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This Week in Amateur Radio: North America's Amateur Radio News Magazine. Articles on amateur radio and news stories in the media featured here.

PostHeaderIcon WCNotes: Missing my father (Georgia)

PostDateIconSunday, 29 August 2010 05:51 | PDF | Print | E-mail
...Beginning in his teens, he had a fascination with electronics, and built a crystal radio set. He was a ham radio operator and talked with people around the world, including Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who also was a ham radio operator.
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PostHeaderIcon Man charged with unlawful use of a police radio (Indiana)

PostDateIconSunday, 29 August 2010 05:51 | PDF | Print | E-mail
A homeless man was arrested Tuesday on charges of unlawful use of a police radio and false reporting, Portage Police said.
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PostHeaderIcon ARRL Field Day : 'Hams' Take It to the Streets June 26-27

PostDateIconSunday, 29 August 2010 05:51 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Amateur Radio activities are growing and thousands of radio operators, often called "hams," will be showing off their capabilities June 26-27. Erecting radio stations at community parks, campgrounds, schools and emergency centers around the country, they will hold a "Field Day" showing their emergency communications capabilities while having fun talking and texting to friends with their radios.
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PostHeaderIcon Neighbors speak out against ham radio tower (Wisconsin)

PostDateIconSunday, 29 August 2010 05:51 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Ten neighbors have signed a petition asking the village to force a family of ham radio enthusiasts to remove a 62-foot tower from their backyard.
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PostHeaderIcon HAM radio to the rescue in a deluge (India)

PostDateIconSunday, 29 August 2010 05:51 | PDF | Print | E-mail
This monsoon, if all modes of communication breakdown like during the deluge of 2005, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will have a fallback channel of communication. The civic body has set up a HAM radio station at its headquarters, in the disaster control room, and in a few wards in the city.
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Big Groundswell of Support For CQ WW Cheating Crackdown
A second straight year of high profile disqualifications and rules warnings by the CQ WW Contest Committee is winning worldwide support in the ham radio contest community, as contesters say the get-tough approach is the right way to deal with cheating. "It should have started many years ago," read one email to radio-sport.net.
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Source of BC-IM on 14000 kHz revealed
In the beginning of January 2010 from 1300 to 1400 UTC Wolf DK2OM heard a BC station on 14000.0 kHz
N2IC Takes Aim At Third Straight SS CW Win
After watching KE3Q (at WP3R) dominate for eight straight years, now it's the turn of Steven London N2IC to see if he can extend his own two year winning streak in the 2009 running of the ARRL's November Sweepstakes CW contest. But hot on his tail will be a number of top ops, just waiting to pounce if N2IC stumbles.
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Amateur Radio Exam Generator
Software/Ham Exam
Industry Canada is pleased to introduce an exam generator software package to facilitate the amateur examination process that our accredited examiners have taken on our behalf.


VE3DZ Back Ahead in Canadian WRTC Qualifying
SAfter being in a dead-heat with VE3AT, Yuri Onipko has now gone ahead slightly in the battle for one team leader WRTC slot in the NA #5 region. Meanwhile out West, VA7ST continues to be the clear leader in NA #6. Check where the Canadians stand in the battle for two WRTC spots with the radio-sport.net spreadsheets.
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RD3AF, GM3POI Lead 2009 CQ 160 CW Contest
As the scores continue to trickle in from last month's CQ 160 CW Contest, the records keep falling, as now the European single op mark may fall to Clive Penna GM3POI, who went over 2 million points for the contest. He trails only Valery Komarov RD3AF, who ran EA8AH to 2.21 million. In the US, new records seem likely for Multi-op, Single Op High Power, Low Power and QRP!
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