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Media Hits: Hams gear up for Pope, clubs needed in India, ham accused of interference

September 9, 2015 By Dan KB6NU Leave a Comment

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Amateur Radio Operators Plan To Celebrate Papal Visit With Special Stations On Air. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — When Pope Francis arrives in the United States at the end of next month, a group of amateur radio operators from across the region will be activating special stations to mark the historic occasion.
Ron Sigismonti, a Chester County ham operator whose radio call sign is N3RS, is recruiting ham operators from the Frankford Radio Club in southeastern Pennsylvania, south Jersey and Delaware to take part.

Need for HAM radio clubs in every part of state. Patna: Bihar State Disaster Management Authority (BSDMA) vice-chairman Anil Kumar Sinha on Sunday said HAM radio clubs should be established in every part of the state for disaster risk reduction. Addressing the participants at the five-day training programme at Madan Mohan HAM Radio Club at G P Sinha Centre for Disaster Management and Rural Development, Sinha encouraged the trainees to obtain licence from the government of India and set up HAM radio club for serving the mankind during disaster when all communication network collapses.

Now this is a bizarre story…Dan

Amateur radio operator accused of blocking broadcasts. It took a probe that spanned two years and a stealth visit to the Cincinnati area, but a Federal Communications Commission enforcement official says his bureau caught a Union Township amateur radio operator intentionally interfering with the transmissions of his broadcasting buddies. The man identified and now facing a proposed $8,000 FCC fine is Daniel R. Hicks, who earlier had volunteered in the search to find the culprit accused of using someone else’s call sign to broadcast interference that evolved from being a nuisance into an obscene and racist affront.

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Filed Under: Clubs, Rules, Regulations, Enforcement, Special Events Tagged With: FCC, India, Pope Francis

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