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11/08/2011 | New QuickStats Poll Now Available on ARRL Website
Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. Let your voice be heard!
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11/08/2011 | Kirk Pickering, K4RO, Named 14th Editor of NCJ
Kirk Pickering, K4RO, of Pegram, Tennessee, has been named Editor of the National Contest Journal (NCJ). His first issue as Editor will be the January/February 2012 issue. Pickering takes over from Al Dewey, K0AD, of Plymouth, Minnesota, who has served as
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11/06/2011 | W1AW Announces Winter Operating Schedule
With the switch from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time, W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, has updated the W1AW operating schedule to reflect the change. Your local standard times have not changed, but the UTC times they reference have.
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11/05/2011 | USA Brings Home Gold at 2011 High Speed Telegraphy World Championships
Back in September 1936, Eugene A. Hubbell, W9ERU, took home the silver trophy at what the October 1936 issue of QST called the first official “Amateur Code Speed Contest.” Only making one error, Hubbell won first prize with his winning speed of receiving
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11/04/2011 | Logbook of The World Still Busy Processing Logs
The log processing delay for Logbook of The World (LoTW) remains at approximately 60 hours, with approximately 8000 logs queued for processing. Please do not upload the same log more than once. According to ARRL IT Manager Michael Keane, K1MK, the League
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11/04/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
First, a few updates on Solar Cycle 24. As you might suspect, the average of daily sunspot numbers for October shot way up -- from 55.5 in June, to 67.2 in July, 66 in August, 106.4 in September and 123.6 in October. Our three month moving average of dail
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11/04/2011 | Surfin’: When One Thing (Music) Leads to Another (Radio)This week, Surfin’ considers different way of assembling a software defined radio (SDR).
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11/03/2011 | Breaking the Amateur Radio Balloon Altitude Record
On October 23, a California group launched a balloon that reached 136,545 feet above ground level, a new altitude record.
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