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Radio Club Mark 50 Years On the Air:

Posted: 12 Aug 2016 05:32 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37366


RADIO enthusiasts may be hearing a very special calling sign across the
airwaves this month as the Chippenham and Amateur Radio Club is celebrating
its 50th anniversary. To mark the occasion the club, which was founded in
1966, has been given the special calling sign of GB5CRC and hopes to try
and speak with as many people as possible both locally and worldwide.
Currently made up of more than 30 members, the club was previously based at
Chippenham Boys' High School before moving to the Chippenham Sea Cadets
site TS Tiger in 1981, where it remains and meets every Tuesday evening.


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Special Event: 90th Anniversary of the Founding of South Plainfield, NJ:

Posted: 12 Aug 2016 05:32 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37365


On Saturday, August 13, 2016; the South Plainfield Amateur Radio Club
(SPARC) will be holding a special event operation in Putnam Park from 1500
~ 1900 Zulu (11 AM to 3 PM). The event is listed on page 100 of August's
QST magazine. The planned frequencies of use a SSB: 21.325; 14.325;
7.225; CW: 21.025; 14.025; 7.025. PARC members are also CERT (Community
Emergency Response Team) members under the South Plainfield Office of
Emergency Management. These same individuals have further demonstrated
their value in public assistance by providing free radio communications for
local parades, runs, walk-a-thons, fairs and other charitable public
events. Many of these "hams" participate as weather spotters in the Skywarn
program of the US Government Weather Bureau.


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1967 Solar Flare Nearly Took U.S. and Soviets to Brink of War:

Posted: 12 Aug 2016 05:31 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37364


On May 23, 1967, amidst the high-strung economic and political tension of
the Cold War, all three of the United States' ballistic missile
early-warning radars became simultaneously jammed. Located in the
high-latitude areas of Alaska, Greenland, and the United Kingdom, these
radars were designed to detect incoming Soviet missiles, and any attack or
disruption of these radars were considered to be an act of war. The United
States Air Force, believing their radars had been intentionally jammed by
the Soviet Union, authorized aircraft with nuclear-strike capabilities to
take to the skies. Timely information from space-weather forecasters, who
realized that it was a powerful solar flare jamming the radar, managed to
prevent military action just in time.