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10/27/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: Give Me That Old Ham ReligionI was sitting in my shack, fuming over my latest failure. I was a computer professional for more than 40 years and I still couldn’t penetrate digital modes. Or understand the menus on modern transceivers. Or figure out why the heck my newest radio beeped
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10/26/2012 | The K7RA Solar Update
Good conditions should prevail for the CQ World Wide SSB DX Contest this weekend. A chance for solar flares has greatly diminished in the past few days, and the latest forecast has the planetary A index at a steady and quiet 5 for this weekend and beyond,
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10/26/2012 | Surfin’: Radio Ghosts RevisitedGhosts and Halloween go together, but what about ghosts and radios?
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10/25/2012 | W1AW Receives Semi-Annual Antenna Inspection, New Antenna for 160 Meters
On October 24, Matt Strelow, KC1XX, and Andrew Toth of XX Towers came to Newington to inspect the antennas and towers at W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, and W1HQ, the Laird Campbell Memorial HQ Operators Club.
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10/25/2012 | Hurricane Sandy Now a Category 2 Storm
As Hurricane Sandy heads toward the Bahamas, both the Hurricane Watch Net and the VoIP Hurricane Net are supporting WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center.
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10/25/2012 | No ARRL Audio News on October 25
There will be no ARRL Audio News on Thursday, October 25. The ARRL Letter will be distributed on its usual schedule. The Audio News will return on Thursday, November 1.
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10/24/2012 | FCC Seeks Comments on Proposed Changes to Amateur Licensing Rules, Emission Types
Earlier this month, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) -- FCC Docket No. 12-121 -- proposing to amend the Part 97 rules governing the Amateur Radio Service. On October 24, a summary of the NPRM was published in the Federal Register an
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10/23/2012 | Hurricane Watch Net to Activate for Tropical Storm Sandy
The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) will activate at 7 AM EST (1100 UTC) on Wednesday, October 24 for Tropical Storm Sandy, in support of WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida.
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