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  • FCC Launches Consumer Help Center
    Beginning July 28, those who have dealings with the FCC will have a new tool that the FCC claims will put them "within one click of all the information they want" from the Commission: a new "easy-to-use" Consumer Help Center

  • Hamming it up (Iowa)
    In a disaster, communications are vital. But often, phone lines are down or overloaded, cell phones fail and electricity is out.

  • State Fair will utilize amateur radio operators for safety (Nebraska)
    The kickoff date for the State Fair is closing in and with tens of thousands of people headed to Grand Island fair officials are making safety and security a top priority. When all else fails one group in particular - amateur radio operators said they come through.

  • Storm rips off portion of Galvin roof, damages radio club antenna (Iowa)
    When the clouds started moving in Friday afternoon, July 23, most of campus thought the area would get a little rain. Shortly thereafter, the wind started - 70 mph winds - and proceeded to peel back two layers of the Galvin Fine Arts Center roof like a can opener.

  • Radio hams to the rescue (Wisconsin)
    Many northern Wisconsin counties want amateur radio operators to provide information during emergency situations when phone lines fail and power lines are down. Laura Podgornik reports from Superior.

  • ARRL Board Considers Celebrations, Changes and Conferring of Awards at 2010 Second Meeting
    The ARRL Board of Directors held its Second Meeting of 2010 July 16-17 in Windsor, Connecticut, under the chairmanship of President Kay Craigie, N3KN. International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD, and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, were guests of the Board. At the two-day meeting, the Board considered a number of reports and acted on several recommendations and Directors’ motions.

  • D-STAR illegal in France - update
    French Amateur Radio groups are working together to get the digital prohibition in France lifted.

  • The 6th Borneo Amateur Radio Festival (Brunei)
    The Brunei Darussalam Amateur Radio Federation, BDARA is host to about 300 amateur radio enthusiasts from Borneo Island at the 6th Borneo Amateur Radio Festival. The three day festival took place this morning.

  • UK: TV series invites amateur radio enthusiasts
    RSGB News reports that the producers of a forthcoming TV series are inviting amateur radio enthusiasts and others to take part. The show revolves around a souped-up double decker bus which is touring cities around Britain.

  • Wicked weather watcher (Manitoba)
    Dark skies, strong winds and heavy rains are usually a clue to take cover, but for Bill Simm of Portage la Prairie, they are a signal to get to work. Simm is an amateur radio operator - ham - and one of Environment Canada's many volunteer severe weather watchers with the CanWarn system.

  • Radio Days: One man's collection lives on (Connecticut)
    Radios were the late George Helmer's passion. The older the better. Taking in his radio collection in the Riverside home where his widow lives transports one back to those early radio days when families gathered around to listen to the Ozzie and Harriet show, Bob Hope or Fred Waring, or heard the deep, far-off voice of Edward R. Murrow broadcasting his vivid accounts of the London Blitz during WWII .

  • Aircraft 'black box' inventor dies in Australia
    A pioneering Australian inventor whose "black box" flight data recorder revolutionised the safety of air travel and aided countless crash investigations has died aged 85, officials said Wednesday. David Warren, whose own father died in a plane crash, hit upon the "black box" idea while probing a 1953 disaster involving the world's first commercial jetliner. Building radios soon became his schoolboy hobby, but a World War II ban on amateur radio led Warren to dump his nascent ambitions as a "radio ham" in favour of chemistry, his ultimate career path.

  • Independent radio operators trade gadgets (California)
    More than 120 ham radio enthusiasts gathered in Burson Saturday to browse through rare equipment, talk radio and share smoked chicken in the barrel.

  • FCC: Vanity Call Sign Fees to Decrease August 17
    On July 19, the FCC announced via the Federal Register that the cost of an Amateur Radio vanity call sign will decrease 10 cents, from to $13.40 to $13.30. The new fees take effect 30 days after publication, making August 17, 2010, the first day the new fee is in effect. In FY2010, the FCC expects to grant 14,800 vanity call signs, bringing in $196,840 from the vanity call sign program. Earlier this year, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order (NPRM), seeking to lower the fee for Amateur Radio vanity call signs.

  • Amateur radio club ready to be called on in case of emergency (Florida)
    The Lake Monroe Amateur Radio Society does more than just help plan Christmas parades and hold community education meetings. A new system has been developed by Seminole County's ham radio enthusiasts that could mean quicker responses from the authorities - as well as knowing if your loved one is safe - after a disaster.

  • ARRL Argues that Oklahoma Town’s RFI Ordinance is "Null and Void"
    Saying that only the Federal Communications Commission is empowered to regulate radio frequency interference (RFI), the ARRL has notified Midwest City, Oklahoma, that its local ordinance 27-3(9), seeking to regulate radio transmissions and RFI, is "null and void." Midwest City is in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

  • Skyview Radio Society celebrates 50 years of community service (Pennsylvania)
    When Bob King and Bill Bell became rebels in 1959, they never dreamed of creating a 50-year community service legacy in the Alle-Kiski Valley. Bell, 80, of Springdale and King, 79, of Washington Township, are ham radio operators and two of the three surviving charter members of the Skyview Radio Society. The club marked its 50th anniversary Saturday with its 85 members contacting other ham operators around the world and a picnic on the club's property along Turkey Ridge Road.

  • Winifred Chappell, W6ATP SK
    Winifred Chappell died peacefully in her home on the afternoon of July 10, 2010. She was 99 years old. Winifred was born on May 2, 1911, in San Francisco to Burr and Clara Amelia (Clark) St. John. She grew up and was educated in San Francisco, earning her California teaching credential. She became the first licensed ham radio operator in the Western part of the United States, possibly the first in the USA. Her call letters were W6ATP.

  • Two New Indonesian Satellites to Launch Next Year
    Having launched its first locally made satellite in 2007, Indonesia is now looking to launch another two next year for both communications and remote-sensing applications. The Lapan-A2 and Lapan-Orari are categorized as microsatellites, weighing 68 and 70 kilograms, respectively, and have been developed in-house by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan). Both are scheduled to be put into orbit in September 2011 by an Indian rocket.

  • BDARA Holds Fun Outing At Tanjong Pelumpong (Brunei)
    Some 80 Brunei Darussalam Amateur Radio Association (BDARA) members and their families conducted an outing trip to Pulau Tanjong Pelumpong on July 9 and 10. Among them were the Adviser of BDARA, V85BAHaji Abu Bakar bin Haji Ahmad and the President of BDARA, V85DX Pg Haji Salleh Ab Rahaman bin Pg Haji Damit.

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