Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
March of Dimes WalkAmerica 2007
The Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers will be providing communication support for the event. Breakfast and lunch will be provided for all volunteers. If you wish to participate with radio communications, please contact Rob Mavis.
Date/Time:
SundayApril 22, 2007 – 7:30am
Location:
Woodward Park – Mountain View Shelter
Required Equipment:
2-meter HT
Sponsor:
Valley ARRL VE Team
Time/Date:
April 1 at 1:30 pm
Location:
Fig Garden Regional Library
(S/W Corner of Marks and Bullard)
3071 W Bullard
Fresno, CA 93711
Contact:
Kim Davis
(559) 287-9051
Walk-ins allowed
Sponsor:
Madera County Amateur Radio Club
Location:
United Methodist Chuch
500 Sunset Ave
Madera, CA 93637
Contact:
Frank Reynolds
(559) 645-0067
Talk in on 147.180 no pl
Walk-ins allowed
Sponsor:
TCARES
Date/Time:
February 24 at 9:00 am
April 28 at 9:00 am
Location:
Tuolumne County Library
480 Greenly Road
Sonora, CA 95370
Contact:
Carl Croci
(209) 962-7146
Walk-ins allowed
by Katy Moore, Staff Writer
Star Community Newspapers
February 14, 2007 – When disaster struck the Gulf Coast in 2005 with Hurricane Katrina, cell phone towers were knocked out and communications came to a standstill in that region.
It took weeks for communications to be restored. It was a slow process, one that left many people wondering where their loved ones were and how anyone would rebuild.
Only one group had any access to the outside world. At least, that’s what Tom Brewer says. Brewer is the program director for the Metrocrest Amateaur Radio Society, and he said that in a tough situation, the most advanced technology sometimes fails and it’s left to the amateurs to go back to the basics.
UNT’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering laying groundwork for student robotics, amateur radio clubs
UNT News Service
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Based on student demand, the University of North Texas’ Department of Computer Science and Engineering is planning to add two new student-led clubs. Organizational meetings are scheduled for Feb. 16 (Friday) for a UNT Robotics Society club, and a UNT amateur radio club.
David Keathly, UNT lecturer and undergraduate advisor in the department of computer science and engineering, has agreed to assist the two groups in their formation and will serve as initial faculty sponsor.
The Robotics Society will build robots, investigate concepts in robotics, participate in competitions, and assist as judges, coaches and mentors for middle and high school competitions. Keathly says, “The intent of the club is to enter a variety of competitions that are available to college students. Probably the best known of those clubs is the ‘RoboCup’ robot soccer competition.”
ham radio buffs to work FinnFest on WBF
by Chuck Altonen
The Star Beacon
ASHTABULA – - FinnFest USA 2007, which will be held here on July 26 – 28, will have an added feature not heretofore an aspect of any previous FinnFests held in America. Local amateur radio operators will be holding a “field day” event from the Lake Erie Region Campus of Kent State University here, except that it will continue over two days, Friday, July 27 and Saturday, July 28.
Individual members of both the Ashtabula County as well as the Conneaut Amateur Radio Clubs have been granted a special event call sign for FinnFest USA 2007 at Ashtabula. The call sign is W8F and has been issued by the Federal Communications Commission specifically for those involved in the field day exercise are all 100 percebt Finnish-Americans and include Dick Madison, KC8FNJ; Jack Marttila, KA8TUU; Alan Altonen, KC8EPA; and Chuck Altonen, KC8HIZ. Other area Hams are expected to enlist their services according to even organizer, Dick Madison.
Bands that will be worked are in the 20 to 40 meter range on both phone and continuous wave, also known as code; and the 2-meter local band will be worked as well.
A Mini, Minor Y2K: Earlier Daylight-Saving Time Could Foil Computer Calendars
For three weeks this March and April, Microsoft Corp. warns that users of its calendar programs “should view any appointments … as suspect until they communicate with all meeting invitees.” Wow, that’s sort of jarring is something treacherous afoot?
Actually, it’s a potential problem in any software that was programmed before a 2005 law decreed that daylight-saving time would start three weeks earlier and end one week later, beginning this year. Congress decided that more early evening daylight would translate into energy savings.
Software created earlier is set to automatically advance its timekeeping by one hour on the first Sunday in April, not the second Sunday in March (that’s March 11 this year).
The result is a glitch reminiscent of the Y2K bug, when cataclysmic crashes were feared if computers interpreted the year 2000 as 1900 and couldn’t reconcile time appearing to move backward. This bug is much less threatening, but it could cause head-scratching episodes when some computers are an hour off.
Matt Bush, Wed Editor
WCSH6.com
Governor John Baldacci doesn’t have a lot of free time these days. But between his many meetings and functions he has to attend, he likes to take part in a unique hobby. He is a licensed ham radio operator.
Governor Baldacci first got interested in Ham radio during the 1998 ice storm, and got his license after he was elected governor.
The governor uses the radio to chat with other Ham operators around the world. His call sign is KB1NXP.
Arlington OEM Deputizes Ham Radio Group to Assist with Emergency Communications
Feb 15, 2007 News Release
Government Technology Magazine online
Twenty-five volunteers have graduated from a year-long course of weekly radio communications exercises and stand ready to assist Arlington County Government with crisis communications and response.
The local Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) volunteers have received their RACES certificates of graduation from Arlington’s Office of Emergency Management. The certificates qualify them to help in emergency situations such as weather catastrophes and terrorist attacks.
Each graduate passed a County-authorized character/background check, attended emergency communications classes developed specifically for Arlington County volunteers and participated in regular weekly radio communications exercises managed by the OEM Emergency Support Function team. After more than fifty weeks of exercises, the group has achieved the first level of competence required. Additional training and exercises are required to maintain active Arlington RACES affiliation.
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