Changes are in store for the Radio Society of Great Britain’s popular Islands on the Air (IOTA) program, as the RSGB repositions itself to assume a less-direct role in the award program’s management and administration going forward. The “New IOTA” will embrace the program’s international scope and likely include some online means of confirming contacts and claiming contact credits. For the time…
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Starting October 1, The ARRL Foundation will begin accepting scholarship applications from eligible young radio amateurs pursuing post-secondary education. Individuals and clubs support many of the 80 scholarships, ranging from $ 500 to $ 5,000, that are awarded annually. In addition, one applicant may be selected to receive the prestigious William R. Goldfarb Memorial Scholarship, a “gap” schola…
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Martha “Marte” Wessel, K0EPE, of Liberal, Kansas, died September 23. She was 89. An ARRL member, Wessel was on the DXCC Honor Roll. She oversaw the annual scholarship drive for the Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL), to which she belonged for 55 years and served on the President’s Advisory Committee. The scholarship campaign she headed raised nearly $ 4600 this year.
“Martha was one of the cornerst…
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Fremont, CA (PRWEB) July 3, 2006
SchmartBoard, the developer of a new technology that has significantly simplified the creation of electronic circuits for hobbyists, education and industry, has announced that it has signed German distributor ELV Elektronik AG to supply Germany with the full line of RoHS compliant SchmartBoard products.
Most people who design electronic circuits do not have the skills to hand-solder surface mount components. SchmartBoard|ez was developed as a solution for this problem. What once could only be achieved by technicians with many hours of experience, can now be done by anyone. A ten year old who has never held a soldering iron, can now hand solder a .4mm IC or a BGA (Ball Grid Array) effortlessly and flawlessly.
According to Neal Greenberg, SchmartBoard’s VP Sales and Marketing, “We have received numerous e-mails from people in Germany who have want access to SchmartBoard’s technology. We are happy to finally find a partner to make Schmartboard available to people in Germany and support industry, academia, and individual hobbyists there.”
Ralph Landwehr, Head of Product Management at ELV, says “SchmartBoard is a perfect solution for our professionals and hobbyists who are used to working with a soldering iron. Now they can take the advantage of using the newest solutions in ICs that often are only available in SMD – type housings”.
SchmartBoards are used by industry professionals to prototype circuits, universities for R&D and as teaching tools, and by individual hobbyists involved in electronics, robotics, ham radio and other areas.
About SchmartBOARD (http://www.schmartboard.com)
SchmartBOARDTM is committed to helping engineers, students and hobbyists develop electronic circuits faster, easier, and less expensively than previously possible. Schmartboard’s patent pending Electronic Circuit Building Blocks makes this possible. More information about Schmartboard can be found at http://www.schmartboard.com
About ELV Elektronik AG (http://www.elv.de)
ELV is one of the biggest mail-order companies for every type of electronic part in Germany and Europe. The 700 page main catalogue, with a circulation of more than 500.000 pieces per year, is standard literature for technical enthusiast consumers.”
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The ARRL is inviting nominations for its 2014 ARRL International Humanitarian Award, conferred upon an 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 in times of crisis or dis…
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The winner of the September QST Cover Plaque award is Don Daso, K4ZA, for his article “Antenna Masts: Safety and Selection.”
The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the October issue
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When the commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 resupply vehicle lifted off from Cape Canaveral to the International Space Station on September 21, it also carried theSpinSat satellite, which includes an Amateur Radio payload. The satellite will be stowed aboard the ISS until deployment later this fall from the airlock of the Japanese Experiment Module.
Developed by the Naval Research Laboratory, the 125-po…
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November 1 is the application deadline for schools seeking ARRL Education & Technology Program (ETP) grants for 2015. The ETP offers grants to US schools for Amateur Radio station equipment and related software as well as classroom resources. The program is also accepting progress grant applications. A primary ETP objective is to boost wireless technology literacy among US students and educator…
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Solar activity was down this week (September 18-24) when compared with a week earlier, but solar flux is on a rising trend.
Average daily sunspot numbers dropped from 124.9 (for September 11-17) to 80.9, and average daily solar flux slipped from 139.8 to 128.3.
The latest predicted solar flux and planetary A index has flux values at 165 on September 26-28, 170 on September 29-30, 165 and 160 on O…
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Dayton Hamvention® is seeking nominations for its 2015 awards for Amateur of the Year, Special Achievement, Technical Excellence and Club of the Year. Completed nomination forms and supporting documentation are due by January 16, 2015. All Amateur Radio operators (and clubs) are eligible. Winners will be recognized at the 2015 Hamvention®, which takes place May 15-17.
The Amateur of the Year Awa…
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Dayton Hamvention® is seeking nominations for its 2015 awards for Amateur of the Year, Special Achievement, Technical Excellence and Club of the Year. Completed nomination forms and supporting documentation are due by January 16, 2015. All Amateur Radio operators (and clubs) are eligible. Winners will be recognized at the 2015 Hamvention®, which takes place May 15-17.
The Amateur of the Year Awa…
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In the early years of the ARRL, co-founder and first President Hiram Percy Maxim occasionally penned editorials in QST magazine using the pseudonym “The Old Man.” These “rants” became legendary. As part of the ARRL Centennial celebration, we have been re-publishing a number of The Old Man’s observations.
Rotten Weather Relays (originally published in the April 1920 QST)
By The Old Man
It certainly…
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The sad and funny tale of a Ham Radio Lid who annoys all he meets on the air, and how he gets his due.
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An intense effort during the few days in September that Congress was in session has resulted in 47 co-sponsors for the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014 (H.R. 4969). Another half-dozen or so US House Members have indicated that they will sign aboard when Congress returns, something they can do only while Congress is in session. Congress went into recess on September 19. ARRL Hudson Division Dire…
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The ARRL Board of Directors created the Barry Goldwater, K7UGA, Achievement Award last spring to recognize outstanding support of Amateur Radio by an elected federal official. The recipient must be an official who has, in a significant way, supported the well-being and continuity of the Amateur Service in the US. Earlier this month, the Board voted to confer the first such award upon US Rep Gre…
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The FT4TA DXpedition to Tromelin Island in the Indian Ocean is in its final stages of preparation, and in less than 1 month the six-man team will depart. Operation is scheduled to commence on October 30 and continue until November 10. The DXpedition is the recipient of an ARRL Colvin Award grant.
“I and about 10,000 of your ‘best friends’ will be tuned up and listening for you,” Warren Croke, N…
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AMSAT reports that preparations for its Space Symposium in Baltimore October 10-12 are moving into high gear. The deadline to submit AMSAT Symposium papers has been extended until September 30. Papers and presentations on any subject of interest to the amateur satellite community are welcome. This year’s Space Symposium will, in part, celebrate AMSAT’s 45th anniversary. Registration remains ope…
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ARRL Headquarters is deploying Ham Aid kits to Hawaii as ARES volunteers stand ready to activate in the wake of the massive Puna volcanic lava flow that has been threatening some communities on the Big Island of Hawaii. The lava originated from new “vents” in the Earth as a result of the Mt Kilauea volcano, which began erupting more than 30 years ago. ARRL Pacific Section Manager Bob Schneider,…
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European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva told delegates to the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU Region 1) General Conference on September 22 that Amateur Radio is a reliable information tool that can save lives in disasters. In a statement read to the conference attendees on her behalf by the EC’s Encho Gospid…
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The national ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is slated for the October 4-5 weekend, although the window for local and regional exercises is September 1 through November 30 each year. All groups conduct their events over the course of 48 hours. The SET is a nationwide exercise in disaster response and emergency communication, administered by ARRL emergency coordinators and net managers, in w…
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A member of Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) Team USA medaled in the 17th ARDF World Championships earlier this month in Kazakhstan. Vadim Afonkin, KB1RLI, of Boston, Massachusetts, took home a silver medal in the men’s age 40-49 category in the 2 meter competition on September 8, the first day of competition. The Kazakhstan Federation of Radiosport and Radioamateur (KFRR) hosted the cham…
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in North Carolina (W1AW/4) and Connecticut (W1AW/1). W1AW operations will transition starting at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, September 24 (the evening of September 23 in US time zones), to New Mexico (W1AW/5) and Idaho (W1AW/7). W1AW has visited each of the 50 states for at least 1 week so fa…
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
GAP Titan DX Antenna
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
GAP Titan DX Antenna
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
A Wisconsin radio amateur lost his life on September 16 as he was performing maintenance on the 100 foot tower of a fellow ham. Killed in the fall was 59-year-old James G. Linstedt, W9ZUC, of Eau Claire, who succumbed to injuries sustained after he fell 95 feet from a tower owned by Ronald Anderson, W9RMA, in Eagle Point, just outside of Chippewa Falls, on the shores of Lake Wissota. Linstedt w…
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The Boulder County (Colorado) ARES team (BCARES) received an honorable mention in the Citizen Corps 2014 Individual and Community Preparedness Awards. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced the nationwide award recipients on September 3.
BCARES was cited under the Technical Innovation category for its use of Amateur TV and APRS and for its Mountain Emergency Radio Network (MERN…
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(PRWEB) July 11, 2006
Many people communicate globally and often need a world clock utility to determine the right time for telephone calls or instant messaging. But which world clock is right for you?
WR Consulting, a company that develops enterprise productivity tools, has released ZoneTick v3.1 — a convenient world clock for Windows that can show multiple time zones either in Windows taskbar or on desktop.
The program is very useful when communicating with people in other parts of the globe: such as your friends in other countries, your colleagues in remote offices or in the field, or the home-crowd while you are traveling. This is because ZoneTick displays the times for any amount of different time zones and also allows you to synchronize your clocks with accurate online time-servers.
ZoneTick v3.1 comes pre-translated in 6 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. You can also translate or improve translation of ZoneTick into your language using free WR Localization Service.
Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting, said, “We are very pleased with quality and multi-language support in this release. This makes ZoneTick stand out of the competition. We are giving away control over translations to users of the product. Anyone can improve an existing translation or provide a new one using our localization service, which will soon become available to others vendors.”
But ZoneTick is not just an enterprise executive productivity tool. People from many walks of life may find it handy. For example, forex traders, ham radio users, pilots, international students on exchanges, the navy and military, or just about everyone with need to keep in touch with someone in another time zone.
ZoneTick uses digital and analog graphical skins that gives you the ability to customize your ZoneTick to fit any desktop style. Quality and maximum size of skins have been significantly increased in the new version.
ZoneTick comes with a system of alarms. You can create any amount of alarms, which will play a sound, display a message, launch an application, or open a web-page at the time of your choosing.
ZoneTick’s success is due primarily to its manageability and diversity as an award-winning Windows utility. On top of a highly usable shareware, ZoneTick is also available as a very affordable personal or enterprise productivity tool.
Whether you travel from time zone to time zone, have international friends, or are simply on the lookout for high-quality shareware, ZoneTick is the world clock for you!
For more information write to info @ wrconsulting.com or visit http://wrconsulting.com
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On September 11 and 12 two powerful CMEs hit Earth, producing a G3 class geomagnetic storm. The result was a planetary A index of 44 on Friday, and during the final three hours of the UTC day (2:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDT) the planetary K index reached 7, which is very high.
Overall solar activity is down, with the average daily sunspot number declining from 152 to 124.9 in the latest reporting period…
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It does not appear that US radio amateurs will gain a new band at 70 MHz anytime soon. The FCC has denied a Petition for Rule Making filed earlier this year by Glen E. Zook, K9STH, of Richardson, Texas, seeking to add a 4 meter band to Amateur Radio’s inventory of VHF allocations. Zook had floated the proposal in 2010, and his petition was dated January 27, 2010, but the FCC said it did not rec…
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The ARRL website is scheduled to be offline on Friday, September 19, starting at 2000 UTC. The length of the outage could run for several hours and possibly into Saturday, September 20. The ARRL IT Department will be performing maintenance in the process of testing and, if feasible, switching the site to a new server.
A “Down for Maintenance” message will appear for the duration of the outage wh…
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Representatives of the countries comprising IARU Region 1 (Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia) will gather this month for the Region 1 General Conference. The Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs, (BFRA) will host the meeting September 21-26 in Albena on the Black Sea Coast. Regional general conferences are held every 3 years.
“At General Conferences IARU Region 1 makes major d…
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The next ARRL “Red Badges on the Air” activity is just days away. On Sunday, September 21 UTC (starting the evening of Saturday, September 20, in US time zones), holders of red ARRL name/call sign badges will be on the air en masse, offering a chance to boost your ARRL Centennial QSO Party total. ARRL officers, elected officials such as Director or Section Manager, as well as Headquarters staff…
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AMSAT-NA has announced the results of its recent Board of Directors election. These candidates have been elected to serve 2-year terms: Tom Clark, K3IO; JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM; and Lou McFadin, W5DID.
Jerry Buxton, N0JY, will serve the year remaining on the term of the late Tony Monteiro, AA2TX.
The First Alternate is Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, and the Second Alternate is Frank Griffin, K4FEG.
The re…
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A Hollywood-style Amateur Radio special event is set for later this month from the so-called “Seinfeld Stage” on the CBS Studio Center lot in Studio City, California. The K6H “Hollywood Hamnado” special event station will be on HF and D-STAR, September 28, from 1400 until 2200 UTC. Hosts for the event will be Amateur Radio crew members of the ABC television series “Last Man Standing.” On the sh…
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Gunter’s Space Page has reported that the Es’hail 2 communications satellite will carry analog and digital Amateur Radio transponders. The new satellite, which will be operated by Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, will be in a geostationary orbit, positioned at the 26° East “hotspot” position for TV broadcasting to the Middle East and North Africa. Launch is planned for late 2016.
Es’hail…
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(PRWEB) August 19, 2006
If you use instant messaging with your friends or colleagues in other time zones or telecommute to work for a company on another continent you might need a world clock to know current local time in other locations. But which world clock software program is right for you?
WR Consulting, a company that develops enterprise productivity tools and services, has released ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock v3.2 — a convenient world clock for Windows that can show multiple time zones either in Windows taskbar or on desktop.
ZoneTick v3.2 has the following new features, as compared to its predecessor, ZoneTick 3.1.
New time zone format is introduced to support all localities on Earth. The new database format anticipates future time zone changes in the world. Countries like Brazil, Uruguay, Israel and many others are fully supported. Dependency on Windows time zones is eliminated.
ZoneTick World Clock is additionally localized into Dutch, Japanese, and Italian. Additional localizations and improvements to existing localization files are welcome via WR Localization Service at http://wrconsulting.com/cms/localization/. The localization service is offered by the company free of charge to world clock user community.
Time table, which shows an entire day layout for all configured time zones, is introduced.
Time converter is redesigned. Conversion of times for countries like India is much easier now.
The program is very useful when communicating with people in other parts of the globe: such as your friends in other countries, your colleagues in remote offices or in the field, or the home-crowd while you are traveling. This is because ZoneTick displays the times for any amount of different time zones and also allows you to synchronize your clocks with accurate online time-servers.
Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting, said, “We are very pleased with this release. Users like improvements to ZoneTick time converter. Many of them deal with India and the new version delivers what’s needed very nicely. Not to mention the improved clock accuracy for countries with complex summer time rules. And a few more languages, of course, which strengthen our position as a world clock software market leader for Windows.”
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock is good for enterprise and individual use. CEOs, VPs, executives traveling on business, and people from many walks of life may find it handy. For example, forex traders, ham radio users, pilots, international students on exchanges, the navy and military, or just about everyone with need to keep in touch with someone in another time zone.
ZoneTick uses digital and analog graphical skins. That gives you the ability to customize your ZoneTick to fit any desktop style. ZoneTick comes with a system of alarms. You can create any amount of alarms, which will play a sound, display a message, launch an application, or open a web-page at the time of your choosing.
Whether you travel from time zone to time zone, have international friends, or are simply on the lookout for high-quality shareware, ZoneTick is the world clock for you!
For more information write to info @ wrconsulting.com or visit http://wrconsulting.com
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in Colorado, New Hampshire, and Texas. W1AW operations will transition starting at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, September 17 (the evening of September 16 in US time zones), to North Carolina (W1AW/4) and Connecticut (W1AW/1). W1AW has visited each of the 50 states for at least 1 week so far du…
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Boston, MA (PRWEB) October 3, 2006
On October 8, 2006, thought-leaders in the education space from around the globe will gather online for Global Learn Day X, a celebration of innovation in the field of education.
Global Learn Day is the Earth Day of learning around the globe. In its 10th year, Global Learn Day brings together speakers from around the globe online to address how they are improving access to education in their part of the world. Starting in the South Pacific, where the planet begins the new day, the event voyages west to Hawaii, a long way around the world. Along the way the event will feature truly exceptional people from all 24 time zones who patch in via telephone; Skype; voice-over-IP, streaming audio, streaming video, text chat, ham radio, and conventional radio, all downloaded to people’s desktops or telephones. Global Learn Day has attracted appearances from some of the most remote places on the planet, including both North and South poles, the far outback of the Sahara, and high up in Nepal.
Dignitaries participating in Global Learn Day X include opening keynote addresses from Sir John Daniels, world-renowned authority in open and distance learning, and Vint Cerf, father of the Internet and chief Internet evangelist for Google, followed by a global audience with:
South Pacific Region
Lynda Dyer, president of Mind Power Global, speaking from New Zealand
Topic: Are you in control of your results?
East Asia Region
Vishen M. Lakhian, co-founder, marketing manager and idea generator for Mind Valley
Topic: Thinking Big!
South Asia Region
Dr. T. V. Raman
Topic: Equal Access to Information Raises All Boats
Gulf/Middle East Region
Vance Stevens, speaking from Abu Dhabi
Topic: Are English-language instructors the most important teachers in the world?
African Region
Derek Keats, executive director of Information & Communication Services at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa
Topic: Increasing Access through Open Courseware
European Region
Gavin Dudney and Nicky Hockly, peaking from Barcelona, Spain
Topic: Avatars and Other Glitzy Stuff: Get a MUVE on
Latin-American Region
Taran Rampersad, speaking from San Fernando, Trinidad, and Tobago
Topic: Society is build on communications
Canada/USA Region
Tim DiScipio, founder of e-Pals, speaking from Connecticut
Topic: The value of project-based learning
Central Pacific Region
Dr. John Southworth, speaking from Hawaii
Topic: Art, Spirits, and Technology
Closing
Jeff Lebow, World Bridges
Topic: A visionary close
Margaret Andrews, managing vice president of strategy & marketing for Eduventures and former executive director at the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as Richard Garrett, senior research analyst, serving Eduventures’ Learning Collaborative program for Online Higher Education, will join in on the conversations during Global Learn Day.
For More Information about Global Learn Day X, please visit http://www.bfranklin.edu
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The new Amateur Service vanity call sign regulatory fee of $ 21.40 became effective on September 11. The FCC released a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (R&O) on August 29, in which it recalculated the fee to $ 21.40 for the 10-year license term. The $ 5.30 increase represents the largest vanity fee hike in many years. In past years, new vanity fees did not become effecti…
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Blog posting with hi-res photos at: http://www.toddfun.com/2013/04/04/rescue-the-easter-bunny-ham-radio-fox-hunting-for-beginners This video covers beginner’…
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The Amateur Radio payload on the lunar-orbiting 4M-LXS spacecraft will carry up to 2500, 13-character digital messages into space for retransmission via JT65B mode on 145.990 MHz. But wannabes will have to act fast. The message collection site will close Wednesday, September 17 at 12:00 Central European Time (1100 UTC) the 4M website announced today. China recently announced plans to launch the…
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A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
GAP Titan DX
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
This is the assembly of my GAP Titan DX at our new house on August 27th and 28th 2011.
GB4HSC QSL Cards
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560 qsl cards ready to go to the RSGB bureau.
A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
GAP Titan DX Antenna
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LAS Memorial Day Picnic-6
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in Tennessee and Oregon. Three states will host W1AW operations starting at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, September 10 (the evening of September 9 in US time zones), to Colorado, (W1AW/0), New Hampshire (W1AW/1), and Texas (W1AW/5). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least…
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We saw a nice increase in the level of solar activity this week, and the outlook for the near term looks good, or at least, interesting.
Average daily sunspot numbers for the period September 4-10 increased from 85.1 to 152.1, and average daily solar flux rose from 126.7 to 155.8. Geomagnetic indicators were quiet, with average planetary A index declining from 14.7 to 7.9, and average mid-latitu…
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Check out these Ham Radio images:
MUF is too damn high!
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Building our Vertical
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It’s Up
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A webinar, “What is Radio Scouting and What Does it Mean to Me?” is set for September 18 at 0100 UTC (Wednesday evening, September 17, in US time zones). The presenter will be Jim Wilson, K5ND, chairman of the Boy Scouts of America’s Radio Scouting Committee, president of the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, and member of the World Scouting JOTA-JOTI Team.
“Radio Scouting” includes all things Am…
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October QST is our annual DXing issue. Click here to start reading!
• Try an extended zepp wire antenna with a parallel line of colinear reflectors for serious DX chasing on 20 meters.
• Take your DX hunts to 40 meters with an easy modification to a popular Hy-Gain Yagi antenna.
• Get a rare look at DX contesting from the Cuban point of view.
• Experience “being the DX” in Guatemala
… and much more….
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Sina Grace & Michael Stock Talk Penny Dora and the Wishing Box
It was a story that she read on my radio show, and I got all these calls about it. Every once in awhile I still get calls about it from various listeners, because it certainly had that Twilight Zone ending, even though at age eight she'd never seen The …
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Crunch Time: Letters Urging House Members to Support HR 4969 Due at …
Constituent letters urging members of the US House of Representatives to co-sponsor H.R. 4969, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014, need to arrive at ARRL Headquarters by Friday, September 12, for forwarding to Congress. ARRL Regulatory Information …
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Behind Every Good Whisky Is A Trusty Distillery Cat
He just showed up one day, presumably from one of the neighboring farms and fields. "He never met a person he didn't like," says Morris. "He'd walk right up to you and rub against your legs and follow you around. I always said he was more ham than cat.".
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Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) has announced that its proposal to establish an international 60 meter Amateur Service allocation has been accepted by the Industry Canada consultative committee for World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-15). The regulator uses that panel’s conclusions to determine its position on WRC-15 issues. The RAC proposal specifically addresses WRC-15 Agenda Item 1….
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ARES/RACES members in Clark County, Nevada, activated Monday, September 8, after heavy rains sparked flash flooding. The Amateur Radio volunteers deployed after being called up by local emergency managers to support communication during recovery efforts in the Moapa Valley northeast of Las Vegas. At least two people died as a result of the flooding.
A slow-moving storm that spun off from Hurrica…
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The July 18 keynote speech of FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, at the ARRL National Centennial Convention in Hartford, Connecticut, has been posted on YouTube. Fugate spoke before some 800 guests at the Friday evening convention banquet. Earlier that day, he and ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) aimed at enhancing cooperation between the League and…
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North America Summits on the Air (SOTA) Activity Weekend 2014 is a casual event in which summiting radio amateurs (called “activators”) use tiny battery-powered radios to work home-based operators (called “chasers”). The event, September 13-14, is aimed at introducing SOTA to newcomers.
There are no rules regarding power levels, modes, or bands. SOTA operators have climbed mountains as high as …
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Constituent letters urging members of the US House of Representatives to co-sponsor H.R. 4969, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014, need to arrive at ARRL Headquarters by Friday, September 12, for forwarding to Congress. ARRL Regulatory Information Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND, said the last legislative day for the fall is September 19, and Congress will not be back in session again until after…
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