US Airlines Warn of Impending 5G Flight Disruption

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US Airlines Warn of Impending 5G Flight Disruption

The 10 biggest US airlines have warned that the impending switch-on of 5G mobile phone services will cause 'major disruption' to flights.

They said the start of Verizon and AT&T 5G mobile phone services, planned for Wednesday, would cause a "completely avoidable economic calamity".

Airlines fear C-band 5G signals will disrupt planes' navigation systems, particularly those used in bad weather.

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German North Pole DXpedition

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Operators Martina DF3TS and Thomas DC8TM will activate Svalbard (EU-026) as JW/homecalls to start their DXpedition between April 9-12th. Activity will be on SSB and FT8.

They will then be active from a Russian "Severnyi Polyus" the Scientific Polar Drifting Base (enclave by RFF) approx. 80kms from the North Pole on the Arctic Ocean where they will activate the WWFF area RFF-0176.

Operators will use their special callsigns DP0LE (like POLE) and RA/DC8TM/P and RA/DF3TS/P to represent the Russian flag of the camp between April 14-17th.

Activity will be on 40/30/20/17 metres using SSB and FT8. Activity from the North Pole (90 Degrees North) - under DP0LE and DC8TM/P together with Martina DF3TS/P will take place sometime during this time (The exact schedule will depend very much on weather conditions) on 20 metres [14244 kHz (+/-)]. !! Activity is limited to approx. 30 minutes!!

For more details and updates - https://www.qrz.com/db/DC8TM

They mention the following: The success of the expedition depends very much from the WX conditions and the time schedule could change, updated information on the QRZ.com page. Unfortunately, the expedition did not take place in 2020 and 2021 due to the Corona crisis and was postponed until 2022 (3rd try).