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07/06/2010 | The Amateur Amateur: APRS Sneaks Into the Shack

As I stated in my last column, APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had interested me for some time. I just couldn’t seem to find any documentation that was simple enough for me to understand. Nor did there appear to be any “starter kits” on the marke
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05/01/2010 | The Amateur Amateur: Not Exactly Plug-And-Play

I often hear people say, “Oh yes, I know how to program a computer”, when what they really mean is that they know how to invoke some esoteric feature of Excel or Word. As a software professional, I do not consider that sort of ability to be anything remot
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02/17/2010 | Grant Hopper, KB7WSD, Appointed Northwestern Division Vice Director

ARRL President, Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed Grant Hopper, KB7WSD, of Everett, Washington, as the new Northwestern Division Vice Director. The position became vacant when no one submitted the necessary election materials needed to run for the Vice Di
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05/16/2009 | Surfin': Radioing Over the Appalachian Trail

This week's Surfin' visits a Web site detailing the effort to traverse the Appalachian Trail by Amateur Radio.
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03/30/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Packet, Part 1

I never had much interest in packet radio. It was just one of those "other" modes that was fine for other people, but held no relevance for me. And then one day I looked around my shack and realized that packet had crept in and taken over. There
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03/25/2009 | The 23rd Annual Southwest Ohio Digital Symposium

Homebrew events need grassroots support to survive and thrive.
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06/16/2008 | First Image from CUTE-1.7 +APD II Satellite

The ground control station at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has downloaded the first color image taken by the CUTE-1.7 +APD II Amateur Radio satellite. The satellite was 620 km above the Earth at 28.905 degrees North and 146.040 degrees East when the
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05/10/2008 | Ronald A Parise, WA4SIR (SK)

Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Parise flew as a payload specialist on two space shuttle missions: STS-35 on Columbia in December 1990 and STS-67 on the
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