Walkie-talkie industry in south China’s Fujian adapts to market amid COVID-19 outbreak.
Every year, about 20 million walkie-talkies are manufactured in Nan’an, accounting for more than 55 percent of the global production. Over the past few months, the city’s walkie-talkie industry has given active response to the changing market environment amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Radio’s ‘official initiators of social distancing’ to host demo day in Campbell River.
Now in his late 50s, Pritchard (amateur radio call sign VA7UO) is helping others discover the timeless magic of amateur “ham” radios as the relatively new president of the Campbell River Amateur Radio Society (CRARS). The club will be hosting a physically-distanced field day at the Tyee Spit Sept. 5. They’ll be demoing some “really cool radios” including military equipment and satellite antennae from about 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or whenever they get tired, says Pritchard. It’s all battery-operated too, so no generators needed.
Three Kentucky posts form a relationship through ham radio clubs
Tony Cromwell, commander of Boyle American Legion Post 46 in Danville, Ky., recently authored a report to his District 8 commander about how his post’s ham radio club has been helping other posts around it to start ham clubs of their own.