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11/17/2008 | The Amateur Amateur: RadiomobileEarlier this year I traded in my old Geo Prizm and bought a new car. This was a whole new ballgame for me. You see, it was the first time that I’d bought a vehicle specifically to fit my Amateur Radio needs.
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11/14/2008 | ARRL Sweepstakes Celebrates Diamond Anniversary this Weekend
Fans of domestic contesting will take to the airwaves this weekend for the 75th running of the ARRL November SSB Sweepstakes. According to ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, the event started back in 1929 as a competition for handling formal t
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11/14/2008 | The K7RA Solar Update
We soon may be talking about a day or two without sunspots as the norm, perhaps when looking at a preceding month -- quite the opposite of noting the few days with sunspots. It seems like a long time ago because of the long strings of spotless days. We sa
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11/13/2008 | Surfin': Tying Ham Radio Together with TwineThis week's Surfin' visits a Web site using semantic Web design to organize your Amateur Radio information.
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11/13/2008 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, November 23, 2008, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, December 5, 2008: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1 (EC-001), Radio Frequency Interference (E
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11/13/2008 | ARRL to Offer Self-Study Course on Digital Technology for Emergency Communications
With digital technology becoming an integral part of Amateur Radio, hams interested in Emergency Communications now have a new tool to help them take advantage of emerging modes such as Packet Radio APRS, Winlink 2000, IRLP, EchoLink and WIRES-II
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11/13/2008 | IBM Teams up with BPL Provider to Offer Services in Seven States
On Wednesday, November 12, IBM announced that it has signed a $9.6 million deal with International Broadband Electric Communications (IBEC) to install equipment and provide BPL service to almost 350,000 homes in Alabama, Indiana, Maryland, Pennsylvania, T
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11/12/2008 | Satellite Serving as Voice Repeater Expected to Go QRT by End of Year
Launched in January 1990, AMSAT-OSCAR 16 (AO-16) -- a digital satellite -- has been operating as a voice repeater since January 2008, using FM voice on the uplink and transmitting DSB voice on the downlink (best received on SSB). But according to the sate
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