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Google Remembers Samuel Morse’s Birthday

Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
by: Rob Mavis – AE6GE
April 27, 2009

If you browsed to the popular search engine’s website today you might have noticed the Google logo was replaced by an image of a series of colorful dots and dashes.

The symbols were morse code spelling the word G-O-O-G-L-E. The doodle, or the name Google calls the images, was to honor the birthday of Samuel Morse. The inventer of morse code was born on April 27, 1791.

Google honors the holidays from around the world with the doodles. You can find more info about the doodles feature on Google’s support site at http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=17509.

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World Moon Bounce Day

Echoes of Apollo
April 7, 2009

Celebrates 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing

SAN FRANCISCO –World Moon Bounce Day is June 27, Saturday, Sydney Time (Friday, June 26, San Francisco Time), Echoes of Apollo (EOA, echoesofapollo.com), an international space education organization, in cooperation with the National Space Society (nss.org), announced today. All over the world, participants will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing by bouncing radio voice transmissions off the moon, known as “moon bounce.”

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March of Dimes – 2009

Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
by: Rob Mavis – AE6GE
April 23, 2009

March of Dimes – March for Babies 2009 Recap

Saturday April 18th the Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers with the assistance of of other amateur radio groups around the valley provided communications support for the Fresno March of Dimes – March for Babies 2009.

This year the event was moved to the North-East most corner of Woodward Park. The move was motivated for safety so that the route the walkers took would not cross any roads, thus limiting need for expanded traffic control. From the start point the route went out the Eaton trail and was to turn around at Rice Road.

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CARP T-Hunt – June 6, 2009 at 10:00am

Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
Transmitter Hunt

CARP will be sponsoring a T-Hunt on Saturday June 6th starting at the Clovis Senior Center parking lot. The hunt will begin promptly at 10:00 am so be sure to arrive early.

At the conclusion of the hunt, we will all converge on a local eating establishment to swap stories of the day.

Time/Date:
Saturday June 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

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Phone Outage Tests Emergency Workers

Mercury News
by Jessie Mangaliman
April 10, 2009

Preparing for disaster: Phone outage tests emergency workers

Within an hour of learning that phone lines were down Thursday morning in Morgan Hill, severing the 911 system, police officers were dispatched to rouse the members of the city’s emergency response team.

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Phone Outage Provides Disaster-Response Training

Mercury News – Central Coast
by Jennifer Squires
April 11, 2009

Santa Cruz County phone outage provides police
with disaster-response training

SANTA CRUZ — Thursday’s massive communication outage, although frustrating, was also an opportunity for emergency responders across the county to practice how they would react if phones went down during a natural disaster, such as an earthquake.

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Emergency Services Rely on Radio During Outage

Mercury News – Central Coast
By Jennifer Squires
April 10, 2009

Police, firefighters rely on radios during cell phone-less day,
no major incidents reported

SANTA CRUZ — For police and firefighters, Thursday’s massive communication outage was a throwback to the days of radio cars and face-to-face interactions with those who need help.

Most fire departments and police agencies in the county had extra staff working Thursday. The Sheriff’s Office stationed deputies at all of its community service centers in the county and Santa Cruz police put every available officer on the street.

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Wireless USB: Was it worth the wait?

Computerworld
by: Brian Nadel
April 7, 2009

WUSB promised the ability to print, save data and show presentations without cables. Does it work?

As the Universal Serial Bus (USB) approaches its 13th birthday, like other adolescents it’s eager to start thinking and acting independently. For the USB, this means chucking the cable and connecting to a wide variety of printers, keyboards, hard drives and other office peripherals without wires.

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CARP T-Hunt Results

Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers
Rob Mavis – AE6GE
April 5, 2009

CARP T-Hunt Results – 4/4/2009

The morning of Saturday April 4, 2009 the Clovis Amateur Radio Pioneers sponsored a Transmitter Hunt. The start point of the hunt was the Clovis Senior Center. Being it was a beginner hunt the hunt area was limited to a radius of five miles from the start point. Rob Mavis AE6GE was the fox for the day’s hunt.

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