 3 May 2008 at 10:26pm
by davidallen@shelbystar.com (D Allen)
Hamfest may be coming home to Cleveland County in 2009. County Manager David Dear said county, fairgrounds and Hamfest representatives met Thursday to talk about bringing the popular amateur radio festival back to the Cleveland County Fairgrounds and, although no decision was made, the county hopes to get the event back next year.
3 May 2008 at 10:24pm
by awextra@arrl.org (ARRL)
The Dallas Morning News has reported that "an ambitious plan for using power lines to deliver fast Internet service to 2 million Dallas-area homes collapsed Thursday." Current Group, LLC has announced plans to sell its Dallas BPL network to Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business, for $90 million. Oncor reportedly has no plans to offer Internet service but will use the network to detect distribution network issues. While Current originally touted the network as a way to offer Internet service to consumers and had entered into a marketing arrangement with DirecTV, the Houston Chronicle quotes Oncor spokesman Chris Schein as confirming that Oncor will use the network only for monitoring the power grid: "Our business is delivering electricity, not being an Internet provider or a television provider."Newspaper Reports "BPL plan is dead in Dallas"
3 May 2008 at 10:21pm
by awextra@arrl.org (ARRL)
At their annual awards banquet on April 26 in New York City, the Veteran Wireless Operators Association (VWOA) honored two Amateur Radio operators with two of the association's top awards: Fritz Raab, W1FR, and John Curtis, K6KU. Raab gave the keynote address at the banquet. "The dinner speech was a wonderful presentation of the Amateur Radio Experiment domestically and that which is happening internationally. He explored what may happen, if things go well for the museum stations on 500 kHz and for radio amateurs," said VWOA Chairman Francis Cassidy. "Ever since the emergence of the Global Marine Distress and Safety System, professional radio officers have discussed the prior use of 500 kHz. They know the attributes in the oceans of the world where ground wave transmissions on the oceans provided their primary informational experience of these transmissions."
3 May 2008 at 10:21pm
by news@tbrnewspapers.com (TBR)
Sometimes, especially on certain Saturday afternoons, you can still hear Gugliemlo Marconi's voice carrying around the world.
The enthusiasm and love shown Saturday by the Centereach-based Radio Central Amateur Radio Club would have made Marconi proud. Radio operators and Morse code enthusiasts gathered at the Marconi Shack in Rocky Point - one of the oldest functioning radio-communications sites in the nation - to celebrate the 134th birthday of a man often recognized as the leading pioneer of wireless communication.
3 May 2008 at 10:18pm
by editor@caribbeannetnews.com (Caribbean)
After a long period of dormancy and disorganization, during which even their club house was lost, amateur radio operators in St Lucia are re-grouping and getting their act together again.
3 May 2008 at 10:18pm
by ei2ca@com.com (PAUL MARTIN EI2CA)
In the article 'Tensions rise in the Gulf as US fires at Iran boat' (Irish Independent, April 26), the person blamed for the incident is described as a ham or amateur radio operator.
3 May 2008 at 10:13pm
by editor@galvestondailynews.com (Rick)
It wouldn't be fair to characterize Gene Hafele as an evil genius.
The newly named meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office in League City was only doing his job in designing an imaginary storm that would strain local emergency management systems.
3 May 2008 at 10:13pm
by editor@sunherald.com (Sun-Herald)
Today, at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colo., NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new "4D" live model of Earth's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the dynamic layer of ionized gases that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet. Airline flight controllers can use this tool to plan long-distance business flights over the poles, saving money and time for flyers.
3 May 2008 at 10:13pm
by webmaster@wwaytv3.com (WWAY)
An historic radio exchange took place Tuesday afternoon between the Battleship North Carolina and the new submarine USS North Carolina. Capt. Mark Davis and ham operator Bill Morine communicated with the Battleship from atop the submarine.
3 May 2008 at 10:11pm
by adam.testa@thesouthern.com (Adam)
Changing times and technology have caused one of Southern Illinois University Carbondale's oldest student organizations to dwindle in membership, but those involved anticipate a strong resurgence.
3 May 2008 at 10:11pm
by awextra@arrl.org (ARRL)
Ten satellites reached orbit April 28 aboard an Indian PSLV-C9 rocket launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. The primary payloads were India's CARTOSAT-2A and IMS-1 satellites. In addition to the NLS-5 and RUBIN-8 satellites, the rocket carried six CubeSat research satellites, all of which communicate using Amateur Radio frequencies. All spacecraft deployed normally and appear to be functional at this time.
3 May 2008 at 10:11pm
by webmaster@southgatearc.org (SARC)
An excited Delfi-C3 team report receiving good signals from the new Delphi-C3 Amateur Satellite on Monday.
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by ttedit@abpmail.com (Telegraph)
As 77-year-old Anadi Ganguly lies in his dimly lit Shyambazar room, an odd bedfellow keeps him company - a transceiver, or in radio parlance, a unit which contains both a receiver and a transmitter. But the ether waves have been part of his life for 50 years now. Ganguly is the owner of the oldest amateur radio licence in Calcutta. And the set seated next to him is a gift from the National Institute of Amateur Radio, Hyderabad, as a mark of respect to one of the oldest ham radio operators in India.
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by sbandy@coxmnm.com (Steve Bandy)
The weather in Northeast Texas is unpredictable at best. The general feeling is: If you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes and it'll change.
It's that constant possibility of change that concerns Randy Pritchard, emergency management coordinator for the city of Marshall.
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by andy.hughes@northeast-press.co.uk (Andy)
An amateur radio club will today talk to hundreds of people over the airwaves as a tribute to the inventor of the wireless.
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by webmaster@arstechnica.com (ARS Technica)
Despite its glacially slow advance into the US broadband market, the Federal Communications Commission has championed broadband over powerline (BPL) as a "third-pipe" alternative to the DSL/cable duopoly in the US. An appeals court dealt the Commission and BPL backers a blow late last week, siding with ham radio operators by ruling that the FCC erred in its rule-making for the technology.
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by awextra@arrl.org (ARRL)
The VoIP Hurricane Net is looking for Net Control Operators (NCOs) to assist with its weekly Hurricane Preparation Net and during Hurricane Net activations. The VoIP Hurricane Net, created in 2002, is a support net working with WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by jmolseed@messengernews.net (John)
When Chris Lewis goes to work for the Webster County Emergency Management Agency, he doesn't get a cent from the county.
3 May 2008 at 10:03pm
by editor@news.com (CNET)
In a potential setback for fans of broadband over power lines, a federal appeals court has sided in part with amateur radio operators who challenged rules designed to speed the nascent Internet service's rollout.
26 Apr 2008 at 9:33pm
by awextra@arrl.org (ARRL)
L. B. Cebik, W4RNL, ARRL Technical Adviser and antenna authority, passed away last week of natural causes. He was 68. An ARRL Life Member, Cebik was known to many hams for the numerous articles he wrote on antennas and antenna modeling. He had articles published in most of the US ham journals, including QST, QEX, NCJ, CQ, Communications Quarterly, Ham Radio, 73, QRP Quarterly, Radio-Electronics and QRPp. Larry Wolfgang, WR1B, QEX Editor, called Cebik "probably the most widely published and often read author of Amateur Radio antenna articles ever to write on the subject."
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