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09/04/2012 | ARRL Plans Centennial Celebration in Hartford in 2014
The ARRL has announced plans to hold its National Centennial Convention in Hartford, Connecticut on July 17-20, 2014. The Convention will mark 100 years of the ARRL’s founding in Hartford. ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has also announced a theme for A
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07/27/2012 | Surfin’: How About DXCC Entities?This week, Surfin’ considers another replacement for HyperTerminal and a new blog that digs up the low-down on DXCC entities.
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07/25/2012 | Vic Poor, W5SMM, Receives ARRL President’s Award
Victor Poor, W5SMM, of Melbourne, Florida was awarded the ARRL President’s Award at July 9 meeting of the Platinum Coast Amateur Radio Society (PCARS). There have been only a handful of recipients of this prestigious award.
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03/07/2012 | Dayton Hamvention® Honors QST Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR, with Technical Achievement Award
The Dayton Hamvention® Awards Committee has announced the recipients of the 2012 Hamvention’s four annual awards. QST Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR, was named the winner of the Technical Achievement Award. The recipient of the Amateur of the Year is
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10/24/2011 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: Amateur Radio, Before and AfterAmateur Radio was born in candlelit labs and foggy fields by several renowned inventors and experimenters throughout the close of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The first wireless experimenters of the world -- Heinrich Hertz, Nikola Tesla, Re
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11/15/2010 | John Champa, K8OCL (SK)
John Champa, K8OCL, of Richardson, Texas, passed away from complications of cancer on Friday, November 12. He was 66. An ARRL Life Member, Champa was the former Chairman of the ARRL HSMM (High Speed Multimedia) Working Group and Executive Vice President o
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07/31/2010 | It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane! No, It’s an Asteroid -- Asteroid (31531) ARRL, To Be Exact!
John, Paul, George and Ringo are on the list. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms -- even Frank Zappa and Elvis (but not Madonna). Of course Asimov and Sagan made the cut, Mr Spock, too, but not Captain Kirk. And now ARRL -- more precisely, (31531) ARRL --
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11/02/2009 | Three Amateurs Inducted into Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
Earlier this year, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) named 13 men -- including three radio amateurs -- to the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. The honorees were inducted last month at CEA's Industry Forum in Phoenix, Arizona. Former ARRL Rocky
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