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01/06/2010 | 2009 Sees Surge of New Amateur Radio Licensees
This past year was a banner year for new Amateur Radio licensees. According to ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, the FCC issued more than 30,000 new ham radio licenses. "In 2009, the demand for Amateur Radio exam sessions remained elevated and is
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01/04/2010 | Last Surviving Crew Member of Kon-Tiki Expedition Passes Away
Knut Magne Haugland of Norway passed away on December 25. He was 92. Haugland was one of six men, who with Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean in a 45 foot raft made of balsa wood and bamboo -- named Kon-Tiki -- to prove
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01/04/2010 | Robert H. Welsh, N3RW, Wins December QST Cover Plaque AwardThe winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for December is Robert H. Welsh, N3RW, for his article "How the Ionosphere Was Discovered." Congratulations, Robert! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to the aut
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01/04/2010 | ARRL In Action: What Have We Been Up to Lately?This feature -- including convenient Web links to useful information -- is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of December.
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01/04/2010 | Amateur Radio Quiz: The Transistor, Our Three-Legged FriendWhat piece of active equipment in the ham shack doesn't have a transistor in it somewhere? Could you troubleshoot that equipment? While transistors are nearly ubiquitous, we often don't understand their inner workings as well as we might like. Here are so
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01/04/2010 | NCVEC Releases New Technician Class Question Pool
The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) released the new Technician class (Element 2) question pool
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01/01/2010 | Surfin': Visit the Online Ham Radio StacksThis week, Surfin' checks out the stacks at Linux Journal and Tucson Amateur Packet Radio.
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01/01/2010 | It Seems to Us: Not an Emergency Radio Service?The FCC raised a few eyebrows by including the following sentence in its Public Notice DA 09-2259 (see page 72, this issue): "While the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communications service, particularly with respe
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