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Nominations are due by December 31, 2013, for the 2013 ARRL International Humanitarian Award. This award is conferred upon a radio amateur or amateurs who demonstrate devotion to human welfare, peace and international understanding through Amateur Radio.

The League established the annual prize to recognize Amateur Radio operators who have used ham radio to provide extraordinary service to others…

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The Radio Amateur of Canada (RAC) annual general meeting will take place in Ancaster, Ontario, on October 5, in conjunction with the Hamilton Amateur Radio Club and the Hamilton Amateur Radio Hamfest. The session gets underway at 1 PM in Merritt Hall on the Ancaster Fair Grounds. A question-and-answer session will follow a business meeting, with a chance to discuss the future of RAC with the pr…

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Radio amateur Jonathan Trappe, KJ4GQV, of Raleigh, North Carolina is trying to cross the Atlantic in a cluster balloon. He took off September 12 at 1200 UTC from Caribou, Maine. According to a reporton AMSAT-UK, Trappe is carrying Amateur Radio beacons on 14.0956 MHz and 144.390 MHz APRS.

The 14.0956 MHz beacon is just above the WSPR frequency (approximately 1880 Hz in the waterfall display), ru…

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The ARRL is now accepting nominations for the 2012 Philip J. McGan Memorial Silver Antenna Award. This annual honor goes to a radio amateur who has demonstrated success in Amateur casino francais bonus Radio public relations and best exemplifies volunteer spirit of the award”s namesake, Phil McGan, WA2MBQ (SK). As the first chairman of the ARRL Public Relations Committee, McGan helped to reinvigorate the League’s co…

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When the ARRL EXPO comes to the Dayton Hamvention® May 18-20, it will bring activities for almost every Amateur Radio activity under the Sun. From radiosport to card checking to scouting to the Youth Lounge, every radio amateur will definitely find something to suit his or her interests. This year — in addition to our popular kit building station — watch how “makers” and “hackers” are using A…

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The ARRL has just released two new books and a digital software library that you are going to want to have in your shack: Hints & Kinks for the Radio Amateur (18th edition) and Short Antennas for 160 Meter Radio by Grant Bingeman, KM5KG. The newest version of Software Library for Hams is also available for both as an immediate download or on CD-ROM.

Hints & Kinks for the Radio Amateur (18th Edit…

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Ham and the art of communicating
The Indica is now a 'ham shack'. It holds amateur radio equipment that uses certain frequencies for private, wireless communication. Ravishankar tunes the transceiver and we hear Prakasam from Muthumangalam (Erode) who describes the weather in his town
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ITN TV News Amateur Radio SSTV Report
Essex radio amateur Jeremy Royle G3NOX/G8ACN is featured in this 1981 TV news report about Voyager II pictures of Saturn that were relayed via colour Slow Scan TV (SSTV). Jeremy was one of the pioneers of colour SSTV and on August 20, 1981,
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ARISS ham radio contact planned with 'Marconi' High School in Bari, Italy
On Saturday November 12, 2011 at approximately 09.50 UTC, an ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) contact is planned for ISS 'G. Marconi', Bari, Italy. The ISS (High School) "Marconi" was founded in 1940.
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Help promote amateur radio around the world
You are invited to help spread the word about this wonderful hobby amateur radio to a global radio audience! You are invited to call into a live radio show tomorrow Saturday November 12, 2011 between 4 PM Central and 10 PM Central.
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Ham Radio in James May TV show
The BBC TV show 'Man Lab' featured an item on High Altitude Balloons with shots of some of the Amateur Radio equipment used. The balloon item starts 1:06 into the show. At 09:55 James May dives into a pursuit vehicle equipped with two Amateur Radio
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Experiences of a young radio amateur during HST
I have just finished writing an article about HST in our national amateur radio journal Radioamatööri. I hope that this sector of Amateur Radio will become more popular in Finland and of course everywhere in the world. Next time there will be more
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