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11/30/2011 | The ARRL 10 Meter Contest: Get On While the Bands Are Hot!
Ten meters -- in case you haven’t heard, it’s alive in a big way! That means that the ARRL 10 Meter Contest -- coming up the weekend of December 10-11 -- is going to be the one of the best we’ve seen in years! During this event, many propagation modes wil
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11/29/2011 | AMSAT Announces End of OSCAR 51 Mission
According to AMSAT, the popular OSCAR 51 satellite has reached the end of its mission.
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11/29/2011 | 2012 Malpelo DXpedition to Be Extended
The HK0NA DXpedition to Malpelo -- an island located approximately 235 miles from Columbia’s Pacific coast -- is scheduled for early 2012. Organized by the DX Radio Amateur Club (DXARC) out of Columbia, the DXpedition boasts an international team of 16 op
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11/29/2011 | Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, Named Dayton Hamvention® Assistant General Chairman
On November 21, 2012 Dayton Hamvention® General Chairman Mike Kalter W8CI, announced that Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, would take over as Assistant General Chairman of the largest hamfest in the US. Kaiser is replacing Josh Long, KD8BVD, who stepped down due t
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11/28/2011 | FCC Commissioners to Discuss Medical Micropower Networks in 413-457 MHz Band
In their regular meeting on Wednesday, November 30, the four FCC Commissioners will hear from the Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) regarding amending Parts 2 and 95 of the Commission’s Rules. In a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPR
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11/28/2011 | Hams Listen to Mars Science Laboratory Signal
Amateurs have received 10 GHz signals from the Mars Science Laboratory.
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11/28/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
Recently, I mentioned recently that some of the sunspot numbers released by NOAA didn’t seem right. I just got word from Mike Husler at NOAA that data posted recently -- like that record-breaking day when the sunspot number hit 220 -- was wrong. The corre
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11/28/2011 | A Ham's Night Before Christmas Video
The famous Christmas poem with an Amateur Radio twist.
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