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Amateur radio in the news: Young ham wins Congressional App Challenge

Posted: 13 Feb 2021 08:03 AM PST
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Concord Student Wins Congressional App Challenge



CONCORD, CA — A Concord teen won the 2020 Congressional App Challenge – CAC
– for Californias 11th District. The CAC is a public initiative to
encourage young people to learn how to code in an effort to inspire
creativity and encourage interest in STEM — Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics — education. The winner of the challenge was
Sean Donelan, who lives in Concord and attends Northgate High School.
Donelan designed and created, NetHam: The Public Service Event Coordinators
Third Hand.

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How Wendell King Found His Frequency in Erie

It was June of 1917 and the United States was at war. The first American
infantry troops had arrived in Europe that month and stateside
manufacturers were working around the clock to keep up with wartime demand.
In Schenectady, N.Y., the sprawling General Electric plant, which employed
20,000 workers, hired a few dozen students from nearby Union College for
the summer. This included Wendell Wilford King, a brilliant 20-year-old
North Troy local who had just finished his freshman year studying
electrical engineering. Instead of having him work in the yard like most
college hires, he was put on a drill press.
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World Radio Day: How Heroic Ham Operators Use Radio Waves to Carry Out
Post-Disaster Rescue Ops

Imagine this: you have just encountered an intense cyclone—a storm so
strong that it has damaged buildings, uprooted trees, brought down electric
poles and power lines, and destroyed everything in its path. The
electricity is already down, and all your usual modes of communication—cell
phones, landlines, the internet—have stopped functioning. What do you do in
such a situation? How do you make those emergency calls for medical
assistance? How do you seek immediate help after being completely cut-off
from the rest of the world?

Be it natural disasters like cyclones and earthquakes, or man-made ones
like bomb-blasts or terror attacks, the loss of communication in such times
can often push a delicate situation from bad to worse; it can often be the
difference between life and death.

But even in such blacked-out circumstances, a glimmer of sunshine can be
found, and contact with the outside world can be established through a mode
of communication that many wrongly believe to be obsolete: radio. On the
occasion of the 2021 World Radio Day—an international United Nations
observance held on February 13 every year—let us explore the
underappreciated yet ever-so-crucial role played by amateur radio and the
supermen that operate it, in saving lives during calamities.
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