Hoʻokipa “pill box” has roots in radio. Members of the Maui Amateur Radio Club will participate in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, on Saturday, June 25 in a field between the Hāna Highway and the ocean, just past Ho’okipa Beach Park. Field Day, an event started by the Amateur Radio Relay League in 1933, is the largest emergency communication event in the world. Field Day also showcases the science and skill of Amateur Radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend. The club was established in 1936 and claims to be Hawaii’s first amateur radio club.
Communication’s last line. LIHUE — The highlight of Tad Miura’s experience as a ham radio operator happened in 2010, on a particularly slow day in Hawaii’s amateur radio world. In fact, had Miura not been on his radio, the ham operator attempting to communicate with Hawaii from the International Space Station may have passed over unnoticed. But instead, the two of them were able to log the contact in their records, and had about eight minutes of uninterrupted conversation before the International Space Station orbited out of range. “He knew about the Navy base here, about PMRF (Pacific Missile Range Facility), and he said he’d been there,” Miura said. “So we were able to have a conversation about that.”
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