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The 14 most ridiculous excuses people have used to call in sick

The 14 most ridiculous excuses people have used to call in sick
"Hi boss. I can't come into work today. My grandmother poisoned me with ham." While that may sound like a completely ridiculous excuse, an employee actually used it this year, according to a new survey from CareerBuilder. The survey, which was …
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Dining in culinary winter wonderland
Chef Ross' menu includes a bevy of creative dishes — scallops with a slow-cooked quail egg and braised mustard greens in ham hock broth; fluffy sweet potato gnocchi with crisp sage and chestnuts popped from the fire to the plate; dry-aged Sonoma duck …
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19 things you can make instead of a whole-roasted turkey this Thanksgiving
A delicious Thanksgiving meal can take a lot of time and effort to put together, and cooking an excellent turkey is definitely one of the hardest parts. For those who are either looking for a new main course or who just want an easier way to prepare …
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Don't call it throttling: Ericsson 'priority' tech gives users their own slice …

Don't call it throttling: Ericsson 'priority' tech gives users their own slice …
The policy controller talks to the SGSN-MME (Serving GPRS Support Node – Mobility Management Entity), which then controls the RF. In LTE, the spectrum is … optimize our spectrum. By enabling us to dynamically allocate the best radio resources on a …
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IZ7PDX MOBILE STATION ON JN80PU – THE CALL ON 20M – Yaesu FT-857

IZ7PDX AND IZ7PFU MOBILE STATION ON JN80PU – Yaesu FT-857 TNX IZ7PFU.

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CQ Will Not Accept Logs from Stations in Crimea Using Russian-Issued Call Signs

CQ has announced that it will no longer accept logs for any CQ-sponsored contest from stations in Crimea operating with Russian-issued call signs. CQ Magazine said that “after considerable deliberation,” it has decided to follow the lead of the US government and the United Nations and will consider the embattled Crimea region to be a part of Ukraine, “until such time as the political situation …

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New $21.40 Vanity Call Sign Fee Now in Effect

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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AMSAT Issues Call for 2014 Space Symposium Papers

AMSAT has issued a call for papers for its 32nd AMSAT Annual Meeting and Space Symposium. This year’s event takes place the weekend of October 10-12 at the DoubleTree Hotel, Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI), Linthicum, Maryland.

Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community. Final co…

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ARRL President Issues Call to Action to Gain Support for HR.4969 Amateur Radio Parity Act!

In a video, ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has issued an urgent call to all radio amateurs to get behind a grassroots campaign to promote co-sponsorship of HR.4969, “The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014.” HR.4969 would require the FCC to extend PRB-1 coverage to restrictive covenants. It was introduced in the US House with bipartisan support on June 25 at the request of the ARRL, which worke…

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FT-857D Venezuela contact on first try call

Just fooling around and decide to call back to a Venezuela ham doing DX. Got thru on the first call to him despite a pile up. Thanks Yaesi ..Love this radio.
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FCC Seeks to Raise Vanity Call Sign Fee to $21.60

The FCC is requesting to raise the Amateur Service vanity call sign regulatory fee from its current $ 16.10 to $ 21.60 for the 10-year license term. The $ 5.50 increase would be the largest vanity fee hike in many years. The proposal is contained in a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM), “Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2014; Assessment and Collection of Regulatory F…

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First Call for 2014 AMSAT Space Symposium Papers

AMSAT-NA has issued its first call for papers for the 2014 AMSAT Symposium and General Meeting the weekend of October 10-12 in Baltimore, Maryland. Proposals for papers, symposium presentations and poster presentations are invited on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community.

AMSAT requests a tentative presentation title no later than August 1, and final papers and presentations …

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QRZ.com Now Supports “Secondary” Call Signs and LoTW

The popular QRZ.com website has announced some new features. The site’s call sign database now fully supports “secondary” call signs. “A secondary call sign is one which includes a slash plus a modifier as either a prefix or a suffix to the primary call sign,” QRZ.com Publisher Fred Lloyd, AA7BQ, explained. In other words, users can create separate pages for their DXpedition, QRP, or mobile ope…

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International Space Station call – CBC.ca

International Space Station call
CBC.ca
The connection, which used ham radios assembled at home by members of an amateur radio club, was very weak and only allowed for a few seconds of conversation, in part because it had to be made as the ISS was above the school. Because the space …

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County sending out call for amateur radio operators – Teton Valley News

County sending out call for amateur radio operators
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Even though ham radio is often thought of as an off beat hobby, Teton County is sending out the call for ham radio operators for a very serious reasons. The county is encouraging more people to volunteer as emergency radio operators to maintain …

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County sending out call for ham radio operators – Southgate Amateur Radio Club

County sending out call for ham radio operators
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Kaelberer said ham operators, including himself, can use what is called Near Vertical Incident Skywave (NVIS) transmissions to reach over the mountains to nearby counties for help. He also said that an amateur operator could reach all the way to Boise …

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Amateur Radio Call Log Reviews

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Logning af call Ham radio Deluxe 6

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One of the “must have” devices for HRD.
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PSK31 2 Call Contact

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Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Issues Call for Conference Papers

The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) is seeking papers for its 2014 Western Regional Conference. The event takes place March 22-23, 2014, in Bishop, California, and at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory.

The first day of the conference will be spent at Cal Tech’s Owens Valley Radio Observatory, with presentations by OVRO staff and SARA members and supporters followed by a tour of the …

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Higher FCC Vanity Call Sign Fee is Effective August 23

The new FCC regulatory fee of $ 16.10 to apply for an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will go into effect Friday, August 23, when the new regulatory fee schedule will appear in the Federal Register. Earlier this year the FCC had proposed upping the vanity call sign fee from its current $ 15 to $ 15.20, but in the Report and Order in MD Docket 13-140, released August 12, the Commission offered no ex…

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New, Higher FCC Vanity Call Sign Fee Pending for Mid-September

A new FCC’s regulatory fee of $ 16.10 to apply for an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will become effective sometime in mid-September, when the new fee schedule appears in the Federal Register. (ARRL will report the exact date as soon as it becomes available.) The FCC earlier this year had proposed upping the vanity call sign fee from its current $ 15 to $ 15.20. In a Report and Order in MD Docket …

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FCC Seeks Small Vanity Call Sign Fee Increase

The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on May 23, seeking to raise the fee for Amateur Radio vanity call signs by 20 cents. Currently, a vanity call sign costs $ 15 and is good for 10 years; the new fee, if approved, will go up to $ 15.20 for 10 years. The FCC is authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, as amended to collect vanity call sign fees to recover the costs associa…

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Hams Heed the Call to Help As Isaac Makes Landfall, Downgraded to Tropical Storm

Seven years to the day that Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans, Hurricane Isaac came calling. But instead of making landfall right at New Orleans like Katrina (a Category 3 storm) did on August 28, 2005, Isaac veered slightly to the west of the city. Through it all, hams at WX4NHC — the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida — and those supporti…

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FCC Denies California Ham’s Petition Regarding Vanity Call Sign

Two years after Marvin Gin, W6VM, passed away on January 13, 2010, his call sign became available in the FCC’s vanity call sign system and eligible for reassignment to those radio amateurs who hold an Amateur Extra class license. According to the FCC, Mario Vesnaver, W6EX, of Laguna Niguel, California, Steven Greathouse, AC6EA, of Akron, Ohio, and others “filed timely applications requesting mo…

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Vanity Call Sign Fee to Increase September 4

On August 3, the FCC announced via a Final Rule in the Federal Register that the cost of an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will increase 80 cents, from to $ 14.20 to $ 15. The new fees take effect 30 days after publication, making September 4, 2012, the first day the new fee is in effect. Earlier this year, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM), seeking to raise the fe…

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Vanity Call Sign Fee to Go Up 80 Cents

On July 20, the FCC announced that the cost of an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will increase 80 cents, from $ 14.20 to $ 15. The fee will increase 30 days after notice of the increase is published in the Federal Register; no date has yet been set for publication. Earlier this year, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM), seeking to raise the fee for Amateur Radio vani…

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Yasme Foundation Announces Awards, Expanded List of Eligible Call Signs

The Yasme Foundation currently offers two awards. The Yasme Award, in the form of a handsome plaque, is offered to those radio amateurs who submit proof of 30 QSOs with Yasme officials and DXpeditions that have at least one Yasme official as a participant. The Yasme Supreme Award is in the form of a representation of the YASME boat used by Danny Weil in his around-the-world DXpedition. It is av…

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