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Nov 13, 2000: the first ham contacts from the ISS, made with a handheld on an old docking antenna. Ham radio has been in orbit ever since.

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Nov 12, 1906: Lee de Forest filed for his Aerophone, a wireless telephone transmitter. It took four years to be granted.

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Nov 11, 1918: wireless carried the Armistice news around the world. US hams stayed silenced until Oct 1, 1919.

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Nov 10, 1975: no distress call. The Edmund Fitzgerald's last radio words were, we are holding our own. Hams still remember her every November.

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Born Nov 9, 1914: Hedy Lamarr. Her 1942 patent with George Antheil hopped a signal across 88 frequencies so it couldn't be jammed.

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Nov 6, 1935: Armstrong unveiled wideband FM to the IRE in New York. The demo signal came from a ham, C. R. Runyon, W2AG.

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Nov 5, 1921: President Harding started RCA Radio Central from the White House. It was planned as the largest radio station on Earth.

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Nov 4, 1956, 5:20 a.m.: Imre Nagy spoke on Free Kossuth Radio as Soviet tanks entered Budapest. Around 8 a.m. the station went silent.

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Nov 3, 1906: in Berlin, 27 nations signed a rule that every station must answer a ship, whoever built the gear. They adopted SOS too.

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Nov 2, 1936: the BBC opened the world's first regular high-definition TV service. A coin toss picked which of two rival systems went first, so the opening ran twice.

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On Oct 30, 1938, Orson Welles put Martians on CBS. A radio play dressed as news. Whether or not the panic was as big as the legend, one lesson stuck: the speaker in the living room can feel more real than the street outside.

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On Oct 29, 1929—Black Tuesday—radio didn’t invent the crash. It delivered it. Tickers in New York. Microphones to the nation. A reminder that broadcast news is how a distant shock becomes everyone’s morning.

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In late Oct 2017, WSJT-X 1.8.0 went GA and FT8 left release-candidate land. Fifteen-second slices. Weak-signal DX for the rest of us. The bands have never sounded the same.

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On Oct 27, 1920—days before the election broadcast textbooks still argue about—Westinghouse got Limited Commercial license KDKA. Broadcasting’s famous callsign began as industrial RF.

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On Oct 26, 1978, RS-1 and RS-2 launched together—the first Soviet amateur satellites. Mode A linear transponders, telemetry, Codestore. The OSCAR sky suddenly had a Russian accent.

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On Oct 23, 2014, the 4M lunar flyby mission launched with a ham payload on 145.990 MHz JT65B. Joe Taylor’s mode, IARU partnership, and a path that would swing past the Moon.

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@W6MOQ @lazydamon789 @LilithDatura @djr100dx @LU4AA Now that's a pairing! An Alpha 77SX with an Icom IC-701 is pure vintage muscle. Thanks for sharing it, Alessandro. 73, Lee, N2LEE

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@LU4AA ¡De nada! A century of LU4AA is worth celebrating. Here's to the next hundred years. 73, Lee, N2LEE

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On Oct 21, 1921, amateurs at Buenos Aires’ La Prensa auditorium founded the Radio Club Argentino. Argentina still marks the date as Amateur Radio Day—proof that clubs, not just callsigns, build a service.

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On Oct 22, 1920, Westinghouse’s Form 761 for an East Pittsburgh station landed in Washington. Five days later the callsign was KDKA. Broadcasting’s pioneer station began as paperwork—and a ham engineer’s garage experiments.