John Crawford

Or is it Uncle Howard

Or an escapee from Dr Seuss

That's right folks

If you missed out and have been regretting it, nows your chance

Once again you can get an emailed version to print out your very own numbered OCN Certificate

Just contact WW4FM  Bill Wood at  ww4fm@aol.com for your certificate

Please provide him with your callsign, name, and OCN (if you are not such an old codger that you have forgotten) and he will email your special certificate to you

What to do if you are so far behind the times that you don't have computers and email

Then just get your grandkids to assist you with this procedure

We are sure that they can bail you out on this one

That's all that is required so make up for lost time and get that OLD Codger Certificate for your shack

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Amateur Radio Vanity Call Sign Fee to Disappear in September

FCC “Paperless” Amateur Radio License Policy Goes into Effect on February 17

(Originally posted on ARRL.org 28 Jan 2015)

Starting February 17, the FCC no longer will routinely issue paper license documents to Amateur Radio applicants and licensees. The Commission has maintained for some time now that the official Amateur Radio license authorization is the electronic record that exists in its Universal Licensing System (ULS), although the FCC has continued to print and mail hard copy licenses. In mid-December the FCC adopted final procedures to provide access to official electronic authorizations, as proposed in WT Docket 14-161 as part of its “process reform” initiatives.

ARRL Centennial QSO Party Awards, W1AW/P QSL Cards In Process:

from The ARRL Letter on January 15, 2015
Website: http://www.arrl.org/ 
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AMSAT Celebrates 40 Years in Space for AO-7

Thanks to Dale Miller KC2CBD for mentioning our club website to Ham Nation. Our site was mentioned by Dale Puckett, wo had some nice things to say about our website. For those of you have never watched one of their episodes, (just as I had never watched before) please check it out. Its a very informative program. Watch episode 138 here.

Ever wondered what all the information on the solar data panels means? Many Ham sites place the solar data panes in the sidebars of their sites but they all have different information and most of us don't know how to interpret the numbers we see in them. The SMRC Solar Data Page has the key for interpreting these panels and also provides some other great indicators and widgets for determining propagation conditions as it relates to solar activity.