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  • LF News, 12th April 2012

    • 12/4. Titanic Transmissions. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, the Marconi Radio Club of Newfoundland will be transmitting a special bulletin near 500 kHz, the distress frequency used by the radio officers of the Titanic to send their CQD call to Cape, Race Newfoundland. Please listen on 507.77 kHz CW for VX9MRC between 0001 and 0400 UTC on 15 April 2012. Please note this corresponds to Saturday night, 14 April, for listeners in the western hemisphere.
      On April 14th at 2230 there will be a special commemorative transmission from the DDH47 station in Germany on 147.3kHz. The QRSS3 transmission, marking 100 years since the Titanic sank, will include the names of the ship's radio officers. An HF station will be active to receive reports from licenced amateurs. More info at http://www.doese-apprt.de/mrd/titanic.html

    • 29/2. 500kHz NOVs extended until 31st December 2012 after which time it is expected that the new 472-479kHz band will come into force. This will not need an NOV and all UK licencees should be able to use the band. No new 500kHz NOVs will be issued. If you already have an NOV you can apply for the extension here. You will need your licence number ( the one on the front of your main licence or the current NOV ).

    • 7/2. Good news from WRC. Progress through Committee 4 was a little easier than expected and the frequency band 472-479kHz will be allocated to the amateur service, on a Secondary basis. This is subject to no further objections being received during the two final readings through the plenary meetings, of which the first ‘blue’ reading is expected to be during the plenary this coming Friday, late afternoon. From RSGB news.

    • 16/1. OPERA evolves. This very effective new data mode from the author of "ROS" has been in beta test for a few weeks now and is causing quite a stir on the LF bands. One of its advantages is that it is a single carrier mode which can be used with a non-linear transmitter. Latest beta version of the TX/RX software is listed on the ROS web-site at http://rosmodem.wordpress.com/.


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