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This Week in Amateur Radio News for Friday 12 January 2018
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/////////////////////////////////////////// Sawnee Amateur Radio Association uses ham radio for emergencies, fun (Georgia) Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:50 PM PST http://bit.ly/2ATotxf A local group is able to talk to people on the other side of the world and report emergencies without using a cell phone or the internet. Members of the Sawnee Amateur Radio Association use amateur, or ham, radios for both personal enjoyment and as a source of communication in emergencies, which member Tom McElroy said is a part of a license each operator must obtain from the Federal Communications Commission. “That license says, ‘you can have millions of dollars’ worth of radio spectrum for your use, however in exchange, in time of need when all else fails, you people had better be able to operate your radios to serve your community,” he said. “So we make it fun to serve our community.” Jim Farmer, the group’s president, said he has met people from across the country and the world through ham radio and it even led him to his career in electrical engineering. /////////////////////////////////////////// Disaster Management dept calendar to feature photo of young ham (India) Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:47 PM PST http://bit.ly/2D3j5wJ Kolkata: The achievements of a young ham in the field of disaster management has received the acknowledgment of the state Disaster Management & Civil Defence department. A page of the calendar of the department this year comes with the picture of young ham Saborni Nag Biswas, who is one of the youngest amateur radio enthusiasts in the country. Saborni has been a regular in the Gangasagar Mela for the last few years, working with a team of ham radio operators in close coordination with the state Disaster Management department and the district administration. This will be her fourth appearance in the mela. She was instrumental in uniting a couple from Uttar Pradesh at the mela two years ago, when the husband-wife duo had been estranged from each other. The helpless woman had sought help from young Saborni and with the assistance of her ham team, she managed to trace her husband in 48 hours. "A year back, the couple visited our residence at Sodepur. It was a great honour for me," said Saborni. /////////////////////////////////////////// Frederick County man dies after falling through ice near Libertytown (Maryland) Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:44 PM PST http://bit.ly/2mxNQRh A Frederick County man died Friday after attempting to rescue his family’s dog, which had wandered onto a frozen pond outside his home near Libertytown. David Collingham, 59, was pronounced dead at Frederick Memorial Hospital after spending more than an hour submerged in water under the ice, according to Tom Coe, deputy chief with the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services. .... As the owner of International Quality Registrars Corporation — an accreditation company based in Frederick — Collingham was well-known in the community. But he was also a titan in the world of amateur radio, where he went by the call sign K3LP. In his more than 40 years as a ham radio operator, Collingham befriended hundreds of people around the world and led dozens of expeditions to promote amateur radio in hard-to-reach countries, said Paul Ewing, a friend from San Jose, California. “There are several hundred thousand amateur radio operators worldwide, and I would venture to say that most knew of David and knew of his activities,” Ewing said. “A ham radio friend in Thailand called me early yesterday morning and asked if I heard the news — that’s how far the word had spread. It’s a shock and just a deep loss, that this pillar, this giant, is gone.” /////////////////////////////////////////// Whats the buzz? Ham radio fans fine-tune skills at Brookville conference (New York) Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:39 PM PST https://nwsdy.li/2ExbpA7 For ham radio enthusiasts gathered at a conference Saturday in Brookville, it was clear that their calling is a passion. About 300 fans attended the annual Ham Radio University conference at LIU Post in Brookville, participating in more than 30 educational forums and hands-on workshops — from building their first amateur radio stations to creating their own ham antennas and honing their skills, organizers said. Luigi Cassetta, 41, of Westchester County, was at his second event and said he enjoyed the hands-on learning during the Cable Theory and RF Connectors workshop, where he learned about the different characteristics of the cables used in ham radios. /////////////////////////////////////////// German regulator takes action over radio interference Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:37 PM PST http://bit.ly/2mrr4KM The DARC reports that in 2017, the Federal Network Agency BNetzA withdrew about 460,000 products on the Internet, which could cause radio interference or electromagnetic incompatibility A Google English translation says: "The trend of recent years has it that many unsafe products reach the German market via the Internet. Many of these products come from the Far East. We also end offers of unsafe products even where the dealers do not cooperate with us, "explains Jochen Homann, President of the Federal Network Agency. He adds: "Our market surveillance is a contribution to consumer protection, which also has a preventive effect." In 2017, the Federal Network Agency ended 665 offers of unsafe products that could cause radio interference or electromagnetic incompatibility. A total of around 460,000 products were affected. The trend from the past few years suggests that there are many unsafe products on the Internet. /////////////////////////////////////////// FCC to Consider Cellphone Geo-Targeting for Emergency Alerts Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:30 PM PST http://bit.ly/2CTtLLj Emergency alerts warning of flooding, tornadoes or other looming disasters could be targeted to specific neighborhoods under proposed upgrades to the nation's emergency alerts system, filling a gap exposed during Hurricane Harvey. The proposed changes, announced Tuesday by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, would allow officials to use "device-based geo-targeting" to send alerts to all the cellphones in areas as small as one-tenth of a mile in radius. The current Wireless Emergency Alerts system only allows officials to target all cellphones in a county. "If adopted, it will be the single most important improvement to the nation's alerts and warnings infrastructure in years," said Francisco Sanchez, Harris County's deputy emergency management coordinator. /////////////////////////////////////////// FCC Delivers Year-End Rush of Unlicensed Notices Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:27 PM PST http://bit.ly/2mxMHcr It looks like there were no early New Year’s Eve revelries for the folks in the enforcement bureau — and no celebrating for the half-dozen individuals who were issued Notices of Unlicensed Operation by the Federal Communications Commission at the end of 2017. The FCC delivered a slew of unlicensed broadcast actions in the last few days of December 2017 by sending warning notices to a Florida church, a mortgage funding outfit, an investment corporation and several alliteratively named individuals. |
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