Ham radio is a universal language across the globe, said Al Penney, president of the West Carleton Amateur Radio Club.
Last summer, Penney drove through a rural Ontario town with other club members searching for a good spot to set up their equipment.
RIANOVOSTI is reporting that Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will launch a mini-satellite during a spacewalk on August 3rd, mission control said on Friday. The mini-satellite, Kedr, is part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) project, and is designed to transmit greeting messages in 15 languages and relay images of Earth and telemetry data to amateur radio operators as it orbits the Earth.
The ARISSat-1 satellite (also known as KEDR) has spent several months aboard the International Space Station waiting for deployment by crew. According to the AMSAT News Service, that day is arriving soon.
Martin Luther, Tasmanian, amateur radio expert and a collector of QSL cards, appears on the ABC TV program the Collectors this week.
He explains ham radio to us, as well as the origins of radio as an emergency service for shipping, the technical aspects and the huge number of people around the world who are involved.
After Derrick Rush — a 28 year old state corrections officer from Arroyo Grande, California – disappeared on July 9, several state agencies and volunteers began searching for him. According to reports, Rush vanished when he fell off his inner tube in the Kern River about 50 miles northeast of Bakersfield. Clayton Cullen, KJ6PYC, and his son CJ Cullen, KJ6PYD, of Paso Robles, joined the search efforts on July 13. Three days later, CJ spotted Rush?s lifeless body floating by in the river and used his handheld transceiver to report it. His father was able to secure the body farther down the river.
When Atlantis once again touches the Earth in Florida on Thursday, July 21, an era will come to an end. This era saw dreams realized when men and women could go into space on a craft — the space shuttle — that could be used again and again. NASA?s space shuttle fleet has set dreams aflight since its first launch on April 12, 1981, starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. These crafts have carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge research and transported materials to build the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.
During the 2008 hurricane season, ARRL Headquarters instituted a Command-Control-Coordination (C3) operation to support operations taking place in the affected ARRL Sections. One requirement was the need for Headquarters to establish radio links into the affected areas.
In June, the FCC released a Public Notice that sought comments on whether or not it should terminate approximately 800 docketed proceedings in the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), the International Bureau (IB), the Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) and the Enforcement Bureau (EB).
Leo Laporte, a local Petaluman, now known worldwide as ‘The Tech Guy’ and founder of TWiT Netcast Network, passed his Technician Class amateur radio exam. He is the newest Ham radio operator in Petaluma and his call sign is ‘in the mail.’
Lee Phillips went about his Saturday like any other and left the house by 7:30 a.m. to watch the Upperville Horse Show in mid-June, but found himself suffering from a stroke en route to his destination.
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