Hingham holds ARRL Field Day. The Boston Amateur Radio Club and the Harvard Wireless Club participated in the annual Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) Field Day on Saturday, June 24th, and Sunday, June 25th, at the Bare Cove Fire Museum off 19 Fort Hill St. On that Saturday, after 3 p.m., the general public was welcomed to view the process at the Fire Museum as licensed operators using their personal and club radios to make contacts.
Amateur radio club makes contacts from across the globe. MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — When Daniel Simpson and Father David Probst turn on a special device in each of their houses, they can converse with people across the world at the touch of a button. The communications aren’t sent through Facebook or email; in fact they’re not sent via computers at all. The messages are sent by amateur radio, and connect Simpson and Probst to a network of users all across the globe.
Longtime ham radio operator gets lifetime recognition. Any licensed ham radio operator in the Carolinas, and across the country for that matter, likely knows the name of 99-year-old Oscar Norris. Norris, who lives in Gastonia, first became a ham radio operator in 1949, transmitting through his unique call sign W40XH on an old military radio. His interest in the subject piqued when a friend shared with him a magazine article in which a blind man received his amateur radio license. Norris, who is also blind, received his license and began a passion that he has practiced for almost seven decades.
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