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06/20/2012 | Amateur Radio Quiz: No GuessingYou’ll have to work extra hard on this quiz because it’s not a “multiple guess.” Some answers may require a little calculation, some may require exercising the memory banks -- and all will require a little head scratching.
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06/19/2012 | ARRL Field Day is This Weekend: Are You Ready?
ARRL Field Day is this coming weekend, June 23-24, 2012
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06/13/2012 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: From Field Day to Financial Aid -- What Amateur Radio Can Bring (besides On-The-Air Fun)Everyone finds his or her own niche in Amateur Radio. It can be as simple as having an mobile rig in the car that you might turn on every once in a while, doing nothing but listen to numbers stations or regularly working the Amateur Radio satellites, or “
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05/18/2012 | Amateurs Asked to Listen for HORYU-2 Satellite
Hams are asked to submit HORYU-2 telemetry reports.
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05/02/2012 | Logbook of The World Marks 50,000 Users
On May 1, Dragan Pavlovic, YT3PDT, completed his registration process for Logbook of The World (LoTW), becoming the 50,000th person to take advantage of the ARRL’s online QSL confirmation system. According to ARRL Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager
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04/21/2012 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: The First Contact -- Explaining the Excitement of Your First QSOExperienced hams knew it all too well. Volunteer Examiners expect it. And for some reason, newly licensed hams fear it. What could it be? As the title suggests, completing your first contact is a daunting -- yet exciting -- event for many. Why is that? Wh
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04/19/2012 | Iowa Hams Support Local Officials Before, After Tornado
On April 14, a string of tornados swept through the Central US and Great Lakes Region, including an EF2 tornado in Creston, Iowa, causing severe damage to the Greater Regional Medical Center and the Southwestern Community College campus. Prior to the torn
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04/16/2012 | Register Your ARRL Field Day Site on the Field Day Locator
First introduced in 2008, the ARRL’s Field Day Station Locator Service has proved a popular addition to the Field Day toolbox. This service -- an interactive map that helps amateurs or those interested in Amateur Radio find a Field Day site near them -- i
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