Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
Southgate Amateur Radio Club
by: Robert Broomhead – VK3DN
January 17, 2009
The Daily Telegraph carries a story that Plasma screen TVs may be banned under new EU legislation
Large screen Plasma TVs have had a bad reputation among users of the Short Wave radio spectrum because of the high level of RF interference they can generate and many radio users will be pleased to see them go.
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The Daily Telegraph, UK
By: Urmee Khan, Digital and Media Correspondent
January 12, 2009
Power hungry plasma screen televisions are expected to be banned under new EU legislation.
Giant flatscreen televisions have been dubbed the ’4x4s’ of the living room because they can consume four times as much energy as traditional televisions that used cathode ray tubes (CRTs).
Now European governments are finalising a mandatory EU regulation to set minimum standards for televisions. The worst performers will be phased out, and the rest will have to be labelled with energy ratings, so consumers will be able to identify in order to distinguish the most energy efficient sets.
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Southgate Amateur Radio Club
By: Jim Linton VK3PC – Wireless Institute of Australia
Keeping a watch on the 40-metre band
With four weeks to go before broadcast stations are due to have migrated from the band 7100-7200kHz as that band is restored to the
Amateur Radio Service, a scan watch has begun to identify stations still currently using that segment.
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Southwest Iowa News
By: Andrew J. Nelson
February 27, 2009
Suspicious device wasn’t a bomb
Firefighters first saw the “bomb” when somebody brought it to the fire station.
Workers had been cleaning a fire-damaged house at 924 S. 48th St., a home damaged by fire a few weeks ago. They found something that looked like a pipe bomb, said Mark Ervin, an acting assistant chief in the Omaha Fire Department.
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ARRL News
February 25, 2009
ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday March 8, 2009 for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, March 20, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 2, Antenna Modeling, and Radio Frequency Propagation.
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ComputerWorld (IDG News Service)
Mikael Ricknäs
February 18, 2009
Verizon Wireless will debut 4G network in late ’09, expand it to 25 or more cities next year
Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday that it will start to roll out a network based on Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in two U.S. cities late this year and then launch the network commercially and expand it to 25 to 30 markets in 2010.
The LTE network will be built using equipment from Alcatel-Lucent and LM Ericsson Telephone Co., according to Verizon Wireless, which said in December that it expected to begin deploying the fourth-generation wireless technology before the end of this year.
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ARRL.org
February 19, 2009
John Kanzius, K3TUP, of Erie, Pennsylvania, passed away February 18 in Florida from pneumonia. He was 64. Kanzius was best known for his research into finding a cure for cancer using radio waves, specifically 13.56 MHz.
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Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
March Membership Meeting
Come joins us for our March membership meeting. The March CARP membership meeting will have representatives from Fresno ARES/RACES group come out and talk about what the organizations are and what they do.
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Communications Technology
February 1, 2009
By Ron Hranac
Broadband: Signal Leakage in an All-Digital Network
A recent discussion on the SCTE-List about dealing with signal leakage in cable networks that have migrated to all-digital operation sparked a lengthy and very interesting thread of messages. As you know, Part 76 of the FCC Rules is very clear about signal leakage limits, leakage monitoring and measurement, and other criteria with which U.S. cable operators have had to comply for many years. The bottom line is that leakage monitoring, measurement and repair don’t go away in an all-digital network. Why is it even a topic of discussion, then?
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Lexington Herald – Leader
February 4, 2009
by John Cheves, Bill Estep and Ryan Alessi
Utility, phone service outages isolate many areas
GREENVILLE — In recent years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent tens of millions of dollars to improve the emergency communications systems across Kentucky.
All it took was one ice storm last week to knock out electricity and phone service, isolating desperate communities in Western Kentucky.
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