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ARRL DXCC Desk Approves Two Operations
ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that the 2007 VK9WWI DXpedition to Willis Island and the current YI9PT operations in Iraq have been approved for DXCC credit. "If you had cards rejected for this operation, please send an e-mail to the ARRL DXCC Desk to have your DXCC record updated," Moore said.
W1HQ Comes "Back to Life" at ARRL HQ
Since the mid-1930s, W1INF, the ARRL HQ Operators Club, has been available to ARRL employees. During the flood of 1936, W1INF handled a great quantity of flood relief traffic after the headquarters station, W1MK, located at Hartford's Brainard Field, near the Connecticut River, was destroyed. At the time, W1INF was located at the League's West Hartford headquarters.
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ARRL DXCC Desk Approves J5C Operation
ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that the 2008 J5C DXpedition to Guinea-Bissau has been approved for DXCC credit. "If you had cards rejected for this operation, please send an e-mail to the ARRL DXCC Desk to have your DXCC record updated," Moore said.
FCC Amateur Radio Enforcement Correspondence Posted
The FCC has posted new Amateur Radio enforcement correspondence on its "Amateur Radio Service Enforcement Actions" Web page. Special Counsel in the FCC Spectrum Enforcement Division Riley Hollingsworth sent letters to Todd E. Daugherty, N9OGL (Warning Notice); Travis L. Maltese, AD5CT (Warning Notice), and Joseph Goldberg (Warning Notice). The Socorro Electric Cooperative in Socorro, New Mexico also received a letter from the FCC regarding radio frequency interference from power line hardware to an Amateur Radio licensee. Direct all questions concerning the Amateur Radio Service Enforcement Actions Web postings via e-mail only to Riley Hollingsworth in the FCC Spectrum Enforcement Division.
K4RY Moves Station to Solar Power
The Auburn University ARC station gets its power from the sky.
Field Day 2008 Rules and Forms Now Available
It's that time of year again -- time to start gearing up for Field Day, ARRL's flagship operating event. Field Day, held the fourth full weekend in June, brings together new and experienced hams for 24 hours of operating fun. ARRL Field Day Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND, says there are several rules changes this year, mainly concerning "Get on the Air" (GOTA) stations and the elimination of the Demonstration Mode Bonus Category. The complete Field Day Packet can be downloaded from the ARRL Web site. A full 2008 Field Day page on the ARRL Web site will be coming in the next few weeks.
The K7RA Solar Update
After a solid week of sunspots -- January 29 to February 4 -- the following three days have been blank. February 2 was an active geomagnetic day with a solar wind stream spewing from a coronal hole near sunspot 982. Another solar wind stream from a coronal hole is expected to strike Earth on Sunday, February 10 causing unsettled conditions.
Surfin': Finding More DX and VNAs
This week, revisit the past two installments of Surfin' and find out what we missed.
Amateurs Lend a Hand as Deadly Storms Sweep across Southern United States
At least 54 people were killed and hundreds injured Tuesday and Wednesday by dozens of tornadoes that plowed across Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama in the nation's deadliest barrage of twisters in almost 23 years. In spite of the disasters, state and local emergency management officials once again discovered that they could call on Amateur Radio operators to help out and get communications up and going again after the infrastructure failed.
ARRL Audio News: Feb 8, 2008; Vol 27 Number 5
ARRL Audio News--OPEN--In this edition . . .; Amateurs Lend a Hand as Deadly Storms Sweep across Southern United States; ?Source? Disavows Inflated NTIA BPL Figure; ARRL Audio News ID--Satellite Update--BREAK; Field Day 2008 Rules and Forms Now Available; Get Ready To Go the Distance with the ARRL International DX Contests; Look For the March Issue of QST in Your Mailbox; ARRL Audio News--News Briefs--CLOSE

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