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Amateur radio in the news: HS club, Frequency pilot, HOA opposition

Posted: 13 Feb 2016 11:39 AM PST
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Eye on Education: Bishop Ryan HS Competes in School Roundup. For the first
time, Bishop Ryan school is getting competitive with their ham radio,
entering into the School Club Roundup competition.Â*The idea here is to talk
to high schools, middle schools and universities all over the world on it
the same week, saidÂ*Joe Ferrara, a Bishop Ryan teacher.

Frequency pilot show ordered. The CW’s first official pilot orders for this
development season include a reimagining of the New Line Cinema film
Frequency. But whereas that 2000 film starred Jim Caviezel as a homicide
detective who communicates with his long-dead firefighter father (Dennis
Quaid) via a ham radio, the CW’s redo follows a female police detective who
discovers she is able to speak via ham radio with her estranged father —
who died 20 years prior and also was a detective. As they forge a new
relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case,
unintended consequences of the “butterfly effect� wreak havoc in the
present day.

HOA trade group fights bill that would ease ham radio restriction. In a
disaster, it is often the only dependable means of two-way communication,
but an organization that supports homeowner associations across the United
States is opposing a bill that would prevent HOAs from banning amateur
radio operation. Community Association Institute, whose 1,100 Illinois
chapter members include association managers, board members, and unit
owners, says the Amateur Radio Parity Act is “unnecessary� because the
Federal Communications Commission has said it will not get involved with
HOA rules that, says the FCC, are “contractual agreements between private
parties.�

Its certainly not a slam dunk for the Amateur Radio Parity Act.Dan

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