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12/24/2009 | White House Names Ham as New Cybersecurity Coordinator
On Tuesday, December 22, President Barack Obama named Howard A. Schmidt, W7HAS, as the new White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. According to the White House, Schmidt -- an ARRL member -- is one of the world's leading authorities on computer security, wi
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12/24/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Many of us are nearly giddy with joy over the recent steady increase in sunspot activity that seems long overdue. Average daily sunspot numbers rose more than 10 points this week compared to last -- from 21.1 to 31.4! The monthly average daily sunspot num
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12/24/2009 | MARS Gets New Name As It Fine Tunes Mission
On Wednesday, December 23, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued an Instruction concerning MARS, effective immediately. This Instruction gives the three MARS services -- Army, Air Force and Navy/Marine Corps -- a new focus on homeland secur
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12/24/2009 | AMSAT Announces Annual Straight Key Night
AMSAT, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation, has announced its annual Straight Key Night will take place from 0000-2400 UTC on January 1, 2010.
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12/22/2009 | ARRL Seeks Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager
The ARRL currently has an opening for an Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager to be based at ARRL HQ. The successful applicant will represent the League with governmental and non-governmental emergency and disaster response organizations and partne
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12/21/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Any-Bounce"Other than the ionosphere, have you ever deliberately bounced your signal off of something in order to improve your propagation?" That was the question asked during one of our recent ARES nets.
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12/21/2009 | Chinese Satellite XW-1 Receives OSCAR Designation
Less than one week after China’s first Amateur Radio satellite -- XW-1 -- was successfully launched, AMSAT has designated it Hope-OSCAR 68, or HO-68. “Amateur Radio Operators around the world have received beacon sig
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12/20/2009 | ARRL Headquarters Closed for Christmas, New Year’s Holidays
ARRL Headquarters will be closed Friday, December 25, 2009 and Friday, January 1, 2010 in observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day. There will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice transmissi
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