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    gordo’s short circuits

    Oct 01, 2022 4 minutes
    BY GORDON WEST, * WB6NOA

    Plus … New Hoops to Jump Through at the FCC and Nominations are Open for Hamcation Awards

    Plenty of additional news from Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) <www.ariss.org>, following up on my column in July!

    Our space station regularly makes scheduled contacts with students and educators around the world to take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space and amateur radio. Those of us of school now have opportunities aboard the ISS for some exciting contacts, any time the ISS silently passes over, day or night, and we don’t need a visual twilight pass to work it. You can hear it on a HT.

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