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07/15/2015 | New Horizons Phones Home
The New Horizons spacecraft made its historic rendezvous with Pluto this week.
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08/10/2013 | Perseid Shower Poses Meteor Scatter Possibilities
The perseid meteor shower opens opportunities for meteor-scatter work on VHF and UHF.
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02/23/2012 | Hollywood Movie Features Morse Code, Homebrew Equipment -- and Sea Monsters!
In the movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Sean Anderson (played by Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal that comes from a mysterious island where no island should exist. Sean decides to follow the signal with the unwilling assistance fro
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01/03/2012 | Ham Radio in Hollywood: Amateur Radio a Plot Point in Major Motion Picture
According to previews, the plot of the movie Journey 2: The Mysterious Island -- set to be released February 10 -- hinges on Amateur Radio. The movie’s hero Sean Anderson (played by Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal that comes from a myste
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12/21/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Any-Bounce"Other than the ionosphere, have you ever deliberately bounced your signal off of something in order to improve your propagation?" That was the question asked during one of our recent ARES nets.
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11/20/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot 1029 made its trip around the Sun and has re-emerged as sunspot 1032. A new sunspot 1033 has come over the Sun's eastern limb. This steady appearance of sunspots has raised the MUF over many paths, and 15 meters is beginning to open regularly.
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09/28/2009 | It Seems to Us: Our Global CommunityWhen you earn an Amateur Radio license you join a global community of more than two million people who share your interest in radio communication as an avocation.
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12/30/2008 | Amateur Radio Quiz: Puzzled at TimesWhile watching the lighted ball slowly drop down the pole high above Times Square, counting the last of 2008 away "Ten, nine, eight...!" do you ever ponder the nature of time? Why does that last second matter more than others? Why is a second as
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