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10/28/2012 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: October is for the Kids -- School Club Roundup, JOTA, Contests and GiveawaysRF and ladybugs have a few things in common: During their migration, that end up in places they would have never expected, and, like how RF gets into circuitry where it wouldn’t normally be expected, these pretty red beetles end up inside, crawling throug
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10/27/2012 | Hurricane Watch Net to Activate as Hurricane Sandy Approaches Eastern Seaboard
The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) has announced plans to reactivate its nets in advance of Hurricane Sandy’s approach to the East Coast of the United States. The HWN will relay on-the-ground reports from hams to WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio Station at the Nation
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10/27/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: Give Me That Old Ham ReligionI was sitting in my shack, fuming over my latest failure. I was a computer professional for more than 40 years and I still couldn’t penetrate digital modes. Or understand the menus on modern transceivers. Or figure out why the heck my newest radio beeped
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10/26/2012 | The K7RA Solar Update
Good conditions should prevail for the CQ World Wide SSB DX Contest this weekend. A chance for solar flares has greatly diminished in the past few days, and the latest forecast has the planetary A index at a steady and quiet 5 for this weekend and beyond,
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10/26/2012 | Surfin’: Radio Ghosts RevisitedGhosts and Halloween go together, but what about ghosts and radios?
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10/25/2012 | W1AW Receives Semi-Annual Antenna Inspection, New Antenna for 160 Meters
On October 24, Matt Strelow, KC1XX, and Andrew Toth of XX Towers came to Newington to inspect the antennas and towers at W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, and W1HQ, the Laird Campbell Memorial HQ Operators Club.
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10/25/2012 | Hurricane Sandy Now a Category 2 Storm
As Hurricane Sandy heads toward the Bahamas, both the Hurricane Watch Net and the VoIP Hurricane Net are supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center.
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10/25/2012 | No ARRL Audio News on October 25
There will be no ARRL Audio News on Thursday, October 25. The ARRL Letter will be distributed on its usual schedule. The Audio News will return on Thursday, November 1.
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