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   Radioworld.com, RSGB, SARL and the World Wide sources of WIA.   
      
   The National Association of Amateur Radio in the USA, ARRL, reports that   
   the FCC has extended the filing deadline to March 5, 2026, for amateur   
   radio licenses that otherwise were due to expire from October 1, 2025,   
   to March 5, 2026.   
      
   The news follows the recent reopening of the federal government on   
   November 13, following a lengthy 43-day shutdown.   
      
   Since reopening, many federal agencies, including the FCC, have resumed   
   activities, though reducing backlogs and rebounding to full operations   
   may take some time. This includes continued delays in filing amateur   
   radio license applications.   
      
   Community generosity works in both directions, as one amateur radio club in   
   Wisconsin found out recently, so, it was a special privilege for the   
      
   Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club in Wisconsin USA  to be on the receivingend   
   recently.   
      
      
   The Moraine Park Technical College donated five laptops to assist the club   
   with its work in amateur radio education, license testing and emergency   
   communications, including its Field Day operations.   
      
      
   The donations kept club member Lloyd Vandervort N9RPU hard at work setting up   
   the club logging programs,   
      
      
   Dave McCumber, N9WQ, club president, issued a statement saying that the   
   additional computing power will "strengthen our ability to teach, train and   
   support both new and experienced radio operators throughout the region."   
      
      
   INSIGHTS INTO LOSS OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY   
      
   What happens when a material loses its ability to conduct electricity --   
   seemingly for no reason? Researchers have been working to solve that mystery   
   and they think they've figured it out, as we hear from Kent Peterson KCDGY   
   over at the Newsline studios.   
      
      
   It's uncommon but when it happens, as it does in the quantum realm,   
   scientists have previously been left shrugging their shoulders. Now when   
   material that had been capable of conducting electricity loses that property,   
   becoming an insulator, they're nodding their heads in recognition instead.   
      
      
   As explained in a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters, an   
   international team of researchers working at the DESY Institute in Germany   
   made their discovery while working with a compound of the rare earth metals:   
   tellurium, selenium and thulium. They found that the compound lost its   
   inherent conductivity because of what researchers described as a "particle   
   dance" involving a group of particles called polarons (POLE A RONS) --   
   quasiparticles which can combine and behave as one particle instead of   
   several. The polarons can spur activity between electrons and the nearby   
   atoms, impeding the flow of electricity by slowing  it down and eventually   
   halting it altogether.   
      
      
   The researchers wrote that their findings show "that the properties of a   
   material cannot be explained by its chemical composition alone."   
      
      
   The scientists concluded that their findings about polarons may ultimately   
   lead to development of new types of matter or the ability to alter some   
   materials' optical, magnetic or electrical properties.   
      
      
   This is Kent Peterson KCDGY.   
      
   RSGB BUILDING OUR FUTURE.-   
      
   The RSGB National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park is hosting another of its   
   popular Build Your Own Radio workshops. Morning and afternoon sessions   
      
   are being held today, Sunday, 23 November and offer young people aged   
   between 12 and 18 years the opportunity to learn more about amateur radio and   
   electronics.   
      
      
   The workshops will use simple tools for participants to build their own VHF   
   FM broadcast receiver, which they can take home with them.   
      
   A great initiative.   
      
   WRTC 2026 in the UK wont just be a contestits set to offer a more   
   immersive way to follow the action.   
      
   James Cribbs NWRL, founder and CEO of the World Radio League speaking on   
   Q5 Worldwide Ham Radio, has revealed the WRL team are building a custom   
   real-time QSO tracking and analytics system designed to echo the clarity   
   and drama of eSports coverage.   
      
   What began as a conversation at Dayton has become a ground-up rethinking   
   of how the wider world can watch and engage with radio sport. For   
   competitors, that means non-intrusive Raspberry Pi loggers feeding live   
   data without touching their main setups. For the audience, it means live   
   scoreboards, propagation maps, and real-time band-change alerts.   
      
   The systems first testduring IARU 2025was promising.   
      
   Then a full trial during CQWW Phone from the M6T superstation.   
      
   For WRL, WRTC is more than just a technical challenge; Cribbs sees it as   
   the platforms coming-of-agemoving from a beginner-friendly tool to a   
   robust, contest-grade infrastructure. And, the long-term goal is bigger   
   than any one event: its about legacy, youth outreach, and strengthening   
   the future of amateur radio.   
      
   youtube.com/watch?v=BRtVO7LnoXE   
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   OPERATIONAL NEWS - A FELIX VK4FUQ PRESENTATION   
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   What ever happened to DXpedition H40WA?   
      
   Well sometimes, DXers believe that DXpeditions are profitable. Rarely is   
   that the case.   
      
   My case in point:   
      
   The H40WA Team paid a fully refundable $11K+ USD Customs bond to their   
   Solomon Island shipping company. The team allege that that bond was later   
   stolen by the shipping company and was never refunded. The Solomon Island   
   Government (Customs & Police) appeared to be completely unhelpful in   
   recovering this massive customs bond and it remains in the hands of the   
   shipping company.   
      
   One comment made to the Co-Leader of the H40WA team, Paul N6PSE was by   
   our own Grant Willis VK5GR who said, and I quote " Things like that have   
   always been my worst nightmares when trying to take teams and gear into   
   some countries.   
      
   It makes me very selective about where I will attempt DXpeditions to   
   these days. Even my small Pacific expeditions cost up to  $15k AUD each   
   to execute and that was almost always self-funded - with not more than   
   $3k ever being raised in return from sponsorships (that was A3)."   
      
   So when YOIU work a rare one, a rare DXpedition, give thought to its   
   "back story".   
      
   facebook.com/people/The-Intrepid-DX-Group/100064781196182/   
      
   (intrepid-dx group)   
      
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   NOVEMBER 29-30   
      
   The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world.   
      
   Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves and the last weekend of   
   November is the CQ WORLD WIDE CW TEST.   
      
   The goal is making as many contacts with as many different DXCC entities   
   and CQ Zones as possible.   
      
   Starts: Zero hundred hours UTC Saturday.   
      
   End 2359 UTC Sunday.   
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   YOTA Contests December   
      
   The Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club are hosting the inaugural   
   VK YOTA CONTEST, the entire month of December.   
   yota.fgarc.org.au/   
      
   Then just 3 days from the end of what we call the VK YOTA CONTEST comes   
   ROUND 3 of the YOTA contest organized by the IARU R1 Youth Working Group   
   in cooperation with the Hungarian Amateur Radio Society.   
      
   DECEMBER 29.   
      
   A great way to gain extra contacts for the VK Contest organised by   
   Fishers Ghost AR Club.   
      
   yotacontest.mrasz.org   
      
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   NOW CONTEST WISE:- 2026   
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   1st January 2026  NZART Centenary 100 QSO Challenge   
      
   You are invited to kick off the NZART Centenary year in style with a fun,   
   on-air event. Can you make 100 contacts in 24 hours?   
      
   1101 31 December 2025 UTC, i.e.  0001 NZDT 1st January 2026 to   
      
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