs in Southern African countries and is on the
air from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC on Sunday 22 July 2018

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Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

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Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be
at low levels

[Ian Jackson]

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cq contest cq test ... The contest has been running for some hours now
and the competitors are wrestling each other for points. The bands are
"very busy" and finding a free frequency is exhausting

I first get alerted to the fact that it's the weekend again when I'm
sitting on the bog, and multitasking doing my normal few minutes of
SWLing on 40m. The immediate giveaway is that the otherwise frequently
dead band (because propagation is so poor at the moment) is absolutely
heaving with S9+40dB signals, with everyone shouting strange things like
"59 1234 please repeat your call".

It's just as these days that I'm retired, and also not very active. If I
WAS still as keen as I used to be, and still working, I'd be feeling
pretty miffed about being frequently deprived of so much 'normal'
operating time to do what radio amateurs once used to do - ie having
proper QSOs with other proper amateurs.

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

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cq contest cq test ... The contest has been running for some hours now and
the competitors are wrestling each other for points. The bands are "very
busy" and finding a free frequency is exhausting

I first get alerted to the fact that it's the weekend again when I'm
sitting on the bog, and multitasking doing my normal few minutes of SWLing
on 40m. The immediate giveaway is that the otherwise frequently dead band
(because propagation is so poor at the moment) is absolutely heaving with
S9+40dB signals, with everyone shouting strange things like "59 1234
please repeat your call".
It's just as these days that I'm retired, and also not very active. If I
WAS still as keen as I used to be, and still working, I'd be feeling
pretty miffed about being frequently deprived of so much 'normal'
operating time to do what radio amateurs once used to do - ie having
proper QSOs with other proper amateurs.

I have been ignoring contests since 1974........