Zoe Rodriguez Named 2025 Craigie Memorial Educator

/
Zoe Rodriguez Named 2025 Craigie Memorial Educator

Zoe Rodriguez, a teacher at the Raymond School in Franksville, Wisconsin — near Milwaukee — has been named the 2025 Carter Craigie, N3AO, Memorial Educator. Rodriguez serves as the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) teacher as well as the school’s technology integrator and library media specialist. She also started a club for 3rd through 8th graders called “Girls Who Code.” She attended the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) at ARRL Headquarters from 6-9 October 2025.

Rodriguez, who previously was a Fulbright Scholar who taught English in Colombia, is concurrently participating in the Teacher Innovator Institute, a two-year program from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. She’s excited to integrate amateur radio and wireless technology into her broad experience she shares with students.

Read More

Antenna Removal Takes Away Amateur Life

/

Ray Pratt, 92, says Stockton Council has told him to take down the poles which enable him to continue his hobby speaking to people around the world.

A disabled amateur radio enthusiast says his local council has "taken away my life" by telling him to take down poles which allow him to pursue his cherished hobby. Ray Pratt, 92, has made friends with fellow radio users all over the world for more than four decades.

But the wheelchair user says this vital link could now be severed as Stockton Council would not let him keep the two poles supporting an antenna in his back garden. No neighbours put objections in to the widower and great-grandfather's planning application.

But the council rejected it, saying the slim metal 10m and 7.5m "masts" outside his bungalow were clearly visible over fences, from gardens and above rooftops. Planning officers argued the structures were "lightweight and slender" but 3.7m taller than the bungalows.

Media Story - https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/amateur-radio-enthusiast-says-council-32479413

ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results

/

Below are the results of our recent Section Manager nomination period for the term beginning 1st January 2026, and declared elected, with no opposition:

New Section Managers

  • Michigan – Ralph Katz, AA8RK

  • Santa Barbara – Keith Elliott, W6KME

Continuing

  • Alabama – Dennis Littleton, K4DL

  • Alaska – David Stevens, KL7EB

  • Delaware – Steven Keller, KC3DSO

  • East Bay – Mike Patterson, N6JGA

  • Kansas – Ron Cowan, KBØDTI

  • New Mexico – Bill Mader, K8TE

  • Tennessee – David Thomas, KM4NYI

  • Western Massachusetts – Ray LaJoie, AA1SE