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The Sun is Eerily Quiet Right Now:

Posted: 03 Dec 2016 04:25 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38161


NASA has released images showing a strangely spotless Sun this month, with
hardly a mark on its surface. It's the lowest level of solar activity we've
seen since 2011, even though the Sun is only halfway through its 11-year
cycle, and five years off its solar minimum. But for some reason, it seems
to have gone quiet a lot earlier than usual.


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Amateur Radio Operator's Call Sign Silenced:

Posted: 03 Dec 2016 04:25 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38160


Arthur J."Barney" Barnhart had a lifelong love of amateur radio, starting
as a 16-year-old growing up in Mt. Pleasant Township and continuing
throughout his life, his family said. "He passed his knowledge and love of
ham radio onto others, who became ham operators with the help of my dad,"
said his daughter, Annette Barnhart of Lexington Park, Md., who became an
amateur radio operator herself as a teenager. "He loved it to the end,"
said his wife of 55 years, Dolores A. Novotny Barnhart. Mr. Barnhart, 83,
died Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, at his home. Now, in the world of ham radio
operators, the man who held the call sign W3SII, "becomes a silent key,"
Annette Barnhart said.