Recent News
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03/11/2009 | FCC Special Counsel Laura Smith Visits ARRL
FCC Special Counsel Laura Smith visited ARRL Headquarters on March 5 and 6, her first official visit as Special Counsel. Smith was named to the position earlier this year, filling the vacancy created when Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, retired in 2008;
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03/10/2009 | ARRL Seeks Nominations for Annual Awards
Each year, the ARRL Board of Directors has the opportunity to select recipients for a number of awards that honor Amateur Radio operators. These awards, designed to recognize educational and technological pursuits in Amateur Radio, represent many categori
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03/09/2009 | GAREC-2009: Emergency Communications Across Borders
The Fifth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC) -- hosted by the Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) -- will be held in conjunction with the JARL Ham Fair at Tokyo Big Sight on August 24-25, 2009. Registration for GAREC-2009 will
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03/08/2009 | Julius Genachowski Nominated as Next FCC Chairman
On Tuesday, March 3, President Barack Obama nominated Julius Genachowski as FCC Chairman. Genachowski, 46, is a technology executive and a former classmate of Obama's from Harvard Law School. Upon Senate confirmation, Genachowski will replace Acting FCC C
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03/06/2009 | Rick Campbell, KK7B, Wins February QST Cover Plaque Award
The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for February is Rick Campbell, KK7B, for his article "Designing and Building Transistor Linear Power Amplifiers." Congratulations, Rick! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award
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03/06/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
There have been no new sunspots since the recent brief three-day appearance of quickly fading sunspot 1013 on February 24-26. It was another Solar Cycle 24 sunspot, but this is not too encouraging, considering how brief and weak it appeared. There are no
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03/05/2009 | ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday March 8, 2009 for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, March 20, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 2, Antenna Modeling, and Radio Frequency Propagatio
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03/04/2009 | Surfin': Calling All Space CadetsThis week's Surfin' recalls an era when we were all space cadets one way or another.
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