Recent News
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07/07/2016 | ISS Crew Increment with Two Radio Amateurs Launched and Now in Orbit
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, astronaut Takuya Onishi, KF5LKS, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos launched early on July 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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07/07/2016 | Amateur Electronic Supply Closing after 59 Years in Business
Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) will close its doors at the end of July after 59 years in business.
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07/07/2016 | Annual “Night of Nights” Event to Resurrect Historic Shore Stations
The annual “Night of Nights” event, in which historic maritime CW stations such as KPH and WLO, and Coast Guard stations such as NMC, return from the dead for a few hours, starting at 0001 UTC on July 13.
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07/07/2016 | FCC Investigating Amateur Radio, Commercial Application Processing Glitch
The FCC information technology staff is continuing to look into why the Universal Licensing System (ULS) Electronic Batch Filing (EBF) system has stopped processing at least some — and perhaps all — Amateur Radio exam session files and applications.
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07/06/2016 | Andorra Returns to 60 Meters, Gains New 4 Meter Band, More Power on 6 Meters
Radio amateurs in the tiny (less than 500 square miles) European principality of Andorra now have two new bands plus an increase in power on 6 meters.
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07/06/2016 | ARRL 600 Meter Experiment Reports 202,400+ Hours of Operation, Zero Interference Complaints
The ARRL 600 Meter Experiment under the WD2XSH Part 5 Experimental license reports that no interference complaints have been received from other services operating in the 465-515 kHz band over the course of more than 202,400 hours of operation.
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07/06/2016 | IARU HF World Championship July 9-10 is Mid-Year Contest Centerpiece
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) HF World Championship over the July 9-10 weekend highlights the mid-2016 contest calendar for radio amateurs around the globe.
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07/05/2016 | New Microwave, UHF Distance Records Set on Same Day
New distance records were set on 47 GHz and on 902 MHz on June 30 by stations at vastly separated points on the globe.
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