Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, Special Counsel in the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, announced his retirement this week, effective Friday, January 3, 2008. Speaking at the New England Division ARRL Convention in August 2000, Hollingsworth offered his 10 personal suggestions to secure a sound future for Amateur Radio.
1. Be proud of what you have and let your feelings be known. Let the public know what you are, what Amateur Radio is, and why it’s valuable. Let your feelings be known to Congress, to the FCC, to the media, to your states and to emergency agencies. Sprint does. AT&T does. Motorola does.
2. Operate as if the whole world is listening. It is! (more…)
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As fires raged through parts of the San Diego area and other areas in Southern California, ham radio operators did their part to ensure the safety of residents either affected or threatened by the fires. ARES groups in San Diego were activated on Monday, October 22 and continued to assist their served agencies until early Wednesday morning. Sixty hams were called to service by the County of San Diego’s Emergency Medical Service.
According to ARRL San Diego Section Emergency Coordinator James J. Cammarano II, KG6R, hams assisted at the San Diego Medical Operations Center, six trauma centers and 16 community hospitals. Hams served as a resource, Cammarano said, “to be used in case primary circuits to hospital communications were lost due to either overload or power interruptions.” In addition to these 60 amateurs, another dozen or so hams were activated by the Red Cross. (more…)
Got an iPhone that has been turned into a “brick” because you updated an unlocked device? Never fear, the iPhone Elite dev team created a tool to restore it to its origional virgin state. Safely back up and restore the seczone area of the phone, thus undoing the bug created by the inital unlock code.
This hits a bit close to home.
Recent comments on some of the amateur radio web forums have attempted to posit the point that someone is not a “REAL HAM” unless he or she meets certain arbitrary criteria. Those include such requirements as passing a code test to get licensed, using equipment with tubes in it, or being able to build a transceiver from scratch, using only a pie tin, a set of shoe laces, and a handful of grab-bag parts from a swap meet. (more…)
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