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September 27, 2024The October 2024 edition of RadCom includes an article about the very first two-way radio communication between the UK and New Zealand, something that Sir Edward Appleton—radio physicist and Nobel laureate—later described as “probably the most dramatic moment in the history of the development of the short waves.” The contact was between two radio amateurs, one in Mill Hill School, London and the other on a sheep farm in New Zealand. Cen...
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Special Events News – 19 March 2017
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S21GM and S21KW will be on the air from Bangladesh between 15…Special Events News – 12 March 2017
The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven will host a variety of special events on…