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02/22/2016 | ARES Team Leverages Radio Services, Local Media, Internet in Missouri Flood Watch

Members of Ste Genevieve County ARES in Missouri pulled together a variety of resources to pitch in when the Mississippi River threatened to crest at a record level in late December.
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04/22/2012 | The Amateur Amateur: Manic

I cleaned my shack this morning. Okay, that might not even be physically possible, but I certainly made a serious dent in the clutter. I removed everything that was keeping me from opening my file cabinets. I extracted a bunch of junk from behind them and
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09/28/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Slippery-Slope Television

It all started because Chuck, N0EIS, told me to set up a SSTV (slow scan television) station.
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07/27/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Field Day 0.9

The June 2009 event wasn't my first Field Day. Several years ago the members of the St Charles Amateur Radio Club invited me out to their site. I accepted and spent several hours wandering around taking pictures, poking my nose into tents, and tripping ov
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05/22/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: A Day in the Parking Lot

"Okay, I'm here," I thought as I pulled into a parking space. I shut off the engine and just sat there for a minute. I glanced down at the clipboard lying on the passenger seat. It held my "what-to-do-and-in-what-order" list. Once I st
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03/11/2009 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: Emergency Communications and You(th)

As vegetation begins to green and E-skip begins to grace VHF, storm season begins to threaten the Midwest. Spring in the heartland is a very exciting -- and dangerous -- time of the year. The weather changes every five minutes and you can almost count on
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02/12/2009 | Oklahoma Hams Warn of Oncoming Tornadoes

A rare winter tornado struck Oklahoma around dinner time on Tuesday, February 10. According to various news reports, Oklahoma officials credited Amateur Radio operators with spotting the tornadoes and relaying the information to the National Weather Servi
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12/10/2008 | Former Wisconsin Section Manager Roy Pedersen, K9FHI (SK)

Former Wisconsin Section Manager Roy A. Pedersen, K9FHI, passed away on December 3 from lung cancer. He was 84. Pedersen served as Section Manager from 1973-1984 and from 1996-1999. First licensed as KN9FHI in 1961, he loved camping and visiting hamfests
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