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06/21/2010 | It’s Not Too Late to Register Your Field Day Site
ARRL Field Day -- Amateur Radio’s most popular on-the-air event -- is this weekend, June 26-27. Have you registered your Field Day site with the ARRL Field Day Locator Service? First introduced in 2008, the service -- an interactive map that helps amateur
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06/21/2010 | Lots in Store in the July/August NCJ
The July/August issue of NCJ, The National Contest Journal, is filled with the latest news from the contesting world. Whether you are new to contesting or are a seasoned pro -- or somewhere in the middle -- you will find something in NCJ just for you.
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06/21/2010 | AMSAT Announces 2010 Conference, Calls for Papers
The 2010 AMSAT Space Symposium and Annual Meeting will be held Friday, October 8 through Sunday, October 10 at the Chicago/Elk Grove Holiday Inn located near O’Hare Airport (the same hotel that recently hosted the Central States VHF Conference, Di
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06/18/2010 | What’s New at Dayton 2010: The Unabridged VersionThe July 2010 issue of QST has a one page overview of some of the major pieces of equipment introduced at the Dayton Hamvention®. There is no way a single person can track down everything on display that’s new in the time available, but QST Technical Edit
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06/18/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
The average daily sunspot numbers were up 2.5 points from last week, despite the fact that there were no sunspots at all this week on June 15-16. A new sunspot group 1082 emerged yesterday, June 17, and yielded a daily sunspot number of 14. A nice thing a
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06/18/2010 | Surfin’: Not How to ContestThis week, Surfin’ rediscovers the fun -- and frustration -- of ham radio contesting.
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06/16/2010 | Amateurs in Arkansas Provide Support to Local Authorities after Flood Kills 20
In the early hours of Friday, June 11, as many as 300 campers were taken unawares when somewhere between 6 and 10 inches of rain fell in the rugged Ouachita Mountains as heavy rains caused the normally quiet Caddo and Little Missouri rivers to climb out o
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06/15/2010 | California Hams Help Coordinate Off-Road Rescue
On Saturday, June 12 around 1:30 local time, Jim Siemons, AF6PU, of Walnut Creek, California, was checking his e-mail when he received a message from a friend who was concerned that his brother -- who, along with four friends had taken an off-road adventu
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