VE EXAMS

2nd Saturday, 1 PM, Davidsonville, by AARC. Register 12 noon. Bob, AA3RR, 410-437-8193

3rd Saturday, 9 AM, Laurel, by LARC, 384 Main St. John Creel, WB3GXW, 301-572-5124.

4th Tuesday, 6 PM, Linthicum. At Historical Electronics Museum. Harold, WB4OGP, 410-757-0493(h); 410-712-6829(w)

BARC VE Exams

12360 Owings Mills Blvd. Owings Mills
Register at 1 pm, exams at 2 pm
Saturdays: November 6, December 4, 2004, Jan 2, Feb 5, March 5, May 7, June 4, Aug 6, Sept 3, Nov 5, Dec 3, 2005
Sundays: July 3, October 2, 2005
Pre-registration preferred, walk-ins permitted
Call Rusty, N3WKE, 410-247-0578

n3wke@arrl.net

HAMFEST

Sunday, October 31 . Westminster, MD. CCARC Hamfest, Carroll County Agricultural Center. Steve, N3SB, 410-876-1482 Talk-in: 145.41/R, http://qsl.net/~k3pzn

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Milliwatt Swap Shop

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FOR SALE: 40ft tower, big dish, antenna, rotor. You take down. Make offer. Martin Cawley, 410-229-8200.

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IARU Administrative Council Adopts Three-Year Plan

(Oct 4, 2004) -- The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council has adopted a three-year plan for the development of support for Amateur Radio frequency allocations. The plan provides for the IARU to maintain and increase contact with regional telecommunications organizations through its regional organizations. During its annual meeting October 2-4 in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, the Council also adopted positions on agenda items for World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 (WRC-07). The IARU will seek an a future WRC agenda item looking toward a worldwide amateur allocation at 50 MHz. Six meters is not now available in all parts of the world. The Council meeting followed the IARU Region 2 Conference in Port of Spain.

Saudi Arabia's HZ1AB is history:

The HZ1AB club station in Saudi Arabia now is history. Originally the United States Military Training Mission station and more recently known as the Dhahran Amateur Radio Club, HZ1ABwas a well-known DX call sign for almost six decades. Club Secretary Thomas Carlsson, SM0CXU/AB5CQ, said this week that new station license requirements in Saudi Arabia made it necessary to shut down the station, and the call sign has been reissued to a Saudi national. QSL manager Leo Fry, K8PYD, has the HZ1AB logs to handle any late QSL requests. Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia licensed 18 new Amateur Radio operators. Details about licensing there are available on the Saudi Arabia Communications and Information Technology Commission Web site http://www.citc.gov.sa/CITC/EN/SpectrumManagement/generalservices/?sm=9
The Daily DX http://www.dailydx.com/and Thomas Carlsson, SM0CXU/AB0CQ [ARRL LETTER]

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