Recent News
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09/29/2022 | Hurricane Watch Net Update for Ian
The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) has been in operation since the morning of September 27, 2022, as Hurricane Ian swept across Cuba and headed toward Florida’s Gulf Coast. The HWN continues to operate on both 14.325 and 7.268 MHz as propagation permits.
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09/28/2022 | FCC Grants an ARRL Emergency Request to Permit Higher Data Rate Transmissions for Hurricane Relief Communications
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted an ARRL emergency request for a 60-day temporary waiver intended to facilitate amateur radio emergency communications for hurricane relief, adopted on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
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09/27/2022 | Ham Radio Operators Get Ready as Hurricane Ian Strengthens
ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) groups and volunteers have ramped up preparations as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported that Hurricane Ian continues to quickly intensify.
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09/23/2022 | The K7RA Solar Update
Geomagnetic disturbances were down this week, but so were sunspot numbers and solar flux.
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09/22/2022 | Amateur Radio Operators Track Hurricane Fiona
The National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Hurricane Watch Net (HWN), the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Hurricane Net, and the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) all have been engaged in tracking Hurricane Fiona.
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09/20/2022 | John Portune, W6NBC, and Jim Bailey, W6OEK, Win the August 2022 QST Cover Plaque Award
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09/16/2022 | The K7RA Solar Update
Solar activity bounced back this reporting week.
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09/15/2022 | Amateur Radio Helps Disabled Sailboat to Port
Amateur radio assists Jeanne (Jan) Socrates, VE0JS/MM / KC2IOV, and her sailboat, the SV Nereida, September 7, 2022.
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