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08/28/2012 | North Carolina Teen Named Recipient of ARRL’s 2011 Hiram Percy Maxim Award

Derek Brown, W4DTB, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was named the recipient of the 2011 Hiram Percy Maxim Award. Brown, who is 14, has been licensed since 2010 and holds an Amateur Extra class license.
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08/20/2012 | Vic Poor, W5SMM (SK)

Victor (Vic) Poor, W5SMM, of Melbourne, Florida, passed away Friday, August 17, due to complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 79.
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03/12/2012 | ARRL Warns Members to Be Aware of Bogus E-mails

ARRL members with arrl.net e-mail accounts have recently received bogus e-mails, notifying them of a bill that needs to be paid. The e-mail instructs the reader to click on a link to view the bill; clicking on the link could release a virus that can infec
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03/07/2012 | New QuickStats Poll Now Available on ARRL Website

Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. Let your voice be heard!
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01/04/2012 | Round Up Those Digital QSOs in the 2012 ARRL RTTY Roundup

We’re in the heart of the 2011-2012 contest season and this weekend offers the first major event of 2012: The ARRL RTTY Roundup. According to ARRL Contest Branch Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, participation in the digital modes has been growing at an amazing
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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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06/21/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: Cablegrim

The cables are out to get me, there’s no doubt about it. I should have known as soon as my first DB9 serial to USB cable went sour on me. I attributed the problem to a nearby lightning strike, which did indeed scramble a number of my electronic devices. B
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04/11/2011 | From the Hearts: Providing a Way for Others to Communicate with the ISS

In America and around the world, students use Amateur Radio to talk to astronauts on the International Space Station, orbiting high above the Earth -- and it’s the students at an all-girls school in Honolulu, Hawaii who help make the connection.
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