Month: December 2007

New Rover Rules for VHF Contests

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Without much notice or fanfare, the ARRL posted a new set of general rules for VHF contests. The changes seem to be centered on the rover category, which has been the subject of much controversy over the last decade or so. See So You Want to Be A Rover for more information on the rover … Read more

Mobile Phones Hit 50% of World Population

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Holy Freaking Cow! Try to count all of those cellphones. From Reuters: HELSINKI, Nov 29 (Reuters) – Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion — equivalent to half the global population — on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. Since the first Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT) networks … Read more

Ham Radio in the News

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Jeff KE9V picked up on a news item about the ham radio response in the recent Oregon floods. (The ARRL has a more detailed report here.) There is a news report from KPTV that has this great quote in it: “One of the problems in this is always communication,” Gov. Ted Kulongoski said after a … Read more