The Anacapa Near Space Exploration Club (ANSEC) at Anacapa School will reach for the stars once again with its second near space probe, Anacapa Amateur High-Altitude Balloon 2 (AAHAB-2). Last year, the high school club sent a payload of sensors and a camera to 91,122 feet above California’s Central Coast and recovered it successfully. This year, the team has set even more ambitious goals including a live video downlink, high-definition recording, radiation sensors and live radio telemetry.
The article that appeared in this magazine and in EDN last year about ham radio in the 21st century generated a lot of interest and a lot of questions about various aspects of the hobby. This article grew out of that interest, but is not strictly about ham radio. It is about the design tradeoffs that engineers make every day in designing all kinds of electronic equipment. HF transceivers are used as an illustrative example.
There wasn?t exactly a “wave” of people participating in the tsunami emergency drill in Seaside Wednesday, but those who did hike to the hills said it was a worthwhile exercise.
About 45 people, plus 337 students from Broadway Middle School, walked to designated assembly areas on high ground after emergency sirens went off at 11 a.m.
The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 62nd anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD). Although the actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May — May 19 in 2012 — the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will be conducted on May 12 to prevent conflict with the Dayton Hamvention, scheduled for May 18-20.
Fred Kleber, K9VV, has been appointed as Section Manager of the Virgin Islands Section beginning May 1, 2012. Kleber, of Christiansted, is taking the reins from John Ellis, NP2B, who is planning to move out of the Section soon. Ellis has been Section Manager of the Virgin Islands since 1996. Kleber has served as the Section Emergency Coordinator of the Virgin Islands this past year.
Remember the Northeast Blackout of 2003? No lights, refrigeration, gas pumps or computers, jammed cell phone lines – until the towers fail, along with weakening water pumps. In an extended power outage there would eventually be no way besides radio to communicate across town or across the region.
TEENAGERS are making waves at a new Hebburn-based radio club.
The North East Amateur Radio Club meets at Wardles Bar in Albert Street, Hebburn, between 7pm and 9pm each Monday.
Bay Village resident and auxiliary police officer Jim Kettren remembers the great Northeast blackout of 2003, and he hopes a new organization will help avoid some of the panicked feelings people experienced when communications went silent.
HUNDREDS of people turned out to see a genuine Titanic-type radio room and witness how life-saving messages are beamed round the globe to mark 100 years since the disaster.
Almost 500 people went to the International Marconi Day celebrations at Chelmsford council’s industry museum, Sandford Mill, on Saturday.
When modern communications systems in Nebraska were knocked out by recent tornadoes and severe storms, local officials had no way of calling for help or reporting damage.
That?s where amateur radio, or HAM operators stepped in. Tom Reis, a Skywarn coordinator for the National Weather Service, says HAM operators are a valuable asset who can get out messages that help save lives.
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