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ART BELL Rare HAM RADIO Conversation W6OBB Shortwave Alternative Talk Show Host RARE RECORDING

Rare HAM RADIO Art Bell Conversation as W6OBB Shortwave Alternative Talk Show Host speaks candidly on HAM RADIO rare recording.

WI6J talks about his 10 meter HF propagation beacon.

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Rare Camelopardalid Meteor Shower Possible This Weekend

In the early morning hours of midnight to dawn Saturday, May 24, astronomers predict a new meteor shower will be visible that could support meteor-scatter propagation for VHF enthusiasts.

“Sky watchers all across North America are in for a real treat in the early morning hours of May 24,” NASA said. “There’s a brand-new meteor shower that may light up the night sky. Scientists aren’t sure yet ho…

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Rare Hiram Percy Maxim Film Featured in February Digital QST

The February issue of QST includes a biography of ARRL co-founder and first President Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, written by Chris Codella, W2PA. The Digital QST version of the article, available to members today, also includes four minutes of rare movie footage of Maxim filmed in the 1920s.

“Maxim was a man of diverse interests,” said QST Editor in Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY. “One of his many pursui…

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Rare, Brief 6 Meter F2 Opening Makes for Plentiful DX

Six meter operators were treated November 9 to an F2 opening from approximately 1500 until 1630 UTC.

“These have been very rare in solar cycle 24,” said QST “The World Above 50 MHz” Editor Jon Jones, NØJK. He described the opening as “mostly single-hop F2” from the East Coast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and to the West Coast to Central America, Northern South America and Caribbean.

Jones said the geoma…

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Franz Josef Land May Become a Rare One

The Daily DX reports that Eugeny, RI1FJ, will depart Franz Josef Land in the Russian Arctic in mid-August and is “99.9 percent sure” that no one will replace him on the ham bands for the 2013-2014 season. Eugeny said he has not been very active recently because conditions have been poor. Eugeny’s last three trips to FJL have been as R1FJT (2006-2008) and as RI1FJ (2010-2011 and 2012-2013). He h…

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Rare Grid Rove Around

The Olympic Peninsula is in the far corner of the Pacific Northwest and contains a huge area of remote, isolated and largely undeveloped wilderness. The peninsula has but one single main road, Highway 101, which gives access to the distant coastline. Although most of it is within a hundred miles of the densely populated greater Seattle area, the tall peaks in the Olympic Mountain range will blo…

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