The FCC Enforcement Bureau has released Warning Notice letters it sent in July to two radio amateur, advising them that it monitored transmissions in which they failed to identify properly. The Bureau posted the correspondence earlier this month on its Amateur Radio Service Enforcement Actions web page. The two notices from FCC Enforcement Bureau Special Counsel Laura L. Smith, both dated July …
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The ARRL September VHF Contest provides a chance for radio amateurs at all levels to experience contesting on the most popular VHF and UHF bands as well as those less-frequented frequencies above 450 MHz. The higher you go, the greater the point value of your contacts! The contest gets underway on September 13 at 1800 UTC and wraps up on September 15 at 0259 UTC. Newcomers and veteran amateurs …
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The site of the gigantic antenna in France that received the first live TV broadcast from the US via the Telstar satellite served as the backdrop August 25-26, as more than 100 moonbounce (EME) enthusiasts from 18 countries gathered to compare notes and to socialize. The 16th International EME Conference was held at the Parc du Radôme in Northern Brittany. In July 1962, the 64 meter Radôme was …
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Sunspot activity continued to weaken over the past seven days (August 28 through September 3). Average daily sunspot numbers declined from 113.4 to 85.1, and average daily solar flux went from 130.5 to 126.7. Geomagnetic activity was up recently, with average planetary A index increasing from 7.4 to 14.7, nearly double the values from the August 21-27 period week earlier.
The latest predicted so…
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Members of Team USA will compete in the 17th Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) World Championships, which get underway Saturday, September 6 in the mountains of Kazakhstan, and continue until September 13. Invitations to join the US team were issued earlier this summer, based on results of the 2014 USA Championships near Boston and the 2013 USA Championships in North Carolina. Up to three …
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ARRL Life Member, long-time Amateur Radio operator and Tuskegee Airman George T. Mitchell, K6ZE, of San Diego, California, died September 4. He was 94. During World War II Mitchell taught Morse code to the pioneering black aviators known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
In 2007, Mitchell was among the group of Tuskegee Airmen veterans to belatedly receive the Congressional Gold Medal, the United States’…
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This is my response to Burts truth about ham radio. He made some good points but I figured I’d cover a few more. I also may upload a few more points about ha…
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The Fox-1 series of CubeSats will be capable of transmitting continuous telemetry during normal transponder operation, while contacts are taking place. The satellites will feature slow-speed (200 bps) telemetry data that accompany transponder audio or voice ID activity. The slow-speed data are contained in the audio spectrum below 300 Hz. Using DSP techniques, high-pass filtering is applied to …
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Stan Goldberg, the artist who, with Mike Esposito, drew the “Archie’s Ham Radio Adventure” comic for ARRL in the 1990s, died August 31. He was 82. A New York City native, Goldberg was Marvel Comics’ chief colorist during the 1960s, when most of the characters now associated with Marvel were created.
“He’s the reason Spider Man’s costume is red and dark blue, the reason the Incredible Hulk’s skin…
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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .
• Is your station computer used for activities other than Amateur Radio?
• Do you leave your station computer on at all times?
• Is your primary station computer a desktop, laptop or tablet?
• If your primary station computer is a laptop or desktop, have you ever suffered a hard drive failure?
Vi…
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According to a news report, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 asteroid mission, now scheduled to launch in December, will carry the Abyss 2 (Shin’en 2) Amateur Radio satellite. A 17 kg, 50 cm diameter polyhedron, Shin’en 2, built by students at Kyushu Inistitute of Technology, makes extensive use of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic materials that can be bonded by heat to r…
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states are now in Arizona and Maine. They will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, September 3 (the evening of September 2 in US time zones), to Tennessee (W1AW/4), and Oregon (W1AW/7). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it will be easy to …
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(PRWEB) December 31, 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 v3.4 — a convenient world clock for Windows that can show multiple time zones either in Windows taskbar or on desktop.
The most important enhancement in the new version is an integrated RSS news and blogs reader, which users can configure to obtain news from the sources of their choice.
“We are very pleased to announce this ZoneTick version. It is another step in productivity improvements for enterprise and individual users”, said Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting. “You no longer need to have a separate news reader program to be on top of news. RSS reader is integrated in all ZoneTick editions including the free one”.
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock 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 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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Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, is sponsoring a new award for contacts made via the UK Amateur Radio Educational Satellite FUNcube-1 (AO-73) to promote activity on the satellite. The award period began on September 1.
Requirements are simple: Work 73 different stations on AO-73 (SSB or CW). There are no geographic restrictions on operating location, no QSLs are required, and the award is free, although St…
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(PRWEB) April 10, 2007
If you frequently deal with other time zones you might need a world clock software to know the current local time in other locations across the world. But which world clock is right for you?
WR Consulting, a company that develops enterprise productivity tools and services, has just released ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock v3.6. The new version simplifies enterprise deployments and updates and takes care about all known time zone changes around the world.
“We tried to address enterprise concerns in this release,” said Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting. “Several large organizations asked for improvements in software update mechanism used in ZoneTick. We addressed their most critical concerns. Now it is much easier to manage ZoneTick deployments in large secure environments.”
ZoneTick software updates improvements in version 3.6 include:
An option to provide customer-supplied default.ini file during installs or updates.
An option in ini file to completely disable the update feature which would gray out UI elements and remove the “Check for update” menu.
Additional checkbox in the user interface of ZoneTick Preferences, which defines whether to check for updates or not.
Complete list of ZoneTick 3.6 enhancements can be found at http://zonetick.com/cms/update.htm
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock 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 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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Right on the heels of a whopping $ 14,000 proposed forfeiture for a Florida CBer for failing to allow a station inspection, the FCC Enforcement Bureau is recommending a $ 22,000 fine for a New York CBer. The FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL) in the case of James Engle of Lewiston, New York, on August 28, alleging that he interfered with the communications of other CBers, operated wi…
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ISS completes busy week, Robonaut gets legs
Swanson also joined fellow American astronaut Reid Wiseman this week in a ham radio chat with students from Elliot Ranch Elementary School in Elk Grove, California. German astronaut Alexander Gerst continued BioLab experiments, worked with ocular …
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PHOTO: When Jason Washington of Brothers Gaining Equality through Excellence and community organizer DeMarcus Preston decided to start a “Take Back the Streets” movement against violence, the Community Cycling Center stepped up to sponsor their …
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Radio Caroline Returns, Radio Veronica, Northsea Special Event Set:
"Both stations transmitted from radio ships on the North Sea and had millions of listeners," Rietveld recounted in an article http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/august/pd538rni_special_event.htm#.U-4tLWNY8WQ on Southgate Amateur Radio News.
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Greater participation is expected this year in the only global on-the-air gathering of digital Amateur Radio television (DATV) enthusiasts. The annual event, which originated in Australia and now is in its fourth year, begins Friday, August 29, at 1000 UTC in Australia and internationally on Saturday, August 30, at 0001 UTC. According to the event’s primary organizer, Peter Cossins, VK3BFG, to …
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(PRWEB) May 12, 2007
If your business requires dealing with different time zones, world clock software might be required to show current time at various locations all over the world. But which world clock is most suitable for your timezone needs?
WR Consulting, a company that develops enterprise productivity tools and services, has just released ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock v3.7. The new version includes visual design enhancements, which make selecting city time zones more vivid and realistic.
“After years of world clock software development experience, we can say that world clock software should be not only precise and functional, but also vivid and user-friendly,” said Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting. “We improved world clock usability in this release. We included an option to see real time cloud patterns on the interactive world map. Now you have an idea of weather all over the world when using ZoneTick.”
ZoneTick software enhancements and additions in version 3.7 include:
Support of close to real-time clouds imagery on the world map.
Support of higher resolutions of world map, which is available to users with high-end video adapters.
Additional translations. ZoneTick is now localized into 14 languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Extended city database, which includes new cities such as Sunnyvale, CA (USA), Dublin, OH (USA), Syracuse, NY (USA), Knysna (South Africa), Taganrog (Russia).
The complete list of ZoneTick changes can be found at http://zonetick.com/cms/update.htm
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock is very useful for 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 traveling. This is because ZoneTick displays the times for any amount of different time zones and also allows synchronizing PC clock with accurate online time-servers.
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock suits both for enterprise, and individual users. 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 supports a wide range of digital and analog graphical skins, which can be used to customize ZoneTick to fit any desktop style. ZoneTick is provided with a system of alarms, which will play a sound, display a message, launch an application, or open a web-page at the time of your choice.
For traveling among time zones, communicating with international friends or business partners, monitoring real-time situations or simply seeking for high-quality shareware, ZoneTick is a good choice for world clock software!
For more information write to info @ wrconsulting.com or visit http://wrconsulting.com
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Related Ham Radio Press Releases
According to ARISS-Europe (ARISS-EU) Chairman Gaston Bertels, ON4WF, the digital Amateur Radio TV “Ham Video” transmitter may be tested during an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with a high school in Siegburg, Germany, on September 1. If so, this would mark the first time the Ham Video system is used for an ARISS educational event. The direct, 2 meter FM contact…
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ARRL First Vice President Rick Roderick, K5UR, will be the banquet speaker for the 62nd annual W9DXCC, September 19-20, 2014, in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Registration remains open. The special hotel rate is valid through August 28; banquet orders must be received by September 13. DXers, anyone interested in learning more about DXing, and their guests are welcome. There is a full program of forums …
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Average daily sunspot numbers this week moved from 101.7 to 113.4, while average daily solar flux changed from 111.8 to 130.5. The active day according to geomagnetic indicators was Wednesday, August 27, when the planetary A index reached 20. This was the result of a CME which created aurora at both north and south poles.
Predicted solar flux is 115 on August 29-31, 120 on September 1-2, then 11…
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The online industry publication SatelliteToday reports that the UKube-1 CubeSat is “experiencing an anomaly with its primary communications link.” To work around the problem, the United Kingdom Space Agency (USKA) has commanded the small spacecraft to use an alternate configuration of what it called “the FUNcube-2 transceiver,” using it as the satellite’s temporary downlink. The Amateur Radio t…
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Showing how an IP phone can connect to an Allstar Link box. Allstar Link is a ham radio linking protocol that runs on Asterisk and is very powerful. In this …
THE LOCAL HAM RADIO NET IN LINCOLN NEBRASKA… VERY INFORMATIVE BUT THE REGULAR REPEATER IS FREEZING AND HAVING TROUBLES.. SO THEY SWITCHED TO A BACK UP REATER.
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The ARRL DXCC Desk has approved these operations for DX Century Club credit: A52JR, 4W/HB9FLX, 4W/N1YC, and 4W/PE7T. If a request for DXCC credit for any of these operations has been rejected in a prior application, contact the ARRL DXCC Desk to be placed on the list for an update to your record. Please note the submission date and/or reference number of your application in order to expedite th…
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ARRL Headquarters will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 1, and there will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice. ARRL Headquarters will reopen at 8 AM Eastern Time on Tuesday, September 2. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday!
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Gerald Youngblood, K5SDR, will be the banquet speaker at the 2014 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), September 5-7 at the Austin Marriott South in Austin, Texas. His presentation will be, “Accidental Company, the Making of FlexRadio.”
The 33rd annual DCC will offer 2 days of technical forums on Friday and Saturday and a concurrent introductory forum on Saturday (the Proceedings w…
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Video demonstration of my Ham Radio Logging Excel Spreadsheet. You can download it free at www.K7SU.com.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
The ARRL “Logs Received” page now contains all 2014 ARRL Field Day logs received to date (scroll to bottom of page), including logs submitted via e-mail, web applet or on paper. The ARRL Contest Branch requests that Field Day participants review the list and contact ARRL Contest Branch Manager Matt Wilhelm, W1MSW, (860-594-0232) no later than September 12, if anything appears to be incorrect wi…
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A radio amateur and medium-frequency (MF) experimenter in Australia has received a 630 meter (475.62 kHz) transmission from a radio amateur and Part 5 Experimental operator in Texas. While the approximately 8710 miles covered is not a distance record nor a “first” for that part of the spectrum, it does represent the sorts of accomplishments that the Amateur Radio community in the US might come …
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, August 27 (the evening of August 26 in US time zones), to Arizona (W1AW/7), and Maine (W1AW/1). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories.
The ARRL Centennial QSO Party kicked off January 1 for a year-long…
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QSO Today Podcast – Fractional Wave Antennas with Rich, K8NDS
Rich's ham radio journey began, in the suburbs of Detroit, on a bicycle, when he was sixteen years old, in search of the source of 160 meter ham radio conversations heard on his portable all band radio. Looking for "big" antennas on the neighborhood …
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QSO Today audio podcast – Episode 003 Angel Santana WP3GW
Angel Santana, WP3GW travels around the World, from his home on the island of Puerto Rico, not by ship or airplane, but on the wings of ham radio. Angel says, “the magic for me is speaking to people in other countries”. He likes to meet people, make …
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Three simple plastic foil-envelope balloons carrying Amateur Radio payloads and launched from the UK by Leo Bodnar, M0XER, remain aloft and continue to circle the Earth. The oldest, identified as B63, was released on July 8 and became the second of Bodnar’s balloons to circumnavigate the globe. The first to do so, B64, went up on July 12 and had completed one lap around the Northern Hemisphere …
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The Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment on board the International Space Station (ISS) may be active on Wednesday, August 27, on 145.800 MHz FM, using the call sign RS0ISS, according to Dmitry Pashkov, R4UAB. The SSTV transmissions will be devoted to the life and work of the first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. The SSTV transmissions from the ISS may continue beyond August 27, although the Kenwood…
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(PRWEB) August 15, 2007
If your business requires dealing with different time zones, world clock software might be needed to show current time at various locations over the world. But which world clock is most suitable for your timezone needs?
WR Consulting, a company that develops enterprise productivity tools and services, has just released ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock v3.7.2.
“We tried to improve world clock usability in this release”, said Nik Okuntseff, CEO of WR Consulting. “City database was extended, all time zones synchronized, news reader improved.”
The new ZoneTick version 3.7.2 includes the following improvements:
Spanish and German translation were improved.
New Zealand time zone was changed according to new New Zealand daylight saving time rules. Daylight saving time now starts on last Sunday in September at 02:00:00 local time and ends on first Sunday in April at 02:00:00 local time.
Haiti time zone was updated. There is no daylight saving time in use any more.
News Reader notification window behavior changed. News items accumulate in it when it is set not to fade out automatically.
Additional option was added to News Reader – whether to automatically fade out news notifications or not.
A “tt h:mm” time formatter was added to the list of built-in time formatters to allow for proper time representation for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean users.
City database was updated and extended. Cotonou (Benin), Brasilia (Brazil), Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire), Menlo Park, CA (USA), Sulaimaniya (Iraq), Okinawa (Japan), Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt), Curitiba (Brazil), and Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam) were added. Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) spelling corrected, Kishinev (Moldova) renamed to Chisinau to reflect common current English spelling of the city.
Complete list of ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock 3.7.2 enhancements can be found at http://zonetick.com/cms/update.htm
ZoneTick World Time Zone Clock is very useful when communicating with people in other parts of the globe: such as friends in other countries, colleagues in remote offices or in the field, or the home-crowd while 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 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 supports a wide range of digital and analog graphical skins, which can be used to customize ZoneTick to fit any desktop style. ZoneTick is provided with a system of alarms, which will play a sound, display a message, launch an application, or open a web-page at the time of your choice.
For traveling between time zones, communicating with international friends or business partners, monitoring real-time situations or simply seeking for high-quality shareware, ZoneTick is a good choice for world clock software.
For more information write to info @ wrconsulting.com or visit http://wrconsulting.com
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The Arduino has become widely popular among hobbyists and ham radio operators. Hams are exploring these powerful, inexpensive microcontrollers, creating new projects and amateur station gear. With its Open Source model, the Arduino community freely shares software and hardware designs, making projects easier to build and modify.
Arduino for Ham Radio introduces you to the exciting world of micro…
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A major donation from noted DXer Kan Mizoguchi, JA1BK, to the ARRL Second Century Campaign will support “The DX Log Archive Endowed by JA1BK.” Earnings from the generous gift will fund the creation and management of a DX Log Archive Program for paper DX logs of rare and significant DXpeditions that took place predominantly in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The archive also would include pre-1950 …
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Switching from repeater to simplex on handy talkies.
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When the ARRL Board of Directors gathers for its Annual Meeting in January 2015, there will be some new faces around the table. ARRL members in the Atlantic Division will elect a new Director and Vice Director, while members in the Great Lakes Division will choose a Vice Director. Two sitting directors have opted not to run for election: Cliff Ahrens, K0CA, who was appointed in 2010 to succeed …
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Solar indices and outlook are stronger this week. Average daily sunspot numbers rose 19.7 points to 114.6, while average daily solar flux increased 25.7 points to 138.8. Average daily estimated planetary A index dropped from 7.4 to 4.3. This compares the August 14-20 period against the previous seven days.
The day with the greatest geomagnetic activity was Tuesday, August 19 when the planetary A…
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The FCC continued this month to demonstrate that it’s serious about enforcing its rules and regulations, proposing to fine a Florida Citizens Band operator $ 14,000 for failing to allow FCC agents inspect his station. The Commission issued a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) to Tommie Salter of Jacksonville on August 22. The Commission alleged that Salter earlier this year denied…
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ARES and RACES were featured during the National Tribal Emergency Management Conference, August 13-15 in Airway Heights, Washington. The largest gathering of tribal disaster preparedness, recovery, hazard mitigation, and homeland security professionals in the country was organized by the National Tribal Emergency Management Council (NTEMC) in conjunction with the Northwest Tribal Emergency Mana…
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An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with students at Zuni Hills Elementary School in Sun City, Arizona, will take place today (August 22) at 1747 UTC. This will be a “telebridge” contact between NA1SS on the ISS and club station K6DUE in Maryland, with audio relayed to the school in Arizona, and listeners on the US East Coast may be able to copy the 2 meter ISS d…
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Because of ARRL website maintenance and upgrading, some website services will be unavailable from 0000 until 1000 UTC on Saturday, August 23 (ie, starting the evening of Friday, August 22, in US time zones) and again from 0400 until 1000 UTC on Monday, August 25.
Outside e-mail to @arrl.org addresses and @reflector.arrl.org addresses will be queued for later delivery. Logbook of The World (LoTW)…
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Well-known contester Pat Barkey, N9RV, of Bonner, Montana, will become the 15th editor of National Contest Journal (NCJ) effective with the January/February 2015 issue. He takes over from Kirk Pickering, K4RO, who has served as NCJ’s editor since 2012. Pickering said he believes Barkey will bring a fresh perspective to NCJ readers.
“I am delighted that N9RV has stepped up to take the role as the…
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The 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC 2014) held last week (August 14-15) in Huntsville, Alabama, and hosted by the ARRL Alabama Section and the Huntsville Hamfest, offered an opportunity for participants to share presentations and perspectives from around the globe. Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, organized this year’s GAREC event, which focused on the application of ad…
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Ham radio or CB RADIO. Both CB Radio and ham radio have their good and bad points. CB Radio or Citizens band is there for anyone to use, range is antenna and…
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This is a selection of my Home Made HF Radio Antenna’s / Aerials and Baluns And Carbon Fibre Beach Vertical Antennas, Traps Coils etc… My Caged Dipole cons…
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ARRL Southern Florida Section Manager Jeff Beals, WA4AW, has won a full term in his own right, after being appointed to the post earlier this year. In the just-completed summer election cycle, Beals, of Loxahatchee, received 570 votes to 270 for his challenger, Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, of West Palm Beach. Ballots were counted on August 19, at ARRL Headquarters.
Beals will begin his 2-year term of …
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A team of Russian cosmonauts has deployed the Peruvian Chasqui-1 Amateur Radio CubeSat into orbit during a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS). Expedition 40 Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev released the tiny, 1 kg spacecraft at 1423 UTC on August 18. Chasqui-1 is a project of the Peruvian National University of Engineering (Universidad Nacional de Ingenie…
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An Amateur Radio Village and special event station GB2EMF will be among the highlights for hams at the Electromagnetic Field “EMF 2014” event Friday through Sunday, August 29-31, just south of Bletchley in the UK.
“EMF 2014 is a festival for anyone interested in radio, electronics, space, homebrewing, robots, UAVs, 3D printing, DIYBio, Internet culture or pretty much anything else you can think …
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The ARRL Centennial W1AW portable operations taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states and now in Oklahoma will relocate at 0000 UTC on Wednesday, August 20 (the evening of August 19 in US time zones), to Ohio (W1AW/8) and North Dakota (W1AW/0). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it will be easy to work all states sol…
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