eHam.net News for Tuesday 22 November 2016
 

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Amateur Radio Station Recognized Around the World:

Posted: 21 Nov 2016 04:50 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38059


ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- One local man's hobby has allowed him to experience the
entire world without ever leaving his basement. Everett Jackson started his
amateur radio station, WZ8P, back in 1962. Since then he has used his
station in the basement of his Zanesville home to communicate with someone
in every single country in the world. His passion started when he was just
a teenager. "I loved the radio and I wanted to talk on it but it was
illegal because CB radio was for small businesses. So my dad says 'you need
to get an amateur radio license.' So he brought home some 33 1/3 records
and I sat in bed and I played them and I listen to these records for two
years to learn Morse Code to be able to go and take the exam and get a
novice license," said Jackson. It took Jackson 32 years to reach his goal
of talking to every country. He now has a binder with post cards from every
nation and island he's been on air with.


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Mystery Signals from Arabian Sea Baffle Ham Radio Buffs:

Posted: 21 Nov 2016 04:49 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38058


Mumbai: Amateur radio operators, also known as ham radio buffs, in Mumbai
were baffled by unidentified mystery signal transmissions reportedly
originating from the Arabian Sea on the country's west coast, an operator
said here on Monday. Though the signals have been picked up by their VHF
wireless radios since the past five months or so, they became suspicious
after they tracked them down to the deep sea off Maharashtra-Gujarat
coasts, said Ham Radio Operators Mumbai spokesperson Ankur Puranik. "We
have written to the Wireless Advisor, Ministry of Telecommunications and
IT, with copies to the PMO, other ministries, and top defence and police
officials to take note and investigate these unknown signals," Puranik told
IANS. They sent the memorandum to the Centre after analysing the signals
with their direction-finding equipment and antennae and were alarmed to
learn they originated around 100 nautical miles in the high seas off the
Maharashtra-Gujarat coast. "They are encroaching on our allotted bandwidth
144-146MHz for our two-way radio, they don't use the compulsory 'call sign'
by which each ham radio operator in the world can be identified and
tracked, and they speak in a language we can't understand," Puranik
explained. The amateur radio operators did not rule out the wireless
signals originating from some anti-social elements or sea pirates or other
groups with possible nefarious motives.