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ARI President Mario Ambrosi, I2MQP (SK):
Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:53 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40358
Associazione Radioamatori Italiani (ARI) President Pietro "Mario"
Ambrosi, I2MQP, of Rodano, Millepini, Italy, died November 6 after
serving for several decades at the head of Italy's national Amateur
Radio organization and IARU member society.
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RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Launch Delayed; AMSAT Asks for Patience:
Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:52 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40357
The launch of the Delta II vehicle carrying RadFxSat (Fox-1B) and
other payloads has been delayed, due to a faulty battery on the
booster, United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on November 6. The
launch now is scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday, November 14.
RadFxSat is one of four CubeSats making up the NASA ELaNa XIV
mission, riding as secondary payloads aboard the Joint Polar
Satellite System (JPSS)-1 mission, which will launch from Vandenberg
Air Force Base, California.
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Free Back Issues of Ham Radio Horizons Online:
Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:54 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40356
Would you like to travel back in time to the late 1970's and be able to see
and read all 36 complete issues of Ham Radio Horizons for FREE??? Well
thanks to the fine folks at
The Internet Archive you can...never heard of them? Well here is their info:
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PBC Students Speak Live with Astronaut Aboard the ISS:
Posted: 07 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40355
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Not many of us can say we've spoken to an
astronaut, much less to one floating in space. On Monday, a group of Palm
Beach County students experienced a special treat that's out of this world.
As the International Space Station flew 250 miles above the Earth, 11
students in grade two through 12 had the chance to speak with an astronaut
one on one using amateur radio technology at the South Florida Science
Center. The center's Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) essay contest selected the students after they wrote a creative
essay about what they would ask an astronaut if they had the chance.
Italian Astronaut and engineer Paolo Nespoli answered questions Monday
morning as the space station orbited over Georgia and Florida at 17,600
miles per hour within close range to a radio signal. The ARISS was able to
set up a radio to connect with the astronaut and the students only had an
eight minute window to ask their questions.
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Giant Radio Telescope Lends a Hand in Puerto Rico Relief:
Posted: 07 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40354
When Angel Vazquez emerged from his home on 21 September after Hurricane
Maria had raged through the night, he saw a scene of utter devastation now
familiar to all in Puerto Rico. Homes and buildings were damaged; trees and
utility poles were down. Power, sanitation, and all communications were
out, he soon discovered. Neighbors were already trying to clear the roads
with chainsaws and machetes, but for Vazquez the most pressing need was to
check on the Arecibo Observatory, the gargantuan radio telescope built into
a depression in the island's karst hills. Vazquez, head of telescope
operations at the facility, got in his car and crept behind a bulldozer
that was pushing through debris up the road to the observatory. The
normally 20-minute journey took almost 2 hours. Once there, "I got a good
surprise," he says. The couple of dozen staff on site were all safe, and
damage to the 54-year-old observatory was relatively slight -- it was built
with Cold War solidity partly for military research. Once Vazquez had sized
up the damage at the observatory, he headed back down the hill with dozens
of phone numbers and messages for staff members' families in the
continental United States. By fortunate circumstance, Vazquez is a ham
radio enthusiast; he had a generator and his antenna survived the storm.
Soon he was passing on the numbers and messages to ham operators on the
mainland, some of them former Arecibo staff, who made phone calls to
anxious families and relayed messages back through Vazquez. He says that
the makeshift communications system conveyed about 250 messages in the
following days, in addition to reporting the status of the observatory to
the institutions that manage it.
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Ham Talk Live #89 -- Puerto Rico with Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L:
Posted: 07 Nov 2017 03:53 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40352
Thursday at 9 PM Eastern on Ham Talk Live!,
it's your chance to call in and talk to
Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L about the trip to
Puerto Rico for disaster communications. She
will talk about the work that was done, and
give us a first hand insight into how things
are on the island.
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ARI President Mario Ambrosi, I2MQP (SK):
Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:53 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40358
Associazione Radioamatori Italiani (ARI) President Pietro "Mario"
Ambrosi, I2MQP, of Rodano, Millepini, Italy, died November 6 after
serving for several decades at the head of Italy's national Amateur
Radio organization and IARU member society.
///////////////////////////////////////////
RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Launch Delayed; AMSAT Asks for Patience:
Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:52 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40357
The launch of the Delta II vehicle carrying RadFxSat (Fox-1B) and
other payloads has been delayed, due to a faulty battery on the
booster, United Launch Alliance (ULA) announced on November 6. The
launch now is scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday, November 14.
RadFxSat is one of four CubeSats making up the NASA ELaNa XIV
mission, riding as secondary payloads aboard the Joint Polar
Satellite System (JPSS)-1 mission, which will launch from Vandenberg
Air Force Base, California.
///////////////////////////////////////////
Free Back Issues of Ham Radio Horizons Online:
Posted: 08 Nov 2017 05:54 AM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40356
Would you like to travel back in time to the late 1970's and be able to see
and read all 36 complete issues of Ham Radio Horizons for FREE??? Well
thanks to the fine folks at
The Internet Archive you can...never heard of them? Well here is their info:
///////////////////////////////////////////
PBC Students Speak Live with Astronaut Aboard the ISS:
Posted: 07 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40355
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Not many of us can say we've spoken to an
astronaut, much less to one floating in space. On Monday, a group of Palm
Beach County students experienced a special treat that's out of this world.
As the International Space Station flew 250 miles above the Earth, 11
students in grade two through 12 had the chance to speak with an astronaut
one on one using amateur radio technology at the South Florida Science
Center. The center's Amateur Radio on the International Space Station
(ARISS) essay contest selected the students after they wrote a creative
essay about what they would ask an astronaut if they had the chance.
Italian Astronaut and engineer Paolo Nespoli answered questions Monday
morning as the space station orbited over Georgia and Florida at 17,600
miles per hour within close range to a radio signal. The ARISS was able to
set up a radio to connect with the astronaut and the students only had an
eight minute window to ask their questions.
///////////////////////////////////////////
Giant Radio Telescope Lends a Hand in Puerto Rico Relief:
Posted: 07 Nov 2017 04:04 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40354
When Angel Vazquez emerged from his home on 21 September after Hurricane
Maria had raged through the night, he saw a scene of utter devastation now
familiar to all in Puerto Rico. Homes and buildings were damaged; trees and
utility poles were down. Power, sanitation, and all communications were
out, he soon discovered. Neighbors were already trying to clear the roads
with chainsaws and machetes, but for Vazquez the most pressing need was to
check on the Arecibo Observatory, the gargantuan radio telescope built into
a depression in the island's karst hills. Vazquez, head of telescope
operations at the facility, got in his car and crept behind a bulldozer
that was pushing through debris up the road to the observatory. The
normally 20-minute journey took almost 2 hours. Once there, "I got a good
surprise," he says. The couple of dozen staff on site were all safe, and
damage to the 54-year-old observatory was relatively slight -- it was built
with Cold War solidity partly for military research. Once Vazquez had sized
up the damage at the observatory, he headed back down the hill with dozens
of phone numbers and messages for staff members' families in the
continental United States. By fortunate circumstance, Vazquez is a ham
radio enthusiast; he had a generator and his antenna survived the storm.
Soon he was passing on the numbers and messages to ham operators on the
mainland, some of them former Arecibo staff, who made phone calls to
anxious families and relayed messages back through Vazquez. He says that
the makeshift communications system conveyed about 250 messages in the
following days, in addition to reporting the status of the observatory to
the institutions that manage it.
///////////////////////////////////////////
Ham Talk Live #89 -- Puerto Rico with Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L:
Posted: 07 Nov 2017 03:53 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/40352
Thursday at 9 PM Eastern on Ham Talk Live!,
it's your chance to call in and talk to
Valerie Hotzfeld, NV9L about the trip to
Puerto Rico for disaster communications. She
will talk about the work that was done, and
give us a first hand insight into how things
are on the island.
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