Concord Student Wins Congressional App Challenge
CONCORD, CA — A Concord teen won the 2020 Congressional App Challenge – CAC – for California’s 11th District. The CAC is a public initiative to encourage young people to learn how to code in an effort to inspire creativity and encourage interest in STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — education. The winner of the challenge was Sean Donelan, who lives in Concord and attends Northgate High School. Donelan designed and created, “NetHam: The Public Service Event Coordinator’s Third Hand.”
How Wendell King Found His Frequency in Erie
It was June of 1917 and the United States was at war. The first American infantry troops had arrived in Europe that month and stateside manufacturers were working around the clock to keep up with wartime demand. In Schenectady, N.Y., the sprawling General Electric plant, which employed 20,000 workers, hired a few dozen students from nearby Union College for the summer. This included Wendell Wilford King, a brilliant 20-year-old North Troy local who had just finished his freshman year studying electrical engineering. Instead of having him work in the yard like most college hires, he was put on a drill press.
World Radio Day: How Heroic Ham Operators Use Radio Waves to Carry Out Post-Disaster Rescue Ops
Imagine this: you have just encountered an intense cyclone—a storm so strong that it has damaged buildings, uprooted trees, brought down electric poles and power lines, and destroyed everything in its path. The electricity is already down, and all your usual modes of communication—cell phones, landlines, the internet—have stopped functioning. What do you do in such a situation? How do you make those emergency calls for medical assistance? How do you seek immediate help after being completely cut-off from the rest of the world?
Be it natural disasters like cyclones and earthquakes, or man-made ones like bomb-blasts or terror attacks, the loss of communication in such times can often push a delicate situation from bad to worse; it can often be the difference between life and death.
But even in such blacked-out circumstances, a glimmer of sunshine can be found, and contact with the outside world can be established through a mode of communication that many wrongly believe to be obsolete: radio. On the occasion of the 2021 World Radio Day—an international United Nations observance held on February 13 every year—let us explore the underappreciated yet ever-so-crucial role played by amateur radio and the supermen that operate it, in saving lives during calamities.
Peter WA1ISA says
Hi Dan,
EXCELLENT info on Wendell King !! Thanks for sharing !! His call was 2ADD. More at:
https://www.union.edu/news/stories/201708/making-waves-race-radio-and-legacy-wendell-king-24
de WA1ISA – Peter