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http://youtu.be/hZuIxN-85js An international team of radio amateurs and scientists travels by schooner to remote and barren Howland Island and is stranded for a week due to high surf. A planned 9 day visit was extended to 15 days. Howland Island is best known as the destination of the ill fated final flight of Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan and is located near the intersection of the equator...


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Amateur radio has been a part of my life for several decades, as a faithful friend and a dominant hobby. Of course, there are many other interesting things out there. But it is different from any others because it not only sharpens your technical knowledge, but also gives you many reasons to join the Amateur radio community. One of such reasons is opportunity to meet other fellow amateurs from other...


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The sample of blatant mismanagement and criminal negligence (!) Shocking photos of an abandoned military equipment near Moscow / Russia Most of equipment still functioning. Radio stations, diesel generators, antenna masts, radars and heavy military trucks... All of this "iron" was thrown a few years ago in remote place ('secret' area) deep forest of great Russia. It is no need anymore for the Russian...


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