eHam.net News for Saturday 13 December 2014
 

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After-School Program Helps High School Students Learn About Ham Radio:

Posted: 12 Dec 2014 04:24 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/33687


"Some kids don't have a sport," she added -- Knappa's after-school program
does, however, include badminton and other team sports. On the other side
of KHS, volunteer Mike Gore tries to interest middle schoolers in ham radio
operation. A licensed operator, Gore started a club earlier at KHS and has
trained two high schoolers so far who've earned their ham radio operators
licenses. "My mission now is to create new ham radio operators," said Gore,
who tries to entice them with story's of the ham radio operators that
helped the North Coast communicate during the 2007 Great Coastal Gale.


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In the Late 1890s Marconi Helped Invent Wireless News:

Posted: 12 Dec 2014 04:23 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/33686


Although inventor Guglielmo Marconi created short-distance wireless
telegraph years earlier, on December 12, 1901 his team sent and received
the first long-distance transatlantic radio/telegraph message. He proved
that wireless messages (and eventually news) could be sent across the
Atlantic.