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Skywarn Amateur Radio Recognition Day:

Posted: 04 Dec 2016 04:28 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38165


La Crosse County, WI (WXOW) -- The National Weather Service Station held
their annual Skywarn Amateur Radio Recognition Day on Saturday. The day was
developed in 1999 when weather service communication programs developed
tremendously in order to celebrate the contributions that the volunteer
radio operators make for the National Weather Service. National Weather
Service meteorologists say that they rely on amature radio operators all
around the nation when bad weather is occurring in order to get a feel
about what is physically happening outside.


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Remembering When Shortwave Radio Was a Window on the World:

Posted: 04 Dec 2016 04:28 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38164


Don't stop me because I know you've heard this one before. But it's a story
worth repeating.
The recent death of Fidel Castro brought back memories of learning about
the world through a shortwave radio when I was a kid. For Christmas in
1962, my older brother Tim convinced me that we both should ask for the
radio so he would have a better chance of actually getting one.
I don't know how my parents did it because a shortwave didn't seem like
something anyone could pick up at Hess Brothers or Boscov's, but on
Christmas morning under the tree was a Hallicrafters shortwave radio. My
brother and I would sit in the dark lit only by the dial light of the radio
and tune into the overcrowded broadcast bands, fiddling the dials through
the percolator-like noise and squeaks and squawks of the mysterious sounds
of the universe. We could listen to broadcasts from around the world
through Radio Moscow, Radio Berlin, Radio Prague, the BBC, the CBC, while
turning a desk globe to track the source of those signals.


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Amateur Radio Newsline Headlines for Ham Nation:

Posted: 04 Dec 2016 04:30 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38163


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