PRESENTER OPINION - Any Other Hams Near You?→

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PRESENTER OPINION - Any Other Hams Near You?

As my attorney friends like to say, I was “shocked and amazed” at my answer to that question!

Ham communities vary, of course. But I suspect that you may not be as aware of the licensed amateur radio operators who live in your general vicinity. Some are simply not “active,” whatever the heck you want to say that is. We tend to see through our personal windshields (rather than a bird’s eye view) those hams who are engaged in some visible activity. Hearing them on the air (very strong nearby signals perhaps), seeing them at radio clubs or local ham fests, and that sort of visibility is mostly how we gauge our impressions of other hams nearby. But I suspect that many, many hams are simply not visible to us that way.

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Fall ARRL Section Manager Election Results

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Fall ARRL Section Manager Election Results

The only contested seat for Section Manager (SM) in the fall election cycle was in Kansas, where incumbent Ron Cowan, KB0DTI, of La Cygne, came out on top in the two-person race. Cowan outpolled challenger Lloyd Colston, of Arkansas City, 260 to 225. Ballots were counted on 23rd November 2021 at ARRL Headquarters. Cowan has served as Kansas Section Manager since 2003. His new 2-year term will begin on 1st January 2022.

In Alabama, Roger Parsons, KK4UDU, of Mulga, will become the new Section Manager on January 1. Parsons was the only nominee for the position. He has been an Assistant Section Manager and a District Emergency Coordinator. Incumbent SM JVann Martin, W4JVM, who has served as the Alabama Section Manager since 2016, decided not to run for a new term.

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LoRa to the Moon and Back

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Radio amateur Jan van Muijlwijk PA3FXB along with Tammo Jan Dijkema and Frank Zeppenfeldt successfully sent an amateur radio 430 MHz band LoRa message to the Moon and back

They used a Semtech LR1110 RF LoRa transceiver chip feeding a 350 watt amplifier which in turn was fed into the 25m dish antenna at the Dwingeloo radio telescope. One of the messages even contained a full LoRaWAN frame.

The Dwingeloo radio telescope, operated by the CAMRAS foundation, has a history of being used in amateur radio experiments and is now often used for Moon bounces, but this was the first time a data message was bounced using a small RF chip.

More Information - https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2021/first-lora-message-bounced-off-the-moon/