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10/14/2011 | Surfin’: Got Updates?This week, your old -- but young at heart – Surfin’ conductor provides updates to past episodes the column.
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10/13/2011 | ARRL Marks 28th Year of Hosting USTTI ARAC Course
Students from the Ghana, Uganda and Trinidad and Tobago attended the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC) at ARRL Headquarters October 3-7. ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX
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10/13/2011 | Get Ready for the 6th Annual ARRL On-Line Auction
The Sixth Annual ARRL On-Line Auction will be open for preview beginning at 10 AM (EDT) on Friday, October 14, and will open for bidding at 10 AM (EDT) on Wednesday, October 19. According to Advertising Manager and ARRL On-Line Auction Coordinator Deb Jah
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10/13/2011 | AMSAT to Celebrate 50 Years in Space at Annual Space Symposium
The AMSAT 2011 AMSAT Space Symposium will be held on Friday, November 4-6 in San Jose, California. This year’s Symposium coincides with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of OSCAR 1, the first Amateur Radio satellite. The Symposium will feature prese
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10/12/2011 | ARISSat-1 Team Announces Morse Code Contest
ARISSat-1 -- the latest Amateur Radio satellite -- began its education-based mission after deployment from the International Space Station in August 2011. The ARISSat-1 mission is to provide a variety of information through its many broadcast modes promot
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10/12/2011 | US Amateurs Now 700,000 Strong!
As the third quarter of 2011 came to a close, ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, began calculating the number of licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US, as well as the number of new licensees. “At the end of September, I saw that the number of hams
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10/11/2011 | ISS to Be On the Air for JOTA
If you are planning on participating in this weekend’s Jamboree On the Air (JOTA), take note: Astronaut Mike Fossum, KF5AQG, is planning to participate in JOTA from the International Space Station, using the call sign NA1SS. According to the AMSAT website
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10/07/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot excitement continues, as we continue to see daily images of our Sun peppered with spots. The average daily sunspot numbers for the week were about the same as the previous week, increasing from 96.1 to 96.7, while the average daily solar flux drop
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