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09/09/2009 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, September 20, 2009, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, October 2, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Modeling; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Desi
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09/08/2009 | Surfin': Remember the TransistorThis week, Surfin' visits a Web site that remembers the component that shrunk the radio.
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09/07/2009 | Happy Birthday, Hiram!
This week, the League celebrates the 140th anniversary of the birth of ARRL's co-founder and first President, Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW! Maxim -- born September 2, 1869 -- decided a national organization for Amateur Radio was in order after he needed a &quo
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09/07/2009 | ARRL to Close in Observance of Labor Day
ARRL Headquarters will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, September 7. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Tuesday, September 8 at 8 AM Eastern Daylight Time. We wish everyone
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09/04/2009 | ARES® Awaits Activation for Wildfire, Tropical Storms
Even as the Station fire threatens Los Angeles' communications infrastructure atop Mt Wilson and Tropical Storm Erika and Hurricane Jimena die down in the tropics, emergency officials in the affected areas have not requested assistance from any Amateur Ra
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09/04/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
This week we saw another one of those fast-disappearing sunspots -- it lasted just two days, over the last day of August and the first of September. No other sunspots were observed during the month of August. Sunspot numbers for August 27-September 2 were
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09/03/2009 | Den Connors, KD2S (SK)
The first president of Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) Den Connors, KD2S, of Pepperell, Massachusetts, passed away September 3 from lymphoma. He was 58. Connors, an ARRL Life Member, conducted the firs
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09/02/2009 | W1AW Earns TPA #306
On September 1 -- after W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, made contact #149 (CW) and #150 (RTTY) with Mark Stull, AB8WV, of Parkersburg, West Virginia -- W1AW received Tripl
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