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John Dilks, K2TQN — who pens the “Vintage Radio” column in QST every month — was awarded the AWA Houck Award for Documentation by the American Wireless Association (AWA) at their 2010 World Convention, held August 17-21 in Rochester, New York. This award is presented each year to an AWA member who has written original [...]

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By Duncan MacLachlan, KU0DMARRL Youth Editorku0dm@arrl.net I desperately wanted to go on a DXpedition before I turned 18. I know not many kids my age have had the opportunity to travel abroad, let alone travel abroad for the sole purpose of doing something you love. So when Don DuBon, N6JRL, first contacted me, informing me [...]

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With Hurricane Earl now a category 2 storm — and expected to become a major hurricane — WX4NHC and the Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) — activated at 8 AM EDT on Monday, August 30; WX4NHC is the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, Florida. As of 8 AM (EDT) on [...]

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The policies of the ARRL are established by 15 Directors who are elected to the Board on a geographical basis, with elections for three-year terms held in five divisions each year. At the same time, Vice Directors are elected on the same basis. Responding to solicitations in the July and August issues of QST, ARRL [...]

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This week, we saw three days — August 21-23 — with no sunspots, and the average daily sunspot numbers for the week — August 19-25 — declined over 28 points to 8, compared to the previous week. The average daily solar flux was down more than 8 points to 75.3. The last period of three [...]

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing Editor This week, Surfin’ visits the plans for the upcoming Digital Communications Conference (DCC).   Next month, the folks on the cutting edge of ham radio hold their annual meet to show-and-tell what they are doing out there on that edge. The 29th annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) occurs on September [...]

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If you’re an ARRL Volunteer Examiner (VE) who is interested in seeing how many ARRL exam sessions you’ve taken part in, you can find the answer on the VE Session counts Web page. On this page, you’ll be able to access a list that shows the total number exam sessions that each ARRL VE has [...]

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Arlo Raim, KB9LLF, of Danville, Illinois, was killed by a southbound Canadian National freight train on the morning of Friday, August 20. He was 67. Raim had been in Pratt’s Wayne Woods Forest Preserve — part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage (Illinois) County — to monitor the effect of increased train traffic on [...]

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The Southern Florida Section and the Oklahoma Section will have new Section Mangers starting in October, and the incumbent Section Manager of Ohio was re-elected in the summer Section Manager election cycle that concluded on Tuesday, August 24; election ballots were counted August 24 at ARRL Headquarters. Terms for new Section Managers will begin on [...]

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