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02/29/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: It’s a Jungle Down ThereIt’s Wednesday. The evening meal has been cooked and consumed. The dishes have been washed. My wife Nancy has curled up with a murder mystery and our dog Ariel is busy dismantling a rawhide bone. Checking my watch, I see that it’s time to go down to my sh
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06/21/2011 | The Amateur Amateur: CablegrimThe 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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07/26/2010 | The Amateur Amateur Fills-InMy efforts to set up an APRS station (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had come to a standstill. I had installed a program called UI-View32. It was pretty slick, with volumes of data in its Help file, but there were still plenty of parts Learn More
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05/01/2010 | The Amateur Amateur: Not Exactly Plug-And-PlayI often hear people say, “Oh yes, I know how to program a computer”, when what they really mean is that they know how to invoke some esoteric feature of Excel or Word. As a software professional, I do not consider that sort of ability to be anything remot
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09/03/2009 | Den Connors, KD2S (SK)
The first president of Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) Den Connors, KD2S, of Pepperell, Massachusetts, passed away September 3 from lymphoma. He was 58. Connors, an ARRL Life Member, conducted the firs
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08/04/2008 | Austrian Amateurs Celebrate UN World Environment Day
In 1972, the United Nations (UN) established World Environment Day to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. To celebrate this event in 2008, the Vienna International Amateur Radio Club, 4U1VIC, received permission from the
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