Latest Amateur Radio News from around the world http://www.southgatearc.org 10 http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/ariss_event_1402.htm An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at The Academy@Shawnee, Louisville, KY on 14 Feb http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/katy_nanjing_balloon_comunications_lost.htm Communications with BLT-28, callsign KT5TK-11, were lost 3 hours after the balloon was launched from Katy in Texas http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/open_mission_control_software.htm Open Mission Control is open source, open access software for monitoring and controlling small spacecraft or ballon projects http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/top_hat_mast.htm When it comes to beaming radio waves across vast distances, the Dooen transmitter is world class. Standing 201 metres tall with a 19 metre wide capacitive ‘top hat’, the 3WV mast in western Victoria stands out in the vast flat landscape that stretches below it http://www.southgatearc.org/iota/2012/opdx/february_13.htm According to the Amateur Radio Cluster Network for the week of Sunday, 5th-February, through Sunday, 12th-February there were 226 countries active http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/craggy_island_dxpedition_group.htm A number of members of the Galway VHF Group have recently formed the 'Craggy Island Dxpedition Group' http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/cara_psk31_video.htm The Cheltenham Amateur Radio Association (CARA) have prodced a video on PSK31 keyboard-to-keyboard communication http://www.southgatearc.org/iota/2012/opdx/february_13.htm Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/amateur_radio_demonstration_in_somalia.htm Darko will demonstrate amateur radio to the locals in Hargeisa and possibly establish a radio club by donating an IC-735 transceiver with an antenna http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/bedford_researchers_use_medium_waves_for_power.htm Researchers in Bedford, UK, have created a system to use medium wave frequencies to replace batteries in small everyday gadgets like clocks or remote controls http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/essex_portable_operation.htm Essex radio amateurs John M0UKD and Dave M0TAZ braved the snow for some portable operation http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/dxpedition_to_the_graveyard_of_the_gulf.htm St. Paul Island is called the Graveyard of the Gulf and that is where an international, seasoned team of DXers will be heading to later this year http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2012/history_13_february.htm A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW