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W1A Celebrates Telstar At 50:

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:05 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/28572


A celebration of the world's first telecommunications satellite will take
place on July 7th. This when the Radio Adventurers of Maine activate the
callsign W1A to commemorate the first messages through the Telstar bird.
They will be operating on site at the Andover, Maine satellite facility,
the original earth station which broadcast the first messages via Telstar
was uplinked on July 10th, 1962. The clubs commemorative operation will
begin at 1300 UTC on both 40 and 20 meter phone.


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California Pirate Pays Extra for Not Answering Door:

Posted: 02 Jul 2012 05:04 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/28571


An amateur radio licensee who should have known better was nailed for
running an unauthorized FM station northwest of San Francisco-Oakland. The
buccaneer only made things worse by failing to let agents inspect the
station. Brian R. Ragan was operating on 104.9 MHz without a license in
Suisun City CA. And since he is the licensee of Amateur Radio Station
KF6EGI, the FCC said he should have been aware of the requirement to make
his equipment available for FCC inspection on request.