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Massachusetts ARES Prepares as a Now-Weakened Hurricane Earl Approaches |

SW Geek — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:16:13 +0000

Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:

The following is a situation report from the Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section on Hurricane Earl. The good news is that Earl has weakened to a Category-1 hurricane. The other good news is that its track remains on target with …

Massachusetts ARES Prepares as a Now-Weakened Hurricane Earl Approaches |

SW Geek — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:16:13 +0000

Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:

Hurricane Earl Heading for North Carolina, Hurricane Warnings Issued for New England |

SW Geek — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:02:00 +0000

Hurricane Earl — once again a Category 4 storm — is currently aiming for North Carolina’s Outer Banks. At 11 AM (EDT), Earl is located about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras and 765 mles south of Nantucket Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Earl is now moving north at a speed near 18 MPH, and is expected to turn north-northeast with an increase in forward speed on Friday. The center…

Earl Possibly to Upgrade to Category 4 Storm, US Atlantic Coast on Alert |

SW Geek — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:54:53 +0000

On August 30, Hurricane Earl intensified into a Category 4 hurricane — sustained winds 131-155 MPH — before leveling out back into a Category 3 storm. But even as a Category 3 hurricane, Earl is still a major storm with hurricane-force winds extending outward up to 90 miles from the center, and tropical storm force winds extending outward up to 200 miles. According to the National Hurricane C…

Youth@HamRadio.Fun: A 2010 Youth DX Adventure |

SW Geek — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:50:50 +0000

By Duncan MacLachlan, KU0DM
ARRL Youth Editor
ku0dm@arrl.net

I desperately wanted to go on a DXpedition before I turned 18. I know not many kids my age have had the opportunity to travel abroad, let alone travel abroad for the sole purpose of doing something you love. So when Don DuBon, N6JRL, first contacted me, informing me that there was a possibility that I could accompany a group of young ope…

ARRL Members Nominate Candidates for Director, Vice Director |

SW Geek — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:14:22 +0000

The policies of the ARRL are established by 15 Directors who are elected to the Board on a geographical basis, with elections for three-year terms held in five divisions each year. At the same time, Vice Directors are elected on the same basis. Responding to solicitations in the July and August issues of QST, ARRL members in the Pacific, Rocky Mountain, Southeastern, Southwestern and West Gulf …

ARRL VEC Volunteer Examiner Session Participation Web Page Returns |

SW Geek — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:04:02 +0000

If you’re an ARRL Volunteer Examiner (VE) who is interested in seeing how many ARRL exam sessions you’ve taken part in, you can find the answer on the VE Session counts Web page.

On this page, you’ll be able to access a list that shows the total number exam sessions that each ARRL VE has conducted. The listings are listed first by state and then in alpha-numeric call sign order (call area numbe…

Summer Section Manager Election Results |

SW Geek — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:46:43 +0000

The Southern Florida Section and the Oklahoma Section will have new Section Mangers starting in October, and the incumbent Section Manager of Ohio was re-elected in the summer Section Manager election cycle that concluded on Tuesday, August 24; election ballots were counted August 24 at ARRL Headquarters. Terms for new Section Managers will begin on October 1, 2010.

Current ARRL Southern Florida…

Pakistani Amateurs Team Up to Provide Communications, Relief Support for Flood Victims |

SW Geek — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:37:42 +0000

According to the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) — that country’s IARU Member-Society — radio amateurs in Pakistan have teamed up with the Islamabad Jeep Club (IJC) and Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) to provide relief activities in those areas of Pakistan devastated by floods. The groups will supply food, tents and medical support to the northern flood affected areas of No…

Enabling Ham Radio’s Disabled |

SW Geek — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:35:01 +0000

Handiham lends a helping hand to the physically challenged in the amateur community.