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12/17/2008 | 75th Sweepstakes Mug, Pin Orders Accepted Through January 31, 2009
The dust has settled from the 2008 ARRL November Sweepstakes and the log submission deadline has passed. How did you do? If you submitted a log with more than 100 QSOs, you qualify for a Sweepstakes Participation pin! If you submitted a log with a Clean S
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12/17/2008 | Frequency Change for Canadian Time Transmission Station CHU
After 70 years of broadcasting Canada's official time, the National Research Council's shortwave station CHU will move the transmission frequency for the 7335 kHz transmitter to 7850 kHz. The change goes into effect at 0000 UTC on January 1, 2009.
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12/17/2008 | Hams Respond to Calls for Assistance as Ice Storms Pummel New England
As a major ice storm -- accompanied by freezing rains, flooding and strong winds -- severely impacted New England on Thursday evening into Friday morning, ARES®, RACES, SKYWARN and MARS operators worked together to respond to calls for assistance from
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12/15/2008 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: 'Tis the Season, Ham Style!Christmas break is only a few weeks away and is a prime time for our favorite hobby of Amateur Radio. Spending days and nights tuning the bands, listening to conversations, starting our own and adding another country to our list, we have time for all of o
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12/12/2008 | Congressional Committee Members Release Report Lambasting FCC Chairman Kevin Martin
On Tuesday, December 9, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce -- the congressional committee that oversees the Federal Communications Commission -- released its majority staff report "on the bipartisan investigation of the FCC's regulatory proce
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12/12/2008 | Former Eastern Pennsylvania Section Manager Allen Breiner Sr, W3TI (SK)
Former Section Manager in the ARRL Eastern Pennsylvania Section Allen R. Breiner Sr, W3TI, passed away on November 19, 2008. He was 88. Breiner was first elected as Section Communications Manager -- as the SM job used to be known -- in 1959 and held that
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12/12/2008 | The K7RA Solar Update
Finally! A sunspot group appeared this week, about three weeks since the last group disappeared. The first spotless day after sunspot group 1008's last appearance was Tuesday, November 18; the last spotless day before group 1009 emerged was Tuesday, Decem
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12/11/2008 | Surfin': Going VerticalThis week's Surfin' reflects on vertical polarization of the antenna variety.
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