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/////////////////////////////////////////// Radio Club Mark 50 Years On the Air: Posted: 12 Aug 2016 05:32 PM PDT http://www.eham.net/articles/37366 RADIO enthusiasts may be hearing a very special calling sign across the airwaves this month as the Chippenham and Amateur Radio Club is celebrating its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion the club, which was founded in 1966, has been given the special calling sign of GB5CRC and hopes to try and speak with as many people as possible both locally and worldwide. Currently made up of more than 30 members, the club was previously based at Chippenham Boys' High School before moving to the Chippenham Sea Cadets site TS Tiger in 1981, where it remains and meets every Tuesday evening. /////////////////////////////////////////// Special Event: 90th Anniversary of the Founding of South Plainfield, NJ: Posted: 12 Aug 2016 05:32 PM PDT http://www.eham.net/articles/37365 On Saturday, August 13, 2016; the South Plainfield Amateur Radio Club (SPARC) will be holding a special event operation in Putnam Park from 1500 ~ 1900 Zulu (11 AM to 3 PM). The event is listed on page 100 of August's QST magazine. The planned frequencies of use a SSB: 21.325; 14.325; 7.225; CW: 21.025; 14.025; 7.025. PARC members are also CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) members under the South Plainfield Office of Emergency Management. These same individuals have further demonstrated their value in public assistance by providing free radio communications for local parades, runs, walk-a-thons, fairs and other charitable public events. Many of these "hams" participate as weather spotters in the Skywarn program of the US Government Weather Bureau. /////////////////////////////////////////// 1967 Solar Flare Nearly Took U.S. and Soviets to Brink of War: Posted: 12 Aug 2016 05:31 PM PDT http://www.eham.net/articles/37364 On May 23, 1967, amidst the high-strung economic and political tension of the Cold War, all three of the United States' ballistic missile early-warning radars became simultaneously jammed. Located in the high-latitude areas of Alaska, Greenland, and the United Kingdom, these radars were designed to detect incoming Soviet missiles, and any attack or disruption of these radars were considered to be an act of war. The United States Air Force, believing their radars had been intentionally jammed by the Soviet Union, authorized aircraft with nuclear-strike capabilities to take to the skies. Timely information from space-weather forecasters, who realized that it was a powerful solar flare jamming the radar, managed to prevent military action just in time. |
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