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  • 08/06/2010 | Surfin’: Hamming by Pinging

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    This week, Surfin’ suggests scattering signals during the Perseids meteor shower. Read More

  • 08/05/2010 | Active Sun Puts on Display for Earth

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    It was quite a busy weekend for our Sun. During the late hours of Friday, July 30, a magnificent coronal mass ejection (CME) billowed away from the eastern limb of the Sun; the source of the blast was apparently sunspot 1092. On Sunday, August 1 at approx Read More

  • 08/04/2010 | FCC to Allow Government Drills Without a Waiver as of September 3

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    In July, the FCC released a Report and Order (R&O) that amended Section 97 -- more specifically Section 97.113 -- stating that government entities sponsoring disaster and emergency drills will no longer need to apply for a waiver to hold these drills. Add Read More

  • 08/04/2010 | Greenville Elementary School Hams

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    Fourth grade students have eyes on the sky and Technician tickets are the prize. Read More

  • 08/02/2010 | Swiss Hams Set New World Record on 10 GHz

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    A group of six Swiss hams have set a new record for the longest contact (based on GPS coordinates) made on 10 GHz using SSB -- 2696 km (1675 miles): from Ilha do Sal (one of the northern Cape Verde islands) to Portugal. Using a 20 W transmitter -- with a Read More

  • 08/02/2010 | ARRL in Action: What Have We Been Up to Lately?

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    This feature -- including convenient Web links to useful information -- is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of July. Read More

  • 08/02/2010 | ARRL Facebook Page Tops 10,300 Fans

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    With more than 10,000 fans on Facebook, the ARRL page is the number one spot for hams on the Internet’s most popular social networking site. Not only is the ARRL page the most popular Amateur Radio page on Facebook, it is attracting young -- and not-so-yo Read More

  • 07/31/2010 | It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane! No, It’s an Asteroid -- Asteroid (31531) ARRL, To Be Exact!

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    John, Paul, George and Ringo are on the list. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms -- even Frank Zappa and Elvis (but not Madonna). Of course Asimov and Sagan made the cut, Mr Spock, too, but not Captain Kirk. And now ARRL -- more precisely, (31531) ARRL -- Read More

  • 07/30/2010 | ARRL Board of Directors Meets in Connecticut for 2010 Second Meeting

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    The ARRL Board of Directors held its Second Meeting of 2010 July 16-17 in Windsor, Connecticut, under the chairmanship of President Kay Craigie, N3KN. International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD, and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RA Read More

  • 07/30/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update

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    Sunspot activity increased again this week, but on Tuesday and Wednesday -- July 27-28 -- a stiff solar wind increased Earth’s geomagnetic activity, which is a negative for HF propagation. Sunspot numbers for July 22-28 were 39, 45, 41, 39, 39, 15 and 31, Read More

  • 07/30/2010 | Surfin’: A Town Without Pitney

    Stan

    This week, Surfin’ scours the Internet for yet another musical ham. Read More

  • 07/28/2010 | The Bands “Heat Up” for the 2010 ARRL UHF Contest

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    VHF/UHF weak-signal operators across North America are making the final tests on their stations in preparation for the ARRL UHF Contest, coming up the weekend of August 7-8. Most VHF+ weak-signal operation takes place on the two lowest bands of the VHF sp Read More

  • 07/28/2010 | Government Agencies Introduce User-Friendly Federal Register

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    While the Federal Register may be the ultimate record of the business of the USA’s Executive Branch, it can be a difficult document to navigate. The Register publishes approximately 80,000 pages of documents each year in the form of Notices, Proposed Rule Read More

  • 07/27/2010 | FCC Launches Consumer Help Center

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    Beginning July 28, those who have dealings with the FCC will have a new tool that the FCC claims will put them “within one click of all the information they want” from the Commission: a new “easy-to-use” Consumer Help Center. Read More

  • 07/27/2010 | Coming Soon: More ARRL 2010 Field Day Pins

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    After a higher than expected run on pins for Field Day this year, the ARRL has ordered more and expects them to arrive next month. “The pins were in stock until just before Field Day, but due to some exceptionally high interest, we were unable to fulfill Read More

  • 07/26/2010 | The Amateur Amateur Fills-In

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    My efforts to set up an APRS station (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had come to a standstill. I had installed a program called UI-View32. It was pretty slick, with volumes of data in its Help file, but there were still plenty of partsRead More

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