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Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? Listen For Yourself

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As anti-government protests spilled onto the streets in Cuba on July 11, something strange was happening on the airwaves. Florida operators reported the signals were loudest there, enough to make communication with hams in Cuba impossible. Valladres explains he escaped from Cuba to the United States in a raft in 2005.

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Twitter discouraged from building HQ in Florida by Governor DeSantis

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis discouraged Twitter from establishing a headquarters in Florida — despite supporting Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. Mayor Lenny Curry from Jacksonville, Florida extended an invitation. Mayor Lenny Curry from Jacksonville, Florida extended an invitation.

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SpaceX successful in epic third Starship test launch

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The ships’ engines shut down just over eight and a half minutes into flight and were officially in space, coasting between the Florida Keys and Cuba on its way to its planned re-entry over the Indian Ocean. Starship re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.

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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

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Companies experimented with new kinds of satellite networks, new ways of building cell towers, and new ways of creating holograms. Here are the highlights of what went down in telecom this year: Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? And even as the pandemic created a remote work world, some governments clamped down on wireless communications.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Unfortunately, this conference focused primarily on setting a cap on carbon emissions and providing financial aid to developing countries to build capacities to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. The most important environmental summit in the history of the world has concluded in Copenhagen. Asian Development Bank.