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Amateur Radio Roundtable:

Posted: 19 Dec 2015 06:49 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/35824


This week (Dec 22) on Amateur Radio
Roundtable, Emmett Hohensee , W0QH, chief
engineer of Radio Wavz will give us a report
on the youth activities with the USS Batfish
submarine and also a segment on setting up
antennas.


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Decorated Veteran Revived Wartime Radio Skills:

Posted: 18 Dec 2015 04:18 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/35823


When the doors of his B-24 bomber were sheared during a mission through the
Zuiderzee, a narrow channel in the North Sea with anti-aircraft guns on
each side that airmen dubbed "Flak Alley," Bob Jordan took off his
parachute to be able to reach out and kick the door loose as the gunner
held him by his harness. "They had an arrangement -- if anything happened,
they'd use the one chute," said his son, William Jordan . The plane and its
crew made it back to the Royal Air Force's Old Buckenham airfield in
southern England that served as home after the harrowing event. Robert W.
Jordan of Washington died Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. He was 91. Born March 3,
1924, in Cowansburg, a son of the late L. Quay and Sara (Campbell) Jordan,
he flew 36 combat missions with the Army Air Forces' 454th Bomb Group in
Europe during World War II, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross, the
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze stars, a
Good Conduct medal and an Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters. Their
planes often had to be scrapped after missions because they were so full of
holes, William Jordan said. Later in life, he built on what he learned as
an Air Force radio man and became an amateur radio operator. "I always
wanted to get into it, and one day we just decided to do it," said Regis
Stinely, 86, who knew Mr. Jordan for 50 years. "Before you knew it, we had
antennas everywhere." Through their ham radios, Mr. Jordan was able to keep
in touch with people in Great Britain whom he met during the war, and
Stinely was able to relay messages from soldiers all over the world to
their parents in the States.


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Propagation Forecast Bulletin #51 de K7RA:

Posted: 18 Dec 2015 07:51 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/35822


Australia's Space Weather Services issued a geomagnetic disturbance
warning at 2224 UTC on December 17. It read in part, "Two coronal
mass ejections observed Dec 16 are expected to impact the Earth in
sequence late Dec 18 to early Dec 19. Brief minor to major
geomagnetic storm conditions may result."