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Bet you didn't know the "Y" offered radio classes!
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!
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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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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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Old spark gap transmitters explained
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Larry Huggins, KA0LSG, Handiham Volunteer, makes the cover of Worldradio
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
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
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
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.
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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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ubuntu Linux for Hams
This free operating system provides your PC with all of the usual features, including lots of ham radio applications. Read More
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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...
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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...
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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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