C.I.R.A.S. Central Iowa Radio Amateur Society

Hurricane Earl -- once again a Category 4 storm -- is currently aiming for North Carolinas Outer Banks. At 11 AM (EDT), Earl is located about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras and 765 miles south of Nantucket Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Earl is now moving north at a speed near 18 MPH, and is expected to turn north-northeast with an increase in forward speed on Friday. The center of Earl will pass near the North Carolina Outer Banks Thursday night and approach Southeastern New England sometime on Friday night. No significant change in strength is expected today, but forecasters at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) expect that the storm should show gradual weakening beginning on Friday.

In May 2010, John Gottschalk, KB1DDK, of Westwood, Massachusetts, requested a new call sign via the FCCs vanity call sign program. Gottschalk, a General class licensee, requested KK1CQ -- a 2×2 call sign -- and a waiver from the Commission allowing him to hold the call sign. The FCC denied both requests on Tuesday, August 31, 2010.

Ham radio operators from across the country have been camping all week in Dallas preparing for Saturday’s 55th annual Shelby Ham Fest. Ham Fest Chairman Robby Hamrick expects more than 5,000 people to jam Dallas Park to buy and sell equipment and watch demonstrations. And some will take the exam to become licensed Ham operators.

On the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II, local ham radio operators will try to link up historic battleships that served in the Pacific Theater.

Radio Officer Michael Hartmann Participating RACES members, from left: Claus Finke, Ray Caruso, Al Goldberg, Allen Zuk, Michael Hartmann, and Walter Hartmann at Veterans Park for the 24-hour Field Day for Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Serivce.

Oklahoma State University’s Amateur Radio Club is making a comeback. Having been around since the 1920s, Amateur Radio Club is one of the oldest clubs on campus.

Long before Facebook, email, cell phones and satellites, a select group of people were able to communicate across continents, often broadcasting from obscure locations using ham radios. By today’s standards it may not seem too impressive. But what happens when the next big earthquake hits us?

During emergencies and disasters, the Clinton County Sheriffs Office relies on a vital yet obscure member of their volunteer quartet to provide emergency communications. The Clinton County Emergency Communications Team is a group of volunteer amateur radio operators who help area first responders communicate with one another when normal communications channels are broken or overloaded.

The radio club will make use of the new applied mathematics and engineering lab in Stutzman-Slonaker, room 303. The radio club uses shortwave and high frequency radio to broadcast on wavelengths not used for commercial or other specific broadcast purposes.

Colorful, flashing buttons proudly worn by Ernie Chiles and Phil Nash sport the saying, When all else fails ... Amateur Radio.

The Uniontown Amateur Radio Club will hold its annual Gabfest on Saturday, an event that is geared toward ham radio operators and electronics enthusiasts.

Arlo Raim, KB9LLF, of Danville, Illinois, was killed by a southbound Canadian National freight train on the morning of Friday, August 20. He was 67. Raim had been in Pratts Wayne Woods Forest Preserve -- part of the Forest Preserve District of DuPage (Illinois) County -- to monitor the effect of increased train traffic on cardinals.

The Nevada County Amateur Radio Club is turning 50 years old. Nevada County supervisors honored club members with a plaque, presented to club President Walt Hannontree at their meeting on Tuesday.

Many people know that amateur radio operators like to chat. Few realize that the chatter can sometimes save lives.

It was a mystery for the Baxter County Sheriffs Office. There were major disruptions in its communication, Chief Deputy Jeff Lewis told The BulletinWednesday, and it was of an unusual type sounding like a taxi cab companys radio transmissions and occurring only at night, between about 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. As it turned out, there was a taxi company in Mississippi whose radio transmissions were bleeding over onto the sheriffs offices radio signal.

Many amature radio (ham) operators gave up so much time and at their own expense to help others after the Aug. 28, 1990, tornado. Most of us only slept for 15 to 30 minutes a day for an eight-day period. To begin with, we train for these kind of emergencies every year with an event called field day. This is held the last full weekend in June. We set up sites in fields and in public parks and make as many contacts as possible while trying to get through cluttered airways. This event is done so throughout the United States. We also take emergency tornado trainings, as well as, for most of us, keep up on advanced first aid.

The Lockyer Valley Radio and Electronics Club took part in the worldwide celebration of 100 years of amateur radio and telecommunications at the weekend. If it wasnt for many of the pioneers of these technologies, we may not have television, microwaves, satellites or mobile phones today. The event was held in Laidley as part of the organisations tribute to a century of telecommunications with the Australian Wireless Institute and they communicated with others via high frequency transmissions.

An ordinance making its way to the Oceanside City Council would limit where cell phone companies and in some cases, amateur radio operators can place their towers and antennas. A number of people in the community feel that the new ordinance doesnt go far enough in some cases, and too far in others.

Morse code filled the tiny radio control room of the Nantucket Lightship yesterday as Michael Riouxs fingers tapped a modern telegraph aboard the National Historic Landmark built in 1936.

Prasad, VU2PTT (also W2PTT), Contest Manager for the Amateur Radio Society of India (ARSI), reports: We have news from our Ministry of Communications that the 6 meter band has finally been allocated for Amateur Radio use.