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• Scouting Jamboree on the Air takes to the air October 18th 
• Complaints pour in about closed government websites 
• Several hams receive warning notices from the FCC 
• SARL announces its young scientist expo winner
• Dayton Hamvention puts out a call for its 2014 awards

• FCC shutdown affects all services to amateur radio
• Faulty communications may have led to deaths of 19 firefighters in AZ
• Hams in Pakistan stand ready to assist following devastating earthquake
• IARU Administrative Council looks for ways to work with non member societies
• D-Star net comes to 40 meters down-under 
• Rappelling off a 35 story hotel in downtown L.A. while making live TV

• Hams in Australia may keep access to part of the 2300 MHz band 
• Amateur radio operators in Portugal get new spectrum 
• Congress asks why radios failed during Washington Navy Yard shooting
• The FCC says no to encrypted ham radio communications 
• Researchers admit that Solar Cycle 24 is quite puzzling

• Ham radio responds as flooding ravages parts of Colorado
• China vs the Philippines over the fate of Scarborough Reef
• U-K hams set a new record at 76 Gigahertz
• Portugal's legal action against widespread unlicensed operation
• A final goodbye to 73 Magazine founder Wayne Green, W2NSD

• New Zealand and Japan sign a new reciprocal operating agreement 
• Unlicensed operations on 2 meters in Europe becomes a growing problem
• Wildfire in Northern California destroys several repeaters 
• A move to restructure the FCC passes the House of Representatives
• Two solar powered pico balloons set a new European flight endurance record

• Trans-Pacific emergency communications test is deemed a success 
• Ham radio support in fighting Rim Fire winds down
• Ham radio satellite band at 5 GHz could be in jeopardy in Europe 
• Registration now open for the Western Hemisphere's biggest t-hunt 
• A ham flies a Presidential Medal to the International Space Station 

• NTIA to lead a two year pilot study of all spectrum in the United States 
• Hams respond to Colorado Flooding and the western states wildfires 
• Ridgecrest California to consider higher ham tower height limit
• WRTC 2014 Team Leader applications due no later than September 13  
• VA radio club begins a computer loan out program to needy high schoolers