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06/04/2010 | Think Metric -- Moving to Metric for the HamThis article gives the reader an introduction to the metric system with a focus on ham radio applications.
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10/22/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: A Soggy, Foggy, Doggy Demo in the ParkOur ARES® group's Field Station Demonstration and Simulated Emergency Test (FSD&SET?) was supposed to start at 8AM, but I was still sitting at home, staring out the window at the fog. I'd hoped that some of the pea soup would have dissipated by th
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10/22/2009 | ARRL HQ Hosts Amateur Radio Course for USTTI Participants
Students from Ghana, Mauritius, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Zambia attended the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC) at ARRL Headquarters October 12-16. ARRL Technical Relations Manager
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10/14/2009 | Get Ready for the 51st Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) This Weekend
When Scouts want to meet young people from another country, they usually think of attending a quadrennial World Jamboree. But each year, more than 400,000 Scouts and Guides "get together" over the airwaves for the annual Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOT
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10/02/2009 | Paul Danzer, N1II, Wins September QST Cover Plaque Award
The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for September is Paul Danzer, N1II, for his article "A Simple Transformer to Measure Your Antenna Current." Congratulations, Paul! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to th
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09/28/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Slippery-Slope TelevisionIt all started because Chuck, N0EIS, told me to set up a SSTV (slow scan television) station.
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09/24/2009 | Force 12, C-3S — Adding the Fifth BandAs mentioned in a previous article, the Force C-3S is a very robust Yagi and its design is ideal for extending coverage up to five bands by application of linear resonator techniques. One of the attractive design features is that the Force 12 antenna uses
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08/07/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
We had some nice sunspot activity from July 3-10 -- and we were hoping for a return 27-28 days later -- but it never happened. Varying by latitude, the Sun rotates relative to Earth about every 27.5 days. If that same region was still active or the activi
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