Unselfishly Coming to the Service of the Community. When the Lake Arrowhead Communities Chamber of Commerce holds its annual awards gala on Feb. 28, there will be four honorees: the Outstanding Citizen of the Year, the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year, the Outstanding Business of the Year and a Lifetime Achievement Award. The Outstanding Citizen of the Year for 2014 is a humble man, one who is a driving force behind the Central Mountain Section of the San Bernardino County Emergency Communications Service but who also prefers to stay in the background. Tracy Lenocker, WA6ERA, the Mountain Division chief, has had his amateur radio license since he was 14 years old. When he joined the Forest Service’s off-highway vehicle (OHV) program, he became active in amateur radio because communication out on the dirt trails was difficult, even with Forest Service radios.
Wi-fi the old way. “Joel from Las Vegas, you’re on with Liam Riley.” That’s not really how it went, but Joel and Liam, a 7-year-old Corvallis resident, did enjoy a brief conversation Saturday morning over the airwaves of the Valley Radio Club of Oregon’s amateur radio station, which operates from a corner of the computer room at the Science Factory children’s museum in Eugene.
Antique radio collection on display. Art Hoch’s passion for radio will be on display at the McPherson Museum through March 30. “When I was a little kid, before television, we had an old radio by the window,” Hoch said. “It had to be there because the antenna needed to be outside. I spent more than my share of time listening to old radio programs.” The display includes 30 radios of different sizes, ages and types. Hoch said the most common are tube radios. These used vacuum tubes, which were a common component of electronics until the development of transistors in the mid-1900s.
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