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 | Julius Genachowski Sworn In As FCC Chairman |
 W7GET writes "On the afternoon of Monday, June 29, US Supreme Court Justice David
Souter -- in one his last official duties on the high court -- swore
in Julius Genachowski as the new Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission. Genachowski, who clerked for Souter after
finishing law school, will complete the four years remaining in the
term of outgoing FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. Both
Genachowski and current FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell --
Genachowski for his initial term and McDowell for his first full
term -- were confirmed by the US Senate on June 25."
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Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 01 @ 20:41:47 EDT (22 reads)
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| For Sale Yeasu Ft-2000D |
 w7tg writes " For Sale YAESU FT-2000 D
200 Watt PEP 6 to 160M Transceiver SER: # 7C110034. Purchased 5/19/08 from AES I am the original owner
This rig is in as new condition just over 1 year old a 9.975 of 10 visually 100% operationally. No modes
Includes all factory shipping boxes and items as shipped with from the factory.
The most resent factory Firmware updates have been installed : VER. FT2000D “PEP2000” V0148 and V11:53 (5/13/09)
Asking $2300.00 Firm YOUR HRO PRICE $2824.95
More Digital Photos available on request:
I Prefer pickup so the interested party can check it out..
I will deliver in Western WA. to your QTH or half way to Eastern WA. at 50% the cost of UPS shipping so the Brown Gorillas will not destroy it in shipping . Other wise shipping via UPS insured at cost to your zip
Contact W7TG @ 360 618 2849 or w7tg@hughes.net
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Posted by admin on Saturday, June 27 @ 18:17:34 EDT (31 reads)
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| Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved? |
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W7GET writes "The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.
At an American Astronomical Society press conference today in Boulder, Colorado, researchers announced that a jet stream deep inside the sun is migrating slower than usual through the star's interior, giving rise to the current lack of sunspots."
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Posted by admin on Sunday, June 21 @ 19:50:40 EDT (45 reads)
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| Scientists Predict Solar Cycle 24 to Peak in 2013 |
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W7GET writes "At the annual Space Weather Workshop held in Boulder, Colorado last
month an international panel
of experts led by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC)
predicted that Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with 90 sunspots per
day on average. If the prediction proves true, Solar Cycle 24 will be
the weakest cycle since Solar Cycle 16, which peaked with 78 daily
sunspots in 1928, and ninth weakest since the 1750s, when numbered
cycles began."
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Posted by admin on Sunday, May 17 @ 23:37:31 EDT (78 reads)
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| California County Says Ham Radio Operators Remain Active and Appreciated |
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W7GET writes "The (California county of San Luis Obispo)
was notified by the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday, April 8 of a rumor on an Internet group site stating that the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance on March 31 which would ban Amateur Radio operators -- commonly known as ham radio operators -- from operating their transmitting stations. The rumor is posted as an alleged news story from a non-existent Los Angeles news publisher. The story alleges that the purpose of this false action by the Board was due to supposed interference caused by ham radio transmitters, among other reasons. The article has an online posting date of April 1, 2009."
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Posted by admin on Monday, April 13 @ 21:15:33 EDT (100 reads)
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| German AMSAT Team Transmits, Receives Signals from Venus |
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W7GET writes "On March 25, a group from AMSAT-DL bounced radio signals off the surface
of Venus, marking the first time Amateur Radio operators have bounced
radio signals off another planet
(AMSAT) .
According to AMSAT-DL President Peter Guelzow, DB2OS,
the Earth-Venus-Earth (EVE) transmission is another step in preparing
for a mission to Mars. According to an AMSAT-DL press release, the
team's transmitter was generating about 6 kW CW on 2.4 GHz.
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Posted by admin on Sunday, April 05 @ 19:33:07 EDT (110 reads)
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| FCC Proposes New Rules for Medical Devices Operating on 70 cm Band |
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W7GET writes "On March 20, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(NPRM)
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proposing to allocate spectrum and adopt service and technical rules for
the utilization of new implanted medical devices that operate on 413-457
MHz (70 cm). According to the Commission, these devices, called
implanted neuromuscular microstimulators, would greatly expand the use
of functional electric stimulation to restore sensation, mobility and
function to those persons with paralyzed limbs and organs; they would be
implanted in a patient and function as wireless broadband medical
micro-power networks (MMNs). The Amateur Radio Service has a secondary
allocation in the 70 cm band.
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Posted by admin on Saturday, March 28 @ 21:47:16 EDT (115 reads)
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| FCC Denies Petition to Increase Size of Amateur Radio Question Pools |
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W7GET writes "In April 2008, Michael Mancuso, KI4NGN, of Raleigh, North Carolina,
filed a petition with the FCC, seeking to increase the size of the
question pools that make up the Amateur Radio licensing exams
. Mancuso sought to increase the question pool from 10
times the number of questions on an exam to 50 times more questions. On
March 19, 2009, the Commission notified Mancuso that it was denying his
petition
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Posted by admin on Saturday, March 21 @ 22:29:09 EDT (125 reads)
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| ARRL Releases Revision of Experimental Methods in RF Design |
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W7GET writes "The revised first edition of "Experimental Methods in RF Design" is now
available from the ARRL .
Co-written and updated by Wes Hayward, W7ZOI, Rick Campbell, KK7B, and
Bob Larkin, W7PUA, "Experimental Methods in RF Design" explores wide
dynamic range, low distortion radio equipment, the use of direct
conversion and phasing methods and digital signal processing. Use the
models and discussion included in the book to design, build and measure
equipment at both the circuit and the system level.
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Posted by admin on Saturday, March 21 @ 22:16:57 EDT (141 reads)
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| Hams Assist Woman Injured in Desert |
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W7GET writes "It was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky, when Hal Whiting, KI2U, Todd
Kluxdal, Kluxdal's father and Whiting's two sons decided to go out to
the Poverty Mountain area in Arizona to search for airplane crash sites.
Whiting, who lives in St George, Utah, and Kluxdal, who lives in
Mesquite, Nevada, took two vehicles that day. According to Whiting, they
always take two vehicles, just in case a problem pops up: "We always
have two spare tires, extra gasoline and a tow rope. We take enough food
and supplies to stay two or three days." In addition to the extra
equipment, Whiting took the one thing he never goes without -- his ham
radio."
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Posted by admin on Saturday, March 21 @ 22:02:50 EDT (134 reads)
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