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03/06/2012 | ARRL Seeks Comments on Proposed 9 cm Band Plan
A few months ago, the ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee asked the Amateur Radio community about current, planned and projected uses of the amateur bands between 902 MHz and 3.5 GHz. The response was beyond our expectations, with hundreds of comments
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03/06/2012 | FCC Reduces Forfeiture for Florida Man Accused of Using Unauthorized Equipment
In November 2011, the FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) in the amount of $10,000 to Michael Perry of Cross City, Florida. In a Forfeiture Order released on March 6, the FCC reduced the forfeiture that Perry must pay to $450. P
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03/06/2012 | Active Sunspot Region 1429 Produces Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections
An X-1.1 class solar flare erupted from the Sun on Sunday, March 4 at 11:13 PM EST (0413 UTC March 5), sending an explosion of plasma and charged particles -- a coronal mass ejection (CME) -- hurtling through space. Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Pre
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03/06/2012 | Enter the Seventh Annual ARRL Photo Contest!
Have you ever wanted to see a photo of yours in QST, the annual ARRL Amateur Radio Calendar or another ARRL publication? Well, here’s your chance! If you’re among the winners, not only will your photographic skill be propagated far and wide, but we’re off
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03/06/2012 | Three Operations Approved for DXCC Credit
ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that three operations -- the current VK0TH and AX/VK0TH (Macquarie Island) operation, the 2011 6O0M (Somalia) operation and the December 2011-January 2012 9U3TMM (Burundi) operation -- have been approved for DXC
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03/05/2012 | New 60 Meter Privileges Now In Effect
Hams can start using their new 60-meter privileges today.
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03/02/2012 | TX3A and MeA combination of planning, persistence, insomnia and luck put a rare one in the log.
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03/02/2012 | The K7RA Solar Update
The average daily sunspot number this week was down 12 points from the previous week, and the solar flux was about the same. Sunspot numbers for February 23-29 were 52, 47, 47, 58, 45, 35 and 22, with a mean of 43.7. The 10.7 cm flux was 103.3, 108.9, 108
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