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08/26/2009 | South African Hams to Put ZS10WCS On the Air Before, During World Cup
With World Cup soccer coming to South Africa in 2010, hams in that country will commemorate the event starting in September 2009 with a special call sign: ZS10WCS. According to the South African Radio League (SARL), that country's IARU Member-Society, the
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08/21/2009 | PR-101 Course Introduced at ARRL National Convention
The ARRL Public Relations Committee unveiled the new ARRL's PR-101 course today at the 2009 ARRL National Convention at the Dayton Hamvention. The course -- designed to give hams a quick course in public relations activities -- was quickly snapped up by A
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08/21/2009 | Surfin': Still Finding WoodstockThis week, Surfin' unveils more ham radio connections to the three days of peace, music and mud.
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08/19/2009 | Hurricane Bill Builds to Category 4; Amateur Radio Hurricane Nets Ready
Now that Tropical Storms Ana and Claudette have dissipated, Hurricane Bill -- now labeled a Category 4 storm -- is churning its way across the Atlantic with sustained winds near 135 miles per hour. Even though the storm's projected path does not make land
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08/05/2009 | Prepare for the Perseids!
On the night of August 11 and well into the next day, Earth will make its annual passage through the bulk of the debris shed by a comet known as Swift-Tuttle. Much of the debris is composed of dust-sized grains, but when these fragments come plunging into
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08/05/2009 | The ARRL Teachers Institute Wraps Up Successful Summer Sessions
In 2004, the ARRL held its first Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology. That summer, nine teachers came from across the country to learn how to bring this exciting technology back to their classrooms. Six years later, 93 teachers from 29 states attend
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08/03/2009 | QRP “Over the Top” for the Colorado 14er EventAfter reading the August 2005 QST article by Chris Ormsby, K0CAO, and Bob Witte, K0NR, I thought what fun a HF low power (QRP) operation from a Colorado 14er (A mountain over 14,000 feet high.) would be. The “carrot” would be that an out-of-st
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07/29/2009 | Local Hams Aid Rescue Squad to Solve Public Safety Interference Issue
When you live on a remote island with numerous mountains and valleys, communications can be tricky. Add interference that blocks the main communications frequency used by the local emergency rescue squad and you've got a disaster waiting to happen. That's
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