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Surfin’: The End (Or Is It?)

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, the end of Surfin’ is the least of your worries.

After 622 installments of Surfin’, this may be the last.

In case you have not heard, a Mayan calendar predicted that today — December 21 — is doomsday. To mark that final event, N0D, a special event station “celebrating the end of the world” will be on the air until the bitter end.

The N0D webs…

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The K7RA Solar Update

It is Friday, and the world did not end. To herald this non-event, NASA even produced a wonderful video that explained how the whole thing was a misconception. The Mayan calendar is like an odometer, and when it gets to 999,999, it just roles over to 0 and begins anew. As expected, Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy also provided a nonsense-free assessment, where he referred to the non-event as the “M…

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