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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

• Do you operate WSPR?

• How often do you build projects featured in QST articles (including antennas)?

How important are the Product Review videos featured in Digital QST?

• Have you ever contacted your ARRL Division Director to express your opinion?

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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

• As we prepare to celebrate 2015, what sort of year will this be for Amateur Radio?

• Increasing numbers of hams are operating distant stations by Internet remote control. What do you think of this trend?

• Compared to 20 years ago, would you say the quality of on-air behavior has improved, de…

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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?

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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

• Do you send reception reports to shortwave broadcast stations and collect their QSLs?

• Do you use a separate receiving antenna when operating on 160 meters?

• How many spare batteries do you have for your primary FM hand held transceiver?

• Have you ever operated analog Slow Scan TV (SSTV)?

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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

Are your primary satellite antennas fixed or rotatable?

Do you plan to install an antenna support tower at your home within the next year?

Do you participate in any regular VHF or UHF SSB nets?

Have you ever operated as a “rover” in a VHF+ contest?

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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

Have you ever converted a wireless network router into an Amateur Radio Mesh transceiver?

Among the WARC bands, which is your favorite?

Have you ever used Amateur Radio digital communications in a public service application?

Have you ever heard a Long Delayed Echo (LDE)?

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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

Did you include hamfests in your summer travel plans?

When making up your own coaxial cables, what tool do you use to solder the connectors?

Which VHF/UHF digital communications system do you find most interesting?

Have you ever attempted to operate Amateur Radio while traveling on a train?

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A new QST QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .

How often do you upload contacts to Logbook of The World?

Have you worked any of the W1AW ARRL Centennial stations?

Do you buy parts for your homebrew projects locally or online?

Do you make your own printed circuit boards?

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Four new poll questions have been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website.

Will you build a kit if it requires you to install Surface Mount Components?

Did you work the FT5ZM DXpedition to Amsterdam Island?

Do you use trees to support any of your antennas?

Do you use an RF power amplifier on VHF or UHF?

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Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. To celebrate the beginning of the ARRL Centennial Year, these questions have a historical theme!

Who was Clarence Tuska?

In what year was QST magazine first published?

What name did Hiram Percy Maxim use to refer to his favorite spark gap transmitter, which can still be seen at ARRL station W1AW today?

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The results of the 2013 ARRL Field Day have been posted. Less-than-ideal conditions this past June likely accounted for a slight drop in participation from 2012. Nonetheless, there were more than 2500 entries, and more than 35,500 people participated.

The team at W3AO (Potomac Valley Radio Club/Columbia Amateur Radio Association) claimed top honors this year, running class 29A(!) to compile a sc…

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