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ARRL President Emeritus Jim Haynie, W5JBP, is “Amateur of the Year”

Dayton Hamvention® has named ARRL President Emeritus Jim Haynie, W5JBP, as its 2007 Amateur of the Year. Hamvention says Haynie’s League leadership “helped define Amateur Radio’s role in emergency communication.” ARRL Laboratory Manager Ed Hare, W1RFI, will receive Hamvention’s Special Achievement Award to recognize his technical expertise in documenting the threat of interference from broadband over power line (BPL) systems. David Cameron, VE7LTD, was named the recipient of the Technical Excellence Award for his work developing the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP). Hamvention announced its award winners today.

Full Story: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/03/09/101/?nc=1

Ham Radio Antenna Bills in Play in Three States

Lawmakers in three states — Arizona, Maryland and Oklahoma — are considering Amateur Radio antenna bills that would put the essence of the limited federal pre-emption known as PRB-1 into each state’s statutes. The Arizona and Maryland bills go a step beyond most PRB-1 legislation. They not only would require that municipal land-use or zoning regulations “reasonably accommodate” Amateur Radio communication per PRB-1, spelled out in the FCC’s Amateur Radio rules in §97.15(b), they would extend the same protections to homeowners in certain private communities where deed covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs) apply. Full story http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2007/03/08/102/?nc=1

ARRL DX Bulletin 2007 #10

MAURITANIA, 5T.
Alex is QRV as 5T3TN and is generally active on 80 through 20 meters using CW. QSL via RW3TN.
NEPAL, 9N.
Stig is QRV as 9N7JO and has been active on 30 meters around 0100z. GUYANA, 8R. Esmond, 8R1AK/p has been active on 80 meters around 0530z. QSL to home call.
EGYPT, SU.
SU8DLH has been QRV on 160 meters between 0145 and 0400z. QSL via DK2CL.
TRISTAN DA CUNHA AND GOUGH ISLANDS, ZD9.
Brian is QRV as ZD9BCB and has been active on 20 meters between 1800 and 2000z. QSL via SQ8AQD.
CHATHAM ISLAND, ZL7.
Station ZL7/KH0PR has been active on 80 meters using CW between 1030 and 1430z. The length of stay is unknown. QSL via JJ8DEN.

http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/dx/2007-arld010.html

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