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09/20/2022 | John Portune, W6NBC, and Jim Bailey, W6OEK, Win the August 2022 QST Cover Plaque Award
The winning article for the August 2022 QST Cover Plaque award is “The Inverted Hen-Delta 6-Meter Antenna,” by John Portune, W6NBC, and Jim Bailey, W6OEK The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each ...
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09/16/2022 | The K7RA Solar Update
Solar activity bounced back this reporting week.
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09/15/2022 | Amateur Radio Helps Disabled Sailboat to Port
Amateur radio assists Jeanne (Jan) Socrates, VE0JS/MM / KC2IOV, and her sailboat, the SV Nereida, September 7, 2022.
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09/15/2022 | Amateur Radio Takes Center Stage at The Big E
The Big E, “New England’s Great State Fair,” kicks off on Friday, September 16, 2022, and includes Project Big E, a 17-day amateur radio exhibit that runs through October 2, 2022.
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09/15/2022 | ARRL Headquarters is Closing Early on Friday, September 16, 2022
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® will close early on Friday, September 16, 2022, at 12 PM Eastern time (1600 UTC), for a staff event.
The ARRL Headquarters lobby & store, and W1AW will be open to visitors from 8 AM to 12 PM EDT on Frid...
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09/09/2022 | The K7RA Solar Update
This week (September 1 to 7) new sunspot groups emerged and the sunspot number rose to 75, 7 points above the average for the previous seven days.
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09/09/2022 | QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Returns September 17 - 18
The fully-interactive and full-featured virtual ham radio convention will provide great interactive presentations, new content, and excellent networking opportunities including 50+ amateur radio presentations on a wide variety of subjects.
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09/09/2022 | Richard Tell, K5UJU, Receives IEEE SA Lifetime Achievement Award
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE SA) Awards and Recognition Committee has selected ARRL member Richard A. (Ric) Tell, K5UJU, as the recipient of the IEEE SA Lifetime Achievement Award.
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![Departing sunspot AR3098 has a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. [Photo courtesy of NASA SDO/HMI]](/img/122x89/News/hmi200_091622_2.gif)



![All of these sunspots have stable magnetic fields that do not pose a threat for strong flares. Solar activity is low. [Photo courtesy of NASA SDO/HMI]](/img/122x89/News/sun0909.gif)






