Amateur OR Ham Radio - Google News for Saturday 17 November 2012
 

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How a radio ham in a Castlederg shed saved hundreds of lives on a US flight
- Belfast Telegraph

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 12:03 AM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...-16238741.html


How a radio ham in a Castlederg shed saved hundreds of lives on a US flight
Belfast Telegraph
A ham radio operator helped save the lives of hundreds of passengers on a
US-bound flight while sitting in his garden shed in Co Tyrone. Benny Young
(29), an amateur radio enthusiast from Castlederg who spends most evenings
scanning the airwaves ...

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Tyrone amateur radio enthusiast claims he saved a Boston-bound flight
from ... - IrishCentral

Posted: 17 Nov 2012 05:09 AM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...179675121.html


IrishCentral
Tyrone amateur radio enthusiast claims he saved a Boston-bound flight
from ...
IrishCentral
Nothing like this has ever happened to me before," Benny Young, an amateur
radio enthusiast, told the Ulster Herald newspaper. Young (29) made contact
with a United Airlines transatlantic pilot, who was having difficulty
reaching Air Traffic Control in ...



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Amateur-Radio Emergency Services and Disasters - Electronic Design (blog)

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 08:54 PM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...isasters-74616


Amateur-Radio Emergency Services and Disasters
Electronic Design (blog)
The second morning after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast seems like a
good time for Electronic Design readers to think about ham radio and
emergency response issues. I got involved in these issues myself when my
neighbor, Dave, told me about his ...
In Brief ...Chinook Observer

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