Hamming it up: Radio operators enjoy competitions, plan special Kamehameha Day event
Ham radio operator Lloyd Cabral sits in the station he built inside his Hawaiian Paradise Park home, headphones on and finger moving on a CW, or continuous wave paddle, tapping out a message in Morse code. On other end is an operator more than 2,400 miles away on a beach in Coos Bay, Ore.
“This hobby is one of those hobbies that there’s 50 million (avenues) you can pursue,” Cabral said. “From the technology side — the antennas, the study in propagation and building equipment and building antennas — then there’s people that just like to talk.”
US Postal Service issues space stamps (Southgate ARC)
The US Postal Service is issuing a set of stamps bearing images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The stamps feature 10 images received at the observatory, including plasma blasts, solar flares, coronal holes, coronal loops and those all-important sunspots.
NASA launched its Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2010 to collect solar data, now in 2021 the post office issued the stamps during a ceremony in Maryland.
As ARNewsline.com says, this means that we hams, of course, can now celebrate Solar Cycle 25 one stamp at a time, with each QSL card we send.
Amateur Radio Club keeps USS Kidd legacy alive with Morse code transmissions
On July 4, hours before fireworks filled the night sky over the USS Kidd, there were quieter sounds that would have been familiar to those who served aboard the old Navy destroyer.
Morse code.
Connecting with people in 20 states, plus Canada and Mexico, members of the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club used the Kidd as a platform to keep alive a form of communication that was vital to the ship in World War II and the Korean War. The club has done this aboard the ship many times, but it was the first time club members could use the Kidd in more than a year because of the COVID pandemic.
Jack Vaughan says
Like the item about the Sun Stamps. Are there any good articles about sun weather and Ham practices?