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07/19/2016 | Two Young Radio Amateurs are First Americans to Take Part in YOTA Camp
Two young ARRL members are among the more than 100 attending the Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) camp in the Austrian mountains this week. Sterling Coffey, N0SSC, of St Louis, Missouri, and Sam Rose, KC2LRC, of Syracuse, New York, are the first two Americ...
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05/26/2013 | [email protected]: Hams on Mars (Almost)Eight Missouri S&T students took their Amateur Radio license exams last week -- and passed! Most of the examinees wanted to get a license so they could legally operate high power wireless equipment for the Mars Rover Design Team, or MRDT.
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04/27/2013 | [email protected]: Dayton on RadarOne of the first things you learn in a southwestern state is to touch large metal objects often. If you don’t, you’ll find that your electronics will suffer. The dry air of New Mexico is no objection to this rule.
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03/30/2013 | [email protected]: New Kid in TownMoving to a new town is a big undertaking, whether as a family, a temporary move to study abroad or get work experience while in college -- or even moving to college itself. Although it’s never easy to let go of the old and become acquainted with a new pl
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02/26/2013 | [email protected]: New Mexico -- Land of HamchantmentIn a typical engineering discipline, one spends four (or more commonly, five) years in classes learning more math, science, circuit analysis and classroom topics than you could ever fathom to understand.
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12/22/2012 | [email protected]: November Sweepstakes For the Win!November plays host to my favorite contest -- the ARRL November Sweepstakes. “Sweeps” is divided into two separate contests, CW and Phone. Ironically, the first contest I ever participated in was the 2007 CW Sweeps, using a decoder and an automatic CW key
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10/28/2012 | [email protected]: October is for the Kids -- School Club Roundup, JOTA, Contests and GiveawaysRF and ladybugs have a few things in common: During their migration, that end up in places they would have never expected, and, like how RF gets into circuitry where it wouldn’t normally be expected, these pretty red beetles end up inside, crawling throug
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09/29/2012 | [email protected]: The Young Amateurs Contest Ham TeamEveryone has heard the phrase “If you build it, they will come,” and when it comes to ham radio, they will.
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