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08/12/2016 | BIRDS CubeSat Constellation to Launch in 2017
AMSAT-UK reports that four CubeSats will comprise the BIRDS (Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds) constellation, which is set to deploy from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017.
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07/07/2016 | Annual “Night of Nights” Event to Resurrect Historic Shore Stations
The annual “Night of Nights” event, in which historic maritime CW stations such as KPH and WLO, and Coast Guard stations such as NMC, return from the dead for a few hours, starting at 0001 UTC on July 13.
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06/02/2016 | Transatlantic VHF Digital Receiver Site Now Operational in Newfoundland
A transatlantic VHF digital receiver site has begun operation in Newfoundland.
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04/21/2016 | Annual Armed Forces Day Cross-Band Communications Test Set for May 14
The US Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard will cosponsor the Armed Forces Day Military/Amateur Radio Cross-Band Communications Test on Saturday, May 14, 2016.
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04/20/2016 | SHARES Interoperability Exercise to Use 5 MHz Channels, Involve Amateur Radio
During the Pennsylvania Command and Communications Rally 2016 on April 21, US Department of Homeland Security SHARES Program stations will demonstrate interoperability with other federal stations, radio amateurs.
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03/22/2016 | SBE Urges FCC to Improve Medium-Wave Noise Environment
The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) has told the FCC that the regulatory agency needs to take another tack in its efforts to tackle AM revitalization. If the FCC takes the SBE’s advice, the result could be less noise in the MF and HF Amateur Radio...
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03/21/2016 | Puerto Rico ARES Volunteers Take Part in Caribe Wave 2016 Exercise
Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers in Puerto Rico for the second year took part in the annual Caribe Wave tsunami-preparation exercise.
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03/01/2016 | ARES Groups, Individual Hams Support Army and Air Force MARS Communications Exercise
More than 300 Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) members and individual radio amateurs on February 12 participated in the first quarterly Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) US Department of Defense communications exercise of 2016 (COMEX 16-1).
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