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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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In comments filed in response to an AT&T Mobility Petition for Rule Making seeking a new air-to-ground communications system on 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Service (WCS) spectrum, the ARRL has once again asked the FCC to elevate the Amateur Service allocation at 2300 to 2305 MHz from secondary to primary. The Petition (RM-11731) asked the Commission to authorize an LTE-based in-flight conne…
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The ARRL is accepting nominations for the George Hart Distinguished Service Award. The deadline to receive nominations and supporting materials is November 1. The award honors long-time ARRL Communications Manager George Hart, W1NJM (SK), the chief developer of the National Traffic System (NTS). Hart died in 2013 at the age of 99.
Established by the ARRL Board of Directors in 2009, the George Ha…
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While best known for its efforts to aid voyagers on the high seas, the Maritime Mobile Service Network (MMSN) occasionally helps out in land-based emergencies too. That was the case recently when MMSN net control stations received distress calls regarding motor vehicle incidents in Nevada and Texas. On July 24, MMSN Net Control Station Ken Porter, AC0ML, was notified by HF mobile operator Georg…
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A Cincinnati, Ohio, broadband-over-powerline (BPL) Internet service provider is throwing in the towel and yielding to more modern technology. Cincinnati Communications will pull the plug on its BPL system on August 1, according to a report on The Enquirer newspaper’s Cincinnati.com website.
“The failure of the Cincinnati system will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with BPL technology,” sa…
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The FCC’s recently announced revisions to the Part 97 Amateur Radio rules governing exam credit to former licensees, test administration, and emission types will go into effect on Monday, July 21. In a wide-ranging Report and Order (R&O) released June 9, the Commission announced that it would grant examination credit for written elements 3 (General) and 4 (Amateur Extra) to holders of “expired …
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ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, has added new 30-second radio/audio public service announcements (PSAs) to promote Amateur Radio and the 2014 ARRL Field Day.
The spot named “Amateur” talks about the meaning of the word amateur and how the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) helps during disasters. It includes an 8-second “bed” at the end for local clubs to provide c…
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Asserting “a substantial stake” in the outcome of the proceeding, the ARRL has commented in opposition to an FCC proposal that would leave licensed radio service users vulnerable to interference from unlicensed devices. In a docket unrelated to Amateur Radio spectrum, the Commission has indicated that it’s willing to consider adding licensed Globalstar terrestrial users to the 2473-2483.5 MHz b…
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Ham radio operators provide serious public service
Southgate Amateur Radio Club Ham radio operators provide serious public service. The News Courier in Athens, Alabama reports on the Limestone Amateur Radio Emergency Services team. Lora Scripps writes that radio amateurs are part of the ears and voices that help protect residents … |
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Ham radio: a hobby and public service
U-T San Diego Charlie Ristorcelli is the president of the Poway Amateur Radio club and has been an expert in the craft for over 30 years, including time served in the Navy and with NSA. Ristorcelli has a sophisticated system established in his Poway home that allows … |
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Limestone amateur radio operators provide serious public service
News Courier “My dad — W4FXZ — was a ham and my oldest brother — W4THW — was a ham,” Birdwell said, adding his youngest daughter and grandsons have been involved with ham radio as well. Stark, who joked he is a frustrated electrical engineer, said he has … |
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Ham radio: a hobby and public service
U-T San Diego Charlie Ristorcelli is the president of the Poway Amateur Radio club and has been an expert in the craft for over 30 years, including time served in the Navy and with NSA. Ristorcelli has a sophisticated system established in his Poway home that allows … |
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The transition to the new vendor for the ARRL.net E-mail Forwarding Service was completed successfully on October 15th. Due to DNS changes that have to propagate across all Internet Service Providers (ISPs), there may have been a delay of up to 24 hours before your local ISP was ready to accept the changes. However, there should have been no disruption in service as the old provider was still f…
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On Tuesday morning, October 15, the ARRL.net E-mail Forwarding Service will be making the transition to a new provider for this popular ARRL member benefit. POBox.com, with headquarters in Philadelphia, PA will be taking over the operations for this service. The transition is expected to begin at approximately 8 am and is expected to take about two hours to complete. There is not expected to …
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Speaking in late July at the 28th annual National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) meeting, Bill Cross, W3TN, of the FCC’s Mobility Division within the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), assured attendees that pending proposals to modify the Amateur Service Part 97 rules are not on the back burner but still under review. FCC personnel addressing the teleconference we…
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Nominations are open for the 2013 George Hart Distinguished Service Award. The ARRL Board of Directors established the award in 2009, to be given to an ARRL member whose service to the League’s Field Organization is of the most exemplary nature.
The Award’s namesake, George Hart, W1NJM (SK), was a long-time Communications Manager at ARRL Headquarters and chief developer of the National Traffic S…
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It’s been 50 years this month since now-veteran QSL manager Joe Arcure, W3HNK, began serving as a QSL manager for DX stations, starting with ZE4JS (Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe). Since then he has handled QSLing chores for more than 400 DX stations, and anyone with DX QSL cards likely has one in the collection that W3HNK handled. Licensed in 1956, W3HNK was bitten by the DX bug the following…
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All India Radio GOS on 17510 kHz in English received in Germany on February 20, 2013 at 1000 UTC. Receiver: ELAD FDM-S1 Antenna: Bazooka Coaxiale Dipole.
In addition to an increase in postal rates in January 2013, the US Postal Service introduced a new Global Forever First-Class Mail International stamp. Priced at $ 1.10 each and offered in a pane of 20, the new stamp offers a single price for any First-Class Mail International 1-ounce letter to any country in the world, as well as 2-ounce letters to Canada. The stamp is available online, at post…
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In a Report & Order (R&O) — FCC 13-15 — released February 4, the FCC adopted numerous changes to its Experimental Radio Service (Part 5), revising and streamlining its rules. With the new rules, the FCC states that the Experimental Radio Service will have “a more flexible framework to keep pace with the speed of modern technological change, while continuing to provide an environment where cre…
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On Tuesday, November 20, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ET Docket No. 12-338) that proposes to amend Parts 1, 2, 74, 78, 87, 90 and 97 of the Commission’s rules. Part 97 governs the Amateur Radio Service. These changes will implement allocation decisions from the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-07) that concern those portions of the radio frequency spectrum betw…
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If the US Postal Service (USPS) gets its way, it will no longer sell International Reply Coupons (IRCs) after January 27, 2013. According to the October 23 edition of the Federal Register, there is not sufficient demand for the USPS to continue offering IRCs to customers; however, per the Universal Postal Union (UPU) regulations, the USPS must continue to exchange (redeem) IRCs that have been p…
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Each year at its Annual Meeting in January, the ARRL Board of Directors bestows the George Hart Distinguished Service Award to a League member whose service to the ARRL’s Field Organization is of the most exemplary nature. This award is named in honor of George Hart, W1NJM, long-time Communications Manager at ARRL Headquarters and chief developer of the National Traffic System.
Selection criter…
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With the recent upgrades to the ARRL’s Internet system completed, the W1AW EchoLink Conference Server W1AWBDCT and W1AW’s IRLP Node 4292 are now back in service. Amateurs are able to once again listen to code practice transmissions and digital bulletins via the W1AW EchoLink Conference Server.
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On July 6, 2012, the White House released an Executive Order that addresses National Security and Emergency Preparedness (NS/EP) communications functions of the federal government. Contrary to some concerns raised in a few Amateur Radio circles, the Order does not appear to contain any threat to the Amateur Service or its ability to continue support communications during times of emergency or d…
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The former Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (AREC) series of three levels of emergency communications courses has been reconfigured into two new courses: An introductory course for radio amateurs who want to volunteer to provide services for public service and emergency communications, and a course for leaders and managers who are responsible for training and coordinating response efforts…
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