Recent News
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09/17/2009 | ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Next Weekend
ARRL and the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Group (TAPR) will jointly host the 28th Annual Digital Communications Conference (DCC) September 25-27 i
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09/16/2009 | Alpha Radio Products Now RF Concepts
On September 15, Michael Seedman, AA6DY, announced that his company, RF Concepts, had purchased Boulder, Colorado-based Alpha R
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09/15/2009 | National Safety Council Responds to ARRL: No Evidence of "Significant Crash Risks" While Operating Mobile
ARRL President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, wrote a letter to National Safety Council (NSC) President Janet Froetscher in July expressing the ARRL's concerns that Amateur Radio not become an unintended victim of the growing public debate over what to do about dis
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09/14/2009 | Smithsonian Curator to Speak at AMSAT-NA Banquet
Dr Martin Collins, a curator in the Space History Division at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, will be the featured speaker at the AMSAT-NA Symposium banquet on Saturday, October 10, at the Four Points Sheraton Ho
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09/11/2009 | HR 2160 Gains Three More Cosponsors
On September 10, three more Congressmen -- Geoff Davis (R-KY-4), Bill Posey (R-FL-15) and Michael Turner (R-OH-3) -- pledged their support for Learn More
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09/11/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
No new sunspot activity this week, and no emerging sunspots are visible on the far side of the Sun. Sunspot region 1025 (or 11025) that appeared over August 31 and September 1 faded more than a week ago, and the area in which it appeared has just rotated
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09/10/2009 | Amateurs with General Class Licenses to be Granted Reciprocal Licenses in Some CEPT Countries
On Thursday, September 10, the Federal Communications Commission released a new Public Notice implementing changes in CEPT reciprocal operating arrangements for US citizens who hold an FCC-issued General, Advanced or Amateur Extra class Amateur Rad
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09/10/2009 | Surfin': Don't Forget the Integrated CircuitThis week, Surfin' visits a Web site that remembers the component that shrunk the radio even more than the transistor did.
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