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- … that demand for its QCX transceiver kit grew so quickly that QRP Labs moved its operations from Japan to Turkey?
- … that US amateurs are barred from transmitting on the 33-centimeter band from certain areas, including parts of Colorado and Wyoming?
- … that the Dayton Hamvention, first held in 1952, moved in 2017 from Hara Arena to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia, Ohio? See Hamfests.
- … that a homebrew collinear antenna can be made from lengths of coax with the inner conductor and shield swapped at each junction?
- … that professional telegraphers who sent all day on straight keys once suffered from "glass arm", a painful overuse injury? See Morse keys and paddles.
- … that tropospheric ducting over the eastern Pacific has let amateurs bridge the roughly 2,500 miles between California and Hawaii on 2 meters?