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11 July 2020

• Foundations of Amateur Radio
  Homebrew radio for the 21st Century The hobby of Amateur Radio is essentially one of experimentation. Within our community we endlessly build things, from amplifiers to Yagis and every letter of the alphabet in between. With every experiment we grow the amateur radio sphere of influence just a little bit
• A SOTA wedding took place on 4th July 2020!
  David Wise KM3A and Lizzette Rodriguez K6LZT are both keen SOTA activators, and their marriage actually took place on a summit and in conjunction with a SOTA activation!
• ESA emits a guide to picking up ISS SSTV
  The Register reports on the new ESA tutorials explaining how to pick up the amateur radio Slow Scan TV (SSTV) tutorials transmitted from the International Space Station
• LunART- Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder
  The European Space Agency (ESA) website has published a proposal by radio amateurs from AMSAT-DL for LunART (Lunar Amateur Radio Transponder): a Communications Platform on the Large European Lander to support communication and payload experiments
• VK6WIA NewsWest
  NewsWest for Sunday 12th July 2020 is the contesting edition of NewsWest, which is pretty timely because there’s a few Aussie contests coming up, and we’ve got some handy information for those wondering if they should give contesting a go
• The super-sized nucleus of Comet NEOWISE
  Now we know why Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is so bright. It has an unusually large nucleus
• Eavesdropping video monitors with TempestSDR RTL-SDR
  This is not new, but the software is getting better and better.
• IARU HF World Championship
  The amateur radio HF World Championship takes place this weekend July 11-12
• Belgium: Amateur radio regs and exam consultations
  Belgium's communications regulator the BIPT has published two consultations relating to radio amateurs
• Old QSL card collection
  Jean Michel, F6AJA, wants to remind everyone to visit the Les Nouvelles DX (LNDX) Web page to see more than 18,000 old QSL cards in several different albums/galleries
• LO-94 the first amateur radio spacecraft in lunar orbit
  Nature carries an article about the spacecraft Longjiang-2/Lunar-OSCAR 94 (LO-94) which carried the first Amateur Radio communication system to operate in lunar orbit
• Learn from 70+ speakers at the first ever Virtual Ham Expo
  We are reaching out to let you know that despite the closure of all ham radio events, there is a great opportunity to join your fellow hams and us at the first ever QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo on Saturday and Sunday, August 8 - 9, 2020
• Monitoring compliance with the EU Net Neutrality regulation – 2019/20 update
  Ofcom has today published its fourth annual report to the European Commission on monitoring open internet access, also known as ‘net neutrality
• DX News from the ARRL
  The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands