Elderly Couple uses Military Morse Code Training to Escape Tennessee Assisted Living Facility

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Elderly Couple uses Military Morse Code Training to Escape Tennessee Assisted Living Facility

A husband and wife briefly escaped from a secure memory unit at an assisted living facility in Lebanon last month by using military experience with Morse code to decipher and memorize the code to an electronic door lock, according to Tennessee Department of Health documents obtained through a public records request.

The couple, who have dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, are not identified in the state records. They went missing from Elmcroft of Lebanon for about 30 minutes on 2nd March 2 before a stranger found them walking down a road two blocks from the facility, according to the documents.

Once back at the Elmcroft, staff were curious about how the couple had escaped from the facility’s memory unit, which is secured by a locked door with an electronic keypad, documents state.

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Brazil's Radio Hams Campaign for Tax Exemption

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Brazil's national amateur radio society LABRE is campaigning for the abolition of taxes on amateur radio equipment.

LABRE continues with the campaign to collect signatures for a petition to be sent to the National Congress so that parliamentarians can complete the Bill of Law (PL) 5320/2009 . This project, which has been stopped, deals with the “exemption from the Import Tax and the Tax on Industrialized Products to own devices for the Amateur Radio Service, when imported or acquired by a qualified amateur radio operator and participant in the National Amateur Radio Emergency Network (Rener), member of the National Civil Defense System (Sindec) ”.

The Bill was presented to the Federal Senate on 6/1/2009 , but its last processing took place on 11/5/2018 , carried out by the FINANCE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE (CFT), - https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=436645#tramitacoes

The petition, which works through a form, is on the website. After the signature collection period (Full name, CPF and Indicative, if applicable), the Petition Organizing Committee will send the request, together with the subscribers' information, to the e-mails of the federal deputies that make up the CFT and CCJC.

Gothenburg Celebrates 400 Years with Special Callsign SE400G

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The City of Gothenburg is celebrating developing the city into an even better place to visit, live and work in in the 400th anniversary of the city.

Hisingens Radio Club SK6AW is participating in the celebration of the 400th anniversary by activating the special callsign SE400G during the period 1st May to 21st July 2021.

The members of SK6AW will activate SE400G on different modes and possibly use the signal in different contests during this period. All QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW continuously, but no traditional QSL cards will be issued.

The special callsign is published on QRZ.com with associated information about Gothenburg's 400th anniversary.