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Sun 20 Sep 2009 | Kentucky Pandemic Flu and Terrorism Exercise |
The Kentucky statewide pandemic flu and terrorism exercise conducted August 3-7 was an excellent test of Amateur Radio communications capability across the state using both HF and VHF/UHF frequencies. The Amateur Radio equipment at the Kentucky Emergency Operations Center, operating as KY4EOC, was staffed from 8 AM to 8 PM the first four days of the exercise, and until 2 PM on the final day. Kudos went to the many volunteers who worked diligently to keep KY4EOC on the air for 54 hours of operation on a wide variety of frequencies. Preliminary figures from the EOC indicate the operators completed more than 700 contacts with operators in 90 of Kentucky's 120 counties. Participants were asked to submit an After Action Report. The AAR form is available as a MS Word document; contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for a copy. - ARRL Kentucky Web site
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| SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS007 ARLS007 South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit ZCZC AS07 QST de W1AW Space Bulletin 007 ARLS007 From ARRL Headquarters Newington, CT September 18, 2009 To all radio amateurs SB SPACE ARL ARLS007 ARLS007 South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit After several delays, South Africa's SumbandilaSat satellite finally blasted to orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 16. The main payload is a multi-spectral imager, but the satellite also carries an Amateur Radio component consisting of a 2 meter/70 cm FM repeater. After SumbandilaSat is fully commissioned, the repeater will be activated with an uplink at 145.880 MHz and a downlink at 435.350 MHz; there will also be a voice beacon at 435.300 MHz. The transponder mode will be controlled by a CTCSS tone on the uplink frequency. The CTCSS tone frequencies have yet to be announced.SumbandilaSat was sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and was built at SunSpace in cooperation with the Stellenbosch University.In addition to the SA-AMSAT amateur module, the satellite carries Stellenbosch University's radiation experiment and software defined radio (SDR) project, an experiment from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and a VLF radio module from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. NNNN /EX More Articles...
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