Ham radio still part of hurricane center arsenal. Amid the high-tech computers, satellite dishes and sophisticated equipment at the National Hurricane Center is a HAM radio operator station, somewhat hidden in a back office. It might seem like it’s akin to placing a teletype on a space shuttle. But when hurricanes form, the amateur radio station cranks up and receives weather information from HAM operators in the affected areas. Their observations help the forecasters in Miami-Dade County better judge a storm’s strength or position and issue more precise warnings.
ARRRRGHHHH. Someone please tell this reporter that “ham” is not capitalized!!
Ham radio operators hope to put North Korea on the air. A group of amateur radio operators are hoping to get permission from the North Korean government for a month-long trip to the country during which they’ll set up a ham radio operation. If they manage to pull off the plan, they’ll have succeeded where few have before. North Korea has no amateur radio operators and government-sanctioned transmissions by foreigners in the country are extremely rare. This makes North Korea the rarest country for contacts in the amateur radio world.
Can you imagine what a pileup this operation–if they can get permission–is going to generate??
NIST and NTIA announce plans for new advanced communications center. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today announced plans to establish a national Center for Advanced Communications in Boulder, Colo. The new center will implement a key provision of a memorandum President Obama issued earlier today on “Expanding America’s Leadership in Wireless Innovation.”
This sounds like something that the ARRL should keep an eye on.
K3NG says
We should just get rid of the “ham” moniker and stick with “amateur radio.” The term sounds outdated and it’s annoying when it’s called HAM radio or reporters write about “hamming it up.”
Dan KB6NU says
I totally agree. The only problem is that so many people know it as “ham radio” that sometimes using the term amateur radio confuses them.