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03/30/2011 | Minutes from ARRL Executive Committee Meeting Now Available

The ARRL Executive Committee met on Saturday, March 19 in Chicago, Illinois. The minutes from that meeting are now available on the ARRL website. Read More
03/30/2011 | Revised Spread Spectrum Rules to Go Into Effect April 29, 2011

New spread spectrum rules go into effect April 29, 2011 Read More
03/29/2011 | New Mars Rover to Feature Morse Code

As the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) builds the next Mars rover -- this one is named Curiosity -- to deploy to the red planet in the fall of 2011, they’re having a little fun with it. Back in 2007 when the Curiosity team was putting together the rover, Read More
03/28/2011 | NCVEC Deletes Question from Amateur Extra Question Pool

Due to the FCC revising the rules concerning Spread Spectrum, the Question Pool Committee of the National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (NCVEC) has decided to delete a question from the Amateur Extra class question pool. According to QPC Chair Read More
03/25/2011 | Hams Help When Phones Fail at Southern California Hospital

When nurses and other caregivers picked up their phones at Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) in California in the early morning on March 21, there was no dial tone. A power surge caused the central processor in the hospital’s phone switch to fai Read More
03/25/2011 | ETP Grant Helps Create High School Ham Course

The ARRL and University High School join forces to bring Amateur Radio to students. Read More
03/25/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update

All solar indicators were lower again for the second consecutive week. The average daily sunspot numbers declined more than 28 points from the week before to 40.9, while the average daily solar flux was off more than 18 points to 94.8. But looking at sola Read More
03/25/2011 | Surfin’: AM Radio Days

This week, Surfin’ returns to its radio roots: 520-1610, before kc became hertz. Read More
03/23/2011 | Radio Amateurs in Japan Still Providing Communications Support

On the afternoon of Friday, March 11, an 8.9 earthquake hit Northern Japan, followed by several big aftershocks and a devastating tsunami in the coastal areas. “In the early stage following the earthquake and tsunami, several radio amateurs were able to a Read More
03/23/2011 | FCC Seeking Comments on ARRL Petition Regarding TDMA

Earlier this month, the ARRL filed a Petition for Rulemaking and a Request for Temporary Waiver with the FCC, seeking authorization of the use of single-time-slot Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) emissions in the amateur bands at and above 50 MHz, whe Read More
03/23/2011 | Amateurs Assist with Ocean Rescue

At 10:04 AM PDT (1704 UTC) on Monday, March 21, Rex Weinheimer, KC5AGO, of Stonewall, Texas -- a member of Maritime Mobile Service Net (MMSN) -- heard and responded to a weak and broken MAYDAY call. The call was from the sailing vessel Gloria Jean, a 30 f Read More
03/23/2011 | Thormod “Tom” Bøe, LA7OF (SK)

Thormod “Tom” Bøe, LA7OF, of Horten, Norway, passed away on Monday, March 21. He was 71. Bøe was President of the Norsk Radio Relae Liga (NRRL), Norway’s IARU Member-Society. Read More
03/22/2011 | Black Gold — Hot Mics

Pennsylvania hams celebrate Black Gold’s 150th Birthday. Read More
03/21/2011 | NIST to Conduct Time and Frequency User Survey

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Time and Frequency Division is conducting a survey to learn more about its users, seeking to determine how the agency can make its services more useful in the future. NIST services include WWV, W Read More
03/18/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update

The average daily sunspot numbers this week plummeted 45 points to 69, while the average daily solar flux was off over 26 points to 113.1. Sunspot numbers for March 10-16 were 88, 105, 78, 64, 51, 47 and 50, with a mean of 69. The 10.7 cm flux was 131.3, Read More
03/18/2011 | Surfin’: APRS’ing the Tsunami

This week, Surfin’ describes how APRS provided vital information during last weekend's tsunami. Read More