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01/10/2017 | CWops Seeks Nominees for its Advancing the Art of CW Award
CWops is seeking candidates for its annual Advancing the Art of CW Award, which recognizes individuals, groups, or organizations that have made the greatest contributions toward advancing the art or practice of radio communication by Morse code.
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01/10/2017 | New Digital Modes Gain Traction for Moonbounce, but Occasionally Show Up on HF
MSK144 and QRA64 (and QRA64A) are finding a home within the VHF Earth-Moon-Earth (EME, or moonbounce) and meteor-scatter communities, but QRA64A signals also have turned up on 160 meters, which poses its own challenges to weak signals.
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01/09/2017 | Warm Up with the January VHF Contest, January 21-23
If you’re feeling a chill in the air, it must be time for the January VHF Contest! Those in the northern tier of the US (or in a good part of the US this winter) are experiencing brisk winds, temperatures dipping southward, piles of snow or ice, or heavy
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01/06/2017 | Tickets Now Available for Dayton DX, Top Band, and Contest Dinners
Tickets are now available to the 2017 DX Dinner, Top Band Dinner, and Contest Dinner, and held in conjunction with Hamvention® in May.
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01/06/2017 | Broadcasting Mode Switching Rankling Listeners
Norway is going forward with plans to replace its national FM broadcasting network with digital-mode outlets by the end of 2017 — the first nation to do so across the board.
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01/06/2017 | The K7RA Solar Update
A quieter Sun in the forecast
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01/05/2017 | 630 Meters Becoming a “Mainstream Amateur Band, Experiment Coordinator Says
The coordinator of the ARRL’s WD2XSH 600-Meter Experimental Group — Fritz Raab, W1FR — said in his latest quarterly report that 630 meters is becoming quite active.
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01/05/2017 | FCC Dismisses Two Petitions from Radio Amateurs
The FCC has turned down two petitions filed in 2016, each seeking similar changes in the Part 97 Amateur Service rules.
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