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03/24/2009 | FCC Corrects Call Sign Error

In October 2006, Peter Birk (formerly WB2DCG) of Virginia Beach, Virginia, applied for a vanity call sign, K4ZL, under the FCC's Vanity Call Sign Program. This call sign was previously held by Elmer B. Jackson, Jr of Lavergne, Tennessee. Jackson held this Read More
03/23/2009 | FCC Clarifies What Constitutes an Amateur Radio Repeater

In December 2007, Gary Mitchell, WB6YRU, President of the Northern California Packet Association (NCPA), filed a Petition with the FCC, asking for the Commission to clarify the definition of a repeater. According to Part 97, Section 3(a)(39), A repeater i Read More
03/23/2009 | Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein to Leave FCC

On Friday, March 20, President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Democrat FCC Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein to serve as Administrator for the Rural Utilities Service (RUS), of the United States Department of Agriculture; the nomination Read More
03/23/2009 | Get Ready for ARRL Field Day 2009

The official 2009 ARRL Field Day Web page is up and running. This page includes a summary of available resources, with links to Field Day forms and rules, logos and reference links. The page also includes a quick link to the map-based Field Day Station Lo Read More
03/20/2009 | Global Simulated Emergency Test Scheduled for April

IARU Region 1 has invited the HQ stations of IARU Member-Societies, as well as the EOCs of Emergency Communications Groups (ECGs), to participate in the 2009 Global Simulated Emergency Test (GlobalSET), on Saturday, April 18, 2009 from 1100-1500 UTC. The Read More
03/20/2009 | ARRL Releases Experimental Methods in RF Design

The revised first edition of Experimental Methods in RF Design is now available from the ARRL. Co-written and updated by Wes Hayward, W7ZOI, Rick Campbell, KK7B, and Bob Larkin, W7PUA, Experimental Methods in RF Design explores wide dynamic Read More
03/20/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update

This reporting week -- March 12-18 -- there were no sunspots, but we saw a couple of promising magnetic anomalies which faded away before ever emerging as sunspots. Sunspot numbers for March 12-18 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 with a mean of 0. The 10.7 cm Read More
03/20/2009 | African Radio Organization Applies for IARU Membership

In the IARU Calendar, No 188 dated March 11, 2009, IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ, reported that the Union des Radioamateurs du Congo (URAC) in the Republic of the Congo has applied to become an IARU Member-Society (IARU Proposal No 245). Read More
03/19/2009 | Surfin': Professionally Making Trees Go Away

This week's Surfin' reconsiders last week's Surfin' and concludes that you should go with a pro. Read More
03/19/2009 | FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio Question Pools

In April 2008, Michael Mancuso, KI4NGN, of Raleigh, North Carolina, filed a petition with the FCC, seeking to increase the size of the question pools that make up the Amateur Radio licensing exams. Mancuso sought to increase the question pool from 10 time Read More
03/19/2009 | Hams Assist Woman Injured in Desert

It was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, when Hal Whiting, KI2U, Todd Kluxdal, Kluxdal's father and Whiting's two sons decided to go out to the Poverty Mountain area in Arizona to search for airplane crash sites. Whiting, who lives in St George, Utah, Read More
03/18/2009 | Eighth Annual VoIP Conference Scheduled for April 18

Each spring since 2002, the Nevada Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc (NARRI) has sponsored the Annual VoIP Conference i Read More
03/18/2009 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration

Registration remains open through Sunday, March 22, 2009 for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, April 3, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1, Radio Frequency Interference, Antenna Design and Construction, Ham Read More
03/18/2009 | Rich Beebe, N0PV (SK)

South Dakota Section Manager Rich Beebe, N0PV, of Sioux Falls, pass Read More
03/18/2009 | Burghardt to No Longer Sell Amateur Radio Equipment

On March 16, Jim Smith, W0MJY, owner of Burghardt Amateur Center in Watertown, South Dakota, announced that the company will no longer sell Amateur Radio transceivers and accessories. Th Read More
03/13/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update

Last week's bulletin again mentioned briefly appearing sunspots and it happened again this week. For just two days, another Solar Cycle 23 spot appeared, number 1014. The latitude of the spot was consistent with an old and fading solar cycle. As this peri Read More