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/////////////////////////////////////////// Of Hyperbands and Hams: Posted: 16 Feb 2016 04:49 PM PST http://www.eham.net/articles/36185 We don't talk often of the Hyperband or the role amateur radio plays in our profession. While many have tried, including me (it seems so easy) no one has ever adequately put words around why we often have such affection for a profession that -- when laid out in black and white -- really doesn't stack up to what the skill set might bring in rewards elsewhere. Broadcast engineers often stay in the profession for a lifetime. Maybe you are the kind whose heart flutters at night when cold bridging a tower and the field intensity meter brings in your co-channel acquaintances like a ton of bricks, messing up your null. Maybe you reminisce about the days when a car radio, console radio -- or your "special" DC-30 MHz radio -- brought in stations from places you may never visit. As a Ham, you may have discovered the Hyperband while playing with 160-meter receive antennas. The 1610-1700 kHz Hyperband is next door to the 1800-2000 MHz Ham band. In Ham vernacular, 160-meters is the "gentleman's band" or "top band" for all those romantic radio reasons. It's the place where a guy or gal with desire to restore a legacy AM rig can legally use it. Practically, it is Ham radio's only medium wave allocation (5W EIRP at 472-479 kHz hardly counts). /////////////////////////////////////////// Storm Spotters Serve as Weather Service's Eye In Sky: Posted: 16 Feb 2016 04:49 PM PST http://www.eham.net/articles/36184 There's one thing that Ellen Ramsey and Alfreda Alexander want to make clear - they don't chase storms. They look for them. As trained storm spotters, the two Aviation and Missile Command employees working in the G3 Operations-Protection Division, Emergency Management have attended the Skywarn Program offered by the National Weather Service in Huntsville primarily because it was training they could use in their work of informing AMCOM employees about weather dangers. They also took the training for personal reasons - so they are aware of the conditions of impending bad weather. Not every young person who attends the Skywarn Program will become a meteorologist. But both Ramsey and Alexander think it's a good idea for parents to take their children - from about fifth-grade and up - to the two-hour class because it encourages weather awareness. "Citizens who attend the class can volunteer to become official storm spotters or they can simply go and learn for their personal weather awareness. A lot of first responders, police officers and amateur radio operators take the course, but it's open to any citizen who wants to learn about the weather in this area." /////////////////////////////////////////// NASA Releases Year-Long Timelapse of Solar Activity: Posted: 16 Feb 2016 04:48 PM PST http://www.eham.net/articles/36183 SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona. |
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