Recent News
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01/13/2010 | Warm Up with the ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes!
VHF weak-signal operators will be on the bands in force the weekend of January 23-25 as the ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes hits the airwaves. This contest gives the VHFer in all of us a chance to do some contesting during the winter months.
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01/12/2010 | ARISS Notes Record Number of ISS-to-School Contacts
When the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program began coordinating ISS-to-school contacts in 2001, only one school participated. Ten years later, more than 120 schools participated in the ARISS program in 2009 alone.
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01/12/2010 | General Q&A, Extra Q&A Now Available for Kindle
In December 2009, the ARRL’s Tech Q&A debuted on Amazon.com for use with Kindle. Now we are pleased to announce that the General Q&A and the Extra Q&A are now available directly from the online bookseller for use on the Kindle.
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01/12/2010 | Standing Committees Meet Prior to 2010 Annual Meeting
The ARRL Board of Directors' Annual Meeting will be preceded on Thursday, January 14 with meetings of the Administration and Finance Committee and the Programs and Services Committee.
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01/11/2010 | The ARRL Contest Update Sees Circulation Milestone
The December 23 and January 6 issues of the ARRL Contest Update newsletter cracked another barrier with more than 25,000 subscribers. Containing material that goes beyond straight contest reporting, subscribers to the ARRL Contest Update find it full of a
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01/08/2010 | Surfin': Collecting Radio StampsThis week, Surfin' considers the connection between ham radio and stamp collecting.
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01/08/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
Recent sunspot activity is increasing, and the numbers bear this out. The average daily sunspot number for 2009 was 5 and the average for 2008 was 4.7.
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01/08/2010 | FCC Seeks Public's Help in Reform Effort
According to its chairman, the Federal Communications Commission wants to change the way it is seen by the American public. In order to further that effort, on January 7, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that the Commission has launched a new Web
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