Beginning July 28, those who have dealings with the FCC will have a new tool that the FCC claims will put them “within one click of all the information they want” from the Commission: a new “easy-to-use” Consumer Help Center
The kickoff date for the State Fair is closing in and with tens of thousands of people headed to Grand Island fair officials are making safety and security a top priority. When all else fails one group in particular – amateur radio operators said they come through.
In a disaster, communications are vital. But often, phone lines are down or overloaded, cell phones fail and electricity is out.
Many northern Wisconsin counties want amateur radio operators to provide information during emergency situations when phone lines fail and power lines are down. Laura Podgornik reports from Superior.
When the clouds started moving in Friday afternoon, July 23, most of campus thought the area would get a little rain. Shortly thereafter, the wind started – 70 mph winds – and proceeded to peel back two layers of the Galvin Fine Arts Center roof like a can opener.
The ARRL Board of Directors held its Second Meeting of 2010 July 16-17 in Windsor, Connecticut, under the chairmanship of President Kay Craigie, N3KN. International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD, and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, were guests of the Board. At the two-day meeting, the Board considered a number of reports and acted on several recommendations and Directors? motions.
French Amateur Radio groups are working together to get the digital prohibition in France lifted.
The Brunei Darussalam Amateur Radio Federation, BDARA is host to about 300 amateur radio enthusiasts from Borneo Island at the 6th Borneo Amateur Radio Festival. The three day festival took place this morning.
RSGB News reports that the producers of a forthcoming TV series are inviting amateur radio enthusiasts and others to take part.
The show revolves around a souped-up double decker bus which is touring cities around Britain.
Radios were the late George Helmer’s passion. The older the better. Taking in his radio collection in the Riverside home where his widow lives transports one back to those early radio days when families gathered around to listen to the Ozzie and Harriet show, Bob Hope or Fred Waring, or heard the deep, far-off voice of Edward R. Murrow broadcasting his vivid accounts of the London Blitz during WWII .
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