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ICQPodcast Episode 481: Home Brewing & Kit Building

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ICQ Podcast logo.In this episode, I join Martin Butler M1MRB, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Colin Butler M6BOY to discuss the latest amateur/ham radio news, including:

Colin, M6BOY also reports on the following:

The episode’s feature is Home brewing / Kit building.

Amateur radio in the news: Halifax ARC Field Day featured on community TV, teaching a new generation, NASA interns

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Halifax ARC Field Day featured on community TV

Teaching a new generation: Amateur radio group holds summer class

The Paducah Amateur Radio Association is working toward getting the younger generation interested in ham radio operation with its new summer class.

The ham radio class has met since July 8 and will last through July 29, with lessons from 2-5 p.m. every Saturday.

There are a total of 10 participants in the class, including students aged 5-14 and their parents. The class is covering basic knowledge of ham radio, etiquette on the radio, and basic knowledge of electronics.

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Meet the NASA Interns Advancing Space Communications & Navigation

This news article features an intern who is also a radio amateur. At the end of the piece, there is information on how you or someone you know can apply for this program….Dan

This summer, NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Internship Project (SIP) is hosting several students across the agency at NASA Headquarters in Washington; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; and NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. SCaN oversees the operations and advancement of NASA’s two primary communications networks – the Near Space Network and the Deep Space Network – which enables spacecraft to send data to and from Earth. SCaN’s interns contribute to the development of network enhancing technologies.

Over a ten-week session, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students work with mentors to complete a summer project that furthers the agency’s capabilities while also gaining professional development experience. Interns leverage backgrounds in engineering, computer science, mathematics, marketing, writing, project management, and more to contribute to NASA’s mission and vision in a meaningful way. Three of NASA SCaN’s 80 interns are highlighted below. These students join NASA with diverse backgrounds and work on different projects – demonstrating the breadth of opportunities available through NASA internships.

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NASA features ARISS in 2021 recap

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Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is featured on NASA’s recently published web page, Best Space Station Science Pictures of 2021. The first photo (see below) shows NASA astronaut Shannon Walker and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Soichi Noguchi pose for a photo during an Amateur Radio on International Space Station (ARISS) ham radio session with students at Hisagi Junior High School, Zushi, Japan.

The second photo shows NASA astronaut Raja Chari as he spoke with students from Colegio Pumahue in Chile.

These photos are also part of the YouTubevideo made from the images. The ARISS photos appear at the 1:58 mark.

Amateur radio in the news: 104-year-old ham helped put men on the moon

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He putters around Columbia, Tenn., working on steamer trains (and amateur radio), but few neighbors know that centenarian J. Cary Nettles helped save the U.S. space program in the 1960s…..Read more

Volunteers provide much needed help during disasters and more. Santa Cruz County has a very active Community Emergency Response Team, or CERT, presence as well as a team of ham radio operators who are the unsung heroes during a disaster.

“Good morning, Cucamonga! This is Santa Cruz E.O.C.!”

Each week ham radio operators check the California Office of Emergency Services and network with other ham operators throughout the state. They play a pivotal role in emergencies and natural disasters through groups like the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) and The Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL).

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI)- Local amateur radio operators came together today to talk about the importance of ham radios and connect with the community.

The Magnolia and Lowndes County Amateur Radio Clubs joined forces for a radio day in Starkville.

The event lets amateur operators connect with the community and test out their gear.

Say “HI” to Juno

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On October 9, 2013, the spacecraft Juno will fly by Earth to get a gravity assist and put it on a course for Jupiter. To celebrate this event, NASA is inviting amateur radio operators around the world to say “HI” to Juno in a coordinated Morse Code message. Juno’s radio and plasma wave experiment, called Waves, should be able to detect the message if enough people participate.

Say HI to Juno

NASA is asking us to send the letters “HI” in verrrrry slow Morse Code on 26 different frequencies in the 10m band. I say verrrrry slow because each dit is 30 seconds long.

The event is to start at 1800 UTC on October 9 and last until 2040 UTC. The “HI” message is to be repeated every 10 minutes, beginning at 18:00, 18:10, 18:20, etc. as shown in the figure below.

Say HI to Juno

The Say HI to Juno Web page has much more information on this event. The page include a table of frequencies on which to transmit and information on how to get a QSL card. There is also a Facebook page.

I think that this is a very cool event, and I hope that if you have the capability of transmitting on 10m that you’ll participate. Let’s all say HI to Juno!