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NCVEC to Release New Technician Question Pool to Public in January 2010
The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) is due to release the new Technician class (Element 2) question pool to the 14 VECs on December 1, 2009; it will be released to the public in January 2010. Each question pool for the three Amateur Radio license classes -- Technician, General and Amateur Extra -- is reviewed on a four-year rotation. This new Technician class pool will become effective on July 1, 2010.
ARRL, McSnyder Software Team Up to Provide iTunes Apps
Notice of Variation for GB3WX
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VE EXAMS
BARC VE EXAMS for 2009
BARC VE EXAMS Scheduled for 2010
2009 AERO VE EXAMS
Other Club Exams
Complimentary Wi-Fi Service
NEXT BRATS MEETING |
NEW LED HAM RADIO LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS RECORD SET DOWN-UNDER
A new, non line-of-sight optical communications distance record of 288 km has been set down-under with a
one-way transmission between two hams transmitting with Light Emitting Diodes. On the night of October 27th,
Rex Moncur, VK7MO, and Joe Gelston,VK7JG, assisted by Paul Godden,VK7KPG, set a new one way non line-
of-sight optical record of 288 km across Australia's Bass Strait. And they did this using red light scattered of the
clouds. VK7MO was on Mt. Liptrap in South Gippsland listening on his A-P-D based receiver. This while VK7JG
and VK7KPG were on Mt. Horror in North-East V-K-7 transmitting with a 3 watt Luxeon LED transmitter. The
signals from Mt. Horror were bounced off of some high altitude cirrus clouds estimated to have been at about
20,000 feet. On the receiving end, the callsigns from Mt. Horror were decoded by VK7MO using a new program
called Weak Signal Communicator. Weak Signal Communicator is actually a new front end for the Spectrum
Lab audio analyzing application that has was recently created by David Smith,VK3HZ.
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