- Proposed Maritime Mobile Allocation Gets First Reading at WRC-12 Plenary Session February 3, 2012At the February 3 Plenary Session of the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), delegates heard the first reading and approved a worldwide exclusive allocation to Maritime Mobile of 495-505 kHz. There will need to be a second reading to finalize the allocation. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussion of this alloc […]
- The K7RA Solar Update February 3, 2012Here are some yearly averages that we have neglected at the beginning of the year. These are the average daily sunspot numbers for whole calendar years, from 1994-2011: 48.1, 28.7, 13.2, 30.7, 88.7, 136.3, 173, 170.3, 176.7, 109.2, 68.6, 48.9, 26.1, 12.8, 4.7, 5.1, 25.5 and 29.9. You can see from these numbers that the minimum between Solar Cycles 22-23 -- […]
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May 24th, 2011
It looks as though HR 607 is no longer a concern to the Amateur Radio community. This after a new bill was introduced into the Senate titled “S 1040-The Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011″ which appears to achieve the desired goals, without auctioning off ham bands. For the full story see the following ARRL news release:
http://www.arrl.org/news/senate-companion-bill-to-hr-607-avoids-impacting-amateur-spectrum
Thanks to all those who contacted their representatives regarding this matter, and to the the representatives that took action in helping to save our precious spectrum from being auctioned off.
May 19th, 2011
March 18th, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
If you missed this month’s meeting, don’t miss out on the activities this weekend!
8:00 AM – Breakfast with the W4VEC VE Group at the Checkered Flag located at South Main and Hwy 150 in Salisbury.
9:30 AM – W4VEC test session at the Salisbury Library. Walk-ins welcome.
2:00 PM – FoxHunt. Meet at the Salisbury Mall in front of the Cafeteria. The hunt starts at 2:00 PM sharp. If you don’t have any equipment, come on out and ride with someone. You don’t know what you’ve been missing.
See ya’ll there,
Tommie – N4YZ