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01/26/2013 | The Amateur Amateur: Talking to MyselfKerchunk, kerchunk. You know what that noise means, right? That was the sound of me “testing my radio” when I first got my license. Bet you did it, too. Oh? You claim you never did anything so impertinent as to key up and unkey, just to convince yourself
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09/22/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: Ready, SET 1, SET 2...“Who did you say you were again?” the receptionist asked. “Gary Hoffman,” I said. “I'm with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. I’m supposed to run a test on your Amateur Radio equipment.”
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08/28/2012 | North Carolina Teen Named Recipient of ARRL’s 2011 Hiram Percy Maxim Award
Derek Brown, W4DTB, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was named the recipient of the 2011 Hiram Percy Maxim Award. Brown, who is 14, has been licensed since 2010 and holds an Amateur Extra class license.
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04/22/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: ManicI cleaned my shack this morning. Okay, that might not even be physically possible, but I certainly made a serious dent in the clutter. I removed everything that was keeping me from opening my file cabinets. I extracted a bunch of junk from behind them and
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