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09/14/2015 | Antarctic VI0ANZAC Operation Faced Poor Weather and Propagation:

Despite adverse Antarctic winter weather, the VI0ANZAC special event made it on the air over the August 29-30 weekend.
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10/04/2013 | Pam’s Shack Bridges the Gap

Some begging, borrowing and repurposing gets an ARES® station on the air.
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11/30/2012 | Surfin’: Ham Blogging

This week, Surfin’ urges readers to share their ham radio adventures by blogging.
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04/22/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: Manic

I cleaned my shack this morning. Okay, that might not even be physically possible, but I certainly made a serious dent in the clutter. I removed everything that was keeping me from opening my file cabinets. I extracted a bunch of junk from behind them and
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02/29/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: It’s a Jungle Down There

It’s Wednesday. The evening meal has been cooked and consumed. The dishes have been washed. My wife Nancy has curled up with a murder mystery and our dog Ariel is busy dismantling a rawhide bone. Checking my watch, I see that it’s time to go down to my sh
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01/04/2012 | Ham Radio in Hollywood: Amateur Radio Makes Its Debut on Last Man Standing

If you watched the January 3 episode of Last Man Standing -- the ABC hit situation comedy starring Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, KA0XTT -- you were in for a treat. While this episode didn’t feature Amateur Radio per se, it did show Mike’s shack in the backgro
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10/15/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Simulated Emergency Mess

It was my turn to run the local ARES® net, but I was thinking about asking someone else to do it for me. It had been a stressful day and my speech was becoming a little slurred (I’m struggling with myasthenia gravis). But I hated to impose on the other ne
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07/23/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Fun, Fatigue and Fur

My wife Nancy and I have a very sweet dog named Ariel. As near as we can make out, Ariel is 95 percent Swedish Lapphund, absolutely beautiful and as furry as they come. During the summer months in Missouri, she sheds and the whole house becomes furry. The
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