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Ho! Ho! Santa's on Ham Radio:</a><br><span style='font-size:.9em;'>Share the magic of Ham Radio and Santa Claus with your children, grandchildren, and neighborhood kids. The Santa Net is held every evening between Tha...</span></td></tr> <tr data-key="51543"><td><a href="#" style="font-weight:bold;" onclick="$('#news-51543').modal('show');">YOTA Month: Encourage Youngsters on the Air:</a><br><span style='font-size:.9em;'>Call sign GB24YOTA will be active for the duration of the month, hosted by a range of groups, clubs and individuals. Marlborough Scout Group will be t...</span></td></tr> <tr data-key="51542"><td><a href="#" style="font-weight:bold;" onclick="$('#news-51542').modal('show');">Mysteries in Orbit: Space's Oldest Working Hardware Still Keeps Its Secrets</a><br><span style='font-size:.9em;'>The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977's Voyagers hold some i...</span></td></tr> <tr data-key="51541"><td><a href="#" style="font-weight:bold;" onclick="$('#news-51541').modal('show');">How Amateur Radio is Connecting Astronauts in Space with Kids on Earth:</a><br><span style='font-size:.9em;'>Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a cre...</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  <div id="news-51545" class="fade modal" role="dialog" tabindex="-1"> <div class="modal-dialog SIZE_SMALL"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button> <h2>Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa's on Ham Radio:</h2> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class='nicebox' style='width:auto;'><h3>Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa's on Ham Radio:</h3>From : <a href="mailto:">cqsanta.com</a> on 2024-11-28<br><hr><div style='background-color:white;'>Share the magic of Ham Radio and Santa Claus with your children, grandchildren, and neighborhood kids. The Santa Net is held every evening between Thanksgiving and Christmas on 3.916 MHz at 7:00PM Central Time (check-ins open 1/2 hour before).<br /> </div><hr>Website : <a href="/"></a><br><div><center><strong>Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa's on Ham Radio:</strong></center><center><span style="color: green;"> <em>See the full story here:</em> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><strong> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <a href="https://www.cqsanta.com/" target="_new"> LINK</a> </span></strong></span></center><p> </p></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="news-51543" class="fade modal" role="dialog" tabindex="-1"> <div class="modal-dialog SIZE_SMALL"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button> <h2>YOTA Month: Encourage Youngsters on the Air:</h2> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class='nicebox' style='width:auto;'><h3>YOTA Month: Encourage Youngsters on the Air:</h3>From : <a href="mailto:">RSGB</a> on 2024-11-27<br><hr><div style='background-color:white;'>Call sign GB24YOTA will be active for the duration of the month, hosted by a range of groups, clubs and individuals. Marlborough Scout Group will be the first team of youngsters to operate. They will be on the air before midday on Sunday 1 December, and then again after 6pm on the same day.<br /> </div><hr>Website : <a href="/"></a><br><div><center><strong>YOTA Month: Encourage Youngsters on the Air:</strong></center><center><span style="color: green;"> <em>See the full story here:</em> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><strong> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <a href="https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/gb2rs/headlines/2024/11/22/encourage-youngsters-on-the-air-during-yota-month/" target="_new"> LINK</a> </span></strong></span></center><p> </p></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="news-51542" class="fade modal" role="dialog" tabindex="-1"> <div class="modal-dialog SIZE_SMALL"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button> <h2>Mysteries in Orbit: Space's Oldest Working Hardware Still Keeps Its Secrets</h2> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class='nicebox' style='width:auto;'><h3>Mysteries in Orbit: Space's Oldest Working Hardware Still Keeps Its Secrets</h3>From : <a href="mailto:">theregister.com</a> on 2024-11-26<br><hr><div style='background-color:white;'>The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977's Voyagers hold some impressive records beside those golden discs, just not that one. Any guesses? Its full name is AMSAT-OSCAR 7, known to its friends as Oscar 7, and it is remarkable for many reasons – not least of which are two great mysteries that may never be resolved. For a tiny box built on a budget that shames shoestrings for their conspicuous wealth, it pioneered some amazing technologies, got amazingly lucky more than once, and repaired itself after two decades of being dead (perhaps). <br /> </div><hr>Website : <a href="/"></a><br><div><center><strong>Mysteries in Polar Orbit -- Space's Oldest Working Hardware Still Keeps Its Secrets:</strong></center><center><span style="color: green;"> <em>See the full story here:</em> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"><strong> <br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/amsat_oscar_7_anniversary/" target="_new"> LINK</a> </span></strong></span></center><p> </p></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="news-51541" class="fade modal" role="dialog" tabindex="-1"> <div class="modal-dialog SIZE_SMALL"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button> <h2>How Amateur Radio is Connecting Astronauts in Space with Kids on Earth:</h2> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <div class='nicebox' style='width:auto;'><h3>How Amateur Radio is Connecting Astronauts in Space with Kids on Earth:</h3>From : <a href="mailto:">space.com</a> on 2024-11-25<br><hr><div style='background-color:white;'>Consider this: It is now four decades ago that astronaut Owen Garriott, callsign W5LFL, pioneered amateur radio communication from space. He was a crewmember on the space shuttle program's STS-9 mission. During that space shuttle flight in 1983, Garriott became the first-ever person in space to communicate with amateur radio operators on the ground. He was also the first person to be heard directly from space by members of the public using simple radio receivers and scanners. That event transformed astronaut communications from space forever, allowing amateur radio operators and the public to communicate with people in space. But don't change that dial! 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