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    06/03/2009 | President Obama to Renominate FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell for New Term

    On Tuesday, June 2, President Barack Obama announced that he will renominate current FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell for another term. McDowell, a Republican, was first nominated by President George W. Bush and sworn into office in June 2006, filling the
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  • Teachers Institute participants receive four days of intensive in-service training in basic electronics, the science of radio, how to bring space technology into the classroom, microcontroller programming and basic robotics.

    06/02/2009 | First 2009 ARRL Teachers Institute in the Books

    The week of May 25 saw the completion of the first 2009 Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology. According to Education and Technology Program Coordinator Mark Spencer, WA8SME, about half of the participants came from the host institution, the New Mexic
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    06/01/2009 | NASA Releases New Predictions for Solar Cycle 24

    An international panel of experts -- led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and sponsored by NASA -- has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle: Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sun
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  • 06/01/2009 | Mal Eiselman, NC4L, Wins May QST Cover Plaque Award

    The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for May is Mal Eiselman, NC4L, for his article "Troubleshooting Radios." Congratulations, Mal! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to the author or authors of the
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  • 05/29/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update

    That was a nice string of days showing a sunspot -- May 13-19 -- a whole week. Then it was gone, but a few days later on May 23, another Solar Cycle 24 sunspot emerged, this time in our Sun's southern hemisphere. But it was another of those phantom spots.
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  • 05/29/2009 | Changes to ARRL VHF/UHF Contest Rules Now in Place

    The League's Programs and Services Committee has approved recommendations made by the ARRL's VHF-UHF Advisory Committee (VUAC) to change two rules in the ARRL's VHF/UHF contest program. These changes are in effect immediately, and include the 2009 June VH
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