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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. /////////////////////////////////////////// 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. /////////////////////////////////////////// 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. /////////////////////////////////////////// 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. |
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