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13 November 2019

Crawley Microwave Round Table Program
Sunday 22nd September 2019
Welcome to the Crawley Roundtable hosted once again at the premises of the Crawley Amateur Radio Club.
The morning session will feature the usual ‘bring and buy’ sale, so if you have surplus radio items then please bring them along.
Again this year following we will be holding a heat for the UK Microwave Group annual Project contest. Please do bring along your constructed equipment or project and enter. Entries do not necessarily need to have been finished during the last year. Please note that the contest will also accept software entries as well as hardware.
CARC award the G3GRO trophy to the winner of this round. The winner will also go on to be considered, together with entries from all the other round tables over a year both before and after this event for the G3VVB trophy.
We are also hoping that G3LYP will be attending with the UKuW Group chipbank. If you have a forthcoming project then why not contact Mike beforehand to place your orders, which are free for UKuW group members.
Below is the timetable:
10:00: Venue opens
10:00: ‘Bring and buy’, general socialising
12:00 UKuW Group Project contest round/G3GRO trophy judging commences
12:15 Lunch (hot dogs and burger rolls etc and tea/coffee available)
13:15 Welcome by Alun G4WGE/Denis G0OLX and results of the Project contest heat
13:30 A 24 GHz beacon source using IQ upconversion, Andy Talbot, G4JNT
Using the LimeSDR on the Microwave Bands, Dave Crump, G8GKQ
Break – Tea and coffee available
288 GHZ update, Chris Whitmarsh, G0FDZ
RFZero Signal Source, Denis Stanton, G0OLX
16:30 End of meeting
The venue is the Crawley Amateur Radio Club’s hut and directions can be found at:

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Crawley Microwave Round Table Initial Program
22 September 2019

The Crawley Roundtable hosted once again at the premises of the Crawley Amateur Radio Club.
The morning session will feature the usual ‘bring and buy’ sale, so if you have surplus radio items then please bring them along.
Again this year following we will be holding a heat for the UK Microwave Group annual Project contest. Please do bring along your constructed equipment or project and enter. Entries do not necessarily need to have been finished during the last year. Please note that the contest will also accept software entries as well as hardware.
CARC award the G3GRO trophy to the winner of this round. The winner will also go on to be considered, together with entries from all the other round tables over a year both before and after this event for the G3VVB trophy.
We are also hoping that G3LYP will be attending with the UKuW Group chipbank. If you have a forthcoming project then why not contact Mike beforehand to place your orders, which are free for UKuW group members.
Below is the provisional timetable:
10:00: Venue opens
10:00: ‘Bring and buy’, general socialising
12:00 UKuW Group Project contest round/G3GRO trophy judging commences
12:15 Lunch (hot dogs and burger rolls etc and tea/coffee available)
13:15 Welcome by Alun G4WGE/Denis G0OLX and results of the Project contest heat
13:30 TBD
14:00 TBD
14:45 Break – Tea and coffee available
15:00 TBD
15:45 TBD
16:30 End of meeting
The venue is the Crawley Amateur Radio Club’s hut and directions can be found at:

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Hello All,
The ARRL DXCC List has had a New Entity added!
Z6 for Kosovo,
It became eligible for Credit from 00:01 23Jan 2018
73
Keith G3VKW

Midway and Kure Islands are Now Deleted DXCC Entities

03/31/2017

Midway and Kure Islands have been placed on the list of DXCC deleted entities, effective August 26, 2016. This came about as an unintended consequence of action last summer by then-President Barack Obama that expanded the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument to include the northwestern Hawaiian Islands west of Ni’ihau Island, making it the largest contiguous protected conservation area under the US flag.

Midway (KH4) had qualified for DXCC status by virtue of its being governed by a separate administration. Because it is now under the administration of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, however, it becomes a deleted entity. Approximately 50 people live on Midway, including US Fish and Wildlife Service staffers and contractors. The Battle of Midway, a turning point in the Allied World War II Pacific Campaign, took place in June 1942.

Now uninhabited, Kure Island (KH7K), a part of Hawaii, is separated from the rest of the state by Midway; because of that, it qualified for DXCC status under Section II, 2 (b) (iii) of the DXCC Rules — separation from its “parent” Hawaii. Midway Island’s change in DXCC status in turn made Kure Island no longer eligible for DXCC status, since Kure no longer is separated from the rest of Hawaii by intervening land or islands that are part of another DXCC entity.

Kure Island once was home to a US Coast Guard LORAN station, remnants of which are still evident. It has been a state wildlife sanctuary since 1981.

The relevant parts of Section II of the DXCC Rules follow:

A Geographic Separation Entity may result when a single Political Entity is physically separated into two or more parts. The part of such a Political Entity that contains the capital city is considered the Parent for tests under these criteria. One or more of the remaining parts resulting from the separation may then qualify for separate status as a DXCC Entity if they satisfy paragraph a) or b) of the Geographic Separation Criteria, as follows.

b) Island Areas (Separation by Water):

A new entity results in the case of an island under any of the following conditions:

iii) The island is separated from its Parent by intervening land or islands that are part of another DXCC entity, such that a line drawn along a great circle in any direction, from any part of the island, does not touch the Parent before touching the intervening DXCC entity. There is no minimum separation distance for the first island entity created under this rule. Additional island entities may be created under this rule, provided that they are similarly separated from the Parent by a different DXCC entity and separated from any other islands associated with the Parent by at least 800 km.

Neither Midway nor Kure was able to be activated without prior permission and only for a planned DXpedition. Only contacts made on August 25, 2016, or earlier will count for these two entities.