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08/07/2012 | Ernesto Now a Category 1 Hurricane
At 2 PM EDT (1800 UTC) August 7, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) upgraded Tropical Storm Ernesto to a Category 1 hurricane.
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08/07/2012 | Perseid Meteor Shower Should Be Fun for Meteor Scatter Enthusiasts and Viewers AlikeOn the night of Saturday, August 11 and well into the next day, Earth will be at the peak of its annual passage through the bulk of the debris shed by a comet known as Swift-Tuttle.
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08/07/2012 | Tropical Storm Ernesto Heads Toward Yucatán; WX4NHC, VoIP Weather Net and Hurricane Watch Net Activated
As Tropical Storm Ernesto barrels toward Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, forecasters have issued a hurricane warning for the entire coast of Belize and from Chetumal to Punta Allen on the East Coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. Ernesto is expected to reach hurri
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08/06/2012 | ITU Assigns New Prefix for Niue: E6A-E6Z
On August 3, the ITU updated its Table of International Call Sign Series to reflect a call sign change for Niue. The island will now have the entire E6 prefix block. Niue -- an island approximately 1700 miles northeast of New Zealand -- is a self-governin
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08/06/2012 | Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Lands on Red Planet
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) confirmed that the rover Curiosity -- after a 36 week space flight -- landed successfully on Mars at 10:32 PM PDT on August 5 (0532 UTC August 6). Built by JPL and launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, the 2000 pound m
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08/06/2012 | NCVEC Holds 2012 Annual Meeting
Larry Pollock, NB5X, Chairman of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC), presided over the NCVEC’s 27th annual meeting, held via teleconference on July 20. The meeting offered an opportunity for representatives of the VECs to d
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08/04/2012 | Amateur Radio Quiz: The Ins-and-Outs of the Bits-and-PiecesOnce the homebuilding bug bites, you’ll be using a whole new set of jargon: acronyms, color codes, numbering conventions, parameters, measurements and more. Here are some questions about the many interesting methods -- and short-cuts -- we use to describe
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08/03/2012 | The K7RA Solar Update
The average daily sunspot numbers this week were up more than 47 points to 99.3, while the average daily solar flux rose nearly 35 points to 131.7.
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