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11/16/2009 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: Fall MagicThe late months of the year are characterized by football and leaves -- and great times for Amateur Radio. We are weeks into the contest season, with no end in sight. This is also a good time to start experimenting indoors as it cools down outdoors.
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11/10/2009 | Atlantic Division to Host Webinar
Periodically, the ARRL’s Atlantic Division hosts a "webinar" -- an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience using the Internet. On Friday, November
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11/02/2009 | Fall Frequency Measuring Test This Month
The W1AW Frequency Measuring Test (FMT) has taken several different formats over the past few years. This year, we return to the "classic" FMT -- measuring the frequency of an unmodulated carrier. Accurate frequency measurement is required of al
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10/23/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
A tiny Solar Cycle 24 sunspot group -- numbered 1028 -- emerged briefly on Tuesday, October 20, and then was gone. This is another brief phantom sunspot, teasing us with hints of the expected increase in activity that never seems to manifest. Of course, t
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10/16/2009 | Pizza, Macaroni and a CheeseburgerOne of the great things about Amateur Radio is that it is a key that can open many doors to opportunity. It can help you meet people, make friends and sometimes take you to another country for a contact. This is what happened to me thanks to the common li
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10/16/2009 | Youth@AmateurRadio.Fun: A Position for Youth, by YouthEvery section has them -- Assistant Section Managers whose goal is to help the Section Manager whenever possible. Their job is to have an ear for the members to talk to and fill in wherever the SM can't. But some Sections have gone even further and create
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10/16/2009 | Surfin': Telling Your StoriesThis week, Surfin' visits Web sites that encourage you to recount your adventures in ham radio.
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10/13/2009 | I’ve Got My Ham Radio Hobby BackFolks, I was in ham radio nirvana. What’s so special about this contact? I made it on something that many hams say is not radio, but for hams who live where they can’t have any HF antennas it makes operating possible. If you have a computer an
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