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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

CQ COMMUNICATIONS TO LAUNCH DIGITAL EDITIONS OF ALL MAGAZINES

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      FIRST ISSUE TO BE RELEASED IN OCTOBER (Hicksville, NY, September 27, 2011)-- CQ Communications, Inc., will launch multi-platform di...
Friday, September 23, 2011

CORRECTION: WorldRadio Online Contest Corner

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CORRECTION: The listing for the California QSO Party in Contest Corner on Page 60 of October's WorldRadio Online magazine contains inc...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Spratly Islands DXpedition Cancelled

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Next year's planned DX0DX expedition to the Spratly Islands has been cancelled and will not be rescheduled, according to organizer Ch...

ARRL Opposes Waiver Request on License Exam Credit

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The ARRL has filed comments in opposition to a waiver request filed by the Anchorage VEC to speed up action on its petition to permit lif...

Ham Scoutmaster Murdered on Hike

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A 76-year-old Scoutmaster and ham radio operator was killed in August while leading a nature hike outside of Kokomo, Indiana. Police say ...

Peter W. Dahl, K0BIT, SK

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Joining the ranks of Silent Keys in August was Peter W. Dahl, K0BIT, of El Paso, Texas. For more than 40 years, Dahl owned and operated t...

A Pair of Solar Discoveries

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NASA /SDO Photo Two groups of solar researchers have made new discoveries, one about sunspots and the other about solar flares (which ...

U.S. Ham Trio Purchased Ham Radio Deluxe Software Suite

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A group of three U.S. hams, including two already well-known in the ham radio industry, has purchased the source and rights to the Ham Ra...

Heathkit: Response to Kit Annoucement "Scary"

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Heathkit's director of sales and marketing says the response to the company's announcement that it was returning to the kit busin...

Asteroid-Bounce?

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Asteroid 2005 YU55 as imaged by radar from Arecibo Observatory (NASA/Cornell/Arecibo photo) A close encounter with a near-Earth aster...

NASA Urged to Hire More Astronauts

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The National Research Council is urging NASA to hire more astronauts in order to meet future staffing needs on the International Space Stat...

"HackerSPACE Workshop" on CubeSats Set for November in Kentucky

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Satellite pioneer Dr. Bob Twiggs, W7RMT -- who developed the CubeSat and the smaller FemtoSat -- is leading a "HackerSPACE workshop...

AO-51 Struggling to Stay Alive

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AO-51 prior to launch (AMSAT photo) AMSAT-OSCAR 51 has lost one of the six cells in its battery and it appears that a second cell may ...

FCC Trying to Rewrite English Language

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Normally, we do not report on FCC enforcement actions until they are resolved. But an egregious attack on the English language in one ong...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

A Dozen Snapshots from HAMCON '11: Torrance, California

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Radio amateurs from around Southern California, across the nation and from many foreign countries converged on the Marriott Hotel in Torranc...
Friday, August 26, 2011

WX4NHC to activate at 1300 UTC on Saturday 8/27

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The following is from WX4NHC, the amateur radio station at the National Hurricane Center: WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the Nationa...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Hathaway: Sunspot Cycle Will Be Smallest in 100 Years

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NASA's Dr. David Hathaway predicts that solar Cycle 24 will peak in mid- 2013 at around 75. NASA solar physicist David Hathaw...

Heathkit Returning to Kit Business

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Good news for Heathkit fans -- the company says it is bringing back kits! Heathkit was a major player in the U.S. ham radio marketplace f...

Building a "Weather-Ready Nation"

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In a news release and media teleconference long on buzzwords and short on specifics, the National Weather Service announced that it is ...

AMSAT Moves Toward Quick Launch of New Satellite

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In an effort to get a new satellite built and launched quickly in order to replace the troubled AO-51, AMSAT has decided to split its ...
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