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11. Amateur Radio Quiz: The Transistor, Our Three-Legged Friend

What piece of active equipment in the ham shack doesn't have a transistor in it somewhere? Could you troubleshoot that equipment? While transistors are nearly ubiquitous, we often don't understand their inner workings as well as we might like. Here...

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12. Robert H. Welsh, N3RW, Wins December QST Cover Plaque Award

The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for December is Robert H. Welsh, N3RW, for his article "How the Ionosphere Was Discovered." Congratulations, Robert! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to the author or authors of the...

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13. Surfin': Visit the Online Ham Radio Stacks

This week, Surfin' checks out the stacks at Linux Journal and Tucson Amateur Packet Radio.Read more: ARRL Amateur Radio News

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14. It Seems to Us: Not an Emergency Radio Service?

The FCC raised a few eyebrows by including the following sentence in its Public Notice DA 09-2259 (see page 72, this issue): "While the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communications service, particularly...

31/12/2009 | 92 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

15. Youth@HamRadio.Fun: A Bird's Eye View

The mystery of space and weightlessness is one that inspires the imagination. The dream of conquering what lies beyond our atmosphere spans generations. It is that mystique and dream that has driven many dedicated Amateur Radio operators and science...

30/12/2009 | 96 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

16. ARRL Announces KF2YN's ARRL Antenna Designer's Notebook

Radio amateurs are making true advances in the state of the art through antenna experimentation. The most effective effort begins with an idea -- and that idea is developed into a workable antenna design. Aided by personal computers and antenna...

22/12/2009 | 91 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

17. ARRL Seeks Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager

The ARRL currently has an opening for an Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager to be based at ARRL HQ. The successful applicant will represent the League with governmental and non-governmental emergency and disaster response organizations and...

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18. Atlantic Division to Host Webinar

Periodically, the ARRL’s Atlantic Division hosts a “webinar” -- an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience using the Internet. On...

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19. Chinese Satellite XW-1 Receives OSCAR Designation

Less than one week after China’s first Amateur Radio satellite -- XW-1 -- was successfully launched, AMSAT has designated it Hope-OSCAR 68, or HO-68. “Amateur Radio Operators around the world have received beacon signals from...

21/12/2009 | 105 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email | Read more...

20. The Amateur Amateur: Any-Bounce

"Other than the ionosphere, have you ever deliberately bounced your signal off of something in order to improve your propagation?" That was the question asked during one of our recent ARES nets.Read more: ARRL Amateur Radio News

21/12/2009 | 63 Hits | (0 vote) | Print | PDF | Email