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03/30/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Packet, Part 1I never had much interest in packet radio. It was just one of those "other" modes that was fine for other people, but held no relevance for me. And then one day I looked around my shack and realized that packet had crept in and taken over. There
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03/27/2009 | New Videos Promoting Field Day, Amateur Radio Technology, Available from ARRL
Two new video Public Service Announcements (PSAs) -- one promoting ARRL Field Day and another showing the technical side of Amateur Radio -- are now available from the ARRL Web site. "These videos are great for PIOs, clubs and hams in general to use
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03/25/2009 | Vienna International Center Activated for WAE-SSBThe United Nations participates in the Worked All Europe Contest.
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03/24/2009 | Hurricane Watch Net Seeks New Members
With hurricane season approaching, the various organizations that assist the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami are gearing up for what could be a very active storm season. One organization that assists the NHC is the Hurricane Watch Net (HWN). To b
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03/19/2009 | Hams Assist Woman Injured in Desert
It was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, when Hal Whiting, KI2U, Todd Kluxdal, Kluxdal's father and Whiting's two sons decided to go out to the Poverty Mountain area in Arizona to search for airplane crash sites. Whiting, who lives in St George, Utah,
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03/11/2009 | [email protected]: Emergency Communications and You(th)As vegetation begins to green and E-skip begins to grace VHF, storm season begins to threaten the Midwest. Spring in the heartland is a very exciting -- and dangerous -- time of the year. The weather changes every five minutes and you can almost count on
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02/26/2009 | Surfin': Software Defined Radioing with a MacThis week's Surfin' looks to the Mac OS X for a Software Defined Radio.
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02/18/2009 | Hams Can Still Help with Digital TV (DTV) Conversion
Even though the mandatory conversion date for television stations to switch from analog signals to digital has been delayed by four months, hams are still assisting the FCC and their communities by providing technical support to those who need assistance.
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