As part of NASA's celebration of the 10th anniversary
of the International Space Station, the agency is
offering a special 2009 calendar. The calendar can be
downloaded from the link www.nasa.gov/station
L-BAND EXPERIMENT ON THE ISS
Another experiment using the ham station on board the
International Space Station. From December 28th through
January 3rd ARISS plans to reconfigure the on-orbit
crossband repeater for test of its L-Band uplink
capability, which, to date, has not been proven out.
Plans call for an uplink of 1269.65 MHz and downlink on
the standard frequency 145.80 MHz. The system will be
in low power transmit. Given the substantial cable
losses of the L-band system, ARISS hopes that some big
gun stations on the ground will be able to penetrate
through, keep up with Doppler, and make a contact.
DXCC End of year approaching
In order to appear in the printed 'Annual and Honour
Roll' listings your submission must be postmarked on or
by Wednesday, December 31, 2008.
For the 2008 calendar year the minimum requirement to
appear in the Honour Roll list is 329 current entities.
Direct comments or questions to http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/faq/
Radio Rallies
15th Feburary 2009 Coolmine Radio Rally, The Coolmine
Radio Rally, run by the Phoenix Radio Club will be held
in the Coolmine Community School, Clonsilla Dublin 15
on Sunday 15th February 2009. Doors open 9.30 am for
table bookings and information please contact Tony
087-2439997 or Tom 01-8211043 See map on
www.coolminecs.ie/locationmap.
This week in History
1879 Edison demos his incandescant light at Menlo
Park, NJ. USA.
Switzerland to allocate 6m
Swiss telecommunications authorities will allocate the
50 MHz band to amateur radio on a secondary basis
beginning January 1, 2009.
Swiss and foreign CEPT class licensees will be
permitted to transmit with up to 100 watts PEP on 50 to
52 MHz without any antenna restrictions. The one caveat
is that primary users may not be disturbed. This
includes some TV stations active on the VHF band I in
Northern Italy.
Canada’s official time broadcast, frequency change
After seventy years of broadcasting Canada's official
time, shortwave station CHU will move the
transmission frequency for the 7335 kHz transmitter
to 7850 kHz. This, to avoid interference to its
operations as the result of band allocation changes
approved by the International Telecommunications
Union back in April 2007.
CHU is a part of Canada's National Research Council's
system for disseminating official time throughout that
nation. It broadcasts 24 hours a day from a location
approximately 20 kilometres south-west of Ottawa.
Transmissions include tones to mark the seconds, voice
to announce the time in French and English, and digital
data to interface with computers.
The frequency change to CHU change will occur on
January 1st, 2009 at 0000 UTC. More is on-line at
www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPERSOUS NEW YEAR
TO ALL WHO READ MY BLOG.
BEST 73's & 88's TO ALL
DE - EI5IX
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