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20140518 積藝尤新 2014IMD in national taiwan museum
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國際博物館日,
2014年主題為:博物館的收藏當作聯繫(Museum collections make connections)
透過積木共同創作,吸引人群至博物館,讓民眾一同參與歷史,也同時讓參與者能夠跟自己的孩子同認識這塊土地的故事。
(攝影:林士傑、
作者:陳俊育、李斯華。)
Bricking Yellow Tiger Flag in The National Taiwan Museum.
"Museum Collections make Connections "
International Museum Day – ICOM
(photo by: Jason Lin
design by: 陳俊育、swar)

20140518 積藝尤新 2014IMD in national taiwan museum
ICOM
Image by cubeface
國際博物館日,
2014年主題為:博物館的收藏當作聯繫(Museum collections make connections)
透過積木共同創作,吸引人群至博物館,讓民眾一同參與歷史,也同時讓參與者能夠跟自己的孩子同認識這塊土地的故事。
(攝影:林士傑、
作者:陳俊育、李斯華。)
Bricking Yellow Tiger Flag in The National Taiwan Museum.
"Museum Collections make Connections "
International Museum Day – ICOM
(photo by: Jason Lin
design by: 陳俊育、swar)

National Weather Service asks for your storm photos and Tweets
For people interested in learning the finer points of storm reporting, Beaman said they are encouraged to take part in annual SKYWARN Spotter Training courses. SKYWARN is a voluntary program developed by each individual NWS office, during which …
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HAM Radio: The unseen eyes and ears of emergency services
“We also encourage everybody to get involved in the Sky Warn program and the HAM radio club and the Tarleton Planetarium co-sponsor the training for that program that's held in the planetarium each year. Somebody from the Fort Worth office of the …
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Weather alerts have come a long way in 50 years
The Howard County/Kokomo Emergency Management Agency also helps keep people in the loop when it comes to bad weather by hosting a SkyWarn class every March. SkyWarn is a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe-weather spotters.
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Before spring storm season, Skywarn joins forecasters to host severe weather
The National Weather Service, including the Skywarn organization of Kent and Ottawa counties, are scheduled to conduct the first weather spotter training session of the year on Thursday, Feb. 19. It is slated to begin at 7 p.m. at the Jenison Center …
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Austin, Texas (PRWEB) August 01, 2013

Averna, an industry-leading developer of test solutions and services for communications and electronics device-makers worldwide, announced today the availability of RF Studio for National Instruments Software Defined Radio Platform (USRP), converting the USRP into a portable and cost-effective RF system for the recording and playback of real-world GNSS signals.

National Instruments USRP is an affordable, PC-hosted platform used with NI LabVIEW system design software to build powerful wireless communications systems for research and education. RF Studio is Averna’s proprietary software platform designed to streamline work with real-world RF signals. It provides user-friendly modules for capturing, processing, analyzing, archiving and playing back RF spectrum while also maintaining the signal-recording context.

Working together, Averna and National Instruments teams developed RF Studio for the USRP, an innovative and portable solution to record and play back live RF environments to accelerate RF project work. RF Studio’s LabVIEW compatible plug-in support delivers great value to LabVIEW users as it gives them quick access to a rich toolset for their in-house applications, and supports additional capture sources and customized views.

“RF Studio for the USRP is the only cost-effective and portable product on the market that offers the flexibility to cover a wide variety of use cases, thus making it a very competitive solution for general-purpose RF record and playback,” commented Brendan Wolfe, Director of Market Development for Averna. “We’ve been working very closely with the NI teams to bring this innovative solution to market, and we expect great success from this solution partnership.”

RF Studio for the USRP features:

Record and play back real-world RF signals, up to 40 MHz wide
Capture actual RF spectrum like FM, DAB, GPS, GLONASS, and cellular
Visualize and record weak signals with the Noise Figure view
Advance signal analysis with the Spectrum, Histogram, and Power views
Use simple RF-chain configuration tools to quickly detect and set up the recording environment
DriveView option: Log video, audio and NMEA data at the same time as recording RF

Click here for more information about RF Studio for the USRP.

“The combination of RF Studio and the USRP provides a flexible, affordable solution for RF record and playback. Now in addition to prototyping wireless communications systems in LabVIEW, users can test them by reproducing realistic RF environments in the lab,” said Erik Luther, Wireless Communications Group Manager for National Instruments.

Pricing and Availability

RF Studio for the USRP is available now to customers worldwide through National Instruments’ LabVIEW Tools Network. Contact us at sales(at)averna(dot)com for complete details.

Averna at NIWeek 2013, August 5-8 in Austin, TX

Averna will be showcasing RF Studio and RF Studio for the USRP during NIWeek 2013 in booth 301/307. Please contact sales@averna.com to set up a private demo.

Averna is a finalist for the 2013 NI Alliance Partner of the Year Award and RF Studio is a finalist for the 2013 LabVIEW Tools Network Award. The winners will be announced during Alliance Day on August 5.

Click to Tweet: @Avernatech: Averna and National Instruments Team up to Offer a Cost-Effective Solution for Recording and Playback of RF Signals http://bit.ly/162Qs8R.

About Averna

Averna is a premier manufacturing solution provider for communications and electronics device-makers worldwide, helping them deliver a better end-user customer experience. Key Averna clients in the communications, aerospace, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, and medical device industries use Proligent, RF Test Instruments, and other test solutions to accelerate product development, reduce manufacturing costs, achieve superior quality throughout the lifecycle, and solve critical supply-chain issues.

Averna has offices and sales partners around the world. Incorporated in 1999, Averna is a Best in Test award winner, an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® recipient, and has been honored as one of the Deloitte Fast 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America.

© Copyright 2013 Averna. All rights reserved. Information subject to change without notice.

Averna, RF Studio, and DriveView are trademarks of Averna Technologies.

National Instruments, NI, LabVIEW, and USRP are trademarks of National Instruments.







Let's Save a Vital National Media Resource: AM Radio
It has been all too easy for the receiver manufacturers to simply reduce overall receiver bandwidths down to even 2–3 kHz to address the pervasive issues of electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise from power lines, fluorescent-lamp ballasts, personal …
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Tailored flexible illusion coatings hide objects from detection
… tags work or could redistribute energy in different, controlled patterns making things more visible rather than less visible. The materials shielding ability can also be used to protect any type of equipment from stray or intentional …
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Amateur Radio operators will be on the air October 14-20 to let the public know about the National Wildlife Refuge System by operating from refuges around the US during National Wildlife Refuge Week. They will be highlighting refuge features, wildlife, and geography while contacting other stations across the US and North America. The goal for participants is to combine their communication skill…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Well-known contester Pat Barkey, N9RV, of Bonner, Montana, will become the 15th editor of National Contest Journal (NCJ) effective with the January/February 2015 issue. He takes over from Kirk Pickering, K4RO, who has served as NCJ’s editor since 2012. Pickering said he believes Barkey will bring a fresh perspective to NCJ readers.

“I am delighted that N9RV has stepped up to take the role as the…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

A Nevada radio amateur is among 12 new members appointed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Advisory Council (NAC). FEMA announced the appointments by FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, this week. New NAC member Chris Smith, W4HMV, of Sparks, Nevada, was one of the speakers at this year’s ARRL Nevada Section Convention.

 

“FEMA is just one part of our nation’s emerge…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

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…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Youth (age 21 and younger) may attend the ARRL National Centennial Convention free of charge. Information in The ARRL Letter for July 10 may have suggested otherwise. The 100th anniversary celebration of the League’s founding takes place July 17-19 at the Connecticut Convention Center.

Online registration is now limited to 2-day adult ($ 25) and youth (free) tickets, good for Friday and Saturday …

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

[Updated 2014-06-24 @ 2217 UTC] The ARRL National Centennial Convention July 17-19 in Hartford, Connecticut, will feature a wide-ranging slate of youth activities aimed at younger hams and prospective hams. Scheduled on Friday and Saturday, the youth activities include two youth forums, a hidden transmitter hunt, a scavenger hunt, and the Youth Radio Lab. The ARRL Discovery Station in the ARRL …

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Amateur Radio workshop sessions at the National Hurricane Conference taking place today in Miami will be streamed live to the Web via the VoIP SKYWARN/Hurricane Net Support and North Shore Radio Association sites. The session schedule is listed on these links and below. Times are in Eastern Daylight Time:

10:30 Opening Remarks (John McHugh, K4AG)

10:35 Importance of Amateur Radio/Spotter Surface …

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

The ARRL will be on hand April 5 to 10 as more than 100,000 visitors descend on Las Vegas to attend the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention. Hundreds of Amateur Radio operators are expected to be among them at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

ARRL Pacific Division Director Bob Vallio, W6RGG, will join local ham radio volunteers in staffing the ARRL booth. Jim Bilan, W7UX…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK ROAD TRIP 15 — 24 July, 2011 Download the GNP Road Trip COMM Plan PDF http://www.box.net/shared/rhlxfx7i4t85ksekgaj7 Let’s have a QSO!…
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Contest University Chairman Tim Duffy, K3LR, is predicting a great year in 2014 for Contest University (CTU). For the first year, CTU will hold two different all-day sessions, with no overlap or repeats between them. Each CTU event will feature unique and updated presentations.

The first US CTU will be the Dayton Contest University on Thursday, May 15, 2014, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Nearly 50 radio direction finding enthusiasts took part in the 13th USA Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) national championships, held in the Uwharrie National Forest near Asheboro, North Carolina, in October. This year’s weeklong US competition was combined with the Seventh ARDF Championships of IARU Region 2 (the Americas). ARDF competition rules are established by the International Amat…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Due to the partial US Government shutdown, the National Wildlife Refuge Week Amateur Radio special event October 12 until October 20 has immediately suspended rules that confine NWR Week stations operations within the boundaries of national wildlife refuges and wildlife areas. The government shutdown has closed some, if not all, federal wildlife refuges, so stations may operate from any locatio…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Mike Carroll, N4MC, who operated the “Vanity HQ” website for 14 years before taking it dark earlier this year, says the National Silent Key Archive of Amateur Radio Operators that he founded remains up and running.

“The only thing that was carried over from Vanity HQ would be the unique call lookup,” Carroll told ARRL. On the “Tools” menu, click on “Research Hams” to enter a name or a call sig…

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A cut of G4SHF’s video shot at the 2011 National Hamfest.This year’s show is at the Newark Showground on 28/29 September 2012. See www.nationalhamfest.org.uk…
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LARISA HAMFEST 2012 (LIVE BY SV1EAG) PART2.
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Amateur Radio will be a part of the 2013 Boy Scouts of America National Jamboree, July 15-24, when some 40,000 Scouts and leaders are expected at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Mount Hope, West Virginia. K2BSA will be on the air, primarily on SSB and PSK31, as a demonstration station and to offer radio merit badge training and other activities. The West Virginia reservation will become the perma…

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Video 1 of the main hall at the excellent National Hamfest held at Newark on 28/29 September 2012. The Hamfest is hosted by Lincoln Short Wave Club in associ…
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This is the third video of the 2011 National Hamfest organised by the Lincoln Short Wave Club in association with the RSGB held at the Newark Showground on 1…

Saratoga County R.A.C.E.S. Association Ballston Spa Hamfest 2010 Saratoga County Fairgrounds Ballston Spa, NY Always a great time, good food, nice location, …

The annual WX4NHC On-the-Air Station Test from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami will take place Saturday, June 1, 1300-2100 UTC (9 AM-5 PM EDT). “The purpose of this annual station test is to test all of our radio equipment, computers and antennas using as many modes and frequencies as possible in preparation for this year’s hurricane season,” said WX4NHC Assistant Amateur Radio Vol…

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Scenes from the exhibit hall, Maritime Radio Historical Society and W1AW/6 Special Event Station.

NATIONAL HAMFEST 2011.

George Hart, W1NJM — the chief developer of the National Traffic System (NTS) — passed away Sunday, March 24. He was 99. An ARRL Charter Life Member, Hart spent more than four decades as a member of the ARRL Headquarters staff and continued to be an active amateur and regular participant in Field Day. In 1984, the ARRL Board of Directors named Hart as an ARRL Honorary Vice President.

First lic…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

The ARRL will be promoting Amateur Radio at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) — NAB Show — scheduled for April 6-11 in at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Members of the Las Vegas Radio Amateurs Club (LVRAC) will staff the ARRL booth at NAB, providing attendees with information about Amateur Radio. The booth also serves as a meeting place for radio amateu…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Last year, the ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee prepared — and the ARRL Board of Directors approved — updated national band plans for the amateur bands between 902 MHz and 3.5 GHz after receiving extensive and helpful input from the user community. Last year, after the ARRL Executive Committee extended the Committee’s charter to include the 5 and 10 GHz bands, it solicited additional in…

American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

Video of the outside areas at the excellent National Hamfest held at Newark on 28/29 September 2012. The Hamfest is hosted by Lincoln Short Wave Club in association with the RSGB. Thanks to those involved. I’ve also posted vids of the main hall (search on “g4shf Hamfest”)
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Video 2 of the main hall at the excellent National Hamfest held at Newark on 28/29 September 2012. The Hamfest is hosted by Lincoln Short Wave Club in association with the RSGB. Thanks to those involved. I’ve also posted another vid of the main hall and one of the outside areas (search on “g4shf Hamfest”)

On October 12-14, the ARRL will welcome members and friends to the 2012 ARRL National Convention in Santa Clara, California. Hosted by Pacificon and sponsored by members of the Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club, this three-day event is sure to be jam-packed with excitement, exhibits and, of course, the ever-popular ARRL EXPO. Use this handy guide to find ARRL-sponsored activities and exhibits thr…

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NASA Astronaut Lee Morin, KF5DDB, will be a special guest at the 2012 ARRL National Convention at Pacificon — held October 12-14 — in Santa Clara, California. Morin, an ARRL member, served as a Mission Specialist on Atlantis for STS-110 that launched in April 2002. During this 13th shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS), he performed two extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) — …

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American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources

The National Hurricane Conference — scheduled for March 26-29 in Orlando, Florida — will feature several Amateur Radio activities during the conference. The National Hurricane Conference (NHC) leadership continues to recognize the valuable contributions of Amateur Radio and has invited several radio amateurs to participate in two sessions.

  • NHC Session #1: Amateur Radio Training Sessions: Disas…

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