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06/14/2010 | HR 2160 Now Counts 40 House Sponsors
Last month, another Congressional Representatives -- Mike McIntyre (D-NC-7) -- pledged their support for HR 2160, The Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Enhancement Act of 2009, bringing the total number of cosponsors to 40, including original sponsor
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06/14/2010 | FCC Issues Public Notice to Seek Information, Comments on Current Use of 1675-1710 MHz
The National Broadband Plan (NBP) recommends that the FCC should make 500 MHz of spectrum available for broadband use within the next 10 years, including 300 MHz between 225 MHz-3.7 GHz for mobile use in the next five years. The FCC’s Office of Engineerin
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06/11/2010 | My Marriage to ARRLA ham looks back on 38 years of hamming and the ARRL.
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06/11/2010 | Atlantic Division to Host Webinar on How to Use the New ARRL Web Site
Periodically, the ARRL’s Atlantic Division hosts a “webinar” -- an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience using the Internet. On Tuesday, June 15 at 9 PM EDT, At
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06/11/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
With calmer solar activity, geomagnetic conditions were stable this week. The average daily sunspot numbers were down 7.6 points to 17.7, and the average daily solar flux dropped two points to 71. The average planetary A index declined 6.4 points to 7.9,
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06/11/2010 | Surfin’: iPhone Gets Software Defined RadioThis week, Surfin’ discovers a software defined radio (SDR) in an iPhone.
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06/10/2010 | In FCC Rule Making Proceeding, ARRL Supports Employee Participation in Drills
In March 2010, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) (WT Docket No 10-72) that proposed to amend the Part 97 rules -- specifically 97.113(a)(3) -- governing the Amateur Radio Service. The new rules would provide that, under certain limi
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06/10/2010 | The Amateur Amateur: APRS, the BeginningI became interested in APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) after watching a presentation on it a few years ago. The presenter described some of the interesting things that could be done with APRS, which, I think, sold many of us right then and there.
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