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08/27/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
This week, we saw three days -- August 21-23 -- with no sunspots, and the average daily sunspot numbers for the week -- August 19-25 -- declined over 28 points to 8, compared to the previous week. The average daily solar flux was down more than 8 points t
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08/27/2010 | Surfin’: Hamming on the Cutting EdgeThis week, Surfin’ visits the plans for the upcoming Digital Communications Conference (DCC).
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08/26/2010 | ARRL VEC Volunteer Examiner Session Participation Web Page Returns
If you’re an ARRL Volunteer Examiner (VE) who is interested in seeing how many ARRL exam sessions you’ve taken part in, you can find the answer on the VE Session counts Web page.
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08/25/2010 | Ornithologist Arlo Raim, KB9LLF (SK)
Arlo Raim, KB9LLF, of Danville, Illinois, was killed by a southbound Canadian National freight train on the morning of Friday, August 20. He was 67. Raim had been in Pratt’s Wayne Woods Forest Preserve -- part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage (Il
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08/24/2010 | Summer Section Manager Election Results
The Southern Florida Section and the Oklahoma Section will have new Section Mangers starting in October, and the incumbent Section Manager of Ohio was re-elected in the summer Section Manager election cycle that concluded on Tuesday, August 24; election b
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08/24/2010 | ARRL Encourages Monthly Giving
The ARRL Development Office is dedicated to raising funds for those programs not funded entirely by member dues. Whether your interest is focused on protecting Amateur Radio operating frequencies, expanding ARRL’s national initiative promoting science and
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08/20/2010 | Pakistani Amateurs Team Up to Provide Communications, Relief Support for Flood Victims
According to the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) -- that country’s IARU Member-Society -- radio amateurs in Pakistan have teamed up with the Islamabad Jeep Club (IJC) and Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) to provide relief activities in t
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08/20/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
Thanks so much to Tomas Hood, NW7US, who wrote last week’s bulletin while K7RA was in California at dance camp. Tomas writes the weekly propagation column for CQ magazine, and he has an excellent Web site devoted to propagation. Tomas mentioned that the A
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