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  • 2 November 1920 – Westinghouse station KDKA in East Pittsburgh broadcast the Harding–Cox election returns, a service inspired by Frank Conrad's broadcasts over his experimental station 8XK.
  • 15 November 2018 – A Falcon 9 launched Qatar's Es'hail-2, carrying amateur radio transponders in geostationary orbit, later named QO-100.
  • 22 November 1930 – Owen Garriott, W5LFL, the astronaut who later operated ham radio from space, was born in Enid, Oklahoma.
  • 27 November 1923 – Fred Schnell, 1MO, in Connecticut and Léon Deloy, 8AB, in Nice, France, made the first two-way transatlantic amateur radio contact.
  • 28 November 1983 – Columbia launched on STS-9 with Owen Garriott, W5LFL, aboard; during the mission he became the first ham to operate from space.
  • 30 November 1858 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, the Indian physicist who pioneered millimeter-wave radio experiments, was born.