SC Section Report & Field Day 2020 Announcements

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• Quantum Receiver Can Detect Huge Swath of the RF Spectrum March 4, 2021
• Approaches to Tackle Noise Problems Vary, Remedies Elusive March 3, 2021
• ARISS, NASA, and ESA Continue to Probe Amateur Radio Problems on ISS March 3, 2021
  Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) International Chair Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, reports that the ARISS team has been working closely with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to identify what may have caused what ARISS is calling a “radio anomaly” on January 27. The net result has been an inability to use […]
• AMSAT-DL Operators Track Mars Probes March 3, 2021
  Members of Germany’s AMSAT organization, AMSAT-DL, in cooperation with the Sternwarte Bochum Institute in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, have been using the institute’s 20-meter (65.6-foot) diameter dish antenna to listen directly to signals from probes in Mars orbit.Signals have been copied from the Chinese Tianwen-1 and the Hope Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) spacecraft now orbiting Mars […]
• MARS Volunteers Recognized with Gold-Level President’s Volunteer Service Award March 3, 2021
  A dozen US Army Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) volunteers have been honored with gold-level recognition for the President’s Volunteer Service Award for 2020.They are Bob Mims, WA1OEZ; Ron Tomo, KE2UK; Mark Bary, N4EOC; Billy Pearson, KO4XT; Dave Bock, W8OHS; Bob Baker, K5LLF; John Monson, WB0PLW; Gary Geissinger, WA0SPM; Brian Handy, W8JBT; Bliss Wheeler, W7RUG; […]