Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology

Question: are you aware of The Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology program?
The Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) is a week long, in-residence learning opportunity designed for motivated teachers and other school staff who want to learn more about wireless technology and bring that knowledge to their students. A variety of topics are covered [...]

Posted on March 16, 2010 at 12:59 pm by ke9v · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Time for a Single Class License Redux

Sometimes I write something and when I look at it 24 hours later, I can’t help but cringe. Being unable to clearly communicate a concept or idea is frustrating. Time For a Single Class License didn’t come out the way I intended and I want to revisit that topic and try to do a better [...]

Posted on March 4, 2010 at 6:27 pm by ke9v · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Time for a Single License Class

Lean in close here and let me whisper a secret in your ear…
Since upgrading to Extra class many years ago, I haven’t paid the slightest bit of attention to the US amateur radio licensing process. I know, it sounds perfectly awful. I’ve never volunteered to be a VE, and heck, if a total stranger [...]

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 10:47 am by ke9v · Permalink · 2 Comments
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CQ W1AW de IRLP

A few days ago I noticed this blurb in the ARRL’s "What Have We Been Up To Lately" feature:
"W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, finished construction of an IRLP-node relay box and installed it on the IRLP PC and radio. He also built a new panel with a new Yaesu FT-2900R 2 meter FM [...]

Posted on February 25, 2010 at 8:16 am by ke9v · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Last Card Played

I listened to a fairly lengthy dissertation on the air last night about how “the ARRL is pushing the EmComm agenda down our throats just so they can sell more training and certification courses at $85 a whack”…
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I don’t care about this ongoing debate but [...]

Posted on January 30, 2010 at 10:36 am by ke9v · Permalink · 3 Comments
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When Failure is Not an Option

It’s been seven or eight years now since the ARRL coined the term, “When All Else Fails” to promote the annual Field Day exercise. The phrase hit home in a big way and it’s become the unofficial byline for amateur radio. It’s a claim that’s over the top when you carefully consider the implications, however, [...]

Posted on January 8, 2010 at 9:02 am by ke9v · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Another Ham Radio Nobel Winner

The ARRL is reporting that George E. Smith, AA2EJ, of Barnegat, New Jersey, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit — the CCD sensor.” Smith will share the prize money with two other recipients: Charles K. Kao, of Standard Telecommunication Laboratories in the United Kingdom [...]

Posted on November 3, 2009 at 6:11 pm by ke9v · Permalink · Comments Closed
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