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19 February 2012

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SARL National Convention 20 - 22 April 20012

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Highlights
Friday evening -  A historical journey "How SA's electronics industry  started in Pinetown and the development of SSB in South Africa"

Saturday -  Annual General Meeting * How to build VHF/UHF antennas * Log Book of the World * Awards Banquet with guest speaker * Lucky draws

Sunday- Breakfast  in the Japanese Gardens

ARMI THIS WEEK 

19 February  2012

Host: Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV

Special: Watch the ITU WRC12 interview with IARU VP Ole Garpestad here

• News about WRC12 Amateur Radio successes
• Interview with Ole Garpestad, VP IARU
• Plus HF and Satellite News

The AM transmissions are by courtesy of Sentech and Telkom

Amateur RadioTODAY 19 February 2012 here

Down load a high resolution version here

The Cape DX Report No 7  SWL feature here

Codec 2 the full interview about speech coding  by the Rain Report with Bruce Parrents K6BP here

SA AMSAT Satellite report with Dave Long here

SEA WATER ANTENNA

SPAWAR Systems Centre Pacific has developed a technology that uses the magnetic induction properties of sodium chloride (salt) in sea water to create a UHF/VHF/HF antenna. Watch this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tIZUhu21sQ

HOW IT'S MADE: CIRCUIT BOARDS

A Discovery Channel video describing how printed circuit boards are made is now available on YouTUBE “Making your own Printed Circuit Boards”
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2010/make_your_own_pcbs.htm

CQ Serenade  -
listen to this song about amateur radio

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