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Monday, May 19, 2014

CQ ANNOUNCES 2014 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

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(Dayton, OH - May 16, 2014) -- CQ magazine today announced its 2014 Hall of Fame inductees, adding two members each to the CQ DX and Conte...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Ten-Tec, Alpha Amplifiers, Merge

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Two major American ham radio manufacturers are now one. RF Concepts, the company that manufactures Alpha power amplifiers, has purchased...

"Last Man Standing" Renewed for 4th Season

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Tim Allen stars as "Outdoor Man" Marketing Manager and ham radio operator KA0XTT on the ABC-TV series, "Last Man Standing,...

CQ Columnist Earns Presidential Service Award

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CQ International Editor Tom Smerk, AA6TS, has been honored with a President's Volunteer Service Award for 2013. He received the award a...

ARRL Opposes FCC Move to Withdraw Protections from Licensed Services

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In a case that is not directly related to amateur radio spectrum, the ARRL has strongly opposed a proposal by the FCC to expand the freq...

"Ham Video" Up and Running on International Space Station

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International Space Station (Courtesy NASA) International Space Station Commander Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA, finished the "commissioni...

K9LA: "Grand Solar Minimum" May Be Starting

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CQ Plus Propagation Editor Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, told a webinar in late April that evidence is suggesting that we may be entering a ...

Milsap Inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame

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Country singer Ronnie Milsap, WB4KCG, has been named one of the newest inductees into the Country Music Association's Country Musi...

Good News, Bad News, on KickSat Launch

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The AMSAT News Service reports that five CubeSats were successfully launched in mid-April aboard a SpaceX rocket. Among them is KickSat, wh...

VLF News from Canada and Down Under

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Canada on May 1 opened 472-479 kHz to general amateur use, allowing any of that country's hams to operate on the 630-meter band. The mo...

WWV Briefly Returns to 25 MHz

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Time and frequency station WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado. (Photo via NIST website) Responding to an e-mail from an Illinois amateur, th...

Weekend FUNcube Fun and FUNcube-2 Launch

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The amateur radio transponder aboard AO-73, better known as FUNcube, will be active full-time on weekends, according to the AMSAT News Serv...

Ham Radio Featured on VOA Report

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The ham radio station aboard the museum ship Queen Mary was the focus of a recent report on the Voice of America. The report is on the VOA ...

HAARP Facility May be Dismantled

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HAARP was the topic of a CQ article by WB6NOA about five years ago. The facility has since been closed down and may be dismantled. The ...
Friday, April 11, 2014

May 31 Deadline for Young Ham of the Year Nominations

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Nominations for the Newsline Young Ham of the Year award - which CQ co-sponsors - are due by May 31. Now in its 28th year, the YHOTY progra...

The Very Strange Case of W9NTP and the FBI

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Don Miller, W9NTP, is well-known in amateur radio as a pioneer in slow-scan TV techniques and a leader in promoting the use of the mode. Ba...

ARRL Calls for Quicker, More Visible FCC Enforcement

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Responding to an FCC request for comments on improving how the Commission functions (GN Docket 14-25), the ARRL has called for more timel...

QRM Costs Ham His License Plus $1,000

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A few FCC enforcement actions have been announced recently, including a consent decree in which a Florida ham agreed to pay a $1,000 "...

AMSAT VP Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, SK

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AMSAT's Vice President of Engineering, Tony Monteiro, AA2TX, passed away on March 26 at age 55 after battling cancer. His many cont...

Political Intrigue Plays Out on Ham Bands

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The political dispute between Russia and Ukraine is impacting the HF amateur bands, according to Newsline . The International Amateur Radio...
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