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The Courage Center Handiham System provides tools for people with disabilities to learn Amateur Radio and technology skills, and to earn their Amateur Radio licenses.
  • Bet you didn't know the "Y" offered radio classes!
    advertisement in 1933 QST showing YMCA radio class

    The YMCA actually offered radio-electronics classes, and they advertised them in a 1933 QST magazine. Can you say "YMCA" in Morse?

    The text of the ad reads:

    Radio Operating, Radio Servicing. Prepare for the new Government Radio Operating license examinations. Radio Operator, Marine & Broadcasting. Also Radio Amateur Telegraph & Telephone. Resident courses. Write for booklet "Opportunities in Radio". West Side YMCA Trade & Technical Schools, 4 West 63rd Street, New York City.

    Don't bother applying for this class in 2010!

  • Handiham World for 28 July 2010


    Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 28 July 2010

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    KA0LSG holds Wouxun HT

    Update: Larry Huggins, KA0LSG, Handiham Volunteer, holds the Wouxun HT on cover of Worldradio

    Last week's mention of the Wouxun talking dual band handheld radio created quite a stir, so we are devoting some time to a follow up. I heard from a number of our readers and listeners who said that the PDF online version of the "With the Handihams" article was difficult to read because of the PDF layout. Although the magazine has done a great job making the layout easy to follow for sighted readers, I have heard that there is a need for a more straightforward text version for our blind readers and listeners. I have placed the text of the article on the Handiham website, as well as a link to an audio version of the article read by Bob Zeida, N1BLF, who reads for us and for The Talking Information Center of the Massachusetts Reading network. Since we didn't specify retailers, we also provide you a link to some sources.

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  • Handiham World for 21 July 2010
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  • Larry Huggins, KA0LSG, Handiham Volunteer, makes the cover of Worldradio
    Screenshot of Worldradio website showing Larry on the cover.

    Larry Huggins, KA0LSG, is right there on the cover of the latest Worldradio magazine. Way to go, Larry!

    The photo is from Handiham Radio Camp, where Larry volunteered as an instructor. In the Worldradio article, you can read about the blind-accessible HT that Larry demonstrated to our Operating Skills group.

    http://www.worldradiomagazine.com

    Regards,

    Patrick Tice
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  • International Living with a Star (ILWS) meeting ponders solar WX prediction science
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    16 July 2010: At the International Living with a Star (ILWS) meeting in Bremen, Germany, representatives from more than 25 of the world's most technologically-advanced nations have gathered to hear what scientists studying in the field have to say.

    "The problem is solar storms?figuring out how to predict them and stay safe from their effects," says ILWS Chairperson Lika Guhathakurta of NASA headquarters. "We need to make progress on this before the next solar maximum arrives around 2013."

    Read more on the NASA Science News website:

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  • Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, gets 25th ARNEWSLINE "Young Ham of the Year" Award

    Cody Anderson, KI4FUV, A 17 year old radio amateur from Harriman, Tennessee, whose quick thinking likely saved the life of a downed runner in a 2009 marathon, has been named as the 2010 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year. This marks the 25th anniversary of the Young Ham of the Year Award program.

    Cody is the son of Benny Anderson and Jane Ann Edwards. He is an honors graduate of Rockwood High School in nearby Rockwood, Tennessee.

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  • Worth a listen: NPR Science Friday's story about how the sun is behaving strangely
    New sunspot - finally!

    This July 2, 2010 segment on the Science Friday podcast had some interesting tidbits for ham radio operators, including speculation on larger solar cycle fluctuations than the familiar 11 year cycle that we all know and love. Guest Dr. David Hathaway, a solar astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, talks about some of the more difficulties in forecasting solar activity trends, and even apologizes to ham radio operators for missing the mark in his several years ago prediction that the coming solor cycle would produce much more activity!

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  • Worldradio: FCC Okays Employee Participation in Emergency Drills
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    From the WorldRadio Online Newsroom:

    FCC Okays Employee Participation in Emergency Drills

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  • Handiham World for 14 July 2010


    Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 14 July 2010

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    A volunteer summer

    Eliot, KE0N, gets the remote base project underway

    Eliot, KE0N, at the new remote base control point.
    Eliot, KE0N, at the new remote base control point.

    The Handiham Remote Base at Courage North has proven to be reasonably reliable and quite popular with the Handiham membership. Just in case you need a refresher, our Camp Courage North location is in far northern Minnesota near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The station is at the location where we held many Handiham Radio Camp sessions over the past two decades. It consists of a Kenwood TS-480SAT, a rig control interface and computer,

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  • Wicked weather watcher (Manitoba)
    Dark skies, strong winds and heavy rains are usually a clue to take cover, but for Bill Simm of Portage la Prairie, they are a signal to get to work. Simm is an amateur radio operator - ham - and one of Environment Canada's many volunteer severe weather watchers with the CanWarn system.
  • D-STAR illegal in France - update
    French Amateur Radio groups are working together to get the digital prohibition in France lifted.
  • The 6th Borneo Amateur Radio Festival (Brunei)
    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.
  • Radio Days: One man's collection lives on (Connecticut)
    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 .
  • UK: TV series invites amateur radio enthusiasts
    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.
  • Aircraft 'black box' inventor dies in Australia
    A pioneering Australian inventor whose "black box" flight data recorder revolutionised the safety of air travel and aided countless crash investigations has died aged 85, officials said Wednesday. David Warren, whose own father died in a plane crash, hit upon the "black box" idea while probing a 1953 disaster involving the world's first commercial jetliner. Building radios soon became his schoolboy hobby, but a World War II ban on amateur radio led Warren to dump his nascent ambitions as a "radio ham" in favour of chemistry, his ultimate career path.
  • Independent radio operators trade gadgets (California)
    More than 120 ham radio enthusiasts gathered in Burson Saturday to browse through rare equipment, talk radio and share smoked chicken in the barrel.
  • FCC: Vanity Call Sign Fees to Decrease August 17
    On July 19, the FCC announced via the Federal Register that the cost of an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will decrease 10 cents, from to $13.40 to $13.30. The new fees take effect 30 days after publication, making August 17, 2010, the first day the new fee is in effect. In FY2010, the FCC expects to grant 14,800 vanity call signs, bringing in $196,840 from the vanity call sign program. Earlier this year, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM), seeking to lower the fee for Amateur Radio vanity call signs.
  • Amateur radio club ready to be called on in case of emergency (Florida)
    The Lake Monroe Amateur Radio Society does more than just help plan Christmas parades and hold community education meetings. A new system has been developed by Seminole County's ham radio enthusiasts that could mean quicker responses from the authorities - as well as knowing if your loved one is safe - after a disaster.
  • ARRL Argues that Oklahoma Town?s RFI Ordinance is "Null and Void"
    Saying that only the Federal Communications Commission is empowered to regulate radio frequency interference (RFI), the ARRL has notified Midwest City, Oklahoma, that its local ordinance 27-3(9), seeking to regulate radio transmissions and RFI, is "null and void." Midwest City is in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
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  • The Bands ?Heat Up? for the 2010 ARRL UHF Contest

    VHF/UHF weak-signal operators across North America are making the final tests on their stations in preparation for the ARRL UHF Contest, coming up the weekend of August 7-8. Most VHF+ weak-signal operation takes place on the two lowest bands of the VHF spectrum -- 6 and 2 meters; however, there is a lot of activity that takes place above 144 MHz in the UHF portion of the radio spectrum and beyo...

  • Government Agencies Introduce User-Friendly Federal Register

    While the Federal Register may be the ultimate record of the business of the USA?s Executive Branch, it can be a difficult document to navigate. The Register publishes approximately 80,000 pages of documents each year in the form of Notices, Proposed Rules, Rules and Official Documents; this is where all new and amended rules to Part 97, the Amateur Radio Service, must be published before they ...

  • FCC Launches Consumer Help Center

    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.

    ?Our new Consumer Help Center makes it easy for consumers to learn about our work and take action,? said FCC Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Joel Guri...

  • Coming Soon: More ARRL 2010 Field Day Pins

    After a higher than expected run on pins for Field Day this year, the ARRL has ordered more and expects them to arrive next month. ?The pins were in stock until just before Field Day, but due to some exceptionally high interest, we were unable to fulfill a few final orders,? said ARRL Product Marketing Specialist Jackie Ferreira, KB1PWB. ?We have ordered more pins, as many hams enjoy collecting...

  • The Amateur Amateur Fills-In

    By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
    ARRL Contributing Editor

    My efforts to set up an APRS station (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had come to a standstill. I had installed a program called UI-View32. It was pretty slick, with volumes of data in its Help file, but there were still plenty of parts of it that I didn?t understand. It was time to find an Elmer.

    I won?t go into the serendipitous events that led m...

  • John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, Appointed West Gulf Division Vice Director

    After review of eligibility by the ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee, President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, of Austin Texas, to serve as Vice Director of the ARRL?s West Gulf Division for the remainder of the current term that expires January 1, 2011. Stratton, an attorney, fills the vacancy created when John Thomason, WB5SYT, resigned the position earlier t...

  • Ubuntu Linux for Hams

    This free operating system provides your PC with all of the usual features, including lots of ham radio applications.

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  • ARDF Update: Radio Foxhunters Find Their Champions in Ohio

    By Joe Moell, K0OV, Contributing Editor
    ARRL Amateur Radio Direction Finding Coordinator
    k0ov@homingin.com

    No shack potatoes here! These radio-orienteering enthusiasts took to the beautiful woods of the Buckeye State in pursuit of transmitters and medals.

    They came from 15 states and four foreign countries. In their suitcases were radio sets, antennas, sun block and running shoes, but they left som...

  • ARRL Argues that Oklahoma Town?s RFI Ordinance is ?Null and Void?

    Saying that only the Federal Communications Commission is empowered to regulate radio frequency interference (RFI), the ARRL has notified Midwest City, Oklahoma, that its local ordinance 27-3(9), seeking to regulate radio transmissions and RFI, is ?null and void.? Midwest City is in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

    Midwest City?s Ordinance 27-3(9) reads: ?In addition to other public nuisance...

  • The K7RA Solar Update

    Sunspot activity increased recently, although it is foolish to call this a trend, since solar activity has great variability. Sunspot group 1087 was visible for 13 days over July 9-21. In millionths of a solar hemisphere, its size was 30, 100, 120, 130, 70, 100, 60, 50, 20, 10, 10, 10 and 10. On July 19, new sunspot group 1089 appeared over the eastern horizon, with a relative size of 130, 150,...
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