News Feeds From The DX ZOne News Feeds From The ARRLEugene Clark still rides his bike cross-country at 80 years old. He is credited with opening the first Southwest GA dialysis center in 1976 and is section manager of the local ARES group.
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The FCC and the ARRL are now in the process of creating more rules to control how Amateur Radio Operators conduct their communications during disasters.
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Kids these days are consumed by cell phones, Twitter Tweets, text messaging and Facebook.
However, there is a group of youngsters in Calabasas, CA. that have become licensed Amateur Radio Operators. That action has led them to become leaders in a new wave of shortwave listeners.
They still consider Morse Code and the old guy with a [...]
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by Jasmin Malik Chua, Jersey City, USA on 11.26.07
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Although the Canadian engineer behind this solar-powered ham-radio setup uses it for camping and search-and-rescue missions, we can also see this being adopted for broader emergency use, especially in the aftermath of natural disasters that may damage power lines and cellphone towers. Pretty nifty.
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By D’ARCY DORAN – Nov 16, 2007
LONDON (AP) — A rebuilt World War II code-cracking computer developed to intercept Nazi messages lost to a desktop computer Friday in a contest to decipher an encrypted radio message.
The challenge marked the first time the Colossus machine had been used since former Prime Minister Winston [...]
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Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007 (By CARLA MCCANN)
Fort Atkinson No electricity? You still have options. No electricity and no phone line? Well, there’s still ham radio.Much of the ham radio’s appeal is its independence, said Dennis Rybicke, a member of the JefCARES, an Amateur Radio Emergency Service in Jefferson County. Ham radios aren’t dependent on [...]
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REVISED Nov 21, 2007 13:44 ET
FCC Revokes Amateur License of California Ham
The FCC issued an Order of Revocation to Robert D. Landis, N6FRV, on Tuesday, November 20. The Commission said that “[b]ased on the evidence of his convictions for child molestation, we conclude that Mr. Landis lacks the basic [...]
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From NAQCC VP John, K3WWP:
Issue #058 of our newsletter in its new format is now posted on the NAQCC web site.
In that newsletter you’ll find info about our NAQCC sprint which takes place this Wednesday evening, November 21 – or in UTC that’s Thursday, November 22 0130-0330Z. Note the switch in UTC time. We hope [...]
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Now that Motorola is going to have controlling interest in Yaesu/Vertex, I began thinking about how this new “controlling interest” may affect the Yaesu’s future product line and service department.
Back when Vertex took on Yaesu, its quality control and product line literally came back from the edge of extinction. No, I am not [...]
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