Fulton ARC learns about its history.
At the February meeting of the Fulton Amateur Radio Club (Oswego, NY), John Darling, K2QQY, presented a program recounting the history of our club over the past 60 years. In the late part of 2018 Darling was delivered a few boxes of photos and news articles regarding the Fulton Amateur Radio Club, which was formed in 1957. These boxes contained a wide array of smelly, dusty and damp items that needed to be arranged and categorized into some semblance of order. This took several months of reading old minutes, scanning over old newspaper articles and the many, many photo albums to deconstruct and label with who, what, where and when.
Sussex Tech electronics students earn FCC ham radio licenses
Electronics students at Sussex Technical High School recently earned their federal amateur radio operator technician class licenses, a new step along their career pathway.
Eight sophomore students earned the Federal Communications Commission certification, which allows them to operate an amateur, or “ham,” radio station and communicate with other operators worldwide.
Earning their licenses were Bonnie “Abby” Gerhardt, of Greenwood; Jack Blatz, of Laurel; Shaun Stanton, of Milford; Chase Horton, of Millville; Kenneth “Jack” Morris and Alexander Horan, of Milton; and Austin Drace, Seaford; and Callum Neely, of Selbyville.
“Amateur radio is a great entry into the world of radio frequency engineering, as well as a useful asset in emergency communications for the community,” said Sussex Tech electronics teacher Anthony Carmen, himself a licensed ham radio operator.
Volunteers from the American Radio Relay League, the Sussex County Amateur Radio Emergency Services, and the Sussex Amateur Radio Association all assisted with training and preparing students for the licensing exam.
Motorola Solutions Wins Trade Secret Theft and Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Against Hytera
CHICAGO – February 14, 2020 – Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) today announced that a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has decided in favor of Motorola Solutions in its trade secret theft and copyright infringement case against Hytera Communications Corporation Limited (SHE: 002583) of Shenzhen, China; Hytera America, Inc.; and Hytera Communications America (West), Inc. (collectively, “Hytera”). In connection with this verdict, the jury awarded Motorola Solutions $345.8 million in compensatory damages and $418.8 million in punitive damages, for a total of $764.6 million. Significantly, Motorola Solutions was awarded the maximum amount it requested. Following this verdict, the company will seek a worldwide injunction preventing Hytera from further misappropriating Motorola Solutions’ stolen trade secrets and infringing its copyrights.
As previously announced, the trade secret theft complaint, initially filed on March 14, 2017, asserted that Hytera’s two-way radios and repeaters are utilizing stolen Motorola Solutions trade secrets. The company amended its complaint on July 30, 2018, to include copyright infringement allegations, asserting that Hytera also unlawfully copied Motorola Solutions’ source code into the source code used in Hytera products in violation of U.S. copyright laws. The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that Hytera stole over 10,000 Motorola Solutions confidential documents, millions of lines of Motorola Solutions’ highly confidential source code and took steps to conceal its theft to avoid detection. Remarkably, after steadfastly denying any wrongdoing in the years prior to trial, Hytera admitted during trial that in fact it has those thousands of Motorola Solutions confidential documents in its possession and that even today some of its products still contain stolen Motorola Solutions source code.
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