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03/20/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
This reporting week -- March 12-18 -- there were no sunspots, but we saw a couple of promising magnetic anomalies which faded away before ever emerging as sunspots. Sunspot numbers for March 12-18 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 with a mean of 0. The 10.7 cm
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03/20/2009 | African Radio Organization Applies for IARU Membership
In the IARU Calendar, No 188 dated March 11, 2009, IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ, reported that the Union des Radioamateurs du Congo (URAC) in the Republic of the Congo has applied to become an IARU Member-Society (IARU Proposal No 245).
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03/19/2009 | Surfin': Professionally Making Trees Go AwayThis week's Surfin' reconsiders last week's Surfin' and concludes that you should go with a pro.
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03/19/2009 | FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio Question Pools
In April 2008, Michael Mancuso, KI4NGN, of Raleigh, North Carolina, filed a petition with the FCC, seeking to increase the size of the question pools that make up the Amateur Radio licensing exams. Mancuso sought to increase the question pool from 10 time
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03/19/2009 | Hams Assist Woman Injured in Desert
It was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, when Hal Whiting, KI2U, Todd Kluxdal, Kluxdal's father and Whiting's two sons decided to go out to the Poverty Mountain area in Arizona to search for airplane crash sites. Whiting, who lives in St George, Utah,
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03/18/2009 | Eighth Annual VoIP Conference Scheduled for April 18
Each spring since 2002, the Nevada Amateur Radio Repeaters, Inc (NARRI) has sponsored the Annual VoIP Conference i
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03/18/2009 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, March 22, 2009 for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, April 3, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1, Radio Frequency Interference, Antenna Design and Construction, Ham
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03/18/2009 | Rich Beebe, N0PV (SK)
South Dakota Section Manager Rich Beebe, N0PV, of Sioux Falls, pass
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