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Fire Management Assistance Declaration number 2974 declared on Jan 19, 2012

Major Disaster Declaration number 4051 declared on Jan 06, 2012

Major Disaster Declaration number 4050 declared on Dec 22, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4049 declared on Dec 05, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4048 declared on Nov 30, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4047 declared on Nov 23, 2011

Fire Management Assistance Declaration number 2973 declared on Nov 18, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4045 declared on Nov 17, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4046 declared on Nov 17, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4044 declared on Nov 08, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4043 declared on Nov 08, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4042 declared on Nov 04, 2011

Emergency Declaration number 3344 declared on Nov 01, 2011

Emergency Declaration number 3343 declared on Nov 01, 2011

Emergency Declaration number 3342 declared on Oct 31, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4041 declared on Oct 28, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4040 declared on Oct 18, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4039 declared on Oct 14, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4038 declared on Oct 05, 2011

Fire Management Assistance Declaration number 2972 declared on Oct 03, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4037 declared on Sep 30, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4036 declared on Sep 28, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4035 declared on Sep 23, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4034 declared on Sep 16, 2011

Major Disaster Declaration number 4033 declared on Sep 15, 2011

NEW ORLEANS, La. -- Following a $7.7 million grant recently announced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Belle Chasse Primary School within Plaquemines Parish will soon build a new addition to their current campus?an early learning facility for prekindergarteners through second graders.

ATLANTA Ga. -- Residents of Clay County, Fla. are invited to look at newly revised preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) for the county at a public open house February 9, 2012. Flood maps show the extent to which areas are at risk for flooding, and are used to help determine flood insurance and building requirements.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Residents of Brevard County, Fla. are invited to look at newly revised preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) for the county at three public open houses February 6-8, 2012. Flood maps show the extent to which areas are at risk for flooding, and are used to help determine flood insurance and building requirements.

DENTON, Texas -- After months of collaboration and the continuous sharing of information resulting in preliminary flood maps, officials with Cleveland County and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are now asking the public to participate in a 90-day comment period.

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- Virginia's earthquake declaration has spanned five months and much of central Virginia. News outlets in and around the disaster area diligently spread the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) message, but often residents hear second-hand information, rumors and half-truths about how to get access to the assistance programs available. When residents suffer losses they need accurate information.

DENTON, Texas -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is updating flood maps in the Greater New Orleans area following near completion of the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nine states across the central U.S. will participate in The Great Central U.S. ShakeOut on Tuesday, Feb. 7 at 10:15 a.m. CST. This second annual central U.S. ShakeOut is a public earthquake drill organized and coordinated by the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium and its Member and Associate States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. Geological Survey, and dozens of other partners. FEMA is encouraging everyone across the central United States to participate in the event, including schools, businesses, governments and other organizations.

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- Masonry chimneys and fireplaces are especially vulnerable to earthquake damage, and many Virginia residents experienced such damage firsthand. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) inspectors have visually inspected nearly 4400 homes and in nearly 30% of those visits, inspectors suspected chimney damage.

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- Fluvanna County is hosting The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM), The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and The Small Business Administration (SBA) to a Town Hall Meeting to provide information to Fluvanna County residents who may have suffered damage from the August 23, 2011 earthquake.

MIDLOTHIAN, Va. -- Goochland County is hosting The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM), The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and The Small Business Administration (SBA) to a Town Hall Meeting to provide information to Goochland County residents who may have suffered damage from the August 23, 2011 earthquake.

ATLANTA ? The city of Berkeley Lake, Ga., is getting more than $2.6 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency toward repairs of its Berkeley Lake Dam.

DENTON, Texas ? The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded more than $1.3 million to the state of Texas for the construction of basic drainage infrastructure for the Retiree Haven subdivision in the city of McAllen.

DENTON, Texas ? The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded more than $2.9 million to the state of Texas for upgrades to an existing storm sewer system at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

DENTON, Texas -- On Thursday, Jan. 19, Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) Deputy Branch Chief for Homeland Security Chad Stover will be one of 17 local leaders honored at the White House as a ?Champion of Change.? These men and women have demonstrated significant innovation and creativity in working to get their communities ready for the unexpected. They have also embraced the approach of involving all members of their communities in emergency preparedness and response efforts.

When you visit ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, the first smiling face you’re likely to see is a tour guide. ARRL’s Tour Guide program now includes 19 volunteers who donate thousands of hours of their free time per year, giving tours to hundreds of visitors.

ARRL’s tour guides are an integral part of the ARRL. When not giving tours, they are busy accomplishing tasks in various HQ dep...

This was another week where average daily sunspot numbers declined, while average daily solar flux increased. Sunspot numbers for January 19-25 were 117, 88, 102, 103, 108, 105 and 68, with a mean of 98.7. The 10.7 cm flux was 157, 141.2, 141.6, 141, 144.3, 135.7 and 126.4, with a mean of 141. The estimated planetary A indices were 3, 4, 6, 21, 9, 17 and 14, with a mean of 10.6. The estimated m...

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ recalls those mechanical digital clocks that once proliferated ham shacks everywhere.

Jim Cain, K1TN, wrote: “Every active ham I knew in the 1960s and 1970s had a 24-hour Numechron Tymeter ‘digital’ clock, the one in a brown plastic case with rotating drums. I was watching The Black Cat (1934, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff) and in one...

The Federación Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores (FMRE) -- Mexico’s IARU Member-Society -- celebrated its 80th anniversary on January 14. FMRE board members, director and hams from throughout Mexico attended the celebration at FMRE Headquarters in Mexico City.

The FMRE records show that the first time that Amateur Radio activities happened in Mexico occurred in 1918, when students at the Nation...

Strong winds and tornadoes moved through Arkansas and Alabama on Sunday, January 22. In response to the storms, the National Weather Service office in Little Rock activated Arkansas SYWARN the same afternoon, while ARES® members were activated in parts of Alabama.

Arkansas SKYWARN Program Coordinator Danny Straessle, KE5WLR, summoned a team of radio amateurs and headed to the NWS office to provi...

The Chibis-M microsatellite, also known as RS-39 (RadioSputnik 39), was jettisoned from the Progress M-13M cargo spacecraft Tuesday evening (UTC). The satellite is designed to study atmospheric phenomena such as Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes (TGFs) associated with lightning. RS-39 has CW beacons on 435.315 and 435.215 MHz and amateurs are asked to submit reception reports via email to the Space...

On January 24, the FCC issued an Order that denied a waiver request from the Anchorage VEC, one of 14 Volunteer Examiner Coordinators in the US. In its July 2011 Waiver Request, the Anchorage VEC asked the Commission to permit individuals who have previously held an Amateur Radio license grant issued by the Commission -- but which has expired and is beyond the two year grace period for renewal ...

The minutes of the 2012 Annual Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors have now been posted to the ARRL Web site. The meeting took place January 13-14 in Windsor, Connecticut.

A new, highly informative article on how the world's first Amateur Radio satellite, OSCAR-1, came to be designed, built and launched has been posted to the ARRL's Space Communication web page (see the "Articles" section). Written by Andreas Bilsing, DL2LUX, "OSCAR-1 Launched 50 Years Ago" was first published in the German magazine Funkamateur. It is reprinted with their permission. OSCAR-1 was ...

The ARRL has just released two new books that you are going to want to have in your shack: Get on the Air with HF Digital by QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and Emergency Power for Radio Communications (2nd edition) by Michael Bryce, WB8VGE.

Explore digital radio below 30 MHz with Get on the Air with HF Digital -- The Beginners Guide to PSK31, RTTY and More. The popularity of HF digital communica...

Station personnel at 4U1ITU -- the Amateur Radio station at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland -- have installed a webcam in the station, allowing anyone with an Internet connection to view live happenings at the station. 4U1ITU will be signing as 4U1WRC during the 2012 World Radio Communication Conference (WRC-12), which runs through February 17. The station...

The ARRL and CQ Communications, Inc have signed an agreement to begin providing support for CQ-sponsored operating awards by the ARRL’s Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic confirmation system. The agreement was announced jointly today by ARRL Chief Operating Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, and CQ Communications President Richard Ross, K2MGA.

CQ’s awards will be the first non-ARRL awards supporte...

The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) opened in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, January 23. Attendees will review and revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of radio frequency spectrum and satellite orbits. One of the items to be considered at WRC-12 is Agenda Item 1.23: To consider an allocation of about 15 kHz in parts of the band 415-526.5 kHz to t...

Calling all college students and high school seniors! The deadline to apply for scholarships administered by the ARRL Foundation is February 1. Will you be nominated to receive one of the prestigious ARRL Foundation Scholarships? Only one week remains until the application period for the 2012 scholarships closes on February 1.

Each year, the ARRL Foundation awards dozens of scholarships to young...

The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) and Ofcom -- the British equivalent to the FCC -- have authorized radio amateurs to use special prefixes during 2012 in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games.

To celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, all UK radio amateur and club stations can apply to use a special prefix for a five week pe...

University of Southern California's text message tip program guarantees user anonymity while promoting campus security.

Arkansas, Delaware and New York among top-ranking states; Montana has the lowest score, according to nonprofit's report.

South Carolina's Web-based data management system simplifies the HAZUS updating process and provides redundancy in case of disaster.

The state's free, subscription-based emergency alert system hopes to expand to online gamers in 2010.

A $40 million federal grant will address switching to an IP-based network and quicker service for wireless calls.

John Stanley discusses port security and military preparedness for disasters.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, recovers from 2008's record floods.

Alabama lets law enforcement, first responders share important data as incidents happen.

Satellite communication includes unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite images.

Web 2.0 allows communities that have been affected by a disaster to converge online.