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House Energy and Commerce Committee Action on Amateur Radio Parity Act
Reset for July 12 - ARRL

Posted: 11 Jul 2016 09:08 AM PDT
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Action on Amateur Radio Parity Act
Reset for July 12
ARRL
The full House Energy and Commerce Committee markup of the Amateur Radio
Parity Act (H.R. 1301) and four other bills has been rescheduled for July
12. Originally set for June 23, the session was postponed after the
committee, with most members absent, ...



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Ham radio: the early days of arcane chatter - Financial Times

Posted: 10 Jul 2016 11:11 PM PDT
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Financial Times
Ham radio: the early days of arcane chatter
Financial Times
And tech talk is never more engaging than when its done over the radio. My
affection for arcane two-way chatter comes from being brought up in a ham
radio household, where a soundtrack not unlike Mission Control, Houston,
filled a suburban terrace.



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Chesapeake ham radio operators simulate disaster scenario - Virginian-Pilot

Posted: 11 Jul 2016 02:56 PM PDT
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Virginian-Pilot
Chesapeake ham radio operators simulate disaster scenario
Virginian-Pilot
The FCC established the Amateur Radio Service to provide emergency
communications, and it issues the call signs that each ham operator uses.
The amateurs use the phonetic alphabet to sound out the 26 letters in the
alphabet so, according to Nowak, his ...



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Radio ham helped kids camp surrounded by fire - Southgate Amateur Radio Club

Posted: 11 Jul 2016 01:05 AM PDT
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Radio ham helped kids camp surrounded by fire
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
On the evening of June 26, Lynden Kendrick KG7SXQ was talking on his radio
to a fellow ham in Malad City, Idaho, on a radio system known locally as
the “Intermountain Intertie,” a system of unmanned amateur radio repeaters
linked up and down the state ...