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08/31/2009 | Amateur Radio Quiz: What Kind of Tool Am I?No, it’s not a song about workshop inhabitants from the off-Broadway hit musical Little Shack of Horrors, but rather a quiz about some of the gadgets and doo-dads we use all the time in building our stations and keeping them on the air. Sli
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08/31/2009 | ARRL Vice Director Elections Set for November
Responding to solicitations in the July and August issues of QST, ARRL members in the Central, Hudson, New England, Northwestern and Roanoke Divisions have nominated 11 candidates for the 10 positions of Director and Vice Director of each of the
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08/28/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot numbers for August 20-26 were 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 with a mean of 0. The 10.7 cm flux was 67.6, 66.4, 66.6, 67.3, 67.6, 67.1 and 67.3 with a mean of 67.1. The estimated planetary A indices were 11, 8, 5, 5, 3, 3 and 4 with a mean of 5.6. The est
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08/28/2009 | FCC to Utilities: Don't Look to Hams to Pay for Your Testing
In a case that goes back more than 10 years, the FCC has told a Pennsylvania utility that the utility is responsible for paying for "efforts to locate and correct instances of [power line] noise." At least one amateur has been complaining to the
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08/27/2009 | Surfin': Hamming from the Front LinesThis week, Surfin' discovers the story of a group of hams that became Marine Corps MARS during the Vietnam War.
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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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08/26/2009 | SuitSat-2 Now Called ARISSat-1
The SuitSat-2 project -- an Amateur Radio satellite housed in a Russian spacesuit -- now has a new name to go with a new shape: ARISSat-1. On Wednesday, August 19, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, an
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08/25/2009 | Space Shuttle Discovery to Launch with Three Hams on Board
Tuesday's launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) was scuttled when thunderstorms -- including a lightning strike just five miles from the launch pad -- popped up unexpectedly Monday evening, continuing into Tuesday morning. The shuttle, wi
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