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The 73rd Annual Floaties Awards July 2025 - The Pinnacle of Amateur Radio Ballooning Achievement The 73rd Annual British Columbia Academy of Balloon Arts & Sciences Awards - The Floaties! Recorded Live July 2025 from the Daniela Hammond Pavillion in beautiful Canyon Springs, Coquitlam, British...

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Comox Valley ARC Pico-Balloon Disqualified for Cheating Not since Lance Armstrong was disqualified from the Tour de France has there been a doping scandal the scale of this week’s news that the Comox Valley Amateur Radio Clubs' pico-balloon VE7YQQ-1 was...

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President Trump Announces Radio Spectrum Deal for Amateurs President Donald Trump has announced in an off the cuff Rose Garden remark to reporters that his first deal in his 100 days in office allows American Amateur Radio operators to use massive new...

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Incoming FCC Head proposes new Radio License Class New incoming FCC Chairman designate Brendan Carr has told the American communication industry that his organization will soon embrace the new Trump Administration promise to move towards...

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Pico-Balloonists to Fight Back Amateur Radio operators to fight back to save their Pico-Balloons

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Ham Radio gear prices set to soar with Trump tariffs says ARRL The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) has warned its membership today that the impending import tariffs of the Trump administration will cause major disruptions to the cost of Amateur Radio gear due....

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ARRL Responds:  Serious RF Health Problems Study ​

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BC Amateurs Petition to Have Six Meters Stripped of its “Magic” Designation British Columbia October 9, 2024 - Vancouver, BC - A group of Amateur Radio operators in British Columbia have filed a petition in the British Columbia Supreme Court to have the word “Magic”...

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Amateur Radio Life Coaching Catching On In 2009 Billy Bob Braithwaite was an unemployed West Virginia coal miner trying to escape his troubles, using crystal meth, and suffering through the downward spiral that is addiction.  In the...

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ARRL Membership Age Drops Substantially Today the ARRL announced the results of their 20 year long program to  lower the age of the average Amateur Radio Operator.  ARRL President Rick Roderick said today that, "When we started this...

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The Onion Targets Amateur Radio Websites in Uncontrolled Acquisition Spree November 16, 2024 - The recent acquisition of the Infowars website and other assets by satirical news company The Onion  has lead other important news sites to worry they could be next. Unsealed on...

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ARRL Exposes Massive Contesting Fraud ​ ​“ No More Monkey Business ” - Says ARRL Contest Manager   A recent undercover operation has exposed some questionable operating techniques at big gun contesting stations. Posing as...

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The Dipole would like to congratulate our little sister The Onion on acquiring infowars and joining us in the misinformation business. Tight lines! @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social