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11/16/2011 | Voting Now Open for December QST Cover Plaque Award
Vote for your favorite article in the December 2011 QST
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11/15/2011 | New Space Station Crew Members Launch from Kazakhstan
Three new crew members -- Dan Burbank, KC5ZSX, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin -- are on their way to the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying the new trio launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0414 UTC
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11/15/2011 | ARISSat-1 May De-Orbit in April
The ARISSat-1 satellite may re-enter Earth's atmophere in early April.
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11/15/2011 | LoTW Processing Times Improving
Logbook of The World (LoTW) is continuing to accept and process logs. Currently, the processing delay is at 45 hours, down from 60 hours last week. As of November 15, there are 1.7 million QSOs waiting to be processed, a decrease of 40 percent -- more tha
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11/14/2011 | Be a Star! Enter the Second Annual ARRL Video Contest
If you’ve ever wanted a way to show the world how exciting Amateur Radio can be, here’s your chance: The ARRL is sponsoring its Second Annual Video Contest! Here’s a chance to put that video camera to use: Shoot a ham radio-related video and send it our w
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11/11/2011 | Let’s Play Two! The 2011 ARRL Phone Sweepstakes Is Right Around the Corner
The ARRL Sweepstakes celebrates its 78th anniversary in 2011 and the SSB weekend is coming up on November 19-21. As last weekend’s CW weekend demonstrated, the recent re-awakening of the sunspot cycle promises a generous dose of competition and fun for op
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11/11/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update
Another sunspot number record for Solar Cycle 24 has been shattered: On Wednesday, November 9, the daily sunspot number reached 220, the highest it has been in more than eight years. The last time the sunspot number was higher than 220 was November 1, 200
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11/11/2011 | Surfin’: Going GalenaThis week, your Surfin’ Contributing Editor did not have the remotest idea that he'd be building a do-it-yourself radio next week.
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