[KB6NU] Amateur radio in the news: Junior-high kids learn code, Skywarn, digital TV
KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// Amateur radio in the news: Junior-high kids learn code, Skywarn, digital TV Posted: 22 Dec 2015 01:21 PM PST http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu...m_medium=email Massena junior high school students honing skills in Morse code, ham radio operation. Some J.W. Leary Junior High School students have discovered the joys of communication using technology that’s more than 170 years old. Seventh-grade social studies teacher Tony Cafarella has incorporated Morse code and ham radio into his class as an after-school activity. Students with parental permission, under the supervision of Mr. Cafarella, a licensed ham radio operator, can talk to various countries and log the contact on a map, gaining a sense of geography and science. They’re also learning from scratch how to interpret the dots and dashes of Morse code. National Weather Service invites hams to event.*The sound of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” filled the conference room at the National Weather Service Office in North Platte on Dec. 4. Meteorologist Bill Taylor laughed and shook his head before walking out of the room.*“I told you,” said Kevin Curtis to Taylor, who apparently didn’t believe that there was an amateur radio station out there playing Michael Jackson. The sound faded as Larry Petska, of Hershey, turned the radio dial to find something he actually wanted to listen to. It wasn’t music the men were after — it was other weather service offices.*Every year, the NWS offices across the country invite ham radio operators in for an event called Skywarn Recognition Day. Amateur Radio Operators Convert to Digital Television – Part 1.*Ham TV has evolved, moving from mechanical scanning to all-electronic operation, then color, and eventually to digital video and most recently, high-definition imaging. And while commercial television entities have routinely spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in retrofitting analog plants for digital broadcasting, hams—being an ingenious and creative lot—have managed to go digital on the cheap. The post Amateur radio in the news: Junior-high kids learn code, Skywarn, digital TV appeared first on KB6NUs Ham Radio Blog. |
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