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The ARRL is pleased to welcome Membership Manager Diane Petrilli, KB1RNF, to the Headquarters staff in Newington. Petrilli's key areas of responsibility include programs and activities that directly affect membership growth, engagement and retention. Petrilli is taking over the position from Katie Breen, W1KRB. Breen left in October.

A not unexpected bumper weekend for CW enthusiasts but a dull week for everyone else. Yes there was some DX about, but not a lot

ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that a further three operations have now been approved for DXCC credit

The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) have made available a Final Plenary Minutes document from the IARU Region 1 conference that took place recently in Cavtat, Croatia

The fourth edition of the Radio Frequency Plan for Ireland has been published by Ireland's regulator ComReg

NASA has signed a $141 million modification to the current International Space Station contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency for crew transportation services planned through the spring of 2012

Dr Helmuth Spieler, W6KDX, will stay on the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole station from December 5 until January 5, 2009

Issues 1-16 of the AMSAT Orbit magazine can now be downloaded from the web

The annual Port Elizabeth ARS HF QSO get-together is scheduled for Sunday 7 December 2008 and not the 14th of December as stated in our previous news item

Nicolas, F4EGX, continues to be active as FT5YI from the French scientific station 'Dumont D' Urville' during his free time until mid-December

The six-week course, to be held at Danbury Village Hall in Essex, is not just boring theory, but a whole load of fun as well !

REPOST & UPDATE:  Had a very nice QSO with Clint KK7UQ by PSK31 using the Flex-5000A and after discussion decided to repost an update on his excellent PSK31 IMD Meter.  I originally built a kit version, but presently only a fully built version is offered. This has to be one the most fun kits to build [...]

Registration remains open through Sunday, December 21, 2008, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, January 2, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1, Radio Frequency Interference, Antenna Design and Construction, Technician License Course, Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics.

The UKQRM group have produced a useful page that describes how to formally complain to Ofcom about interference to radio reception caused by devices that use the mains power supply for broadband internet or video transfer

George S. Wilson III, W4OYI, of Owensboro, Kentucky, passed away at his home on November 25. He was 76. Wilson served as the ARRL's 11th President from January 1992-July 1995. He resigned from the position after a stroke in 1995

The South African Mail and Guardian reports that South Africa's second satellite which carries an Amateur Radio payload is scheduled to be launched on March 25, 2009

Martin Lynch has announced that his '2008 Open Day' at the Chertsey, Surrey shop, will be held on Saturday December 6th and, to quote Martin, "It will be the biggest and best" – and will also feature the favourite 'Hog Roast'

After landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California on November 30, space shuttle Endeavour is about to make its cross-country journey back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

EE Times reports that Intel Corp. has quietly ended a five-year research effort in Ultra Wide Band (UWB)