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03/31/2010 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, April 25, 2010, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, May 7, 2010: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Modeling; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Design and Construction; P
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03/31/2010 | The 2010 Teachers Institutes Begin with a Bang in Tucson
The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) began its 2010 sessions in February with a Teachers Institute course designed specifically for teachers in the Tucson (Arizona) Unified School District (TUSD). Taught at Jefferson Park Elementary Sch
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03/30/2010 | Amateur Radio Assists with Rescue in Great Smoky Mountains
On Sunday, March 28 -- a day with a lot of rain, wind, sleet and, fog -- John Oakberg, NK4N, of Sevierville, Tennessee, went out hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Mt LeConte. When he was about 1 mile up from Alum Cave Bluff, he came a
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03/29/2010 | ARRL to Close in Observance of Good Friday
ARRL Headquarters will be closed in observance of Good Friday on Friday, April 2. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Monday, April 5 at 8 AM Eastern Daylight Time. We wish everyone a safe
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03/28/2010 | The Amateur Amateur: We’re Having a Bad Transmitter DayI am one of several people who acts as the net controller for the weekly St Louis County ARES® phone net. The last time I had run the net had been a disaster. I had blithely read a chunk of the net script unaware that I was sending out a carrier but with
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03/26/2010 | Surfin': Hamming on the EdgeThis week, the denizens of the Surfin' visit blogs intended for ham radio hackers and makers.
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03/26/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
New sunspot group 1057 appeared on March 23; by March 24, it was 38 times its original size. It covered 10 one-millionths of the solar hemisphere on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, it grew to 380 one-millionths. On Thursday, new sunspot group 1058 appeared, an
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03/25/2010 | FCC Issues Notice of Proposed Rule Making on Government Disaster Drills and Amateur Radio
On March 24, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) proposing to amend the Commission’s Amateur Radio Service rules “with respect to Amateur Radio operations during government-sponsored emergency preparedness and disaster readiness drill
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