Podcasts about DARC

Foundations of Amateur Radio Around the world are thousands of associations, groups of people, clubs if you like, that represent radio amateurs. Some of those associations are anointed with a special status, that of "member society" or "peak body", which allows them to represent their country with their own governments and on the international stage to the ITU, the International Telecommunications Union, through a global organisation, the IARU, the International Amateur Radio Union. Some of these are known across our whole community, the ARRL in the USA, the RSGB in the UK, and the WIA in Australia. Some much less so, the CRAC, the Chinese Radio Amateurs Club, or the ARSI, the Amateur Radio Society of India, for example. In an attempt to get a deeper understanding of what distinguishes these organisations, I visited a dozen member society websites. Cultural sensibilities and aesthetics aside, the variety and sense of priority is both pleasing and astounding. Starting close to home, the WIA, the Wireless Institute of Australia, shows news as the most important and the top story is a radio contact between the International Space Station and a school, held about two weeks ago. The ERAU, the Estonian Radio Amateurs Association, features an article about the 2025 General Meeting outlining who was there, what was discussed and thanking the participants for their contributions. When I visited, the ARRL, the American Radio Relay League, top news item, was the renewed defence of the 902-928 MHz Amateur Radio Band, from a few days ago. The most important issue for the ARRL is that you read the latest edition of QST magazine, but only if you're a member. The RSGB, the Radio Society of Great Britain, has an odd landing page that links to the main site, which features much of the same content. The latest news is "Mental Health Awareness Week" and encourages us to celebrate kindness in our community. The DARC, the German Amateur Radio Club, has a page full of announcements and the top one was an article about current solar activity including a coronal hole and various solar flares. The ERASD, the Egyptian Radio Amateurs Society for Development, uses qsl.net as its main website. It features many images with text, presumably in Arabic, that unfortunately I was not able to translate. Curiously the landing page features some English text that welcomes all interested to join. I confess that I love the juxtaposition between a Yaesu FT-2000 transceiver and the images of Tutankhamun and the pyramids. The RAC, the Radio Amateurs of Canada, use their homepage to promote its purpose, and features many pictures of their bi-monthly magazine, which you can only read if you're a member, which is where many of the homepage links seem to go. The RCA, the Radio Club of Argentina, is promoting the 2024-2025 Railway Marathon, including links to descriptions of what constitutes a Railway Activation, how to reserve your station, and upcoming and past activations. There's also a reminder to renew your license. The ARSI, the Amateur Radio Society of India, has a very sparse landing page showing their mission and not much else. Clicking around gives you lots of information about the history, activities, awards and the like. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find out how to become licensed in India. There's hardly any images. In contrast, the URA, the Union of Radio Amateurs of Andorra, lands you on a page with contact details and not much else. Clicking through the site gives you lots of pictures of happy people and maps, lots of maps. The KARL, the Korean Amateur Radio League, features an announcement with a link to the 24th Amateur Radio Direction Finding, from a week ago, but it requires a login to actually read it. The JARL, the Japan Amateur Radio League, features an announcement to a form you can complete to join the "List of stations from which you do not wish to receive QSL cards." The NZART, the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters, features a big button to latest news and clicking on it shows the "Jock White Field Day", which was held several months ago. I wasn't able to see the CRAC, the Chinese Radio Amateurs Club, since the page didn't load for me. The "Wayback machine", also known as archive.org, from a capture a few days ago, showed a news item announcing the intent to organise the 1st Class C Amateur Radio Technical "something", I say "something" because I cannot actually load the article and see what it has to say. The event was scheduled for a month ago, the announcement was from several months ago. Content aside, finding sites was interesting too, mind you, there's plenty of member associations that don't have any web presence at all. Is that by choice, or necessity? The IARU list of member societies conflicts with the list of national organisations shown on Wikipedia. The IARU has about 160 entries, I say about, since the list isn't really formatted as much as it's congealed. Let's just say, perhaps a table for tabular data might be a novel approach. Wikipedia is slightly better formatted, it lists 93 national organisations. As it happens, both include a link to the national organisation for China, which is either the Chinese Radio Sports Association, with apparently two different acronyms, either CRSAOA, or CRSA, or if you believe the IARU as a source, it's the one I mentioned earlier, the CRAC. I don't know which one is right, but at least we can assume that the IARU page was updated formally, rather than edited by someone on the internet. Regardless of which one is the "real" Chinese national amateur radio organisation, none of the websites loaded for me. Let's move on. It's interesting that several non-English sites like Korea, Japan and Germany feature a button that allows their site to be translated into English. What's even more interesting is that the English version of the site is not in any way the same content. In many cases it appears to be information relevant to English visitors rather than a translation. One notable exception is Estonia, which allows a visitor to read their site in Estonian or English right out of the box. Unsurprisingly, the ARRL website has no buttons for Spanish, even though that represents about 13 percent of the USA population, let alone any other language. I'd encourage you to visit a few and see what you can learn about the other members of our community around the world. My visits leave me with questions. What do these organisations stand for? What do they do? Are they there for amateurs, for aspirant members, the general public, for regulators, for their members, for fund raising and advertising, or international visitors and tourism? It seems to me that looking at just a few of these organisations reveals a great many things about how they understand their own role and how they deliver service and just how much money they have to play with to make that happen. I'll leave you to ponder how effective they might be and what your role is in that endeavour. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

GB2RS News Sunday the 4th of May 2025 The news headlines: The RSGB's Tonight@8 series continues with HamSCI Learn about radar through an RSGB Convention presentation and a new members' benefit RSGB club insurance and beacon and repeater insurance have been renewed On Monday the 12th of May, Dr Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF and RSGB Propagation Studies Committee member Gwyn Griffiths, G3ZIL will be delivering a Tonight@8 webinar on “Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation: Space Weather We Can Do Together”. Since the 2017 Solar Eclipse QSO Party, HamSCI has been bringing together amateur radio operators and professional space scientists. They have been developing new and innovative ways to study space weather and its impacts on the ionosphere and radio propagation. In the presentation, Nathaniel will show results from the 2023 and 2024 HamSCI Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science. Gwyn will explain why he enjoys the HamSCI experience, from exchanges with scientists to learning from students while pursuing his studies on HF propagation. They'll also talk about what's next for the organisation and how you can participate. Find out more by going to rsgb.org/webinars In the latest RSGB 2024 Convention video to be released by the Society, Graham Murchie, G4FSG presents “Radar - the eyes of the few”. In the talk Graham gives a brief history of early radar, events leading up to the development of a viable system and the establishment of the world's first operational radar station at Bawdsey. Watch the video by going to youtube.com/@theRSGB  If you're interested in learning more about Bawdsey Radar Museum then check out the new benefit for RSGB members, which offers a 20% discount off the usual entrance price. Go to rsgb.org/partner-museums  to find out more! RSGB club insurance, and beacon and repeater insurance have now been renewed for the year to April 2026. Club insurance certificates can be downloaded via rsgb.org/repeaterinsurance. You will need to log in to obtain your certificate. Beacon and repeater insurance certificates are available for an admin fee of £15 from the RSGB shop.  Please allow a couple of days after renewal for your certificate to be dispatched. The RSGB Contest Club has recently exceeded one million QSOs. These have been made by RSGB members activating historic RSGB callsigns and special event callsigns, either in contests or in radio marathon activations. The QSOS have all been uploaded to Logbook of the World. The most prolific callsign has been G6XX with over 154,000 QSOs, and the most recent has been GB0IARU which was active in April to celebrate 100 years of the International Amateur Radio Union. Find out more about the RSGB Contest club, including how to join, by going to the RSGB website and selecting Contest Club from the ‘on the air' menu. Celebrations for the 70th Anniversary of GB2RS are well underway. To find out how you can get involved with special event stations and awards go to rsgb.org/gb70rs . The RSGB has recently updated the web page to add a selection of newsreader stories, which you can access by clicking ‘GB2RS Newsreader Stories' from the menu on the right-hand side. If you've ever wanted to learn more about the voice behind your weekly GB2RS broadcast, this is your chance. More stories will be added throughout the year. On Saturday the 10th of May, RSGB volunteers will be attending a regional Girlguiding event at Ardingly in West Sussex. Amongst other activities, Girlguiding members will have the opportunity to operate special event callsign GB25MAY via the QO-100 satellite. The volunteers would welcome contacts via QO-100 between 10.30 am and 3.30 pm on the day. Put the date in your diary and make time to encourage these youngsters as they try amateur radio! The German amateur radio society, DARC, is once again hosting the traditional HamCamp for youngsters during the HAM RADIO fair in Friedrichshafen  between the 26th and 29th of June. It is open to participants under 27 years old and includes three nights at HamCamp, three breakfast vouchers and a three-day ticket for the HAM RADIO fair. The package price is €80 and the deadline for registration is the 8th of June. You can find further information via tinyurl.com/hamcamp25 Please send details of all your news and events to radcom@rsgb.org.uk  The deadline for submissions is 10am on Thursdays before the Sunday broadcast each week. And now for details of rallies and events The Dartmoor Radio Rally is taking place tomorrow, Monday the 5th of May, at the Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Meavy Lane, Yelverton, Devon, PL20 6AL. Free parking is available. There will be the usual Bring and Buy as well as trader stands and refreshments. Doors open at 10am and admission is £3. For further details, please call Roger on 07854 088882 or email him via 2e0rph@gmail.com The popular Mills on the Air event is taking place on the weekend of the 10th and 11th of May. There are currently 35 stations taking part, with registrations still being accepted. Find out more by going to tinyurl.com/millsontheair or by visiting the Mills on the Air Facebook page. Now the Special Event news The Ramsbury Amateur Radio DX Group will be active on the 3rd, 4th and 8th of May using special callsign GB1VE to celebrate VE day. The group will be operating on 20m and 40m using CW, SSB and digital modes. The Vintage and Military Amateur Radio Society will be commemorating VE Day on Thursday the 8th of May. Members will be controlling a number of nets on varying frequencies between 7 am and 2 pm. They will be using vintage military equipment dating from the WWII period and beyond. The full programme of events can be found via vmars.org/news Worthing Radio Events Group are planning to operate GB8OFP for the anniversary of VE Day on the 8th of May. Operation will take place on the seafront at the Ferring Pillbox, Patterson's Walk, West Sussex. Members will be active between 10 am and 2 pm on the 40m and 20m bands using SSB. The East Midlands Electronics and Radio Group will be on the air between the 8th and 11th of May to celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day. Using the callsign GB1BK, the group will operate from the former RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire. Members expect to be operational on at least 40m, 20m and 2m, using SSB and possibly some FT8 and SSTV. Guernsey Amateur Radio Society will be operating special event radio station GU80LIB between the 9th and the 11th of May in celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Guernsey at the end of World War Two. See QRZ.com for more information. Special event station GB0SAR will be operating between the 3rd and the 30th of May to support SOS Radio Week. The station will mostly be working using FT4 on the 20m band but you might also catch it on the other HF bands using phone. For more information, visit QRZ.com  Now the DX news A team of radio amateurs is active as TX9A from Tubuai in the Austral Islands, IOTA reference OC-152, until Wednesday the 7th of May. The group will operate on the HF bands. QSL is available via DK8ZZ. For all direct requests, use Clublog OQRS. Further information is available via austral2025.com Yuris, YL2GM is active as ZS8W from Prince Edward and Marion Island, IOTA reference AF-021, until Friday the 16th of May. Yuris will be on Marion island as a radio engineer and member of the SANAP station communication equipment maintenance team, and he hopes to find good periods of time to be operational.  Now the contest news The ARI International DX Contest started on Saturday the 3rd of May and ends at 1159UTC today, Sunday the 4th of May. Using CW, RTTY and SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Italian stations also send their province. The 432MHz to 245GHz Contest also started on Saturday the 3rd of May and ends at 1400UTC today, Sunday the 4th of May. Using all modes on 432MHz to 245GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The 10GHz Trophy runs today, Sunday the 4th of May, from 0800 to 1400 UTC. Using all modes on 10GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The May 144MHz Contest also runs today, Sunday the 4th of May, from 0800 to 1400 UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also today, the 144MHz Backpackers Contest runs from 1100 to 1500 UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. UK stations also send their postcode. Today, Sunday the 4th of May, the UK Microwave Group Low Band Contest runs from 0800 to 1400 UTC. Using all modes on 1.3 to 3.4GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Worked All Britain 7MHz Phone Contest runs today, Sunday the 4th of May, from 1000 to 1400 UTC. Using SSB on the 40m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and Worked All Britain Square. On Tuesday, the 6th of May, the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. Using FM on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on Tuesday, the 6th of May, the 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday, the 7th of May, the 144MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest runs from 1700 to 2100 UTC. Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is a report and a four-character locator. Also on Wednesday, the 7th of May, the 144MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator. Stations entering the four-hour contest may also enter the two-hour contest. On Thursday, the 8th of May, the 50MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130 UTC. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Thursday the 1st of May 2025 After the previous week's geomagnetic disturbances, as described in last week's GB2RS, the last seven days have been relatively quiet. The Kp index has mostly been in the ones and twos, however the rise to a Kp value of four on Thursday the 1st of May could herald a return to unsettled conditions. The solar flux index peaked at 170 on the 24th of April, before declining to 148 at the end of the month. HF conditions have been acceptable rather than outstanding and many stations struggled to work DX at times during International Marconi Day on the 26th of April. Nevertheless, there is DX about including ZS8W Marion Island, TX9A Austral Islands and HD8G Galapagos Islands. A look at the Proppy propagation prediction tool will help you work out the best times for making a contact with each station and on each band. You can find it by going to rsgb.org/propagation-tools Looking ahead, a large sunspot has rotated into view. Now designated 4079, this region has returned and was previously sunspot region 4055. It has already emitted an M-class solar flare, and we may expect greater activity as it becomes more Earth-centric over the next week. NOAA predicts that the solar flux index will climb again in the coming week, perhaps rising to between 160 and 165. Geomagnetic disturbances are also due to rise, with the Kp index forecast to reach five on the 5th and 6th of May. If this becomes a reality, expect lowered MUFs and poorer HF paths, especially over the poles as the Kp index rises. And finally, this week traditionally marks the start of the Sporadic-E season so keep an eye on 10m and 12m for short- and medium-range openings to Europe. And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO The current spell of high-pressure Tropo weather weakened a little as last week ended and we'll see the return of unsettled conditions with showery rain, perhaps even the odd thunderstorm. This is unlikely to lead to a total removal of high pressure and Tropo will still be worth looking for, especially over the western side of the UK. Some models place a new high just west of Britain during the coming week. This means that the rain prospects are not great, although probably just enough for a hint of rain scatter in any isolated heavier showers. The HF bands sounded a bit ‘watery' at times last week, which is a classic sign of potential aurora to explore on the higher bands. Look out for aurora in the coming week if the Kp index climbs above five. Meteor scatter is worth thinking about and, after last week's Lyrids, we now have the Eta Aquariids shower peaking in the early hours of the 6th of May. Remember that Sporadic-E ionisation is largely composed of long-lived meteor ions, so be on watch for Es openings. From now onwards through to mid-September, Sporadic-E will dominate the lower VHF bands, so check the clusters for signs of activity. Remember that Es starts on 10m and moves HF as an opening develops, even reaching 2m in the peak summer. Unlike Tropo, Es events are often fleeting, so the best you can do is monitor conditions as the Es intensifies and be ready when it reaches the band you want. Don't forget to check the daily Es blogs on www.propquest.co.uk which discuss the potential links between location of jet streams and Es formation. EME path losses are increasing, but apogee is still a week away. Moon declination passed maximum last Thursday so Moon windows are shortening along with reducing peak elevation. 144MHz sky noise is low all week. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

INHALT: Heute berichten wir von den Funkaktivitäten aus der Europäischen Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz, über das 100-jährige Bestehen der I.A.R.U. über einen Medikamenten-Notruf eines Funkamateurs aus Moskau und über die Vermüllung der Erdumlaufbahn. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Europäische Kulturhauptstadt Chemnitz 100 Jahre IARU Notruf aus Moskau Weltraumschrott GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Peter Maffay - Eiszeit Daniel Gerard - Butterfly ABBA - So long Edith Piaf - Je regrette rien James Last - Moskauer Nächte AC/DC - Satellite Blues Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Und, was gibt es heute für Sie? Viel interessantes, natürlich. Wir beschäftigen uns zu Ostern auch mit Oster-Eiern. Oder besser gesagt, mit neuartiger Technik, die mittels Mini-Computer dazu beiträgt, dass gekochte Eier immer perfekt gelingen und genau richtig hart oder weich sind. Und, auch wollen wir mal dem Vatikan einen Funk-Besuch abstatten. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Das Piep-Ei Radio Vatikan Pausenzeichen - Die Geschichte Technik im Vatikan GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT The Lords - Gloryland Joy Flemming - Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein Bourbon Skiffle Band - Mein Papagei frisst keine harten Eier Gregorian - Arrival Peter Maffy - Lieber Gott Jasper Merle - Samsara Davanala Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Was macht eigentlich die Faszination am Amateurfunk aus? Wer sind diese Menschen, die sich in Ihrer Freizeit mit Elektronik und Funktechnik beschäftigen? Wir begeben uns in dieser Sendung auf eine Spurensuche. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Faszination Amateurfunk Blueghost GPS funktioniert auch auf dem Mond Software im Auto mit Tücken GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Shocking Blue - Ink Pot Salvatore Adamo - Le Neon Chat-GPT - Amateurfunk ist mehr als Funk Foreigner - Girl on the Moon Roxette - Spending my Time Billie Jo Spears - 57 Chevrolet Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

Por mais clichê que pareça, o ensinamento que cada um tem a própria trajetória é muito verdadeiro, não existe regra para o jogo da vida e a estudante Darc Andréa de Souza Silva é exemplo disso. Aos 61 anos de idade ela começou a estudar Jornalismo na faculdade Estácio, em Belo Horizonte, e hoje aos 65, no oitavo período, faz estágio na Rádio Itatiaia.Mas para conseguir realizar esse sonho, ela precisou guardá-lo por um tempo. Quando tinha apenas 14 anos, Darc perdeu a mãe e teve que assumir a enorme responsabilidade de cuidar dos irmãos mais novos. Além disso, depois de mais velhos, Darc também cuidou do pai e do avô.Atualmente, ela trabalha como taxista, profissão que exerce há 45 anos e entre passageiros e quilômetros rodados, ela construiu não só um caminho profissional, mas uma história de força, superação e amor pela comunicação.

INHALT: Sie hören in dieser Sendung einen Bericht über das Aus für die Stimme Amerikas, einen Medikamentennotruf über Amateurfunk, die Antwort auf die Frage, ob man unbedingt auf Windows 11 upgraden muss und am Ende wird Eva-Maria eine schier unglaubliche Geschichte zum Besten geben: Nämlich dass die Orientierung von Honigbienen durch Sonnenstürme gestört wird. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Aus für die Stimme Amerikas Windows 11 Upgrade Medikamenten-Notruf über Amateurfunk Sonnenstürme verwirren Honigbienen GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Tom Petty - Learning to fly Ofra Haza - Show me THE DUKES OF DIXIELAND - When My Sugar walks down the Street FRANK ZANDER - Captain Starlight Billy Swan - I can Help ABBA - Honey Honey Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: 10 Jahre auf Sendung haben wir nun mittlerweile hinter uns, starten wir also in unser 11. Jahr. Und was haben wir für Sie heute zu bieten? Einen Bericht über die Faszination des Amateurfunks, die geplante Wieder-Eröffung des Hamburger Fernsehturms, Probleme mit DAB-Rundfunkfrequenzen die das Militär für sich beansprucht und am Ende wird sich Eva-Maria nochmals Gedanken über die Quellen des Rauschens machen. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Faszination Amateurfunk Hamburger Fernsehturm Ärger mit DAB-Frequenzen Quantenpunkte Rauschquellen GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT MASTERBOY - Land of Dreaming John Foggerty - Blue Ridge Montain Blues ChatGPT - Ham Radio Operators Santiano - Hoch im Norden Status Quo - In the Army now Boney M - Robbons of blue Three Dog Night - Black and White Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Mit dieser Sendung ist RADIO DARC genau seit 10 Jahren ON AIR. Sie hören, wie die Aus- und Weiterbildung im DARC organisiert ist und was der Verein für die Jugendarbeit tut. Im Technik-Beitrag geht es darum, wie man Rauschen messen kann. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Jugendarbeit im DARC Rauschmessung GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Lobo - Standing at the end of the Line Status Quo - Rocking all over the World Chat-GPT - AFU Popsong Neil Diamond - Beautiful Noise Disturbed - Sound of Silence Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Neben aktuellen Informationen aus der Funkwelt gibt es in der kommenden Sendung eien Bericht zur Saarländischen Amateurfunk-Ausstellung, zum geplanten Abriss des ehemaligen Radio-Luxemburg-Senders in Junglinster und einen Beitrag darüber, wieviel Informationen man in einen Übertragungs-Kanal hineinbekommt. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: RTL-Sender Junglister Kanalkapazität Rauschen Saarländische Amateurfunk-Ausstellung GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Howard Carpendale - Hello Again Star Sisters - Stars on 45 Medley Vicky Leandros - L'amour Est Bleu James Last - Happy Luxemburg Björn Skifs & Blablus - Silly Milly Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Der US-amerikanischen Wetterbehörde N.O.A.A. droht auf Anordnung der Trump-Regierung ein massiver Kahlschlag. Das hat auch Folgen für die Funkwettervorhersage. Das dieses Thema nicht nur für die Funkamateure von Bedeutung ist sondern für uns alle, werden wir in der heutigen Sendung herausstellen. Stichwort "Sonnenstürme" - und die können wirklich verheerende Auswirkungen haben. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Sonnenstürme Carrington-Ereignis GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT CCR - Around the Bend Status Quo - Paper Plane Jesus Jackson - Running On Sunshine The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun Crowded House - Weather With You Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Heute hören Sie unter anderem Technikbeiträge zu neuen photonischen Computer-Prozessoren, zum Bau eines riesigen Radioteleskops und zu neuen Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Künstlichen Intelligenz. Auch wollen wir das Thema "Rauschen" und seine Entstehung nochmal genauer unter die Lupe nehmen. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Amateurfunk in Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt Photonische Prozessoren Square Kilometer Array Deepseek als neues KI-Modell Chat-GPT lügt Rauschen und Kanalbandbreite GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Bob Moore - Mexico Kai Warner - Work Song Frank Schöbel - Freunde gibtg es überall Hot Choclate - Every one´s a winner now Chat-GPT - Die Antenne Jamelia - Superstar The Tremeloes - Hello Buddy Electric Light Orchestra - The Way Life's Meant to Be Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

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INHALT: Vor genau 55 Jahren wurde der erste voll-transistorisierte Farbfernseher vorgestellt. Dieses "Color-20" stammte interessanterweise aus der DDR und war damals eine echte technische erausforderung. Immerhin musste man alleine mit Halbleitern eine Spannung von 27 kV stabilisieren. Dazu beleuchten wir noch das Jubiläum des Berliner Fernsehturms, ein Prestigeprojekt der DDR und bis heute höchstes Bauwerk Deutschlands. In ihm gibt es nicht weniger als 170 Funkanwendungen von UKW über Fernsehen bis zu BOS. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Der erste volltransistorisierte Farbfernseher Geschichte des Berliner Fernsehturms GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Mary Wells - My Guy Salvatore Adamo - Tombe la Neige Puhdys - Sehnsucht Karat - Über 7 Brücken musst Du gehen Hugo Strasser - Moskauer Nächte Ute Freudenberg - Jugendliebe Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Heute gib es neue Nachrichten zur Kernfusion, zum neuen WiFi-8 Standard und einmal mehr beschäftigen wir uns mit der Messung von Signal-Rausch-Verhälnissen. Kurzum - tauchen Sie ein die die faszinierende Welt der Technik. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Kernfusion 17 Minuten WiFi 8 Begeisterung Amateurfunk WSPR Rauschmessung GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Bonfire - You make me feel Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning ChatGPT (KI-Generiert) - Amateurfunk Song Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn Michelle Torr - Lui The Seekers - It does not matter any more Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Heute gibt es Infos zu Mondautos, zu Diamantbatterien, zu neuartigen Datenspeichern und zu der Frage, was eigentlich Rauschen ist. Wenn das für Sie interessant klingt, dann hören Sie dieses Programm VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Mondfahrzeuge Diamantenbatterie Diamantenspeicher Rauschen - Was ist das GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT The Sweet - Funny Funny Aneka - Japanese Boy Gus Bakus - Der Mann im Mond Lee Marvin - I was born under an wandring star Shirley Bassey - Diamonds are forever Rihanna - Diamonds in the Sky Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

GB2RS News Sunday the 9th of February 2025 The news headlines: A new RSGB web page focuses on emerging technology An upcoming talk at Bletchley Park Museum aims to widen awareness of the radio spectrum and radio transmission Remember to share your British Science Week ideas The RSGB has launched a new web page on how emerging technology can be used in amateur radio. Technologies such as artificial intelligence and 3D printing offer the opportunity to broaden the definition of amateur radio. They can also increase appeal and attract a more diverse audience. For existing radio amateurs, they offer the opportunity for progression through learning new skills. You'll also find links to two RSGB Convention presentations, including the newly released talk on 3D printing by Tom Wardill, 2E0JJI. Go to rsgb.org/emerging-technology  to learn more. The Society will be adding more technologies to the web page in the coming months and would love to hear from you if you are involved in amateur radio in any of these areas. Share your stories via comms@rsgb.org.uk  On Saturday the 29th of March, the RSGB National Radio Centre Coordinator, Martyn Baker, G0GMB, together with Andy Webster, G7UHN from the Radio Communications Foundation, will be delivering a talk in the Fellowship Auditorium at the Bletchley Park Museum. The presentation will introduce people to the radio spectrum and how to get to grips with the fundamentals of radio transmission. The session is being delivered as part of the RSGB's ongoing strategy to promote amateur radio to wider audiences. The Society is pleased to announce that RSGB members who would like to attend the talk can benefit from a 10% discount, reducing the price to £14.40. To find out more about this talk, go to the ‘What's on' section on the Bletchley Park website via bletchleypark.org.uk  If you'd like to visit the Bletchley Park museum after the talk, don't forget that RSGB members can gain free entry by downloading a voucher from the RSGB website via rsgb.org/bpvoucher British Science Week is less than a month away and the RSGB would love you to use your interest, expertise and enthusiasm for amateur radio to get people involved. The annual event takes place between the 7th and 16th of March and celebrates science, technology, engineering and maths. Perhaps you love going portable and could take a local rambler group on an activation with you, or maybe you're a member of ‘Men in Sheds' and could deliver a soldering demonstration for them. The Society wants to make amateur radio accessible and inclusive for everyone. All ideas are welcome, both big and small. Whatever you are planning, send your ideas to the RSGB British Science Week Coordinator, Ian Neal, M0KEO via bsw@rsgb.org.uk  The RSGB will continue to share resources and ideas for how to get involved via rsgb.org/bsw  A competition has been launched for RSGB Regions 6 and 7 in Wales that will take place throughout March. The aim is to encourage both individual RSGB members, as well as Affiliated Clubs in Wales, to build their own resonant 21MHz antenna and make as many QSOs as possible on the 21MHz band during the month. There are four categories to enter, with certificates issued to the top three stations in each of the categories. A club trophy is also available. To view the full competition rules and to access the submission form, go to tinyurl.com/walescomp  Don't forget that Girlguiding groups will be taking part in World Thinking Day on the Air activities over the weekends of the 15th and 22nd of February. The event aims to encourage Girlguiding members to make friendships with those in other units, using amateur radio as the means of communication. A list of stations that have provided the RSGB with details of their callsign can be found by going to rsgb.org/thinking-day  If you'd like to be added to this list, please email comms@rsgb.org.uk And now for details of rallies and events Today, the 9th, the Mid Cheshire Amateur Radio Society RadioActive Fair is taking place at Nantwich Civic Hall, Market Street, Nantwich, Cheshire, CW5 5DG. The doors are open from 10 am to 3 pm and admission costs £5. Hot food, refreshments and free car parking are available. For more information contact Patrick, 2E0VGF via info@radioactivefair.co.uk The Red Rose Winter Rally is due to take place on Sunday the 23rd of February from 10 am at Mather Hall, Mather Lane, Leigh, Lancashire, WN7 2PJ. Please note that the maximum number of five-foot tables per trader has had to be reduced from six to five. On a brighter note, the price remains as it has been for several years at £10 per table. For more information visit wmrc.co.uk The Lagan Valley Amateur Radio Society Annual Rally will take place on Saturday the 1st of March at Hillsborough Village Centre, 7 Ballynahinch Road, BT26 6AR. The doors open at 10.30 am. For more details visit lvars.uk Now the Special Event news A series of special event stations is active until the 31st of March to celebrate the city of Chemnitz, one of the European Capitals of Culture for 2025. All QSOs will be uploaded to eQSL, Logbook of the World, Club Log and the DARC Community Logbook. Paper QSL cards will not be issued. For more information about the event, including details of a certificate that is available for working the stations, visit 2025c.de Special callsign A9100IARU is in use by the Bahrain Amateur Radio Society to mark the 100th anniversary of the International Amateur Radio Union. The callsign will be active for five days during each month of the 2025 year. The station was spotted recently using FT4 on the 10m band. QSL via EC6DX. British Railways Amateur Radio Society is continuing to run special event stations GB0LMR and GB2SDR during 2025 to celebrate 200 years of train travel. Operation is mainly focused on 40m but there may be additional activity on the 10m band using SSB. QSL via the Bureau. To read more about the special event stations, visit QRZ.com A team of operators from DARC is active until the 27th of April using special callsign DA0IARU. The station is operating to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the IARU. The special event team has been in existence for around five years and is led by Ric, DL2VFR. Now the DX news Thierry, TK1CX is active from Cameroon until the end of February. He is QRV as TJ/TK1CX on the 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m bands. He operates mainly using FT8. QSL via Logbook of the World, eQSL, or via EA5ZD. Przemo, SP3PS is operating as C5SP from The Gambia until around the middle of March. He operates using SSB and FT8 on the HF bands. QSL via SP3PS. Now the contest news The CQ World Wide WPX RTTY Contest started at 0000UTC on Saturday the 8th and runs until 2359UTC today, the 9th of February. Using RTTY on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The PACC Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday the 8th and runs until 1200UTC today, the 9th of February. Using CW and SSB on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. PA stations also send their province. On Tuesday the 11th, the RSGB 432MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 1955UTC. Using FM on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also, on Tuesday the 11th, the RSGB 432MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to 2230 UTC. Using all modes on the 70cm band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the 12th, the RSGB 432MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest runs from 1700 to 2100 UTC. Using FT8 on the 70cm band, the exchange is a report and four-character locator. Also, on Wednesday the 12th, the RSGB 432MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest runs from 1900 to 2100 UTC. Using FT8 on the 70cm band, the exchange is a report and four-character locator. Stations entering the four-hour contest may also enter the two-hour contest. On Wednesday the 12th, the RSGB 80m Club Championship data leg runs from 2000 to 2130UTC. Using PSK63 and RTTY on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Thursday the 13th, the RSGB 50MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes on the 6m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The ARRL International DX Contest starts at 0000UTC on Saturday the 15th and runs until 2359UTC on Sunday the 16th of February. Using CW on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and transmit power. USA stations also send their state and Canadian stations send their province.  Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Wednesday the 5th of February 2025 Last week went pretty much as predicted. The solar wind from a large coronal hole impacted the Earth on Saturday the 1st of February, pushing the Kp index to four. The hole was so large that the geomagnetic disturbance lasted until the early evening on Sunday. Once the solar wind speed had dropped, things got back to normal and the Kp index has been in the range of 1 to 2 ever since. The event appeared to have had little effect on HF propagation, with maximum usable frequencies over a 3000km path remaining above 28MHz during the daylight hours. So it looks like we dodged a bullet. At the time of writing, we have had 21 M-class flares in three days. A solar flare measuring M8.8 was detected around active region 3981, peaking at 0358UTC on the 3rd of February. This was the strongest flare yet from this region in terms of peak X-Ray flux. However, the flare itself was impulsive and was not the source of a coronal mass ejection. Over the next week, NOAA predicts that the solar flux index could fall slightly to be in the 180 to 200 range. Make the most of the good propagation as we may be entering a period of unsettled geomagnetic conditions again from the 10th to the 17th of February. NOAA predicts that the Kp index could rise to a maximum of 5 on the 13th but is likely to be in the range of 3 to 5 over the seven days. Part of this may be down to another coronal hole which became Earth-facing on the 6th of February. There is also a good chance that we could get an X-class eruptive flare from active regions 3981 or 3978, which could result in a coronal mass ejection. We recommend you keep an eye on solarham.com for daily updates. And now the VHF and up propagation news from G3YLA and G4BAO High pressure during the second half of last week brought some useful tropo conditions. As this week, ending today the 9th comes to a close there are some wintry showers along North Sea coasts, which may produce some snow and rain scatter. However, this may be weakened by the nearby high pressure.  By the end of this week, ending today the 9th, there will be a change of weather pattern as the high, having now migrated to Scandinavia, leaves room for Atlantic weather systems to encroach from the west during the coming week. This could bring rain scatter possibilities to the western side of the country. These should be more useful than the eastern coast ones at the end of last week since the rain will probably be heavier and the fronts slow-moving. This time of year is something of a desert for Sporadic-E propagation although look out for lesser events as a result of jet streams. You can track these on the Propquest website. Keep a look out for auroras during the week beginning tomorrow, the 10th. The likelihood of M-class flares is around 85%, while the chance of X-class flares is approximately 20%. So keep an eye on the Kp index for any potential solar events that could cause auroras. Next week, there are no major meteor showers. The next significant meteor shower, the Lyrids, will become active in April. Keep checking the pre-dawn period for random meteors. Moon declination reached a maximum yesterday, Saturday the 8th. Path losses are still low but will increase throughout the coming week. This means that this weekend, ending today the 9th, should produce good activity for EME, especially on the GHz bands with long Moon windows and high peak Moon elevation. 144MHz sky noise is moderate this weekend, ending today the 9th, but falls to low for the rest of the coming week. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

INHALT: Für die Teilnahme am Amateurfunk muss man eine amtliche Prüfung bei der Bundesnetzagentur ablegen - und die ist keinesfalls geschenkt. Man muss sich also vorbreiten und lernen. Hierfür bietet der DARC eine ganze Reihe von Hilfen an, von Präsenzkursen über Online bis hin zu Lernvideos. Ein relativ neues Angebot ist eine spezielle Lerngruppe auf Telegram. Wir stellen Sie und Ihren Leiter heute mal genauer vor. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: DARC Lerngruppe Prüfungsangst Amsat OSCAR 7 - ältestes Objekt im Weltraum GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Queen - Tear it up THEM - It's all over now Queen - Radio GaGa AC/DC - School Days Puhdys - Alt wie ein Baum Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Können Sie sich noch an Produkte der Firma Blaupunkt erinnern? Ja, da war doch mal was! Die Autoradios dieses Herstellers waren legendär und jeder kannte sie, fast jeder hatte sie. Doch irgendwie sind sie sang- und klanglos aus unserem Alltag verschwunden. Warum, dem gehen wir heute einmal nach mit einem Blick zurück auf eine Ikone der Deutschen Technik. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Blaupunkt Autoradios Hörerpost zum KW-Marathon Interview mit Raimund Achatz GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT The Beatles - O-Bla-Di O-Bla-Da Peter Cornelius - Ganz Wien hat den Blues Queen - The Show must go on Los Paraguayos - Adelita Los Paraguayos - Guantanamera Kraftwerk - Autobahn Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Am 19. Januar jährt sich zum 25. Mal der Todestag von Hedy Lamarr. Die im Jahr 2000 verstorbene österreichische schauspielerin hat nicht nur auf der Leinwand und in Hollywood Karriere gemacht, sondern auch im Ingenieurwesen. Sie gilt als die Erfinderin einer bestimmten Funktechnik, die heute praktisch jedermann nutzt. Und was das ist, das erfahren Sie in unserer heutigen Sendung. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Hedy Lamarr Frequnezsprung-Verfahren Rückblende auf die CES in Las Vegas GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT The Beatles - Act Naturally Teddy Staufer - Goody Goody Erhard Bauschke - Jawohl, meine Herr´n Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp - This is a Song for Miss Hedy Lamarr The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star Gary Numan - Cars Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Eine Satelliten-Station im schottischen Dundee sollte abgerissen werden, weil sie nicht mehr wirtschaftlich war. Aber, die dortigen Angestellten wehrten sich mit Händen und Füßen dagegen. Schließlich machte man dort Experimente mit Quanten-Licht und die Anlage ist heute ein Hot Spot für die Forschung. Hören Sie, was in Schottland gelang. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Sat-Station in Dundee Cybersicherheit auch für Satelliten Vorstellung der Station in Wooferton GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT The Beach Boys - Sloop John B Eric Clapton - My father´s Eyes Three Dog Night - Joy to the World Toney Carey - I saw a Satellite Andre Brassuer - Early Bird Elton John - Please Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: In unserer ersten Sendung im Jahr 2025 berichten wir von Chemnitz als europäischer Kulturhauptstadt und den hiermit verbundenen Amateurfunk Aktivitäten. Weiter geht es um die Abschaltung von DVB-T Sendern, dem Ende der Mittelwelle für Talkradios und um Schutz vor der Explosion von Lithium-Ionen-Akkus VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Abschaltung Inselsberg Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt Schutzventile für LiIonen Akkus Ender der Mittwelwelle für Talkradios GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT ChatGPT - DARC Wooferton Song Katrina & The Waves - Love shine a Light Der Sachsen Song Nazareth - Dream On Foreigner - Yesterday Man without Hats - Safety Dance Creedance Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

The Duffy antigen, also known as the Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC), plays a critical role in immune system regulation and disease processes. It is a protein found on the surface of red blood cells and endothelial cells, known primarily for its function as a receptor for chemokines and its role in malaria resistance. However, emerging research has highlighted a fascinating link between the Duffy antigen and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune condition. In individuals with lupus, the immune system becomes overactive, targeting the body's own tissues and causing widespread inflammation. The Duffy antigen has been implicated in this process because of its role in modulating immune responses. Specifically, DARC binds to and regulates the levels of chemokines, proteins that guide immune cells to sites of inflammation. Dysregulation of this pathway may contribute to the heightened immune activity observed in lupus. Additionally, certain genetic variations in the Duffy antigen, such as the Fy(a-b-) phenotype, which is common in individuals of African descent, have been associated with altered susceptibility to autoimmune diseases, including lupus. These variations may influence the way the immune system interacts with chemokines and other inflammatory signals. Understanding the relationship between the Duffy antigen and lupus opens new doors for research, offering insights into the genetic and molecular underpinnings of the disease. This connection also holds promise for developing targeted therapies aimed at modulating immune responses in lupus patients, potentially improving outcomes and quality of life. By exploring the link between the Duffy antigen and lupus, scientists are unraveling the complex interplay between genetics, immune regulation, and autoimmunity, providing hope for better treatments and a deeper understanding of this challenging condition.

INHALT: In unserer letzten Sendung im Jahr 2024 nehmen wir Abschied von der Kurzwellen-Sendeanlage in Moosbrunn bei Wien. Diese wird zu Sylvester für immer abgeschaltet. Wir beleuchten nochmals die Geschichte der Anlage und Ihre Technik. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Moosbrunn Abschied von der Sendeanlage GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Lordie - Hard Rockj Halleluja Bonfire - Say Goodbye Puhdys - Es war schön Katja Ebstein - Abschied ist ein bischen wie sterben Welle Erdball - Mein Radio Paul Moriat - Love is blue Mary Hopkin - Goodbye Nicki - Ist es wirklich vorbei Rammstein - Radio Relax - I wui Radio hör´n Hugo Strasser - Moskauer Nächte Roy Black - Il silenzio Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Es ist Weihnachten. Und da darf natürlich unsere traditionelle Weihnachtsgeschichte nicht fehlen. Eine ganz besondere Amateurfunk-Weihnachtsgeschichte haben wir daher für Sie vorbereitet. Abermals gerät der Weihnachtsmann mit seinem berühmten Rentier Rudi - ja der mit der roten Nase - in Bedrängnis und bittet um Unterstützung durch die freundlichen Funker. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Weihnachtsgeschichte Rudolf das Rentier GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Goombay Dance Band - Christmas at Sea Celtic Thunder - Christmas 1915 Johann K. - Rudi Rentier James Last - Kling Glöchen Klingelingeling James Last - Morgen Kinder wird´s was geben Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

A new episode with Jordan Schmaltz and Gage Ausmus. This week the fellas get into: - NHL Alumni game in Aspen - 97 vs 97 at the X - One Hitters w/ The Captain - People's Insider Term of the Week - NailGun of the Week - DK Intro - Agent Darc - Capping off an 11 year pro career - Jungle War Stories - Nodak Stories - The infamous "Wild one" shot && much more !! Presented by: @butter.golf @minnemovers FOLLOW US: Instagram: @liveinfivepod @jschmaltz24 @gageausmus Twitter: @liveinfivepod @j_swish24 @gausmus47 YouTube: @liveinfive2024

INHALT: Bald ist Weihnachten und da kommt in diesem Jahr auch wieder die legendäre Traditions-Sendung "Gruss an Bord" des Norddeutschen Rundfunks. Seit vielen Jahrzehnten gehen auf Kurzwelle die Grüße hinaus an die Seeleute in aller Welt, die das Weihnachtsfest fern von Zuhause feiern müssen. Wir haben daher heute einen ehemaligen Funk-Offizier zu Gast, das ist Ingo Weber. Er wird uns über seinen langjährigen Alltag als Funker an Bord eines Schiffes berichten. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: Seefunk Funkoffizier GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Human Nature - Let it Snow John D Laudermilk - The Great Snowman Mike Batt - Portishead Radio Lolita - Seemann deine Heimat ist das Meer Harry Bellafonte - Islands in the Sun Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

INHALT: Im westschwedischen Grimeton befindet sich ein höchst kurioser Sender, nämlich der weltweit einzige noch erhaltene Maschinensender nach dem Alexanderson-Prinzip. Er steht als technisches Welt-Kulturerbe unter dem Schutz der UNESCO. Wir stellen Ihnen diese Anlage in der heutigen Sendung einmal detailliert vor. VERSCHLAGWORTUNG: SAQ Alexanderson-Alternator Maschinensender Weihnachtsgeschenke für Funkamateure GEMA INFO / FOLGENDE MUSIKTITEL WERDEN IN DIESER SENDUNG GESPIELT Roxette - Perfect Day Te Vaka - Pate Pate James Last - Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann James Last - Sleighride ABBA - Move on Anna-Lena Löfgren - Lyckliga Gatan Gruß und vy 73, Rainer Englert (DF2NU)

Programa de Variedades transmitido ao vivo no dia 2 de dezembro de 2024 para a disciplina Laboratório de Jornalismo em Áudio.

Programa de variedades transmitido ao vivo no dia 2 de dezembro de 2024 para a disciplina Laboratório de Jornalismo em Áudio.

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB,Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and Ed Durrant DD5LP to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is Pennine Ham - Nick G4IWO. We would like to thank our monthly and annual subscription donors for keeping the podcast advert free. To donate, please visit - http://www.icqpodcast.com/donate RADIO D.A.R.C. to broadcast out of England from January 2025 Changes Underway in ARRL's Vec Program A Big Brother-Ish Use Of The 5.9 Ghz Band? Encourage Youngsters on the Air 25th Annual SKYWARN Recognition Day Santa Net Runs Through Christmas Eve RSGB HF Contest Changes

In this debut episode of Mocktails with Darc & Lex, hosts Darcey and Alexis dive deep into the topic of personas and the masks we wear in our daily lives. Get ready for a mix of vulnerability, laughter, and insightful conversation! Key Topics Discussed Understanding the concept of personas in our personal and professional lives The reasons why we create and maintain different masks How these masks can both protect and limit us Personal stories from Darcey and Alexis about their own experiences with personas The journey towards authenticity and self-acceptance Memorable Moments Darcey's hilarious anecdote about her "perfect mom" persona at school events Alexis's vulnerable share about shedding her "always strong" mask The hosts' giggly attempt at describing their "mocktail drinks" Takeaways Recognizing our different personas is the first step towards authenticity It's okay to have different sides to your personality, but be aware of when they become limiting Vulnerability and self-acceptance are key to living a more genuine life   Want to try the famous Mocktail with Gutpersonal Magnesium? Grab your Miracle Worker and Save 10% off: https://www.gutpersonal.com/darcey  Connect with Alexis: https://www.instagram.com/alexismcarpenter/  Connect with Darcey: https://www.instagram.com/darceyelizabeth.co/  Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/9ggm556LMzM 

La disparition de Mireille Darc le 28 août 2017, émouvait les Français et le monde du cinéma. En premier lieu, bien sûr, son ex-compagnon Alain Delon... Tous les jours, retrouvez en podcast une archive des meilleures imitations de Laurent Gerra.

Zeigler News Week of July 22, 2024Current Events at Zeigler with Sam DArc, Mike Van Ryn, and Ariah Daniels

Francesca Cordeiro, MD, PhD, MRCP, FRCOphth, recaps her article, “DARC: From Bench to Bedside,” which was featured in the March/April issue of Glaucoma Today. In her article, she reviews a novel retinal biomarker—the Detection of Apoptosing Retinal Cells (DARC)—and its potential to function as a surrogate endpoint in glaucoma and other neurodegenerative conditions.

PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1323 - Full Version Release Date: July 6, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition is anchored by Denny Haight, NZ8D, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Joshua Marler, AA4WX, Don Hulcik, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX. Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS. Approximate Running Time: 1:42:53 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service: Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1323 Trending headlines in this week's bulletin service 1. AMSAT: Firefly Aerospace's Alpha “Noise of Summer” Mission Rescheduled 2. AMSAT: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Successfully Launches GOES-U Satellite 3. AMSAT: Satellite Shorts From All Over 4. WIA: United States Congress May Mandate AM Radio In Cars 5. FCC: FCC Proposes Rule Requiring Carriers To Unlock All Cellphones 6. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director - PART ONE 7. ARRL: Call For Nominations For ARRL Director and Vice Director - PART TWO 8. ARRL: ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption 9. ARRL: YOTA Camp Ham Shack Renamed For Bob Heil, K9EID, (SK) 10. ARRL: New ARRL Section Managers Are Announced 11. ARRL: International Amateur Radio Union HF World Championship Occurs Next Weekend 12. ARRL: Logbook of The World Returns To Service 13. ARRL: The New Amateur Extra Class Question Pool Has Been Released 14. Ham Radio Event Held Annually In Friedrichshafen Germany A Big Success 15. Two Lithuanian-American Aviators Remembered In Upcoming Special Event 16. New Challenge Is Added By RSGB To This Years IARU HF Championship 17. ARRL: Amateurs activate the Hurricane Watch Net and provide communications for Hurricane Beryl 18. Upcoming RadioSport Contests and upcoming Conventions 19. The monthly Volunteer Monitor Report 20. FCC - ISP's Nationwide urge US Courts to block the FCC's Net Neutrality Regulations 21. AMSAT - AMSAT Board of Directors Nominees are announced 22. AMSAT - The AMSAT Mail Alias Service will end on August 01, 2024 23. WIA - Germany grants remote operation, DARC to build stations for remote use around the country 24. ARRL: ARRL and Momobeam introduce a dual beam antenna for both six and ten meters 25. ARRL: ARRL Club Grant Program application deadline is approaching 26. Four Meter privileges granted to amateurs in Germany are extended to the end of 2024 27. NASA hires SpaceX to build a craft to purposely deorbit the International Space Station Plus these Special Features This Week: * Working Amateur Radio Satellites with Bruce Paige, KK5DO - AMSAT Satellite News * Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will explain exactly How Does The International Amateur Radio Union Work? * The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with all the latest news on Radio Sport, DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and more.. * The Weekly Propagation Forecast from Tad Cook, K2RA * Will Rogers, K5WLR - The History of Amateur Radio. This week, Will goes back to the days of The Spark Gap with an article entitled The Squeak Box. 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It's a jam packed MINI this week with Moff & Darc. Gold Coast marathon is here, Clubby Sports Grand Final Breakfast tickets go on sale next week & there's some veryyyyyy exciting content dropping next week. Use the code 'MINIS15' for 15% off CSW: www.clubbysportswear.com SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS TO: mailbag@dylandfriends.com Contact Email - mailbag@dylandfriends.com Instagram - @dylbuckley @dylandfriends Youtube - @clubbysports Facebook - dylandfriends Tiktok - @dylandfriends Dyl & Friends is produced by Darcy Parkinson Video and audio production by Producey. ILY xx

Miniiiiiiiiis yes Dyl, Darc, Sean & Will. LFG CWS - sign up for early access: www.clubbysportswear.com First drop 7PM AEST Thursday 20th June TRAIN WITH DYL GIVEAWAY: bit.ly/TrainWithDyl Contact Email - mailbag@dylandfriends.com Instagram - @dylbuckley @dylandfriends Youtube - @clubbysports Facebook - dylandfriends Tiktok - @dylandfriends Dyl & Friends is produced by Darcy Parkinson Video and audio production by Producey. ILY xx

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In episode 314 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on the need for change, and explains how the podcast will be evolving now it is coming from a garage and not a shed! He aslo reads a short extract from his latest book Inside Vogue House: One Building. Seven magazines. Sixty years of stories... Plus this week, photographer Holly Revell takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length for the last ever answer to the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Holly Revell describes herself as an artist photographer who makes collaborative portraits with fellow queer folk exploring transforming identities. They have been working on their current project ‘People Like Us' since 2017, recording trans, gender non-conforming and non-binary identities and experience, which will be published as a book this year. Other projects include 'DARKROOM'; a series of photo-booth installations at art & club events (2010-14), ‘Transformations', photographs made with performers reflecting the transition from drag to self in one long-exposure (2016), a book titled ‘David Hoyle: Parallel Universe' (2017) and DARC which stands for documentation action research collective 2016-19). Holly has made a significant contribution to the documentation of queer performance and its icons in London, creating a record of a specific movement and the community surrounding it, which is archived at the Bishopsgate Institute. www.hollyrevell.co.uk Dr.Grant Scott After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Scott began to work as a photographer for a number of advertising and editorial clients in 2000. Alongside his photographic career Scott has art directed numerous advertising campaigns, worked as a creative director at Sotheby's, art directed foto8magazine, founded his own photographic gallery, edited Professional Photographer magazine and launched his own title for photographers and filmmakers Hungry Eye. He founded the United Nations of Photography in 2012, and is now a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, and a BBC Radio contributor. Scott is the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019), and What Does Photography Mean To You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His photography has been published in At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) and Crash Happy: A Night at The Bangers (Cafe Royal Books 2012). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was premiered in 2018. Scott's next book Inside Vogue House: One building, seven magazines, sixty years of stories, Orphans Publishing, is now on sale. © Grant Scott 2024

Yeeeeeees the minis. SD, Moff, Darc & I are on this week and there's some more drama that needs to be settled. You CANNOT be doing this in a cafe. We also cover our top 3 things to do on a Sunday & preview the upcoming Carlton Draft. Contact Email - mailbag@dylandfriends.com Instagram - @dylbuckley @dylandfriends Youtube - @clubbysports Facebook - dylandfriends Tiktok - @dylandfriends Dyl & Friends is produced by Darcy Parkinson Video and audio production by Producey. ILY xx

The history of training can be depicted like a spiral. While back and forth it looks like a flat circle with what was popular 30 years ago once again in vogue. Pull back a little, however, and that circle is going somewhere. Tim Selbrede returns to the REDACTED Culture Cast to talk about lessons learned from Night Vision instructor courses and DARC to go beyond the memes about how CQB is a good way to die. Beyond developing skills, as we have had opportunities to consider and analyze not only what we train, but how we do it, we better equip future generations to excel where we struggle. Follow Tim Selbrede on Twitter / X at @Hsolo275 aka  Ralph the Airborne Rangerand on Instagram: @revere275Support the REDACTED Culture Cast at redactedculture.locals.comSSP and boutique products at redactedllc.comFollow us on Instagram at @redactedllc

Yeeeeeeeeees the Minis are back. I'm joined by Will, Moff & Darc and it's a bloody biggie. Our Gather Round live show is on sale (14/03 10AM Adelaide time) TICKETS HERE Run Club is ON next week Mar 20 at my old office (MCG). Make sure you check out 200 PLUS & The Tradies Podcasts which have both kicked off their new seasons. WE'RE HIRING - If you're a social media guru & want to work at Producey, or know somebody perfect for the job, then get in touch HERE. PLUS, we cover our Top 3 Days of the week and squash some beef between Moff & myself. Contact Email - mailbag@dylandfriends.com Instagram - @dylbuckley @dylandfriends Youtube - @clubbysports Facebook - dylandfriends Tiktok - @dylandfriends   Dyl & Friends is produced by Dylan Buckley & Darcy Parkinson Video and audio production by Producey. ILY xx

In this episode Matt reviews his recent visit to the direct action resource center for the level two law enforcement counter terrorism course. Hear about his experience at the course, gear selection, and tips for your training visit Please enjoy the show!Direct Action Resource Center: IG: @directactionresourcecenterhttps://darc-usa.squarespace.com/The OpTempo Training Group website for an updated list of classes:https://optempotraining.com/@optempotraining on Instagram and FacebookFind us on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4kBpYUjDdve9BULTHRF2Bw/featured?view_as=subscriberLowa BootsIG: @lowa.professional and @lowabootshttps://www.lowaboots.com/

Yeeeeeeeeeees the Minis. I'm joined by Scoot, Sean & Darc as we cover off some strange topics, including eating raw chicken, our favourite instagram profiles, scenic pisses & whether a grown man should be wearing triangle undies still. Enjoy!   Contact Email - mailbag@dylandfriends.com Instagram - @dylbuckley @dylandfriends Youtube - @dylandfriends Facebook - dylandfriends Tiktok - @dylandfriends   Dyl & Friends is produced by Dylan Buckley & Darcy Parkinson Video and audio production by Producey. ILY xx

Yeeeeeeeees. Minis. Yes. Dyl. Moff. Darc. Zach. We're talkin' business. WA is a go. We'll be running, we'll be golfing, we'll be doin' it all in March. Stay tuned for details! Contact Email - hello@producey.com Instagram - @dylbuckley @dylandfriends Youtube - @dylandfriends Facebook - dylandfriends Tiktok - @dylandfriends Dyl & Friends is produced by Dylan Buckley & Darcy Parkinson Video and audio production by Producey. ILY xx

Foundations of Amateur Radio Today I'm going to spend a little longer with you than usual, but then, I think this is important and it's good to end the year on a bang. Have you ever attempted to make contact with a specific DXCC entity and spent some time exploring the band plan to discover what the best frequency might be to achieve that? If you got right into it, you might have gone so far as to attempt to locate the band plan that applies to your particular target. If you have, what I'm about to discuss will not come as a surprise. If not, strap yourself in. When you get your license you're hopefully presented with a current band plan that is relevant to your license conditions. It shows what frequencies are available to you, which modes you can use where, and what power levels and bandwidth are permitted. It should also show you if you're the primary user or not on a particular band. If you're not sure what that means, some frequency ranges are allocated to multiple users and amateur radio as one such user is expected to share. If you're a primary user you have priority, but if you're not, you need to give way to other traffic. It should come as no surprise that this is heavily regulated but as a surprise to some, it changes regularly. Across the world, frequency allocation is coordinated by the International Telecommunications Union, the ITU, and specifically for amateur radio, by the International Amateur Radio Union, the IARU. It coordinates frequencies with each peak amateur radio body. The ITU divides the world into three regions, Region 1, 2 and 3, each with its own band plan. Within each region, a country has the ability to allocate frequencies as it sees fit - presumably as long as it complies with the ITU requirements. As a result, there's not one single picture of how frequencies are allocated. And this is where the fun starts. In Australia there's an official legislated band plan, cunningly titled F2021L00617. It contains the frequencies for all the radio spectrum users as well as a column for each ITU region. The document is 200 pages long, and comes with an astounding array of footnotes and exclusions. It's dated 21 May 2021. There's a simplified version published by the Wireless Institute of Australia, which comes as a 32 page PDF. It was last updated in September 2020. When I say "simplified", I'm of course kidding. It doesn't include the 60m band which according to the regulator is actually an amateur band today. The 13cm band according to the WIA shows a gap between 2302 and 2400, where the regulator shows it as a continuous allocation between 2300 and 2450 MHz. The point being, who's right? What can you actually use? Oh, the WIA does have a different page that shows that 6m "has had some additions", but they haven't bothered to update their actual band plan. To make life easier, the regulator includes helpful footnotes like "AUS87". This is particularly useful if you want to search their PDF to determine what this actually says, since it only appears 156 times and it's not a link within the document. In case you're curious, it's related to three radio astronomy facilities operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, better known as the CSIRO, two by the University of Tasmania and one by the Canberra Deep Space Network. Interestingly the Australian Square Kilometer Array and the Murchison Widefield Array don't feature in those particular exclusions, they're covered by footnote AUS103. If that wasn't enough. The regulator has no time for specific amateur use. You can find the word Amateur 204 times but there's no differentiation between the different classes of license which means that you need to go back to the WIA document to figure out which license class is allowed where, which of course means that you end up in no-mans land if you want to discover who is permitted to transmit on 2350 MHz. If we look further afield, in the USA the ARRL publishes half a dozen different versions, each with different colours, since black and white, grey scale, colour and web-colour are all important attributes to differentiate an official document. Of course, those versions are now all six years out of date, having been revised on the 22nd of September 2017. The most recent version, in a completely different format, only in one colour, has all the relevant information. It shows a revised date of 10 February 2023, that or, 2 October 2023 because of course nobody outside the US is ever going to want to refer to that document - seeing as there's only amateurs in the USA, well at least according to the ARRL. Interestingly the US Department of Commerce, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Office of Spectrum Management publishes a colourful chart showing the radio spectrum between 3 kHz and 300 GHz. You can't use it as a technical document, but it's pretty on a wall to amaze your non-amateur friends. The FCC has a band plan page, but I couldn't discover how to actually get amateur relevant information from it. If you think that's bad, you haven't seen anything yet. The British are special. The RSGB publishes a variety of versions, each worse than the next. It appears that their system creates a single HTML page for each band, their 32 page PDF is a print out of that and their interactive viewer wraps all that into some proprietary system that makes using it an abysmal experience. Fortunately, they also link to a band plan made by the regulator, presented as a five page PDF which is much more concise and has the helpful heading: "The following band plan is largely based on that agreed at IARU Region 1 General Conferences, with some local differences on frequencies above 430MHz." Unfortunately it doesn't specify which particular General Conferences apply, but it does helpfully tell us that it's effective from the first of January 2023, unless otherwise shown. That said, 2023 only appears in the headers and footers and 2024 doesn't appear, so who knows what date exceptions exist. One point of difference is that the RSGB also publishes their band plan as an Excel Workbook. This might start your heart beating a little faster with visions of data entry, sorting, filtering and other such goodies, like figuring out which frequency to use for a particular mode. Unfortunately the authors have used Excel as a tool for making tables like you'd see in a word processing document. Start and Stop frequencies in the same cell, random use of MHz, spacing between bandwidth and frequencies and descriptions intermingled. In other words, this is not an Excel Workbook and it does not contain information in any usable form, unless you want to do some free text searching across the 32 worksheets - what is it with 32 anyway? Perhaps this is their authoring tool and they save as HTML from within Excel or print to PDF. Who knows? One point that the British do get right is version control. You can see specifically what change was introduced when. For example, on the 6th of March 2009 the 17m QRP frequency was corrected to 18086 kHz. Mind you, there's several pages of updates, helpfully scattered across multiple worksheets. Yes, they're really using Excel as a word processor. Before I dig into any other countries, I should mention the United Nations Amateur Radio peak body, the IARU, presumably a model that countries should aspire to. The IARU has links to three different sets of band plans. Region 1 breaks the band plan into HF and higher frequencies and the higher frequencies are broken into notional bands, each with their own PDF. Regions 2 and 3 each provide a single PDF, but the Region 3 document is hosted on the Region 2 website. Region 1 documents contain a revision and an active date as well as an author. Region 2 and 3 documents contain a date and are formatted completely differently. In Germany the DARC attempts to link to the IARU-Region 1 band plan, but the link is pointing at a non-existent page. In the Netherlands, VERON points at a 2016 edition of the IARU-Region 1 HF band plan and the current Region 1 mixed band plan for higher frequencies. In Canada the RAC points at a HTML page for each band and presents all the HF frequencies as a single image, yes an image. All the other bands are essentially text describing how to use a particular band. The HF image states that it applies from the first of June 2023, the rest of the pages carry various dates that conflict with each other. For example, the 2m band states on the landing page that it was updated on the 23rd of September 1995, but the page itself refers to a new 2m band plan that was approved in October of 2020. The linked band plan contains all the credit, who is responsible for the plan, naming the entire committee, adding notes and requesting donations, straight from the RAC newsletter, page 36 and 37 of the November / December 2020 edition, rather than providing a stand-alone technical document. Let's hop back across the Atlantic and see what else we can learn. In Switzerland things are a little different. Its regulator publishes a frequency allocation plan that is a thing of beauty. It presents as a table on a web page, but it has a search box you can use to filter the frequencies that you're interested in. So if you use the word "amateur", you end up seeing the whole amateur radio spectrum as it exists within the borders of Switzerland. You can also set frequency ranges and as a bonus, if you type in 1 MHz and change the unit to kHz, it actually changes the number to 1000. As I said, a thing of beauty. Oh, and the footnotes? Yeah, they're links and they open a new window with the relevant information, and you can keep clicking deeper and deeper until you get to the actual legislation driving that particular entry. If that's not fancy enough for you, from within the search, you can download an offline HTML copy, you can pick services, rather than use search terms, and the PDF version, because of course there is one, actually has the same active links to footnotes. That said, it has some idiosyncrasies. It specifies when amateur radio is the primary or the secondary user of a band, except when it doesn't. I presume that this is a regulatory thing and that it's a shared resource, but as an outsider I'm not familiar with Swiss law, but if I was inclined, I could become familiar, since the documents are all written in multiple languages, including English. Another oddity is that some frequencies show no text at all, but I presume that's a bug, rather than by design. Speaking of bugs, or features, depending on your perspective. Consider the frequency 2300 MHz. Every single document I looked at mixes up how this is shown. Some have a space between the number and the unit, some don't. Some countries put a space between the 2 and the 3, some a dot, some a comma, the Swiss use an apostrophe. Just so we're clear, these are technical documents we're talking about. They're not literary works, there are standards for how to do this, but it seems that the people writing these documents are blissfully unaware of any such references. Even the IARU cannot agree on how to represent the same number, let alone use the same formatting for the same band plan in each of its three regions. At this point you might come to the conclusion that this is all an abhorrent mess and I'd agree with you. In my opinion, it goes directly to how important our hobby is in the scheme of things and just how little funding is allocated to our activities. It also shows that there are contradictory sources of truth and not a single unified view on how to present this information to the global amateur community. In case you're wondering why that matters, electromagnetism doesn't stop at the political boundaries of the location where we might find ourselves and if that doesn't matter to you, consider again how you'd best talk to an amateur of any given DXCC entity and on what particular frequency you might achieve that. So, aside from whinging about it, what can you do about this? I have started a project, of course I have, that attempts to document two things, well, three. First of all I use the WIA version of the DXCC list - since the ARRL doesn't actually publish that for free anywhere - and use that to track a list of hopefully official frequency allocation documents. I'm also in the process of capturing the content of each of those documents into a database, so we can all figure out what the best frequency is to talk to another country. I'm still in the design stages for the database, for example, do we want to store a frequency in Hertz, in kHz, or pick a magnitude and store a number? Each of these choices has long term implications for using the tool. Then there's things like discovering which band plan applies to Scarborough Reef, the San Felix Islands and Pratas Island to name a few, since I've really only scratched the surface with the plans I've explored. I had visions of putting this on GitHub, but perhaps this should be part of the Wikipedia collection and it should live there. I'm still considering the best plan of attack. In the meantime, you can help. Please send an email to cq@vk6flab.com with the official band plan link for your own DXCC entity, and if you have thoughts on how best to structure the database or where this project should live, let me know. For example, should the database include just band plans, or should we also include things like modes. For example, the official VK calling frequency for 40m is 7.093 MHz. Should that be in the database and should we include the preferred Olivia calling frequency? While looking at that, consider the band labels we use. Australia doesn't have a 75m band, but others do. Some countries refer to the 4mm band, others refer to it by frequency. So, over to you. Let me know what you think. I'll leave you with a quote by Daren 2E0LXY: "It is not the class of licence the Amateur holds but the class of the Amateur that holds the licence." I'm Onno VK6FLAB

Today's Story: Deep Space Radar Initiative

The United States, United Kingdom and Australia (AUKUS) announce a trilateral initiative called the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in September. Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative- known as NICFI- and the Bezos Earth Fund have announced a new partnership to continue providing the world with free access to high-resolution satellite data to support efforts to stop the destruction of the world's rainforests. Airbus UK has been awarded nearly £95 million and Teledyne e2v £9 million, through the UK Space Agency's membership of the European Space Agency, to deliver the next phase of the TRUTHS mission, and more. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow T-Minus on LinkedIn and Instagram. T-Minus Guest Our guest today is Jaume Sanpera, CEO and Founder of Sateliot. You can find out more about Sateliot on their website. Selected Reading US, UK, Australia announce trilateral Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability initiative > United States Space Force > Article Display COP28/Dubai: NICFI and Bezos Earth Fund to provide free satellite images COP28: UK climate satellite contracts - GOV.UK Cosmonauts remotely guide Russian cargo ship to space station docking after guidance glitch - CBS News Amazon buys SpaceX rocket launches for Kuiper satellite internet project The Second International Orbital Debris Conference (IOC II) South Korea flies solid-fuel rocket amid space race with North Korea- Reuters Neumann Drive successfully tested in Space NASA Lab's Workforce Woes Threaten Major Space Missions- Scientific American AFRL, 59th Medical Wing launch space medical research group T-Minus Crew Survey We want to hear from you! Please complete our 4 question survey. It'll help us get better and deliver you the most mission-critical space intel every day. Want to hear your company in the show? You too can reach the most influential leaders and operators in the industry. Here's our media kit. Contact us at space@n2k.com to request more info. Want to join us for an interview? Please send your pitch to space-editor@n2k.com and include your name, affiliation, and topic proposal. T-Minus is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © 2023 N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/512 Presented By: Angler's Coffee, Smitty's Fly Box, Waters West, Jackson Hole Fly Company Today we go fly fishing for carp with none other than Bill Marts. We explore Bill's invaluable tips on targeting carp in Banks Lake and discover the story behind the Schmoots Clooper Invitational. Plus, don't miss the stories behind Bill's iconic fly patterns and the tattoos that commemorate them. Grab your earphones because this one is packed with carp wisdom and captivating stories. Fly Fishing for Carp Show Notes with Bill Marts 03:00 - Bill's fishing roots trace back to his younger years in Oklahoma, armed with nothing more than a cane pole, bobber, worms, and a minnow. Despite the absence of any fly fishing enthusiasts in his family, Bill's interest was piqued through books and television shows. 06:43 - Bill tells us how he started his own fly shop, Blue Dun, in Wenatchee. He worked at REI for a long time and always dreamed of having his own fly shop. 08:30 - Bill and his brother have put together an award-winning movie in 1976 called Angler's Autumn. 10:00 - In 2005, he decided to give up his fly shop as he was offered a position in the travel department at The Fly Shop. Schmoots Clooper 17:30 - Bill got into carp fly fishing during the early '90s after a float trip down the Winchester Wasteway with his wife. It was during this time that his friend, Darc Knobel, who once worked with him in Wenatchee, also became intrigued by the idea. Darc now runs his own fly shop, Desert Fly Angler, in Ephrata, Washington. Together, they eventually unlocked the secret to successfully catching carp. 21:00 - In the late '90s, they kicked off the Schmoots Clooper invitational. The name was inspired by a paragraph in John Gierach's book. 30:00 - Bill gives valuable tips for successfully targeting carp in Banks Lake and similar waters. 34:00 - Bill's go-to fly for carp fly fishing is the Bugeye Carp Wooly, a pattern he's so fond of that he even had it tattooed on his thumb. 49:49 - We discussed the difference between using a cane pole compared to a two-handed spey rod and a single-handed rod for carp fishing. 1:03:00 - Bill tells us about the first steelhead he caught on the fly. 1:06:00 - Bill's favorite steelhead fly, known as Bill's Bead Butt Burlap, is also tattooed on his arm. Show Notes:  https://wetflyswing.com/512