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05/22/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: A Day in the Parking Lot"Okay, I'm here," I thought as I pulled into a parking space. I shut off the engine and just sat there for a minute. I glanced down at the clipboard lying on the passenger seat. It held my "what-to-do-and-in-what-order" list. Once I st
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05/22/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Do sunspots matter? Many of us are surprised at how good conditions can be with zero sunspots; the weak solar wind and lack of flares and geomagnetic events likely have something to do with it. Many times during the more active solar periods, sunspots wer
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05/22/2009 | Surfin': Hamventioning and GooglingThis week's Surfin' revisits the Dayton Hamvention and attempts to demystify Google.
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05/22/2009 | May Section Manager Election Results Announced
In the only contested Section Manager race this spring, Mel Parkes, NM7P, of Layton, was re-elected as the Utah Section Manager with 480 votes. His opponent, Lauri "Mac" McCreary, KG7C, of Lehi, received 147 votes. Parkes, who has held the Secti
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05/22/2009 | W1AW, W1HQ Receive Inspections, New Antennas
The antennas and towers at the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, W1AW, and W1HQ, the Laird Campbell Memorial HQ Operators Club, received their semi-annual inspection on May 12. In addition to the inspections, new equipment was also installed on the W1AW
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05/20/2009 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, June 7, 2009 for these online course sessions that begin on Friday, June 19, 2009: Antenna Modeling and Radio Frequency Propagation.
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05/19/2009 | DREAMing Big at Dayton
With wet skies on Saturday morning, the 2009 ARRL National Convention and Dayton Hamvention® started a second day. The first day -- a beautiful sunny day with a slight breeze and few clouds -- saw crowds funnel through the many entrances at Hara Arena
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05/19/2009 | FCC Releases Unredacted BPL Case Studies after ARRL FOIA Request
Earlier this month, the FCC released the redacted portions of the studies on which they relied with regard to its Broadband over Powerline (BPL) rulemaking in 2004 after ARRL filed a Freedom of Information Act request on March 31 for the studies. In Octob
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