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Members of Congress seek flexibility in FCC's rural broadband requirements

Members of Congress seek flexibility in FCC's rural broadband requirements
A key element of the CAF II program will be providing fiber-fed broadband services, or some form of a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) type of architecture using a mix of ADSL2+ or VDSL2 with vectoring to deliver the service over the existing copper connection …
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US airborne communication plane could be tracked on the Web for 9 hours …
… callsign, but based on the hex code FR24 could identify it as a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft, an advanced ultra long-range business jet that has been modified by the U.S. Air Force to accomodate Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN …
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Is There a Ma Joad for the Piketty Era?
“Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution,” Steinbeck wrote in one of the novel's inner chapters. “This is the ….. “Does it offer a sustained and compelling diagnosis of the terminal pathology that afflicts us, or is it an especially …
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International Space Station Briefly “Ham-less” After Crew Members Return to Earth

The only two radio amateurs on the International Space Station (ISS) were among three crew members who returned to Earth on November 10, and another ham-astronaut won’t arrive onboard the ISS until later this month. But an exciting 2015 appears to be in store.

NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, and European Space Agency Astronaut Alexander Gerst, KF5ONO, joined Expedition 41 Commander an…

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Crunch Time: Letters Urging House Members to Support H.R. 4969 Due at Headquarters by September 12

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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ISS Crew Members Back on Earth; Return Trips Uncertain for US Crews

Three International Space Station crew members returned to Earth May 13 after 188 days in space. The NASA reported that Expedition 39 crew increment of Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, of Russia, and Astronauts Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA, of Japan, and Rick Mastracchio, KC5ZTE, of the US, all appeared to be in good condition. Their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan, borne b…

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TAPR Officers, Board Members Elected

The TAPR Board of Directors has elected officers for the following year: President Steve Bible, N7HPR; Vice President Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z; Treasurer Tom Holmes, N8ZM; Secretary Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU. At the TAPR Annual General Membership Meeting on September 21, the three unopposed nominees John Ackermann, N8UR; Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z, and Mark Thompson, WB9QZB, were affirmed to serve as TAPR…

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MARS Members Complete “High-Pressure Test” of Messaging Capacity

Army MARS, with support from Air Force MARS members, underwent a high-pressure test of nationwide messaging capacity August 3-4, under the watchful eye of the Army’s chief of network communications. Major General Alan Lynn, commander of the Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM), personally launched the six hour drill, which measured performance of the volunteer radio operators under he…

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Cal Poly ARC Members Respond to Power Outage

When the power went down for more than 145,000 Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) customers in San Luis Obispo County, California, on June 23, members of the Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club (W6BHZ) sprang into action to provide needed emergency communication. The response by student and alumni members consisted of collecting status information from remote stations and relaying information obtained by …

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ARRL Members in Hudson Division Elect New Director; Northwestern Division Gets New Vice Director

On November 16, ballots were counted in the races for Director in the Hudson Division and for Director and Vice Director in the Northwestern Division. This year, there were only three contested races for Director or Vice Director in the five Divisions holding elections. In the Hudson Division, Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, defeated Joyce Birmingham, KA2ANF, for the top slot in that Division. In the Nort…

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ARRL Members Nominate Candidates for Director, Vice Director

The policies of the ARRL are established by 15 Directors who are elected to the Board on a geographical basis, with elections for three-year terms held in five divisions each year. At the same time, Vice Directors are elected on the same basis. Responding to solicitations in the July and August issues of QST, ARRL members in the Central, Hudson, New England, Northwestern and Roanoke Divisions h…

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