With JOTA 2014 a little more than 1 week away comes word that its “founding father,” Les Mitchell, G3BHK, died on October 6. Mitchell started JOTA in 1958, after launching the idea a year earlier at the World Scout Jamboree. That was the first year the Jamboree had an Amateur Radio station on site, and it’s had one every year since.
“Little did I think when I drew up the plans and rules for the …
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Heritage: Comic, cartoonist and Private Eye founder Willie Rushton – the …
But he is, perhaps, remembered most fondly for his 22 years as an irreplaceable team member on BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. Sitting alongside his dear friend … His theatrical talent first found an outlet at school. He recalled that when …
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Going offroad with Chevy Silverado 1500
One of the 12-volt outlets I used for a hand-held amateur-radio transceiver, and I used the other for an iPad. We even used the 115-volt outlet to recharge the battery on a notebook computer. Yes, we are a connected family. There are cubbies and …
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Max de Henseler, HB9RS, the founder and president emeritus of 4U1UN at United Nations headquarters in New York, died December 30. He was 80. A ham since 1955, de Henseler had been a short-wave listener since the late 1940s. In 1976, while in New York as the UN’s chief cartographer, de Henseler reactivated the United Nations Radio Club station K2UN at its new home in midtown Manhattan. As Jack T…
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