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- … that IRLP, which can be used only from a radio, has the motto "Keeping the Radio in Amateur Radio"?
- … that Heil Sound built touring sound systems for rock bands, among them the Grateful Dead and The Who?
- … that a QSO party mobile station sitting where three or four counties meet is operating from all of them at once?
- … that the name of the packet modem program Dire Wolf stands for "Decoded Information from Radio Emissions for Windows Or Linux Fans"?
- … that hams, pushed in 1912 onto wavelengths below 200 meters then considered useless, used those shortwaves to span the Atlantic in 1923?
- … that Edwin Howard Armstrong devised the superheterodyne while serving with the US Army Signal Corps in France during World War I?