ITU Corporation Re-purposes Linton Armory Facility to House Iconic Amateur Radio Manufacturing
In a major expansion of its Indiana footprint, ITU Corporation has purchased the former Linton National Guard Armory to serve as the new manufacturing hub for Hy-gain and Cushcraft. Martin F. Jue, President and founder of MFJ Enterprises, Inc., is pleased to announce the sale of the renowned Hy-gain and Cushcraft antenna, rotator, and communication product lines to ITU Corporation, a 25 year old Indiana engineering and manufacturing company.
“I am thrilled to pass the torch of these legendary antenna brands to Dave & Kambi Carpenter and their team at ITU Corporation,” said Martin F. Jue, President of MFJ Enterprises.
“After nurturing these brands for decades it was vital to me that hy-gain and Cushcraft – – premier brands that have served radio operators and stations worldwide for generations – – landed in the hands of someone who understands their legacy.”
Pitt students track Artemis II spacecraft in worldwide NASA test
A 4 a.m. test Thursday put University of Pittsburgh engineering students and the school’s ham radio club on a global stage.Pitt was one of eight educational institutions worldwide selected by NASA to study the Artemis II mission and track the Orion spacecraft.
“The big win is the student experience, and to be able to have university students take all these theoretical things we taught them in the classroom and track the spacecraft,” said Samuel Dickerson, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Pitt. “The students had to do all of it, to carry out this kind of task.”
Talking to the world from a rooftop in Dhaka: The story of Bangladesh’s amateur radio community
The room looks rather unassuming from outside. On the first floor of a residential building in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, it is cluttered in the way only a certain kind of person’s room becomes cluttered — purposefully, lovingly.
Shelves sag under transceivers, coils of cable, and half-assembled circuit boards. A fluffy orange cat surveys the chaos from a workbench by the window. On a nearby laptop screen is a dense circuit schematic.
This is the home station of Fazley Rabby — callsign S21RC — and it is, in the most literal sense, a window to the world.