Recent News
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10/28/2016 | Welcome Mat Out for New Amateur Radio Licensees in Lebanon
The Ministry of Communications in Beirut, Lebanon, conducted the first Amateur Radio licensing exams in 13 years on October 16 at the offices of OGERO, a telecoms provider.
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10/28/2016 | Central Kiribati T31W DXpedition Called Off, Contributions to be Returned
The Perseverance DX Group (PDXG) and T31W team have canceled plans to activate Central Kiribati (Kanton Island) in 2017.
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10/28/2016 | Austrian Moonbounce Enthusiast Demonstrates Success with Small-Scale Setup
Hannes Fasching, OE5JFL, of Braunau am Inn, Austria, has demonstrated that you don’t need a huge antenna system to operate EME (moonbounce) successfully.
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10/28/2016 | Reminder: November 1 is the Deadline to Submit Proposals to Host ARISS Contacts
The deadline is November 1 for formal and informal education institutions and organizations to submit proposals to host an Amateur Radio contact with an ISS crew member on board the ISS.
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10/28/2016 | Suspicious Bangladesh Border Ham Band Signals Now of Interest to Indian Intelligence
What have been called “highly suspicious” VHF transmissions along the Bengal-Bangladesh border now are being considered signals of interest to India’s Intelligence Bureau.
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10/28/2016 | Boy Scouts Issue Last Call for JOTA 2016 Station Reports
Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, has issued a final call for JOTA 2016 station reports.
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10/28/2016 | Amateur Radio Keeps “Phantom” in Touch with the Outside World from the Skull Cave
The venerable comic strip “The Phantom,” originally inked by Lee Falk starting in the 1930s, has recently resurrected Amateur Radio as a plot device.
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10/28/2016 | Hawaiian Islands “Grid Madness” Grows
“Grid Madness” in Hawaii — where radio amateurs operate VHF and UHF simplex to work as many others as they can reach — is growing.
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