A unique project is underway Friday night in Pointe Coupee parish. Officials there are putting together a program to keep communications up and running in case of an emergency. Officials are turning to old reliable amateur radio to do just that. Fordoche mayor Justin Cox says it’s going to be the Pointe Coupee back up. [...]
The FCC has acted to drop the Morse code requirement for all Amateur Radio license classes. The Commission adopted, but hasn’t yet released, the long-awaited Report and Order (R&O) in WT Docket 05-235, the “Morse code” proceeding. The FCC’s action appears to put all Technician licensees on an equal footing: Once the Report and Order [...]
While listening to the Dan Patrick Show yesterday, I heard an ad for Ham Radio. It was unusual, because I never hear ads for ham radio. The ad, which is part of the ARRL’s “Hello” Campaign, refers listeners to the Hello Radio.org website, a site where people can learn more about ham radio and find [...]
They have been dubbed “the Pumpkin Patrol,” and they were out in full force Halloween night. Ham-radio operators from throughout New York state were monitoring bridges along the Thruway on Halloween night, as they have for about 20 years. They were looking for people who toss pumpkins, rocks or other objects from overpasses onto vehicles [...]
For years, whenever a disaster struck, Rick Johnson and David Kleber would volunteer their expertise as longtime amateur radio operators to keep the lines of communication open. When Hurricane Katrina ravaged parts of Louisiana and Mississippi last month, the ham operators pitched in to help again, but this time their hobby had become a business, [...]
Seemingly anytime there’s been a major disaster in the world, amateur radios have been used by emergency officials to communicate and coordinate response. Because of that, the Logan, UT Police Department and Logan City School District are teaming up to install ham radios in each of the city’s nine schools. Read (The Herald Journal)
Computer World has a 3-part series about how Ham Radio is being used to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Part 1: Ham radio operator heads south to aid post-Katrina communications Part 2: Volunteer radio op coordinates equipment donations Part 3: One volunteer sleeps next to his radio Read
With Hurricane Katrina having knocked out nearly all the high-end emergency communications gear, 911 centers, cellphone towers and normal fixed phone lines in its path, ham-radio operators have begun to fill the information vacuum. In an age of high-tech gadgetry, it’s the decidedly unsexy ham radio that is in high demand in ravaged New Orleans [...]
With phone lines and most other communication down in badly affected areas, the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) is trying to help hundreds of people who are wondering if family members or friends have survived the storm. SATERN is a HAM radio team that not only helps its onsite volunteers be in touch [...]
While cell phones and other communication networks were demolished by Hurricane Katrina, a group of radio operators volunteering with the Red Cross have been instrumental in assistance and relief efforts. Read (NPR)
When tsunami waves broke all communication lines across the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, ham radio came to the rescue. Read The Washington Post has additional details. Originally from The Economic Times of India Via Common Sense Technology
Dotted around the globe are shadowy, short-range transmitters beaming strange radio messages across the planet. The messages are indecipherable, and often unlistenable. Nonetheless, they have their fans. By Jason Walsh.
In 1985-1986, my job would often require me to spend part of my days and/or nights finding and intercepting numbers broadcasts that had 5-character words. The 4-character word broadcasts were ignored.
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