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09/02/2015 | $50SAT Goes Silent
It appears that the $50SAT Amateur Radio “PocketQube” microsatellite — also known as Eagle 2 (MO-76) — has finally gone silent, a couple of days short of 20 months in orbit.
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12/09/2013 | Storm Takes Down Amateur Radio Contest Club Towers in Northern Europe
Two European ham radio towers are downed by high winds in a storm.
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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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01/29/2013 | Amateur Radio Quiz: A Log of dBsIf there is a single unit of measurement beyond volts and amps that can be considered nearly ubiquitous in ham radio, it would have to be our friend, the dee-bee or dB. Key to computing values in dB is the logarithm, so this quiz also combines the two --
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12/10/2012 | ARRL Files Petition for Rulemaking with FCC to Create New MF Band at 472-479 kHz
The ARRL filed a Petition for Rulemaking on November 29, asking the FCC to amend Sections 2 and 97 of its rules and create a domestic Amateur Radio allocation at 472-479 kHz, conforming to the allocation status and limitations set forth in the internation
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