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03/19/2013 | ARRL Announces a Campaign for Its Second Century
As the ARRL draws closer to celebrating its Centennial in 2014, its Board of Directors has launched an unprecedented $10 million fundraising initiative to build the ARRL Endowment and strengthen the organization’s financial future.
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02/06/2013 | Host a Real-Time Conversation with Crewmembers Aboard the ISS
Proposals are now being accepted from US schools, museums, science centers and community youth organizations to host an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact between November 1, 2013, and May 1, 2014.
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01/15/2013 | 2012 Marks All-Time High for Amateur Radio Licenses
As 2012 came to a close, ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, had a good reason to cheer: The number of radio amateurs in the US reached an all-time high of almost 710,000.
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11/28/2012 | ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee Seeks Input on 6 and 3 Centimeter Bands
In 2011, the ARRL Board of Directors formed the UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee to develop revised national plans for the amateur bands between 902 MHz and 3.5 GHz. The committee has now received an additional assignment to conduct a similar update to t
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06/18/2012 | ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee Seeks Comments on Proposed 23 cm Band Plan
Last winter, the ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee asked the Amateur Radio community about current, planned and projected uses of the Amateur bands between 902 MHz and 3.5 GHz. The Committee has now prepared for your consideration a draft band plan f
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06/15/2012 | 2011 ARRL Annual Report Now Available
The ARRL Annual Report for 2011 – now available online -- reviews the major events of the year and documents the renewed growth of both the ARRL and the activities of the Amateur Radio Service. For the fifth consecutive year, ARRL membership grew -- total
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05/22/2012 | FCC Dismisses Texas Ham’s Fourth Petition, Calls it “Repetitive”
For the fourth time in six years, the FCC has rejected a Petition for Rulemaking filed by Glen Zook, K9STH. In each of his Petitions, (2006, April 2009, 2011 and a Petition for Reconsideration in December 2009), Zook has asked the FCC to change its statio
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05/20/2012 | Thousands of Hams Get “Internationally Connected” in Dayton
When Hara Arena -- home of the Dayton Hamvention® for the past 48 years -- opened its doors at 9 AM on Friday, May, 18, thousands of hams swarmed in, eager to see the latest and greatest that Amateur Radio has to offer. And they weren’t disappointed! With
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