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The central government is looking to re-exert its control of permits issued to amateur radio operators, wresting them away from provincial authorities to prevent the broadcasts from being used for commercial purposes.
Traditionally, amateur radio, or ham radio, has been used for person-to-person contact and for the dissemination of information in disaster situations.
Static from radio speakers cleared Wednesday night at the Lincoln Youth Center and suddenly the 30 students there heard a conversation in Florida.
The youth center, open to area sixth-eighth graders Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 3 to 6 p.m., hosted the Western Placer Amateur Radio Club on Wednesday to bring hands-on demonstrations to the students and expose them to a variety of topics they wouldn't otherwise know about, said Youth Services Officer Steve Krueger of the Lincoln Police Department.
The next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-11) is scheduled for fall 2011. These periodic conferences of the Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) consider allocations to the various radio services -- including the Amateur Radio Service -- and evaluate what new technologies and applications should be addressed by future conferences.
Randy Malick knew when he moved into the Rancho Vistoso subdivision in Oro Valley, north of Tucson, seven years ago that the homeowner rules did not allow amateur radio towers.
But he decided to buy a house there anyway even though he has had a ham radio license since 1991.
Now Malick is at the forefront of a move to convince state lawmakers to force homeowner associations to allow these towers, regardless of whether a majority of neighbors want them or not.
This semester, Yorktown Middle School launched a real-world class titled "Ham Radio."
Heath Dudley and Amy Carney created the program after a student showed interest in learning about radios and how radios work.
In order to begin the program, Yorktown Middle School needed books and supplies and a certified instructor. Dudley and Carney discovered that the radio community of Indiana desired to support the public school community to enhance the education of students.
When the skies over Coshocton turn gray and dark and severe weather is imminent, there are locals who take it upon themselves to ensure that the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has important, up to date information from our area.
The revised first edition of Experimental Methods in RF Design is now available from the ARRL. Co-written and updated by Wes Hayward, W7ZOI, Rick Campbell, KK7B, and Bob Larkin, W7PUA, Experimental Methods in RF Design explores wide dynamic range, low distortion radio equipment, the use of direct conversion and phasing methods and digital signal processing. Use the models and discussion included in the book to design, build and measure equipment at both the circuit and the system level. This edition explores wide dynamic range, low distortion radio equipment, the use of direct conversion and phasing methods as a serious communications architecture.
So are there any organized Furryham events or frequencies that we are planning on using at FWA?
Last week's bulletin again mentioned briefly appearing sunspots and it happened again this week. For just two days, another Solar Cycle 23 spot appeared, number 1014. The latitude of the spot was consistent with an old and fading solar cycle. As this period of quiet Sun drags on, statistic based projections of a return to solar activity continue to be pushed out. Sunspot numbers for March 5-11 were 0, 12, 12, 0, 0, 0 and 0 with a mean of 3.4. The 10.7 cm flux was 69.2, 69.1, 69.1, 68.9, 69.1, 68.8, and 68.9 with a mean of 69. The estimated planetary A indices were 3, 2, 1, 8, 2, 3 and 3 with a mean of 3.1. The estimated mid-latitude A indices were 3, 0, 0, 7, 1, 3 and 2 with a mean of 2.3.