Recent News
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04/02/2015 | Standard General Affiliate Acquires 1743 RadioShack Stores
The 1743 retail outlets that survived RadioShack’s February bankruptcy have been acquired by General Wireless Inc, an affiliate of Standard General LP.
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04/02/2015 | ARRL Teachers Institutes Want to Equip Teachers to Meet the STEM Challenge
The 2015 ARRL Education & Technology Program (ETP) will offer three introductory sessions and one advanced Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology seminar for educators this summer.
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04/02/2015 | The K7RA Solar Update
Quiet to unsettled conditions ahead.
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04/02/2015 | Tropical Cyclone Disrupts Micronesia DXpedition, Kills Five on Chuuk Island
Tropical Cyclone Maysak disrupted the two-person V6Z DXpedition to Micronesia’s Truk (Chuuk) Island (OC-011) on March 29, when it took down all of their antennas.
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04/01/2015 | Amateur Radio “EduTeam” Wows the Crowds at Georgia Super STEM Event
Members of the North Fulton Amateur Radio League (NFARL) EduTeam in Fulton County, Georgia, offered students and other members of the public an opportunity to experience ham radio.
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04/01/2015 | Utah Group Puts Broadband-Hamnet to Work for Food Project
A small band of Amateur Radio volunteers in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley successfully used a broadband WiFi network set up on the 2.4 GHz amateur band to help coordinate the Boy Scouts of America’s “Scouting for Food” project on March 21.
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04/01/2015 | Puerto Rico ARES Takes Part in Caribe Wave/LANTEX 2015 Exercise
Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) volunteers in Puerto Rico took part in the 2015 Caribe Wave Large Atlantic Tsunami Exercise (LANTEX) — an annual tsunami drill for the US East Coast, Canada, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin.
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04/01/2015 | The FCC’s “Ham Guy,” Bill Cross, W3TN, to Retire on April 3
Amateur Radio’s point man at the FCC is retiring.
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