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01/15/2013 | 2012 Marks All-Time High for Amateur Radio Licenses
As 2012 came to a close, ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, had a good reason to cheer: The number of radio amateurs in the US reached an all-time high of almost 710,000.
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01/14/2013 | 2013 Annual Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors Set for January 18-19 in New Orleans, Agenda Announced
ARRL policy is made by its Board of Directors. The 15 voting members of the Board are the Directors who are elected by the ARRL members in their respective divisions. The Board meets in January and July, usually in the Hartford area; however, this year, t
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01/14/2013 | 2012 Brought Increase in DXCC Applications, ARRL QSL Bureau Card Processing
With the coming of more sunspots comes more DX. And when more amateurs work DX, the ARRL’s Membership and Volunteer Programs Department -- especially the DXCC Desk and the ARRL Incoming and Outgoing QSL Bureaus -- goes into high gear.
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01/11/2013 | The K7RA Solar Update
After last week’s somewhat downbeat look at sunspot cycles -- current, past and future -- we sure have some great activity to report this week: The average daily sunspot number more than doubled in the past week, rising nearly 93 points to 163.3, while th
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01/11/2013 | #1 Mixed DXCC John Dack, W7KH (SK)
On Monday, January 7, John Dack, W7KH, of Seattle, Washington, passed away. He was 91. An ARRL Life Member, Dack sat at the top of the DXCC mixed standings with 398 entities, including all 340 current entities and 58 deleted entities.
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01/11/2013 | Surfin’: AM DXing with an iPhoneThis week, Surfin’ adds an antenna “booster” and an iPhone to the AM DXing tool kit.
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01/10/2013 | Hamvention® Awards Nomination Deadline Extended to February 15
There is still time to nominate a radio amateur for the 2013 Dayton Hamvention® Awards: Amateur of the Year, Club of the Year, the Special Achievement Award and the Technical Excellence Award.
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01/09/2013 | LoTW Processing Speed Increases Thanks to New Hardware
The Logbook of The World (LoTW) queue has been shrinking steadily since Monday, January 7, when the system was brought back online after the completion of previously announced maintenance involving the installation of a new database server equipped with s
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