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ARRL EXPO at Dayton Hamvention®, May 16-18 - Mon, 12 May 2008 16:08:00 +0000

Find the latest details about the ARRL EXPO at the Dayton Hamvention, including an activities guide, news, blogs and other event information. If you are coming to Dayton, look for new features in the ARRL EXPO, including the Movie Room! All purchases of $10 or more in the ARRL bookstore will receive a complementary reusable eco-friendly bag; all new and renewing ARRL members will also receive this new bag. If you can't make it to Dayton this year, keep up with all the fun on our live Web blog. Get the latest Hamvention news right here on the ARRL Web site.

No ARRL Audio News on Friday, May 16 - Mon, 12 May 2008 12:55:00 +0000

There will be no ARRL Audio News on Friday, May 16; however, The ARRL Letter will be released on that day. ARRL Audio News will return on Friday, May 23.  

Ronald A Parise, WA4SIR (SK) - Sun, 11 May 2008 00:45:00 +0000

Ronald A. Parise, PhD, WA4SIR, passed away Friday May 9, 2008 after a very long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 57. Parise flew as a payload specialist on two space shuttle missions: STS-35 on Columbia in December 1990 and STS-67 on the Endeavour in March 1995. These two missions, ASTRO-1 and ASTRO-2 respectively, carried out ultraviolet and x-ray astronomical observations, logging more than 614 hours and 10.6 million miles in space. Parise was one of the first astronomers to operate a telescope from space, making hundreds of observations during the mission. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Chairman Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, said Parise's personal contributions to these two missions provided scientists with "an unprecedented view of our universe, expanding our understanding of the birth, life and death of stars and galaxies."

Leaving on a Jet Plane to Dayton Hamvention® - Fri, 9 May 2008 17:16:00 +0000

"As the song says, 'All our bags are packed and we're ready to go' -- well, almost," said ARRL Hamvention Coordinator Katie Breen, W1KRB. "The ARRL EXPO area is packed up into seven shipping skids and they are in a truck on their way to Dayton. We here at headquarters are not only breathing a huge sigh of relief, but many of us are still wrapping up our individual final details." The Dayton Hamvention® will run from May 16-18 at Hara Arena, just outside Dayton, Ohio.

The K7RA Solar Update - Fri, 9 May 2008 17:08:00 +0000

Again this week, we saw a new, but brief sunspot, sunspot 993. Judging from the polarity of the spot, it looks to be from new Solar Cycle 24; this spot was south of the solar equator, so it has the same polarity as any Cycle 23 spot that was north of the equator. After two days it was gone, not from drifting over the edge of the visible solar disk -- it just disappeared.