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05/25/2010 | Amateur Community Needed to Assist Japanese Amateur Interplanetary Satellite
An informal network of ham radio experimenters, scientists and CW enthusiasts called FlyVenusCom -- a nonprofit, cross-cultural effort -- has been created to support communication efforts by Japanese scientists with its CubeSat Venus probe, UNITEC-1.
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05/24/2010 | Two New Books Available from ARRL
Just as many vendors release new products at the Dayton Hamvention, the ARRL will debut much-anticipated publications. This year was no exception. Two new books -- Remote Operating for Amateur Radio and the third edition of The ARRL RFI Bo Learn More
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05/24/2010 | ARRL Audio News to Return May 27
After a hiatus of nearly four months, the ARRL Audio News is scheduled to return Thursday, May 27. With the advent of the new ARRL Web site, we have had to make some changes in the way the Audio News is presented. For the time being, it will only be avail
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05/24/2010 | NCVEC Question Pool Committee Withdraws Four Questions
The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) announced the withdrawal of two questions from the Technician class pool and two questions from the Extra class pool. Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (
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05/24/2010 | Ham Visitors to South Africa Able to Operate, Use Special Call Sign Prefix During World Cup
Through an agreement between the South African Radio League (SARL) and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, those radio amateurs who will be attending the FIFA World Cup in South Africa may use a special ZS call sign during the event.
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05/23/2010 | UNITEC-1 On the Way to Venus
Amateurs in Japan are already receving data from UNITEC-1.
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05/21/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
Eleven days with no sunspots, but something emerged late Thursday, and it may be the return of old sunspot group 1069. Sunspot group 1069 was visible from May 4-8 before disappearing over the horizon. The return of that sunspot gives a daily sunspot numbe
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05/21/2010 | Surfin’: Hammin’ at the Hamvention®This week, Surfin’ recalls the hits and misses at the 2010 Dayton Hamvention.
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