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04/15/2009 | When Vandals Strike Infrastructure, Hams Provide Communications Support
In the early morning, just after midnight on April 9, someone climbed down four manholes in the San Jose, California area and cut underground fiber optic cables. The sabotage led to widespread disruption of phone service -- including tens of thousands of
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04/15/2009 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, April 19, 2009 for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, May 1, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Design and
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04/15/2009 | California Montessori School Wins Big with Ham RadioGranite Bay Montessori School sweeps the Sacramento Regional Science Fair with ham radio projects.
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![Dean LaBarba, KI6CUX, is the recipient of the 2009 William R. Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship. He enters Westmont College in the fall where he intends to study neurology. [Photo courtesy of the LaBarba Family]](/img/122x89/News/nms_830.jpg)
04/15/2009 | California Teen Is 2009 Goldfarb Scholarship Recipient
In April 2009, the ARRL Foundation Board of Directors voted unanimously to award the prestigious William R. Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship to Dean LaBarba, KI6CUX, of Long Beach, California. LaBarba will graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School this year w
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04/14/2009 | ARRL Comments on Broadband Provisions in Recovery Act
On March 24, 2009, the FCC invited comments from interested parties concerning the Commission's consultative role in the broadband provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). In the Recovery Act, Congress assigned gran
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04/14/2009 | Italy Discontinues HF Earthquake Net
On April 10, Italy's Dipartimento della Protezione Civile announced that as of April 11, they would be closing down all organized emergency communications support on HF frequencies that had been set up after the April 6 earthquake that struck the tow
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04/13/2009 | Youth@Ham Radio.Fun: Helping Heal With Ham (Radio)Going to the hospital is never fun. But for kids who have to live there due to medical conditions, it can be a major drag. Wonderful facilities -- such as the Ronald McDonald House -- have developed around the goal of making kids and their families more c
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04/10/2009 | Italian Hams Respond after Earthquake
An earthquake that registered between 5.8 and 6.3 magnitude struck the town of L'Aquila -- the capital of Italy's Abruzzo region, about 65 miles northeast of Rome -- early on the morning of April 6. News reports say the quake has killed more than 250 peop
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