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04/01/2011 | Surfin’: Visiting Your AM Radio DaysLast week’s return to Surfin’s radio roots begat this week’s return to your radio roots.
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03/31/2011 | Two Astronauts Get Their Ham Ticket
Even though they aren’t scheduled to go to the International Space Station (ISS) until 2013, two astronauts -- Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano -- are now licensed amateurs. Cassidy, who received the call sign KF5KDR, is scheduled to head to the ISS in Ma
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03/30/2011 | Western Pennsylvania Hams Respond as Tornado Sweeps Through Area
At approximately 4:30 on the afternoon of Wednesday, March 23, severe thunderstorms started to roll into Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, producing golf ball-sized hail and heavy winds. Members of the Westmoreland County Public Service/ARES® group began
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03/30/2011 | Owner of Industrial Communication Engineers Mike Koss, W9SU (SK)
Mike Koss, W9SU, of Indianapolis, Indiana, passed away Monday, March 28. He was 57. According to his friend Brian Smith, W9IND, Koss was found on his workshop floor and paramedics were unable to revive him. Industrial Communications Engineers (ICE) is wel
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03/30/2011 | Internet Pioneer Paul Baran, W3KAS (SK)
Paul Baran, W3KAS -- an engineer who helped create the technical underpinnings for the ARPANET, the government-sponsored precursor to today’s Internet -- died March 27 at his home in Palo Alto, California. He was 84. According to his son David, the cause
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03/30/2011 | Minutes from ARRL Executive Committee Meeting Now Available
The ARRL Executive Committee met on Saturday, March 19 in Chicago, Illinois. The minutes from that meeting are now available on the ARRL website.
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03/30/2011 | Revised Spread Spectrum Rules to Go Into Effect April 29, 2011
New spread spectrum rules go into effect April 29, 2011
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03/29/2011 | New Mars Rover to Feature Morse Code
As the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) builds the next Mars rover -- this one is named Curiosity -- to deploy to the red planet in the fall of 2011, they’re having a little fun with it. Back in 2007 when the Curiosity team was putting together the rover,
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