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ZS6BKW G5RV
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  The Ultimate ZS6BKW G5RV - Simply the Best!
  All Band Performance 80m-6m; No Tuner Required for 10,12,17, 20 & 40m Bands
  Rated to Full Legal Limit 2KW
  Rugged Weather Proofed Internal Solder Joints
  Machine Crimping
  Silver Plated w/Teflon SO-239 Connector
  SO-239 Stainless Screws
  Quality 450 Ohm Ladder Line
  100% UV Stable Components
  High Quality PVC Dogbone Insulators
  End-to-end this antenna is 92' feet long. The ladder line drop is 40' in length.This antenna is built to last and provide years of rugged service. Every component, with the exception of the SO-239 connector, is built in the United States.
  Simply put, from a performance perspective, the ZS6BKW G5RV antenna is top notch. Easy to tune, forgiving an a true performer. This enjoy will provide years of reliable service and great contacts.
  This antenna is ready to hang and be put to use. Typically, the internal antenna tuning unit on your transceiver will be more than enough to tune this antenna. Otherwise, a basic antenna tuner will work just fine. In ideal circumstances this 92 ft long antenna should be placed at height of around 40' - however, few hams have ideal circumstances and this antenna can still be a solid performer at much lower heights or in an inverted-V formation.We have many customers that have used this customer indoors with great success. Every station's circumstance is unique when it comes to local noise indoor (and outdoor) - thus, it is impossible to say with certainty what the exact performance will be like for each individual user.
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DHS Pride
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  Save the Date!!!
  DHS Pride is proud to announce its June Pride Ceremony and Capitol Pride Booth for 2013.
  June Pride Ceremony
  Date:June 6, 2013, 1:00 p.m.'--2:00 p.m. (exact time is subject to change)Location: Julie Myers Conference CenterU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement500 12th Street, SW, Washington, D.C. 20536(Metro'--Smithsonian Orange/Blue)
  We will be awarding our annual DHS Pride Award for Service, hosting a guest speaker to commemorate June Pride, and hosting a reception. All LGBT personnel and our supporters are welcome to attend.
  The event will also be filmed and placed on YouTube this year for our members across the country.
  DC CapitalPride Festival BoothDate: June 9, 2013, 10:00 a.m.'--6:00 p.m.Location: DC CapitolPride FestivalPennsylvania Avenue, NW btw 9th and 6th Streets(Metro'--Archives Green/Yellow)http://www.CapitolPride.org
  All DHS Pride members are invited to our booth for networking, socializing, & membership recruitment.
  BE PROUD'--BE YOU
Civic Hacking at the White House: We the People, by the People
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  Peter WelschJune 05, 201312:16 PM EDT
  This past Saturday, more than 11,000 civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs around the country came together for the National Day of Civic Hacking. Civic activists, technology experts, and entrepreneurs in 83 cities developed software to help others in their own neighborhoods and across the country. More than twenty federal agencies took part by submitting challenges for participants to tackle and opening up datasets for them to use.
  Here at the White House, we celebrated the day by welcoming more than 30 developers and designers to our second hackathon, setting them loose on the new API for We the People, the White House petitions platform. For nine hours participants sat side-by-side with White House staff, techies and non-techies alike, and built new tools for finding, sharing, and analyzing We the People petitions. Several of the participants were alumni of the first White House hackathon in February, who returned to share their knowledge of the We the People API, and their code, with their fellow hackers.
  By the end of the day, sixteen projects were presented to the group, and several of them have already been added to the We the People API gallery, which features links to working demos and downloadable code for you to use in your own projects. Among them are Yoni Ben-Meshulam's We the Entities, which allows users to perform text-based analysis of petition data using OpenCalais, AlchemyAPI, and Semantria. Steve Grunwell's WordPress plugin allows you to easily embed We The People petitions into your WordPress site via shortcodes and widgets. Arun Nagarajan and Daniel McLaughlin's Google Spreadsheet integration lets you search and process petition data directly through Google Spreadsheets. Douglas Back, Yahel Carmon, Jesse Beach, and Clinton Dreisback developed Petition.io, an analytics dashboard including tools to chart signatures over time, map signature locations, and assess social media reach. Check out the full gallery here.
  Naturally, we're already thinking about what comes next. As we announced last month, we'll be adding write methods for the We the People API, which will allow other sites, services, and apps to submit signatures to We the People petitions without sending users to the site. Once it's ready, we'll hold an open beta period where you'll have the opportunity to use a pre-release version of these new methods and submit feedback for our team.
  If We the People, and the process of petitioning the White House, is going to be as flexible, open, and transparent as it can be, we need your help. Check out the Petitions project on GitHub and Drupal.org, then follow @WHweb on Twitter and sign up to receive updates about White House open source and open data program.
  Photo credits: Anjelika Deogirikar