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L'actu de Tarbes | Le Salon du chocolat ce week-end

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L'actu de Tarbes | Le Salon du chocolat ce week-end
Deux jours de gourmandises pour le Salon du Chocolat à Tarbes ce week-end (Pyrénéesinfo Archives, E.B.). Profitez de bons produits gourmands tout en réalisant une bonne action, c'est le défi du Salon du Chocolat et des douceurs. Cette année encore, le …
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L'actu de Tarbes | Tarbes sera relégué en Fédérale 1
La commission d'appel de la FFR a confirmé la relégation administrative du TPR en Fédérale 1. La déception va être immense dans les rangs des supporteurs tarbais. La commission d'appel de la Fédération Française de Rugby, saisie par le TPR après sa …
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L'actu des Hautes-Pyrénées | Où skier ce week-end ?

L'actu des Hautes-Pyrénées | Où skier ce week-end ?
Les touristes seront très nombreux dès ce week-end pour profiter de la glisse sur les stations de ski des Hautes-Pyrénées (Archives). Si le redoux quasi-printanier s'est généralisé en plaine, les stations de ski des Hautes-Pyrénées ont su garder de …
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L'actu de Toulouse | L'Université Toulouse 3 à Infosup
Le Salon Infosup à Toulouse, le lieu idéal pour s'orienter après le bac (DR). Comme chaque année, l'université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier est présente sur le salon Infosup, du mercredi 2 au samedi 5 décembre 2015, au Parc des Expositions de Toulouse, …
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L'actu de Mont-de-Marsan | Réveillon pour le marché de Saint-Roch
Le marché de la place Saint-Roch à Mont-de-Marsan, idéal pour préparer les fêtes de Noël (Laura Moulié). Cette année, il y aura un jour de marché alimentaire supplémentaire sur la place Saint-Roch à Mont-de-Marsan, le jeudi 24 décembre 2015. Plébiscité …
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L'actu des Hautes-Pyrénées | Noël en fête chez les commerçants d'Argelès-Gazost
Une vitrine magique à remporter à Argelès-Gazost si vous savez estimer sa valeur ! (Pyrénéesinfo Lourdes). L'association du Commerce et de l'Artisanat d'Argelès-Gazost se mobilise pour les Fêtes de fin d'année. Entre animations et jeux, vous avez …
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ARRL Website Will Remain Up This Weekend, But Some Services Will Be Unavailable

Updating an earlier announcement, the ARRL main website will not be going down for maintenance but will remain in operation this weekend. Logbook of The World (LoTW) will remain available, and users should use https://lotw.arrl.org to access this service (https://p1k.arrl.org/lotwuser and https://p1k.arrl.org/lotw will be offline). Effective until further notice, some website services are or wi…

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ARRL Simulated Emergency Test Set for October 4-5 Weekend

The national ARRL Simulated Emergency Test (SET) is slated for the October 4-5 weekend, although the window for local and regional exercises is September 1 through November 30 each year. All groups conduct their events over the course of 48 hours. The SET is a nationwide exercise in disaster response and emergency communication, administered by ARRL emergency coordinators and net managers, in w…

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Summits-on-the-Air Activity Weekend is September 13-14

North America Summits on the Air (SOTA) Activity Weekend 2014 is a casual event in which summiting radio amateurs (called “activators”) use tiny battery-powered radios to work home-based operators (called “chasers”). The event, September 13-14, is aimed at introducing SOTA to newcomers.

There are no rules regarding power levels, modes, or bands. SOTA operators have climbed mountains as high as …

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Weekend Plantings: Edible Fig, Dry Times Ahead, Famous Sausage Tree

Weekend Plantings: Edible Fig, Dry Times Ahead, Famous Sausage Tree
Monitor your turf: When turf is in obvious distress — when foot traffic leaves lasting impressions in the lawn — apply ½ to ¾ of an inch of water. There's no recommended frequency for irrigating because the factors that influence soil moisture are so …
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The illusion of invulnerability
Some people surveyed by the HPB feel that a normal result following screening would cause undue emotional distress beforehand besides being a waste of time and money, while abnormal test results would burst their blissful bubble. So they … Going for …
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Everything You Need To Know About The Ebola Virus Outbreak
The patients all presented with potential Ebola-like symptoms (such as fever, gastrointestinal distress, headache), and several of them had traveled recently in western African countries. Fortunately, the New York Times reports that, so far, no new …
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Motherless monkeys: UW-Madison to revive controversial primate experiments
"These discussions that they had about this study don't occur with any frequency at all. In fact, I don't know of …. But the Primate Research Center maintains that its nursery-reared monkeys usually do not display these overt signs of distress …
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Amateur Radio License in One Weekend


Marina del Rey, CA (PRWEB) September 23, 2009

Would you like to join an exciting group of dedicated people who offer assistance in times of disaster, provide communications in severe weather, and protect their community by talking directly with law enforcement?

How would it feel to be a member of a dedicated group of people ranging in ages from 8 through 85 who have been responsible for the leading communication inventions in the past 100 years, which includes: radio, TV, FAX, satellite, cell phones, and FTP protocol?

The California Yacht Club, located at 4469 Admiralty Way in the Marina Del Rey, is sponsoring its fifteenth annual Amateur radio license class on the weekend of October 10 and 11, 2009. This course is open to anyone who is interested in joining this exciting hobby.    The class will begin on Saturday, October 10 at 9 A.M. and end on Sunday at 5 P.M. No background in electronics is needed and the California Yacht Club starts from the very first page. Students enrolled in the course can earn the Technician & General Amateur license in only two, exciting days.

The Amateur License opens the door to free e-mails while cruising, weather faxes from NOAA, and offers a free gateway to making new friends around the world. HAM radio includes everyone, beginning with a student interested in computers, educated professionals, and finally a house wife who passed the test for the reason of family protection.    

The class will be taught by Charles Pascal, WB6CIY, a licensed amateur & certified teacher. Charlie has taught over 5,000 students in the past 25 years to pass the Amateur exam on the first attempt. Testing will be provided at the same location where the class was taught. The price for the class is $ 100 per license plus an additional $ 12 for the text book, which can be downloaded from http://www.myhamteacheronline.com .

Students who need the Technician license, the tuition will be $ 112. Please click here to download the book for the class. Students needing the General license should click here. The tuition for two classes, plus books is $ 224. Register for this class by e-mailing: radiopascal(at)earthlink(dot)net. Please click here for free sample tests. Call Charles Pascal at 310-714-0524 for additional information.

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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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FUNcube/AO-73 Transponder Will Be Active Each Weekend

The FUNcube/AO-73 Amateur Radio transponder will be active full time (with low-power beacon) on weekends. FUNcube’s controllers will switch to full-time transponder mode during the first suitable pass over the UK on Friday, typically between 1930 and 22:30 UTC. (If this is not possible, the switch will be made on the first suitable pass on Saturday, typically between 0930 and 1200 UTC. Controll…

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Work the World this Weekend During the ARRL International DX Contest (CW)!

The CW weekend of the ARRL International DX Contest is February 15-16 (UTC). One of the premier events on the contest calendar, this event aims to encourage participants to expand their knowledge of DX propagation on the HF and MF bands, and to improve operating skills and station capability by creating a competition in which DX stations may only contact stations in the US and Canada.

W/VE amate…

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2013 ARRL 10 Meter Contest Next Weekend!

A perennial favorite with many operators, the ARRL 10 Meter Contest is again poised to make a splash on the highest of the HF bands. Conditions on 10 already look much better than they were in 2012, according to early predictions. In fact, the recent CQ World Wide contests provided many operators with outstanding rates on 10, where the band was busy almost from end to end!

The 10 meter band, of …

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2013 ARRL 160 Meter Contest This Weekend!

This weekend will feature especially high activity levels on Top Band, thanks to the ARRL 160 Meter Contest. This contest provides an excellent opportunity for any station, regardless of size, to make QSOs on 160 meters. A popular event each year, this CW-only contest brings out operators of all experience levels.

Multipliers in the contest are ARRL/RAC Sections and DXCC entities. Alaska (KL7) a…

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VOA Radiogram Officially Launches this Weekend

Last weekend the Voice of America (VOA) Radiogram program conducted a digital test sending streams of text (and one image) while inviting listeners to submit reception reports. According to Radiogram host Kim Andrew Elliot, KD9XB, the response from the amateur and SWL community was impressive with reception reports from 16 countries and many US States.

Thanks to the successful test, Radiogram wi…

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Voice of America to Test Digital Transmissions this Weekend

The Voice of America Radiogram show, hosted by Kim Andrew Elliot, KD9XB, will be testing a variety of digital modes on March 16 and 17.

The data transmissions can be decoded by anyone with an AM shortwave receiver using any of the popular sound-card-based programs such as Fldigi, Ham Radio Deluxe, MixW, MultiPSK, DigiPan (for BPSK31, BPSK63 and QPSK31 only), CocoaModem (for Macs) and others.

Eac…

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Get Ready for JOTA This Weekend

The 55th annual Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) is October 20-21. This 48-hour event runs from 0000 (local time) on Saturday, October 20 (right at midnight Friday) through midnight (local time) on Sunday, October 21. JOTA is an opportunity for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from all over the world to experience the magic and excitement of Amateur Radio.

According to Boy Scouts of…

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Three Hams Return to Earth this Weekend; Watch Live on NASA TV

After spending 125 days in space, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, RN3BS (both of the Russian Federal Space Agency) will begin their voyage home to Earth this weekend, marking the end of Expedition 32 on board the International Space Station (ISS). The trio will undock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft on Sund…

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Hams to Put Nine Azorean Islands On the Air in One Weekend

Stretching over a distance of 305 miles from east to west, the nine populated islands of the Azores count for a single DXCC entity and three IOTA groupings. A group of radio amateurs from eight countries and the Azores will be putting these islands on the air September 28-30 for the Azores 9 Islands Hunt, offering an opportunity for the world to contact these nine islands during one single week…

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Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend

NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 8:40 PM (CDT) Saturday, July 14 (0140 UTC, Sunday, July 15). NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI, are completing preparations as they undergo…

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Executive Committee to Meet this Weekend in Missouri

The ARRL Executive Committee will meet Saturday, March 24 in St Louis, Missouri. See the link below for the meeting’s agenda.

ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, serves as chairman of the Executive Committee. Five Division Directors who are elected by the ARRL Board of Directors are also on the committee: Midwest Division Director Cliff Ahrens, K0CA; Northwestern Division Director Jim Fenstermaker…

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