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11/28/2011 | Hams Listen to Mars Science Laboratory Signal
Amateurs have received 10 GHz signals from the Mars Science Laboratory.
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11/28/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
Recently, I mentioned recently that some of the sunspot numbers released by NOAA didn’t seem right. I just got word from Mike Husler at NOAA that data posted recently -- like that record-breaking day when the sunspot number hit 220 -- was wrong. The corre
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11/28/2011 | A Ham's Night Before Christmas Video
The famous Christmas poem with an Amateur Radio twist.
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11/26/2011 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: W0EEE Kicks off Youth Month on TWiT’s Ham NationA few months ago, Bob Heil, K9EID, founder of Heil Sound, Ltd, and Gordon “Gordo” West, WB6NOA, and others teamed up with This Week in Tech (TWiT) to bring us Ham Nation, a fantastic podcast designed for hams of all skills, ages and niches that is all abo
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11/25/2011 | Surfin’: Tracking the Dead ZoneThis week (and next), hams can participate in an International Space Station experiment to test a spacecraft propulsion technology’s effects on RF.
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11/24/2011 | Amateur Radio Quiz: Forming AttachmentsCritical to almost all aspects of successfully making contacts are the contacts -- or rather, the connections between contacts -- that allow electrons to scurry back and forth (and back and forth) carrying on our conversations. Pin down each question and
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11/23/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
Not much in the way of solar excitement this week, except there are many sunspots, but the solar activity in terms of flares or coronal mass ejections is low. The overlapping (by one day) average sunspot numbers in this bulletin declined 21 points to 124.
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11/22/2011 | Fall Section Manager Election Results
ARRL members in New Mexico, Tennessee, and Michigan will have new Section Managers, beginning January 1, 2012. Members in Kansas also re-elected their Section Manager in a balloted race that concluded when ballots were counted and verified at ARRL Headqua
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