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03/11/2009 | US Coast Guard to Discontinue LORAN Stations
Last month, the US Coast Guard announced that due to economic conditions, they would be closing down the 24 LORAN-C (Long Range Aid to Navigation) stations operated under the auspices of the USCG. LORAN stations provide navigation, location and timing ser
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02/17/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: One Man's TrashThey say that one man's trash is another man's treasure. In fact, that seems to be the whole premise of many hamfests. But just how true is the expression?
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01/27/2009 | John Scott Redd, K0DQ, Awarded Nation's Top Intelligence Award
Vice Admiral John Scott Redd, USN (ret), K0DQ, received the National Security Medal in a White House ceremony earlier this month. In one of his last official duties as President of the United States, George W. Bush recognized Redd for "his more than
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01/05/2009 | Son Charged with Murder of Florida Ham
Robert Farley, of Lakeland Florida, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of his father Walter Farley, K4QE, also of Lakeland. The Ledger, a newspaper in Farley's hometown, reported that authorities allege Robert killed his fathe
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08/13/2008 | Amateur Station at Smithsonian Going QRT after 32 Years
After more than 30 years on the air from the nation's capital, the Amateur Radio station at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, NN3SI, will become silent on Thursday, July 31. Originally located in the Nations of Nations exh
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03/24/2008 | Merle Glunt, W3OKN (SK)
Merle Glunt, W3OKN, of Mount Union, Pennsylvania, passed away March 16. He was 90. Glunt served as the ARRL consultant to the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 (WARC-79), and through years of hard work, was instrumental in gaining the 12, 17 a
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