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/////////////////////////////////////////// Amateur Radio Roundtable: Posted: 19 Dec 2015 06:49 AM PST http://www.eham.net/articles/35824 This week (Dec 22) on Amateur Radio Roundtable, Emmett Hohensee , W0QH, chief engineer of Radio Wavz will give us a report on the youth activities with the USS Batfish submarine and also a segment on setting up antennas. /////////////////////////////////////////// Decorated Veteran Revived Wartime Radio Skills: Posted: 18 Dec 2015 04:18 PM PST http://www.eham.net/articles/35823 When the doors of his B-24 bomber were sheared during a mission through the Zuiderzee, a narrow channel in the North Sea with anti-aircraft guns on each side that airmen dubbed "Flak Alley," Bob Jordan took off his parachute to be able to reach out and kick the door loose as the gunner held him by his harness. "They had an arrangement -- if anything happened, they'd use the one chute," said his son, William Jordan . The plane and its crew made it back to the Royal Air Force's Old Buckenham airfield in southern England that served as home after the harrowing event. Robert W. Jordan of Washington died Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. He was 91. Born March 3, 1924, in Cowansburg, a son of the late L. Quay and Sara (Campbell) Jordan, he flew 36 combat missions with the Army Air Forces' 454th Bomb Group in Europe during World War II, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze stars, a Good Conduct medal and an Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters. Their planes often had to be scrapped after missions because they were so full of holes, William Jordan said. Later in life, he built on what he learned as an Air Force radio man and became an amateur radio operator. "I always wanted to get into it, and one day we just decided to do it," said Regis Stinely, 86, who knew Mr. Jordan for 50 years. "Before you knew it, we had antennas everywhere." Through their ham radios, Mr. Jordan was able to keep in touch with people in Great Britain whom he met during the war, and Stinely was able to relay messages from soldiers all over the world to their parents in the States. /////////////////////////////////////////// Propagation Forecast Bulletin #51 de K7RA: Posted: 18 Dec 2015 07:51 AM PST http://www.eham.net/articles/35822 Australia's Space Weather Services issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning at 2224 UTC on December 17. It read in part, "Two coronal mass ejections observed Dec 16 are expected to impact the Earth in sequence late Dec 18 to early Dec 19. Brief minor to major geomagnetic storm conditions may result." |
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