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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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SpaceX set to conduct world’s first and second orbital launches of 2022

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According to the military branch responsible for operating the Cape Canaveral launch range, weather conditions for Falcon 9’s Transporter-3 launch were predicted to be 70% favorable on Thursday and 90% favorable for a backup window on Friday as of January 11th, boding well for the mission. Booster LZ1 landing.

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

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Here are the highlights of what went down in telecom this year: Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? After coordination with operators in South America and Europe, the source of the interfering signals—which sound like “the unfortunate offspring of a frog and a Dalek ”—was quickly identified as Cuba.

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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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To get there, the draft presents several targets for emission reductions from developed countries, ranging from 25% to 45% below 1990 levels by 2020. Authored by Michael Zammit Cutajar, Chair of the working group, the six-page draft calls for the world to keep temperatures from rising beyond a ceiling of 1.5 °C

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SpaceX Falcon 9 launch scrubbed by wayward cruise ship

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This time, however, rather than the poor weather that aborted Falcon 9’s first three launch attempts, the fourth scrub was caused by a cruise ship fouling the range and trespassing inside a US Coast Guard keep-out zone that’s been public for the better part of a week. Fairing recovery north of Cuba ~596km downrange.

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