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Planning for Disaster in the Face of Earl - CTO Edge (blog)

From Google - 2 hours 2 min ago

Planning for Disaster in the Face of Earl
CTO Edge (blog)
You can't use this in the furtherance of your business in any way, but if you need an ambulance or to be rescued, ham radio will work when nothing else will ...

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The K7RA Solar Update

From ARRL - 3 hours 57 min ago

Over this past week, four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1, two new sunspot groups -- 1103 and 1104 -- appeared, and on September 2, sunspot group 1105 arrived. Through August 26-September 2, the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51 and 52 and these same eight days saw the relative total ...

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Sept. 2010 letter from Supervisor Snider - TriValley Central

From Google - 5 hours 14 min ago

Sept. 2010 letter from Supervisor Snider
TriValley Central
Traditional RACES operations involve emergency message handling on Amateur Radio Service frequencies. These operations typically involve messages between ...

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Surfin’: Hurricane Hamming

From ARRL - 6 hours 36 min ago

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ makes plans for emergency communications of the hurricane variety.  

As I write this, Connecticut and the Northeast are looking down the barrel of Hurricane Earl. It looks like my neck of the woods will only receive a glancing, but powerful blow, but points south and east of us will not be so lucky.

Having lived through direct hits fro...

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Bobtail dipole

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Antennas/Wire
Bobtails are vertical arrays that look like the letter "E" turned 90° clockwise onto its tails. They have 3 quarter wave vertical elements and are one wavelength long. The Half Square is a shortened Bobtail- it has 2 quarter wave vertical elements and is a half wave long.

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The 2 Meter Bobtail Attic Beam

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Antennas/Stealth
An Attic version for limited space applications by NW9T

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K4TR Antennas

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Manufacturers/Antennas/HF/Dipole Antenna
Wire antenna manufacturer and sales

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5 Element for 50 MHz simulation

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Antennas/6M
Simulation of the Konni Antennen 5 Element for 50 MHz

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Helical Antennas

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Antennas/Helical
The Helical antenna description, a simple way of obtaining high-gain and a broad band of frequency characteristics

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144 MHz 5/8 whip antenna

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Antennas/2M
Making your own 2 metre (146 MHz) 5/8th wave whip antenna

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W9SRO The Society Radio Operators

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/Illinois
The Society Radio Operators, Chicago Illinois

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DF9CY Softrock tests

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Technical Reference/Software Defined Radio
Softrock Version 6.1 Software Defined Radio experience and modifications by DF9CY

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Twitter / dxzone

The DX Zone - 7 hours 41 min ago

Follow dxzone.com on twitter all new links twitted daily

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Hurricane Earl Heading for North Carolina, Hurricane Warnings Issued for New England

From ARRL - 2 September 2010 - 12:13pm

Hurricane Earl -- once again a Category 4 storm -- is currently aiming for North Carolina’s Outer Banks. At 11 AM (EDT), Earl is located about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras and 765 mles south of Nantucket Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Earl is now moving north at a speed near 18 MPH, and is expected to turn north-northeast with an increase in forward speed on Friday. The center...

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New D-STAR Repeater Now in Place in ARRL Laboratory

From ARRL - 2 September 2010 - 9:04am

The ARRL Lab has installed a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) repeater in the Lab at the ARRL Headquarters building. Operating with an output of 147.390 MHz, positive offset, the W1HQ D-STAR repeater is a local repeater with a modest footprint covering the Hartford-New Britain, Connecticut area. The antenna is on the roof of the Headquarters building with the repeater locat...

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K5ARC Ascension Amateur Radio Club

The DX Zone - 2 September 2010 - 6:55am

Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/Louisiana
Ascension Ham Radio Club based in Gonzales Louisiana

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TCHAMS Twin City Ham Club

The DX Zone - 2 September 2010 - 6:55am

Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/Louisiana
Twin City ham radio club from Monroe Louisiana USAA

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W5SLA Ozone Amateur Radio Club

The DX Zone - 2 September 2010 - 6:55am

Ham Radio/Clubs/North America/USA/Louisiana
Slidell Louisiana amateur radio club

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UHF Antenna projects

The DX Zone - 2 September 2010 - 6:55am

Amateur radio antennas projects for 430-440 Mhz, 70 cm band aerials. Quadrifilar, Yagi, Moxon antennas for the UHF band.

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Fire stories - Ashland Daily Tidings

From Google - 2 September 2010 - 5:19am

Fire stories
Ashland Daily Tidings
A police officer, an emergency response team volunteer, a Bellview Elementary School student, a ham radio operator, a contractor, ...

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