The Treasures From Your Trunk swap meet will be held Saturday, June 5, from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the back parking lot of 6216 Washington Ave., the Volunteer Center of Racine County.
There is no admissioncharge for buyers or sellers. Featured will be ham radio items, computers, lighting, stereo, audio, electronics, video, car audio and more.
A Norwich man has been charged with making a false report to police about a gun incident at the Norwich Walmart in January.
Keith J. Mutch, [KB1RBI] 35, of 1 Tanner Ave. in Norwich, was charged with second-degree breach of peace, first-degree reckless endangerment and first-degree falsely reporting an incident.
Bob Brown, NM7M, of Anacortes, Washington, passed away Sunday, May 23, from cardiac arrest. He was 87. Brown, the husband of former ARRL Northwestern Division Director Mary Lou Brown, NM7N (SK), was known worldwide for his contributions to the propagation studies on 160 meters. Brown wrote 12 articles for the ARRL from 1998-2001 that appeared in QST, QEX and NCJ, most of them — such as this December 1999 QST article — dealing with propagation and contesting on the low bands. He also authored an HF propagation tutorial that is available online. Brown was retired from the University of California where he was a physics professor at the Space Sciences Lab (SSL) in Berkeley; he also served as interim dean of UC’s graduate school. A memorial service is planned in Anacortes for Wednesday, May 26. A private burial service is planned for a later date.
This Saturday, June 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Kelowna Museum will be looking up at the sky and asking the ultimate question: Is there anybody out there?
“Gulf Zero Gulf Hotel Kilo, this is Kilo Three Italy Japan. Do you read?”
“Yes, Kilo Three Italy Japan, this is Gulf Zero Hotel Kilo. I read.”
Just that easy, ham radio operator Tom Krohn was talking to a fellow operator in England.
After their short conversation, Krohn turned to the computer on his left that is just as much a part of the console as the radio in the radio “shack” he has created in the basement of his home atop Stockton Mountain.
A severe storm with possible rotation is brewing in the southwest. It’s heading toward the Fort Smith region.
The National Weather Service in Tulsa is keeping an eye on the radar, but the radar can’t detect if a tornado is on the ground.
That’s when the NWS relies on the eyes of storm spotters all across the area to determine what’s happening on the ground and relay that information back to the Tulsa office.
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed changing its rules to ensure that amateur radio operators can participate in disaster drills even if they are employed by a government agency sponsoring the drill.
Current FCC regulations prohibit such participation without a waiver.
In the hour before the August 2003 Northeast Power Blackout, frontline control room operators battled an electronic storm of confusion and situational blindness, never seeing the cascading grid failure bearing down on them.
Many hams have long complained about difficulties they have encountered when purchasing International Reply Coupons (IRCs) from their local post offices. Now the US Postal Service (USPS) has made it easier to get those IRCs to send with your direct QSL cards — order them online from the USPS Web site. The USPS ships all in-stock domestic orders for stamps and retail items within 1 business day via Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation or First Class Mail. Shipments should arrive within 3-5 business days. All stamp orders are charged a $1 handling fee, regardless of the order amount. IRCs purchased from the USPS, whether online or in person at a post office, cost $2.10 each.
The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) announced the withdrawal of two questions from the Technician class pool and two questions from the Extra class pool. Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (VECs) and Volunteer Examiners (VEs) must take action to remove these questions from use by July 1, 2010. Due to a rules change and pending action by the FCC, questions T2C02 and T2C03 from the July 2010 Technician Pool and questions E1C04 and E1C05 from the July 2008 Extra Pool may not be used in examinations after June 30.
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