Eye on Education: Bishop Ryan HS Competes in School Roundup. For the first time, Bishop Ryan school is getting competitive with their ham radio, entering into the “School Club Roundup” competition. “The idea here is to talk to high schools, middle schools and universities all over the world on it the same week,” said Joe Ferrara, a Bishop Ryan teacher.
Frequency pilot show ordered. The CW’s first official pilot orders for this development season include a reimagining of the New Line Cinema film Frequency. But whereas that 2000 film starred Jim Caviezel as a homicide detective who communicates with his long-dead firefighter father (Dennis Quaid) via a ham radio, the CW’s redo follows a female police detective who discovers she is able to speak via ham radio with her estranged father — who died 20 years prior and also was a detective. As they forge a new relationship while working together on an unresolved murder case, unintended consequences of the “butterfly effect” wreak havoc in the present day.
HOA trade group fights bill that would ease ham radio restriction. In a disaster, it is often the only dependable means of two-way communication, but an organization that supports homeowner associations across the United States is opposing a bill that would prevent HOAs from banning amateur radio operation. Community Association Institute, whose 1,100 Illinois chapter members include association managers, board members, and unit owners, says the Amateur Radio Parity Act is “unnecessary” because the Federal Communications Commission has said it will not get involved with HOA rules that, says the FCC, are “contractual agreements between private parties.”
It’s certainly not a slam dunk for the Amateur Radio Parity Act….Dan
Dave, N8SBE says
CCI is using circular reasoning, by saying that the FCC won’t deal with HOAs, therefore, there is no reason to pass the Amateur Radio Parity Act.
The point of the Amateur Radio Parity Act is so the FCC will be required to deal with HOAs.
I’m sure the CCI knows this, but it doesn’t seem to be stopping them from posturing for their own interests, using false (but plausible-sounding) arguments.
Andrew Holman says
“While I may still be enamored by the prospect of communicating with people around the world,” says David Swedelson (left), quoted on CAI’s website, “these days I do that via email, Twitter, and the telephone.”
That was a quote in that same article. I don’t think this person understand’s what happens to technology during a major outage.