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ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Twenty – Microwaving (26 September 2010)
Series Three Episode Twenty of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Earth dodges another sun bullet
- Goodbye to Sunspots?
- Historic Chain Home Tower back on the air
- Take your hand-held to work day
- WSJT 9.0 released
- Frequency change for Scotland Morse Enthusiasts Group
- Digital radio switchover 'far too early'
- New type of antenna - Sea Water Antenna
- Ham Radio high-altitude balloon launch team opportunity
- Online radio course from DoC
- GB7MM back on the air
- Home electricity wiring antenna
Your feedback, upcoming events, and Martin (M1MRB) visits a Microwave Group.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Nineteen – Rediscover Listening (12 September 2010)
Series Three Episode Nineteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Return of SumbandilaSat SO-67
- Amateur station seeks new home
- EAP Multi-band 2010
- New Lancashire RAYNET group
- Try amateur radio direction finding
- Bicycle tour needs more radio hams
- A very bright weekend for lighthouses
- RSGB Convention deep space lecture
- Open Source Digital Voice Codec
- Morse and Music
- Vuvuzela Morse Code
- Milestone for WIA Centenary Award
- New D-STAR repeater installed in ARRL lab
Your feedback, upcoming events, Hints, Tips and Tricks and Martin (M1MRB)discusses rediscovering listening.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Eighteen – RSGB President (29 August 2010)
Series Three Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Hams exempt from RFI ordinance
- Donated spy radio
- Intern builds amateur radio station
- LED technology interference
- Aviation fears over powerline
- Interference investigation
- Radio hams support Pakistan floods
- YL team for Sumburgh Head lighthouse
- Nature Conservation Association needs Hams
- New version of MMSSTV released
- Changes at BARTG 2010
- National Hamfest Award 2010
- Amateur Radio Gets People Talking
- NZ ATV forced digital
- India's hams get 6 metres
Your feedback, upcoming events and David Wilson (M0OBW) joins us to discuss the hobby and his involvement with the RSGB
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Seventeen – Low Frequency (15 August 2010)
Series Three Episode Seventeen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Illegal FM stations is 'terrorism' in Pakistan
- New 10GHz world record
- Wireless Telegraphy devices exemption changes
- RCE Standards Committee report
- Spanish fishery pirates
- 433MHz and 3.6MHz in New Zealand
- IARUMS to clean-up 40 metres
- National radio frequency plan gazetted
- Free 'QSL Gateway' from USA to Europe
- ROS development definitely continues
- VK8NSB SSTV Repeater
- German Radio Amateur arrested in Lebanon
- More geomagnetic storms?
- High efficiency solar cells
- Plasma TV interference complaints
- Irish church intruders
Your feedback, upcoming events and Roger Lapthorn (G3XBM) joins Martin (M1MRB) to discuss low frequency.
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Sixteen (01 August 2010) – Cypriot Contester
Series Three Episode Sixteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Digital TV / Radio - What's Next?
- New callsigns for Ireland's Emergency Network
- ISS SSTV pictures received in Essex
- 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham
- Youngest Portuguese radio amateur
- Surge in US Amateur Radio licenses
- Amateur Radio exam process streamlined
- MI5 endorse 'ring of steel' for BBC
- ARISS contact with Girl Guides
- Uncensored offshore Fiji news station
- 40m portable antenna shootout
- Amateur Radio contesting simplified
- Amateur radio in the classroom
- Update - D-STAR illegal in France
- Amateurs needed for TV
- 19411 km with 30W to dipole
Your feedback, upcoming events and Norman Bates (5B4AIE) joins Martin (M1MRB) to discuss contesting in Cyprus
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Fifteen (18 July 2010) – SmartPhones for Amateurs
Series Three Episode Fifteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Russian spies and numbers stations
- New RAC Director - Quebec
- Leicester University CubeSat PLUME
- SANDS Contest Group DXpedition
- ISS packet repeater active
- Special Events Stations Hunter Award
- Ofcom Annual Report 2009/10
- Morse and iRTTY for iPhone
- ISS Contacts - an on-orbit decision
- Internet Amateur Radio Concern
- Minister 900 MHz band decision
- Poland's first 10 metre beacon
- DAB 'Flop' and Internet Radio
Your feedback, upcoming events and Colin (M6BOY) discusses SmartPhones for Amateurs
ICQ Podcast Series Three Episode Fourteen (04 July 2010) – Going Mobile
Series Three Episode Fourteen of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast. News Stories include:
- Radio Hams travel to space station
- May RAE - callsigns not yet available
- Ham radio satellite SO-67 back on air!
- UK Amateur Radio Licences - 31st May 2010
- New UK Amateur Foundation licence syllabus
- Oman on 50 MHz
- Ham Radio - 2010 National Scout Jamboree
- Thai hams on 50 MHz for contest
- Stealth antenna for 500 kHz
- Ham radio called-out for campsite flood
- Slow Scan TV from the edge of space
- Kid's Ham Radio tower must come down
- 30-months for hoax mayday calls
- BBC to Investigate Radio/TV Interference
- D-STAR illegal in France
- Power line tech could crash aircraft
Your feedback, upcoming events and Martin (M1MRB) discusses Mobile Installations












