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03/21/2011 | NIST to Conduct Time and Frequency User Survey
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Time and Frequency Division is conducting a survey to learn more about its users, seeking to determine how the agency can make its services more useful in the future. NIST services include WWV, W
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03/18/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
The average daily sunspot numbers this week plummeted 45 points to 69, while the average daily solar flux was off over 26 points to 113.1. Sunspot numbers for March 10-16 were 88, 105, 78, 64, 51, 47 and 50, with a mean of 69. The 10.7 cm flux was 131.3,
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03/18/2011 | Surfin’: APRS’ing the TsunamiThis week, Surfin’ describes how APRS provided vital information during last weekend's tsunami.
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03/17/2011 | ICOM, Kenwood Issue Statements Regarding Effects of Earthquake on Operations
After the 8.9 earthquake struck Japan last week, both ICOM and Kenwood, as well Yaesu, have issued statements how the natural disaster has affected their operations. Yaesu had reported that one of their factories in Fukushima was damaged and will be close
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03/17/2011 | ARRL Files Petition, Request for Temporary Waiver with FCC Regarding VHF Voice and Data Emissions
On Tuesday, March 15, the ARRL filed a Petition for Rulemaking and a Request for Temporary Waiver to authorize the use of single-time-slot Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) emissions in the amateur bands at and above 50 MHz, wherever multip
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03/17/2011 | Yaesu Factory Damaged in Earthquake
In a letter to the Amateur Radio community, Vertex Standard Chief Executive Officer and President Jun Hasegawa expressed his “sincere appreciation to all of you for your kind words and thoughts about us” after the devastating 8.9 earthquake that struck Ja
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03/16/2011 | Hams Invited to Track Satellites
In November 2010, five research satellites were carried to orbit aboard a Minotaur V rocket from Kodiak Island, Alaska. Two of these satellites -- FASTRAC 1, known as “Sara Lily” and FASTRAC 2, referred to as “Emma” -- entered orbit as a single nanosatell
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03/15/2011 | A Contact Across the GenerationsA pair of high-school students contacts their grandfather for their first HF experience.
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