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02/15/2012 | A Tale of Two TowersThe St John ARES®, Rescue and Park Service band together to keep emergency repeaters on the air.
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01/29/2012 | [email protected]: New Year, New Goals, More Calculus -- and More W0EEEAfter celebrating the New Year and holiday festivities with some well-deserved rest -- and lots of time spent on the air -- I look back at the break, and like all of you in school, I always think it was too short. During my free time, I finished several p
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12/30/2011 | Surfin’: Excellence in WebsitingThis week, Surfin’ visits a personal ham radio website that can be a model for other personal websites.
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10/15/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Simulated Emergency MessIt was my turn to run the local ARES® net, but I was thinking about asking someone else to do it for me. It had been a stressful day and my speech was becoming a little slurred (I’m struggling with myasthenia gravis). But I hated to impose on the other ne
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07/26/2011 | New Mexico Hams Provide Communications Support During Wildfires
One month after it began, the Las Conchas Fire -- New Mexico’s largest fire on record -- has burned almost 157,000 acres and is 90 percent contained. The fire, which began on June 26, is believed to have been human set. The next day, the fire threatened t
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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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11/01/2010 | ARRL President Makes Final QSO with Australia’s WIA Centenary Station
The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) marked the conclusion of their VK100WIA centennial special event operation on October 31 with a QSO between WIA President Michael Owen, VK3KI, and ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN. Logged at 1255 UTC -- five minut
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10/12/2010 | OSCAR 67 Satellite Active for JOTA
The FM repeater aboard OSCAR 67 will be available for the Jamboree On The Air
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