A big thank you to Jay Ekul for the name of this bird. It is a Northern Rough Winged Swallow. Shot this along the pier by the International Bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada.
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I didn’t have much luck with the iPad due to the PSKer app. I decided to try it with my Microsoft Surface Pro. Please look for other videos in better band conditions.
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A young radio amateur from California is one of nine Popular Mechanics “Future Breakthrough Award” winners. Shiloh Curtis, KK6ISM, developed a “hat-based, hands-free, haptic navigational aid for visually impaired individuals.” As the publication explained, after a friend from her school’s robotics club described going blind as losing “two eyes and one hand,” Curtis determined to come up with a …
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The “test range” was a plain-vanilla office table inside the big exhibition hall. At one end sat a PRC-150, one of some 10,000 or so back-pack HF radios carried by US soldiers, its whip antenna extended and ready for action. At the other end was an innovative commercial radio that had the look and feel of a late-model Amateur Radio. This odd pairing was Army MARS’s high-tech contribution to the…
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Connecticut radio amateur Keith Mutch, KB1RBI, of Torrington, was on Ocean Beach looking out over New London Harbor the evening of May 4 when he spotted a young girl and her dog in distress in a canoe. The unidentified 12-year-old, not wearing a life vest, was attempting to paddle through rough water and increased winds when she got into difficulty.
Unable to contact authorities via his cell pho…
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By Sterling Coffey, N0SSC
ARRL Youth Editor
Everyone has heard the phrase “If you build it, they will come,” and when it comes to ham radio, they will.
For quite some time, I have been receiving e-mail from the Young Amateurs Contest Ham Team (YACHT), but rarely do I read them, as most of the e-mails end up at the bottom of my inbox. But a few weeks ago I saw a particularly interesting e-mail enti…
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As part of ITU Telecom World 2012 — scheduled for October 14-18 in Dubai — the conference will present the Young Innovators Program. With its theme of Youth Innovation for Development, the Young Innovators Competition is a chance for the next generation of young visionaries to demonstrate their ideas and innovations on this global stage and show how their fresh digital thinking can change the…
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