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West Florence senior earns national honors
by Dwight Dana
SCNow.com

Greg Davis’ Eagle Scout project might have helped him win the top national award for an amateur ham radio operator younger than 21.

Davis, 17, won the 150,000-member National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL) Award for installing ham radio antennas at Red Cross evacuation shelters. Ham radio operators often are the first to have communications, provide damage assessment and share the status of their communities in the aftermath of a disaster.

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Political Notebook: Mike Ross hams it up
by Aaron Sadler
Arkansas News Bureau

WASHINGTON – Some of Rep. Mike Ross’ best prep work for Congress came thanks to a copper wire strung up between trees in his backyard.

Ross, D-Prescott, says his interest in amateur radio as a teenager helped him develop social skills and communication skills he uses today as a congressman.

Ross is one of just two licensed ham radio operators in Congress. As such he has championed bills important to the industry and praised his amateur radio counterparts for their work during emergencies.

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Ham radio operator must file for antenna permit
by Laura Legere, Staff Writter
The Times-Tribune, Scranton PA

CLARKS SUMMIT – Ed Moody uses his 65-foot amateur radio tower to broadcast what he wants, whenever he wants and he would like to keep it that way.

On Tuesday night, the Clarks Summit Zoning Hearing Board made it harder for Mr. Moody to stay on the air.

By a 3- 0 vote, the Zoning Board said a borough code enforcement officer did the right thing by citing Mr. Moody for his free-standing antenna.

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Southgate Amateur Radio Club

The Delfi-C3 team has been informed by its launch broker that the launch of Delfi-C3 has been moved up to December.

The two major factors that have contributed to the postponement of this launch are weather and the Indian launch schedule. The weather effect on the launch is the typhoon season in India, which lasts from half October until December.

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In time of emergency, Moreno Valley ham radio operators come to rescue
by RICHARD O. JONES
The Press-Enterprise

When there is an emergency, time is a crucial element and a group of volunteer ham radio operators in Moreno Valley is prepared to jump into action.

Members of the Moreno Valley Amateur Radio Association helped during the October Esperanza Fire, in which five firefighters died, and were deployed to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.

“When emergency systems get overloaded and normal communications fail, we provide alternative communications,” said Clinton Dague, the group’s chief officer and the facilities engineer for the city. Valley Amateur Radio Association were deployed to Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. “When emergency systems get overloaded and normal communications fail, we provide alternative communications,” said Clinton Dague, right, chief officer.
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Turlock ARC Auction

When:
Saturday October 6, 2007

Location:
Turlock Youth Center
East Ave. & Minerva
Turlock

Website:
http://www.w6bxn.org/

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California QSO Party

When:
October 6-7, 2007

Info:
http://cqp.org/

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SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY SECTION Report for the month of August 2007:
SM Charles McConnell, W6DPD- ASMs K6YK and N2NS, ACC W6DPD, SEC N6ZFN, OOC N1VM, STM K6RAU, PIC KE6IGJ, TC W6TE.

Greetings from the ARRL San Joaquin Valley Section.

If you desire your club information and events to be listed in Section News, please send the information to w6dpd@arrl.org.  I get very little information.  If your club has a newsletter, please send it to me, email to w6dpd@arrl.org or via U.S Mail.

Mark your calendars. The California QSO Party is October 6-7, 2007.  Check www.cqp.org for information.  The California Historical Radio Society Central Valley Chapter Swap Meet is October 6, 2007 at the corner of 13th and X Streets in Merced. Check www.californiahistoricalradio.com for information.  The Turlock ARC Auction is October 6, 2007, at the Turlock Youth Center, East Ave and Minerva in Turlock.  Doors open at 8:00 AM and the auction starts at 9:00 AM.  Check www.w6bxn.org for information.  Pacificon 2007 is October 19-21, 2007 at the Marriott Hotel in San Ramon CA.  Check www.pacificon.org for information. The International DX Convention is April 25-28, 2008 at Visalia.  Check http://www.dxconvention.org/ for information.
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by Dave Casadei, Independent Newspapers
Newszap.com

Some Sun City West [AZ] residents are growing restless over the many Ham radio antennas lining the roofs of homes in their senior communities.

Their angst is two-fold. They believe the lengthy antennas detract from the look of their neighborhood and claim they interfere with other home electronic equipment, including televisions, radios, phones and computers.

“They (antennas) do nothing but lower property values and create chaos in our pristine community,” Sun City West resident Ron McCollor said.
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South Florida HAM’s provide vital link for hurricane victims
WPTV.com – Florida

The radio squeals. “Uh, we’re getting reports of some roof and some building damage, it arrived at a Category 5.” From inside his quaint two bedroom home in Stuart, David Millard communicates with the world. And often, more importantly, the world communicates with him.

Millard is part of a HAM radio network that specializes in hurricane reporting and response. As they and he watched Hurricane Felix slam into Nicaragua, Millard’s fellow radio operators were broadcasting the deteriorating conditions in real-time to aid forecasters. “Giving the pressure, the wind speed.. and so forth,” he explains, “and then they relay that to the Hurricane Center.”
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