Recent News
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03/01/2016 | Armed Forces Day 2016 Communication Test to Include Direct Military-Ham Contact on 60 Meters
This year’s Armed Forces Day Crossband Communication Test on Saturday, May 14, will include a significant new wrinkle.
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02/29/2016 | First Satellite Contact Between Antarctica and South America Reported
The Radio Club of Argentina (RCA) and AMSAT-LU have announced the first satellite contact between Argentinean Antarctica and mainland Argentina on February 28 via SO-50.
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02/29/2016 | US Amateur Radio Numbers Continue to Soar
Amateur Radio is alive and well!
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02/29/2016 | ARRL Chief Operating Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, Retires after 11 Years at Headquarters
The ARRL Headquarters staff on February 26 bid farewell and a happy retirement to Chief Operating Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, as he wrapped up 11 years at ARRL Headquarters.
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02/29/2016 | Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society Seeks New Leadership
The Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLHS), sponsor of Intercontinental Lightship-Lighthouse Week, is looking for a new leader.
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02/29/2016 | Winter 2016 Edition of Radio Waves Now Available
The winter 2016 edition of ARRL’s Radio Waves newsletter for Amateur Radio license instructors and radio science educators is now available.
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02/28/2016 | Incremental ISS Crew Change Ahead After 1-Year Space Mission Ends
US Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Kornienko, RN3BF, will end their year-long mission in space on March 1, and ham-astronauts will be swapping places.
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02/27/2016 | Vessel with Rich Ham History — the Bowdoin — Being Refurbished for Further Exploring
The schooner Bowdoin, which has a prominent place in early Amateur Radio history, will be relaunched this spring.
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