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05/11/2011 | OSCAR I and Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years
1961. It was the middle of the Cold War. John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. The Bay of Pigs invasion fails in Cuba. The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club in Liverpool. Freedom Riders are arrested
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05/11/2011 | High School Radio Club to Offer Free Foxhunting Transmitter Kits
Miguel Enriquez, KD7RPP, is an Instructor with the ARRL’s Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI), as well as a math and electronics teacher at Pueblo High School in Tucson, Arizona. One of his responsibilities at Pueblo is advising the school’s Am
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05/11/2011 | As Weather Clears in Southeast, Hams Continue to Provide Support
Even though the storms that raged through the Southeast have long gone, the damage and heartache they left in their wake are still present. In Alabama, the state that felt the biggest brunt of the storms, hams made their way to fire stations, emergency op
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05/09/2011 | ARRL EXPO at the Dayton Hamvention®: Where the DX Comes to You!
ARRL Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, reports that plans for a plethora of DX activities at the ARRL EXPO -- part of the 2011 Dayton Hamvention® -- are wrapping up. “We are excited about the activities that will be taking place
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05/09/2011 | 2011 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Call for Papers
Technical papers are solicited for presentation at the 30th Annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), to be held September 16-18 in Baltimore, Maryland. Papers will also be published in the Conference Proceedings. Authors do not need to at
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05/04/2011 | Northern Florida Hams Respond to Aftermath of Alabama Storm
After the devastating storms that swept through Alabama last week, radio amateurs from the ARRLs’ Northern Florida Section -- at the invitation of ARRL Alabama Section Emergency Coordinator Greg Gross, K4GR -- are making their way to Alabama to provide as
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05/03/2011 | The ARRL Ham Aid Fund Needs Your Help to Support Radio Communications in Alabama
The ARRL’s Ham Aid Fund has been tapped to aid Amateur Radio operations in Alabama, following the wake of destructive killer tornadoes that ravaged the state last week. According to ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH, hams in Alabama have r
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05/03/2011 | FCC Seeks to Raise the Fee for Vanity Call Signs
The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM) on May 3, seeking to raise the fee for Amateur Radio vanity call signs. Currently, a vanity call sign costs $13.30 and is good for 10 years; the new fee, if the FCC plan goes through, will
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