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12/22/2011 | ARRL Straight Key Night: A Time to Celebrate the Beginnings of Amateur Radio
From the very beginnings of Amateur Radio, there was Morse code. To celebrate and remember this heritage, the ARRL sponsors Straight Key Night each year on New Year’s Eve. Straight Key Night is a special time to break out that old straight key or bug, may
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12/16/2011 | ARRL Headquarters to Close for Christmas, New Year’s Holidays
ARRL Headquarters will be closed Monday, December 26 and Monday, January 2 in observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day. There will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice transmissions those days. There will be no ARRL Letter or ARRL Audio News on Thursda
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12/15/2011 | NTSB Urges States to Ban Cell Phone Use by Drivers
On Tuesday, December 13, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that States ban the nonemergency use of all cellular telephones and other “portable electronic devices” (PEDs) by drivers of motor vehicles. This would include hands-free
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12/13/2011 | ARRL Executive Committee Approves Grant Funding for Two Schools
In December 2011, the ARRL Executive Committee reviewed grant applications for the ARRL’s Education & Technology Program (ETP), awarding instructional resources valued at nearly $2000 to two schools. More than 525 schools across the country have received
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12/13/2011 | ARRL Warns Members to be Aware of E-mail Scams
Many ARRL members with arrl.net e-mail accounts have recently received bogus e-mails in a “phishing” attack. These are scams designed to scare people into e-mailing back personal information -- such as user names and passwords -- to the scammer at an unkn
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12/12/2011 | Ham Radio in Hollywood: Comedian Tim Allen Stars as Radio Amateur on New TV Show
Tim Allen -- star of Home Improvement, Toy Story, The Santa Clause and Galaxy Quest, just to name a few -- stars in Last Man Standing, an ABC comedy airing at 8 PM (EST) on Tuesday nights. Allen plays Mike Baxter, KA0XTT, a married father of three and the
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12/07/2011 | QRP Group Offers Free Kit Building Services to Hams with Physical Limitations
Members of the Four States QRP Group (4SQRPG) -- a group of kit aficionados centered in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas -- are offering kit building services at no charge to hams who, due to physical limitations, need assistance with building. Ham
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12/05/2011 | Renewed IRA Provision on Charitable Giving Makes It Easy to Support ARRL through 2012
In December 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 (HR 4853) into law. This law provided sweeping changes to the rules that govern federal estate taxes, gift taxes and genera
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