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12/23/2008 | ARRL's Committee on Scouting Seeks Assistance with Girl Scouts
ARRL Rocky Mountain Division Director Brian Mileshosky, N5ZGT, is looking for amateurs who are involved with Girl Scouting to help support Amateur Radio activities within that organization. Mileshos
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12/19/2008 | Hams Stand By to Help as New England Recovers from Ice Storm and Prepares for More
The major ice storm that hit New England December 11 has pretty much gone away, but with forecasters calling for more winter weather in the next few days, hams are still on the job. During the storm, Amateur Radio operators from all over the area responde
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12/10/2008 | FlexRadio Donates Software Defined Radio to W1AW
Thanks to the generosity to the crew at FlexRadio Systems, W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, now boasts the newest in software-defined radio (SDR) -- a FLEX 5000A. FlexRadio Vice President John Basilotto, W5GI, visited ARRL Headquarters on Dec
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12/10/2008 | FCC Calls on Amateur Radio Service for Assistance with Digital TV Conversion
Earlier this week, the ARRL received a request from the FCC asking that ARRL members to provide technical educational assistance to their communities concerning the FCC-mandated digital television (DTV) conversion scheduled for February 17, 2009.
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12/03/2008 | ARISS to Celebrate 25 Years of Amateur Radio in Space with Special Events
Twenty-five years ago this week, Owen Garriott, W5LFL, made history by being the first Amateur Radio operator to talk to hams from space. His historic flight on STS-9 on board the Space Shuttle Columbia was launched on November 28 and landed on D
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11/14/2008 | ARRL Sweepstakes Celebrates Diamond Anniversary this Weekend
Fans of domestic contesting will take to the airwaves this weekend for the 75th running of the ARRL November SSB Sweepstakes. According to ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, the event started back in 1929 as a competition for handling formal t
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11/13/2008 | Surfin': Tying Ham Radio Together with TwineThis week's Surfin' visits a Web site using semantic Web design to organize your Amateur Radio information.
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11/10/2008 | Mark Your Calendar for the November 2008 Frequency Measuring Test
On Wednesday, November 12 at 9:45 PM EST (Thursday, November 13 at 0245 UTC), W1AW will once again host the ARRL Fall Frequency Measuring Test (FMT), replacing the W1AW phone bulletin scheduled at that time. "These tests will exercise the capabilitie
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