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ARRL News

  • Hurricane Earl Heading for North Carolina, Hurricane Warnings Issued for New England

    Hurricane Earl -- once again a Category 4 storm -- is currently aiming for North Carolina?s Outer Banks. At 11 AM (EDT), Earl is located about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras and 765 mles south of Nantucket Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts....

  • New D-STAR Repeater Now in Place in ARRL Laboratory

    The ARRL Lab has installed a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) repeater in the Lab at the ARRL Headquarters building. Operating with an output of 147.390 MHz, positive offset, the W1HQ D-STAR repeater is a local repeater with a modest footprint covering the...

  • Earl Possibly to Upgrade to Category 4 Storm, US Atlantic Coast on Alert

    On August 30, Hurricane Earl intensified into a Category 4 hurricane -- sustained winds 131-155 MPH -- before leveling out back into a Category 3 storm. But even as a Category 3 hurricane, Earl is still a major storm with hurricane-force winds extending outward up...

  • ARRL to Close in Observance of Labor Day

    ARRL Headquarters will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, September 6. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Tuesday, September 7 at 8 AM Eastern Daylight Time. We wish everyone a safe and...

  • ARRL in Action: What Have We Been Up to Lately?

    Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
    ARRL News Editor
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    This feature -- including convenient Web links to useful information -- is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of August.

    ARRL...

  • James Garland, W8ZR, Wins August QST Cover Plaque Award

    The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for August is James Garland, W8ZR, for his article ?The StationPro Master Station Controller.? Congratulations, James! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to the author or authors of the best article in each...

  • Discover the Fun of 6 Meters (and Up!) in the ARRL September VHF QSO Party

    September is here, and according to ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, that means the VHF bands are getting a workout: ?If you?ve never experienced the fun of VHF+ operating, the ARRL September VHF QSO Party is a great place to start. With many...

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This Week in Amateur Radio

  • Amateur Radio Club makes a comeback after nearly signing off (Oklahoma)
    Oklahoma State University?s Amateur Radio Club is making a comeback. Having been around since the 1920s, Amateur Radio Club is one of the oldest clubs on campus.
  • Ham radio can be a life saver (British Columbia)
    Long before Facebook, email, cell phones and satellites, a select group of people were able to communicate across continents, often broadcasting from obscure locations using ham radios. By today?s standards it may not seem too impressive. But what happens when the next big earthquake hits us?
  • Radio men keep communications open (Pennsylvania)
    During emergencies and disasters, the Clinton County Sheriff's Office relies on a vital yet obscure member of their volunteer quartet to provide emergency communications. The Clinton County Emergency Communications Team is a group of volunteer amateur radio operators who help area first responders communicate with one another when normal communications channels are broken or overloaded.
  • New radio lab helps students broadcast to the world and space (West Virginia)
    The radio club will make use of the new applied mathematics and engineering lab in Stutzman-Slonaker, room 303. The radio club uses shortwave and high frequency radio to broadcast on wavelengths not used for commercial or other specific broadcast purposes.
  • Tuned in to help (Missouri)
    Colorful, flashing buttons proudly worn by Ernie Chiles and Phil Nash sport the saying, "When all else fails ... Amateur Radio."

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South Dakota Worked All Counties Award
Written by Administrator   
Sunday, 28 December 2008

A new award program for county hunters has just been announced.  The WASDC program promotes the rare South Dakota amateur stations.

The Sioux Empire Amateur Radio Club is sponsoring the Worked All South Dakota Counties (WASDC) award program. Verified contact with amateur operators in each of South Dakota's 66 counties on or after December 31, 2008 is required to qualify for this award. Additional endorsements for same mode (except phone modes) and same bands are available. Complete rules and an application are available at www.w0zwy.org/wasdc 


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