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Amateur Radio Headed to Pickaway-Ross:

Posted: 06 Jan 2017 04:01 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38380


CHILLICOTHE -- Pickaway-Ross Career and Technology Center science
instructor David Pentecost has a philosophy that he always tries to live
by. "If you don't take a chance, you don't have a chance," he says. With
that in mind, a recent chance he took in partnership with engineering
program instructor Mark Johnston appears poised to pay off for the school
and some of its students as they prepare to enter the world of amateur
radio -- what many people prefer to call ham radio, although Pentecost is
not fond of that phrase. Acting on something that has been kicked around as
a possibility for a couple of years now, Pentecost sent a grant request to
the Amateur Radio Relay League seeking funds for amateur radio station
equipment with the intent of augmenting the engineering program and
attracting interested students into the world of wireless communication and
other related technologies. The ARRL announced this week that Pickaway-Ross
was one of just four schools across the country to be selected for a grant
from the organization's Education and Technology Program. Pentecost said
Thursday he was reviewing a letter that would commit Pickaway-Ross to three
years of support for the project. A budget containing details of what
equipment will be needed to establish an amateur radio station at the
school to get some students licensed as amateur operators will also need to
be provided in determining the final grant funding amount.


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Ely Connects via Ham Radio to North Country Scenic Trail:

Posted: 06 Jan 2017 04:00 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38379


BROADCASTING via ham radio from a snowy Sheridan Street was George Burger.
Through the local ham radio club, Ely was part of a national event
sponsored by the American Radio Relay League. George Burger, a member of
the Vermilion Range Amateur Radio Club, set up a radio on Dec. 31 just off
Sheridan Street, which happens to be part of the North Country Scenic Trail
(a National Park Unit), and participated in an activation of the North
Country Scenic Trail.


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Bracewell Radio Sundial:

Posted: 06 Jan 2017 04:00 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38378


Throughout the 1960s, during the aspirational fervor of the Space Race, the
emerging field of radio astronomy made great strides -- and largely thanks
to an Australian engineer named Ron Bracewell, who, among other pioneering
contributions to the field, created one of the world's first radio
telescopes. Using radio signals, Bracewell's breakthrough telescope
produced images of the surface of the Sun and mapped the solar temperature
every day for 11 years (the length of a solar cycle). This solar activity
information was used by NASA during the Apollo missions to the Moon to,
among other things, predict solar storms that would have endangered the
astronauts. The radio telescope, located at Stanford University, consisted
of an array of dish antennas each placed atop a concrete pier. The array
was abandoned in 1980, but 10 of those piers were rescued in 2013 and
brought to the VLA radio astronomy observatory in New Mexico, where they
were integrated into a radio sundial there as a tribute to Bracewell, who
passed away in 2007.


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IHSG Appointed BEKO Reseller:

Posted: 06 Jan 2017 03:58 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38377


IHSG (International Ham Stores Group) one of Europe's largest importers,
distributors and retailers of ham and hobby radio products, is pleased to
announce the immediate availability of Beko Elektronik high quality
amplifiers after being awarded sole reseller status in the UK and Ireland.