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ICQ Podcast S05 E06 – 21st Century Beacon – GB3VHF (11 March 2012)
Series Five Episode Six of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Opera Beacon takes Route 66
- Australian Kilowatt
- Ofcom on 5 MHz NoV
- Discover amateur radio at Surrey Museum
- Special Event Station - VO1AA
- ARRL publishes new Guidelines for 60 meters
- BBC - A lifetime of shortwave
- Extension of UK 501 kHz to 504 kHz NoV's
- 'Twisted' waves could boost capacity of Wi-Fi and TV
- Raspberry Pi computer now on sale
Your feedback and GB3VHF – a beacon designed for the 21st Century.
ICQ Podcast S05 E06 – 21st Century Beacon – GB3VHF (11 March 2012)
Series Five Episode Six of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Opera Beacon takes Route 66
- Australian Kilowatt
- Ofcom on 5 MHz NoV
- Discover amateur radio at Surrey Museum
- Special Event Station - VO1AA
- ARRL publishes new Guidelines for 60 meters
- BBC - A lifetime of shortwave
- Extension of UK 501 kHz to 504 kHz NoV's
- 'Twisted' waves could boost capacity of Wi-Fi and TV
- Raspberry Pi computer now on sale
Your feedback and GB3VHF – a beacon designed for the 21st Century.
ICQ Podcast S05 E05 – 100th Episode (26 February 2012)
Series Five Episode Five of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- 1st Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop
- New HF shortwave radio station callsign
- 13cm threat in Sweden
- Bahrain 70 MHz beacon A92C/B
- Open Mission Control software
- Craggy Island Dxpedition Group
- MIT offer free online electronics course
- G0KYA's February HF Propagation
- Android App for UK Band Plan 2012
- D-Star in Namibia V53W
- Radio Amateur to command ISS
- Field day BBQ cookbook published
Your feedback, Steve Nicholls, G0KYA Progation Report, and our 100th episode roundtable discussing the past and future of Amateur radio.
ICQ Podcast S05 E04 – DVAP – Digital Voice Access Point (12 February 2012)
Series Five Episode Four of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- SumbandilaSat beyond repair
- Sweden loses 13cm amateur radio band
- FCC sets date for medical devices on 70 cm
- RSGB PLA/PLT Devices Announcement
- BATC Convention 2012
- FISTS marks a milestone
- New rules for 5 MHz (60 meters)
- VOA anniversary spurs museum effort
- Morse code not on the way out
- UK Propagation charts for February 2012
- Record set at Winter Hill
Your feedback, Ed Durrant provides his latest Australian report and Martin reviews a DVAP (Digital Voice Access Point).
ICQ Podcast S05 E03 – G-QRP Limerick Sudden 40m Receiver (29 January 2012)
Series Five Episode Two of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Earth Station For Sale
- New 60m web site
- ARRL achieves fund raising goal
- KG4, Guantanamo Bay
- UK amateurs experience echo phenomenon
- Danish presidency of EU callsign
- Student D-STAR satellite to launch in 2012
- The new VHF-UHF band plan - 4m in Ireland
- QRP to the ISS
- Special callsigns for UK radio amateurs during 2012
- New Clubs and Training section for RSGB website
- Cuban Amateur Radio regulations modified
- Call of Titanic will go out again
Your feedback and Colin (M6BOY) reviews the G-QRP Limerick Sudden 40m Receiver.
ICQ Podcast S05 E02 – Wolfgang Philipps – W8DA Android Apps (15 January 2012)
Series Five Episode Two of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Yaesu supports 4-FSK digital radios
- Yaesu Musen
- Go back to school - DX University
- US feedback for 60m band plan
- GB80PW for the Practical Wireless 80th year
- New DV-RPTR modem board
- RSGB Commonwealth Century Club Jubilee Award 2012
- UK Propagation charts for January 2012
- New data mode crosses Atlantic on 136Khz at the first attempt
- USA HF Spread Spectrum Experiment
- 43 years of 73 Magazine online
Your feedback and Ed Durrant (VK2ARE) interviews android app author Wolfgang Philipps (W8DA).
ICQ Podcast S05 E01 – Powered SWR Meter Kit (01 January 2012)
Series Five Episode One of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-
- Amateur Radio Balloon crosses the Atlantic
- Radio Ham's invention seeing wide use
- EU threat to Amateur Radio kits
- 137kHz German signal received in Alaska
- Hams do their bit after disaster
- Australia to trial limited higher power
- Ofcom - 3400 MHz licence exemption
- Amateur radio operators to host kids day
- Beacon Maps and Beacon Spots
- Raspberry Pi moves towards production
Your feedback, Martin reviews a Power SWR Meter Kit.












