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'Time capsule' opens in Chatham - Cape Cod Times

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'Time capsule' opens in Chatham
Cape Cod Times
Switches that connected radio operators and receivers to antenna systems is located inside the amateur radio room at the Chatham Marconi Maritime Center. ...

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The Bands “Heat Up” for the 2010 ARRL UHF Contest

ARRL - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 1:34pm

VHF/UHF weak-signal operators across North America are making the final tests on their stations in preparation for the ARRL UHF Contest, coming up the weekend of August 7-8. Most VHF+ weak-signal operation takes place on the two lowest bands of the VHF spectrum -- 6 and 2 meters; however, there is a lot of activity that takes place above 144 MHz in the UHF portion of the radio spectrum and beyo...

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Gardner Museum among Trust Fund recipients - GardnerEDGE

Google News of the Day - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 1:08pm

Gardner Museum among Trust Fund recipients
GardnerEDGE
... was trustee for the first high school radio station in Kansas where Olathe students could learn to become amateur radio operators. ...

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Government Agencies Introduce User-Friendly Federal Register

ARRL - Wed, 07/28/2010 - 9:13am

While the Federal Register may be the ultimate record of the business of the USA’s Executive Branch, it can be a difficult document to navigate. The Register publishes approximately 80,000 pages of documents each year in the form of Notices, Proposed Rules, Rules and Official Documents; this is where all new and amended rules to Part 97, the Amateur Radio Service, must be published before they ...

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Radio hams to the rescue - BusinessNorth.com

Google News of the Day - Tue, 07/27/2010 - 7:31pm

Radio hams to the rescue
BusinessNorth.com
Many northern Wisconsin counties want amateur radio operators to provide information during emergency situations when phone lines fail and power lines are ...

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Storm Rips Off Galvin Roof - St. Ambrose University

Google News of the Day - Tue, 07/27/2010 - 5:29pm

St. Ambrose University

Storm Rips Off Galvin Roof
St. Ambrose University
The antenna that broadcasts ham radio signals for the university's amateur radio station. Water and roof damage to the Macintosh lab. ...

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FCC Launches Consumer Help Center

ARRL - Tue, 07/27/2010 - 12:32pm

Beginning July 28, those who have dealings with the FCC will have a new tool that the FCC claims will put them “within one click of all the information they want” from the Commission: a new “easy-to-use” Consumer Help Center.

“Our new Consumer Help Center makes it easy for consumers to learn about our work and take action,” said FCC Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Joel Guri...

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Coming Soon: More ARRL 2010 Field Day Pins

ARRL - Tue, 07/27/2010 - 11:52am

After a higher than expected run on pins for Field Day this year, the ARRL has ordered more and expects them to arrive next month. “The pins were in stock until just before Field Day, but due to some exceptionally high interest, we were unable to fulfill a few final orders,” said ARRL Product Marketing Specialist Jackie Ferreira, KB1PWB. “We have ordered more pins, as many hams enjoy collecting...

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The Amateur Amateur Fills-In

ARRL - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 1:40pm

By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
ARRL Contributing Editor

My efforts to set up an APRS station (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had come to a standstill. I had installed a program called UI-View32. It was pretty slick, with volumes of data in its Help file, but there were still plenty of parts of it that I didn’t understand. It was time to find an Elmer.

I won’t go into the serendipitous events that led m...

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People yearn for the language of nature - BlueRidgeNow.com

Google News of the Day - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 12:26pm

People yearn for the language of nature
BlueRidgeNow.com
On the same evening at the other end of the park, the Blue Ridge Amateur Radio Club set up ham radios, and club members contacted other ham radio operators ...

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John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, Appointed West Gulf Division Vice Director

ARRL - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:42am

After review of eligibility by the ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee, President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, of Austin Texas, to serve as Vice Director of the ARRL’s West Gulf Division for the remainder of the current term that expires January 1, 2011. Stratton, an attorney, fills the vacancy created when John Thomason, WB5SYT, resigned the position earlier t...

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Ubuntu Linux for Hams

ARRL - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 10:14am

This free operating system provides your PC with all of the usual features, including lots of ham radio applications.

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Meetings, events planned in South Jersey - Gloucester County Times - NJ.com

Google News of the Day - Mon, 07/26/2010 - 9:11am

Meetings, events planned in South Jersey
Gloucester County Times - NJ.com
The Gloucester County Amateur Radio Club is hosting an Open House and general meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 4, at 7:30 pm in the Pfeiffer Community Center in ...

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Summarized history and suggestions for Radio Shack. - Motley Fool (blog)

Google News of the Day - Sun, 07/25/2010 - 9:53pm

Summarized history and suggestions for Radio Shack.
Motley Fool (blog)
From the beginnings Radio Shack(NYSE:RSH) started as a retail and mail order operation for HAM RADIO (AMATEUR RADIO) business. ...

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ARDF Update: Radio Foxhunters Find Their Champions in Ohio

ARRL - Sat, 07/24/2010 - 9:12am

By Joe Moell, K0OV, Contributing Editor
ARRL Amateur Radio Direction Finding Coordinator
k0ov@homingin.com

No shack potatoes here! These radio-orienteering enthusiasts took to the beautiful woods of the Buckeye State in pursuit of transmitters and medals.

They came from 15 states and four foreign countries. In their suitcases were radio sets, antennas, sun block and running shoes, but they left som...

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Hometown Happenings 0724 - Tbo.com

Google News of the Day - Sat, 07/24/2010 - 12:15am

Hometown Happenings 0724
Tbo.com
Gulf Coast Amateur Radio Club invites those interested in HAM radio to join the group on its radio net at 7:30 pm Tuesday nights on the club's repeater ...

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ARRL Argues that Oklahoma Town’s RFI Ordinance is “Null and Void”

ARRL - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 2:22pm

Saying that only the Federal Communications Commission is empowered to regulate radio frequency interference (RFI), the ARRL has notified Midwest City, Oklahoma, that its local ordinance 27-3(9), seeking to regulate radio transmissions and RFI, is “null and void.” Midwest City is in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

Midwest City’s Ordinance 27-3(9) reads: “In addition to other public nuisance...

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30th Hamfest this Saturday in Alexander - The Batavian

Google News of the Day - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 2:11pm

30th Hamfest this Saturday in Alexander
The Batavian
Run by the Genesee Radio Amateurs, Inc., or GRAM, Genesee County's amateur radio (ham radio) club is an opportunity for hams to socialize; ...

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Independent radio operators trade gadgets - Calaveras Enterprise

Google News of the Day - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 11:16am

Calaveras Enterprise

Independent radio operators trade gadgets
Calaveras Enterprise
... the chatter on the ham radio circuits is that it was the best swap meet many people have ever attended, according to Halverson. “Amateur radio operators ...

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The K7RA Solar Update

ARRL - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:07am

Sunspot activity increased recently, although it is foolish to call this a trend, since solar activity has great variability. Sunspot group 1087 was visible for 13 days over July 9-21. In millionths of a solar hemisphere, its size was 30, 100, 120, 130, 70, 100, 60, 50, 20, 10, 10, 10 and 10. On July 19, new sunspot group 1089 appeared over the eastern horizon, with a relative size of 130, 150,...

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