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08/10/2015 | Katrina 10th Anniversary Mississippi Memorial Event Set

A special event operation from August 26 through September 2 will commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the more than 230 people who lost their lives as a result of Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and points north.
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04/01/2015 | Puerto Rico ARES Takes Part in Caribe Wave/LANTEX 2015 Exercise

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers in Puerto Rico took part in the 2015 Caribe Wave Large Atlantic Tsunami Exercise (LANTEX) — an annual tsunami drill for the US East Coast, Canada, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin.
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10/29/2013 | Cal Poly ARC Marks 71 Percent Increase in Exam Session Attendance

The Cal Poly ARC saw a big jump in attendance at its October 19 exam session.
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01/24/2012 | New Books on HF Digital Operations, Emergency Power Now Shipping

The ARRL has just released two new books that you are going to want to have in your shack: Get on the Air with HF Digital by QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and Emergency Power for Radio Communications (2nd edition) by Michael Bryce, WB8VGE. Explore digit
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07/25/2011 | [email protected]: What Is Radiosport and Why Do We Do It?

Humans are wired to compete. We have created countless games and sports that test our skill and keep us in shape. In the ages before humans came to rule the world, life was a competition -- a competition against Mother Nature to survive. In the present te
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12/24/2009 | MARS Gets New Name As It Fine Tunes Mission

On Wednesday, December 23, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued an Instruction concerning MARS, effective immediately. This Instruction gives the three MARS services -- Army, Air Force and Navy/Marine Corps -- a new focus on homeland secur
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07/02/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Please Answer the Following Question

Like many other ARES groups, St Louis County ARES has a weekly 2 meter voice net. It's a directed net, so there isn't much chit-chat. It's very business-like. And no doubt very dull, you're thinking.
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06/25/2009 | Doubling Up on Field Day

As most any ham knows, Field Day is by far the most popular operating event of the ham-land calendar. Every June thousands of radio amateurs pack up or set up in some way to participate in this wonderful event.
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