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Series Five Episode Fourteen of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• Vatican Radio: New Communications Strategies
• VK7RRR - Tasmania's First Public D-Star Repeater is On the Air!
• German radio hams gain access to 472-479 kHz
• Segment of 2m to be used for Olympics
• New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool effective
• Insurance scheme for UK Radio Amateurs
• Sending a message to Bletchley Park
• 10th Anniversary of OSCAR 7's Return To Life
• Students build Supercapacitor battery for next ARISSat
• Encouraging science, technology, engineering and mathematics
• ARRL Executive Committee Approves Resource Grants for 11 Schools
• 100 memory buttons and more for Flex PowerSDR
• Le Tour de France 2012 - GB4TDF

Ed Durrant, VK2ARE reports from Australia including an interview with VK2BAA, Worldwide Amateur / Ham Radio sailor.

Series Five Episode Thirteen of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• BBC promotes polluting PLA devices
• Worked All Continents Award
• German Radio Ham arrested in Greece
• 472 kHz and 5 MHz in Denmark
• Radio transmitter causes bomb scare
• International EME Conference 2012
• Germany gains 1331 callsigns in 2011
• Thailand holds Intermediate Exam
• First-time operation from Tanzania
• Raspberry Pi used for Amateur Radio

Martin (M1MRB) talks to the Cambrigde Hams about their Dxpedition to Mull.

Series Five Episode Twelve of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• Operators needed for Canal Festival
• Volunteers wanted for RSGB Centenary Working Group
• Yaesu FT1D Digital Handheld
• Italian radio amateurs help out after quake
• New transatlantic 144MHz beacon GB3WGI
• Radio transmitter causes bomb scare
• Cuba's Radio Hams get new Digimodes
• Balloon Crossband Repeater Payload over USA
• ACO exam pass = Amateur Radio Foundation pass
• Change in IRTS 40 Metre News Frequency
• 2012 Torch route tracked on APRS
• Worked All Britain Olympic flame award

Chris Howard (2E0CTH and N4CTH) discusses Buying your first amateur radio rig.

Series Five Episode Eleven of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• New frequencies for AMSAT-UK FUNcube-1
• 2E0BTR Mountain Goat
• New regulations for the Olympic Games
• Special UK callsigns for Queen's Diamond Jubilee
• D-Star for London 2012 Olympics
• GB3LV repeater back on the air
• UK Propagation charts for May 2012
• US Emergency Services move to Digital
• Glasgow school wins 70cm CanSat launch competition
• RAYNET Isle of Man
• 60 metres 'Gazetted' in Canada
• European Football Championship 2012 on the Air

Martin M1MRB discusses Homebrew D-STAR.

Series Five Episode Ten of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• Turing’s code breaking papers released
• Special Event station VX3W
• Amateur Frequencies by Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Ham Radio operators respond when severe weather strikes
• SCOTIA Challenge
• 16 Japanese educational satellites to be launched
• Eurovision Song Contest special callsigns
• Lewes Amateur Radio Society Grows
• Amateur radio club members rewarded for activities
• Bath-based Distance Learning
• Experimenter's Special SDR Receiver
• Dutch Mills on the Air
• Ham Radio in Nursing Home

Martin M1MRB discusses Antenna Planning.

Series Five Episode Ten of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• Turing’s code breaking papers released
• Special Event station VX3W
• Amateur Frequencies by Olympic and Paralympic Games
• Ham Radio operators respond when severe weather strikes
• SCOTIA Challenge
• 16 Japanese educational satellites to be launched
• Eurovision Song Contest special callsigns
• Lewes Amateur Radio Society Grows
• Amateur radio club members rewarded for activities
• Bath-based Distance Learning
• Experimenter's Special SDR Receiver
• Dutch Mills on the Air
• Ham Radio in Nursing Home

Martin M1MRB discusses Antenna Planning.

Series Five Episode Nine of the ICQ Podcast has been released. News Stories include :-

• Radio Scouting IRLP Calling Channel
• WUST Award
• RSGB Training and Education Committee
• New frequencies for Polish Radio Amateurs
• ESPN Worldwide Amateur Radio Club
• Ham radio operator needed in Canberra
• GB2CRF - Falklands 30th Anniversary
• The 145.500 MHz FM Calling channel
• 50 to 52 MHz available in Portugal from April 26
• Amateurs must protect new radars in 23 cm band
• Spectacular explosion on the Sun
• England completed by G4MD and G4OIG

Your feedback and Martin M1MRB is joined by Hams from the Cambridgeshire Amateur Radio Group to discuss their upcoming Dxperdition.