Since about the time following the Civil War, people around the U.S. have taken time to remember on Memorial Day, even before the holiday became official in 1967.
Frequently, that remembering takes place in the nation?s cemeteries for those who have passed away in service of the nation.
John Dilks, K2TQN, the QST Vintage Radio columnist, will be speaking at Ham-Com, the ARRL National Convention, in Plano, Texas.
John Dilks, K2TQN, the QST Vintage Radio columnist, will be speaking at Ham-Com, the ARRL National Convention, in Plano, Texas.
TUNE in to amateur radio with the launch of a new course organised by Solihull Amateur Radio Society.
Radio amateurs make friends and talk to their friends by radio, often across continents.
While training as an amateur radio technician in his hometown of Shamokin, Pa., Bob Weitzel was called to World War II duty. Soon after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, he joined the Navy and served for more than three years aboard the U.S.S. Joseph T. Dickman. Weitzel participated in amphibious landings throughout Asia, Africa and Europe, and earned five battle stars. Post-service, he attended Johns Hopkins University, worked on weather satellites for NASA and was involved in the Hubble project. Now an 89-year-old widower of Pearl, who was his wife for 58 years, Weitzel lives in Sarasota and has an extensive collection of antique radios. He has played in the Sarasota Pops Orchestra for 27 years.
Nobody wants an earthquake to hit, but if the worst happens the Lake Oswego Amateur Radio Emergency Service will be ready.
Thirty amateur, or ‘ham,’ radio operators are prepared to go into action when the quaking starts and life-or-death situations start happening.
Keith Stebbings of Joseph, Ore. is one of the first of this year’s crop of long-distance bicyclists to head from Alaska to the Lower 48, but I don’t know that anyone has ever been as well supplied as he is in the radio transmitting department.
The powerline networking industry needs to agree standards or risk causing interference with automated airplane landing systems and other key radio technologies, according to a manufacturer.
Students, staff and volunteers of Stratospheric Space Science Program in Morehead State University?s Space Science Center conducted their first high altitude balloon launch on Saturday, April 30.
In an FCC forum on earthquake communications preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate described the Amateur Radio operator as ‘the ultimate backup, the originators of what we call social media.’ The forum– held May 3 at FCC Headquarters in Washington, DC — brought together officials from the White House, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), FEMA, the FCC and the private sector. Fugate and FCC Bureau of Public Safety and Homeland Security Chief Jamie Barnett gave the opening remarks.
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