Courage Center Handiham System

See and hear a story about the Courage Center Handiham System on 12 TV news, a local system in the Twin Cities. Jerry Kloss, N0VOE, and Pat Tice, WA0TDA, appear in this news feature.

Story:

http://www.twelve.tv/news/newsitem.aspx?newsid=318&newsitemid=11658

Video link:

http://nwtv12.img.entriq.net/htm/nwtv12flashplayer.htm?articleID=6580

Our thanks to the kind folks at 12 TV for helping us to share the fun of amateur radio. If you know about a "media hit" or have been involved in a local news story about ham radio yourself, please share it with us.

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Ham radio operators are often active in emergency services. In fact, everyone should know some safety basics, especially those of us who are even more likely to have a connection with emergency services or be active in remote locations like Field Day sites. A cardiac arrest means certain death without the application of CPR! Take a look at this Mayo Clinic video showing continuous compression CPR, which does not require clearing the victim's airway and doing rescue breathing. Instead, chest compressions are used. For our blind members who listen to the audio track of this video, the description is pretty good. We urge everyone to take a CPR class to get some professional training and some hands on practice using a mannequin designed for CPR training.

Image credit: SOHO

Space Weather News for Feb. 8, 2010 is reporting:

Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 03 February 2010

That's what Dr. Dave Justis, KN0S, writes. Just look at Dr. Dave standing by that big snowman. You would never guess that he lives in Virginia, and that the snowfall there has been most unusual for that southern State!

Dave is planning to be at Minnesota Radio Camp at Camp Courage, May 21 through 28, 2010. A long-time Handiham volunteer, Dr. Dave is a veteran of many radio camp sessions at locations in California and Minnesota. The return to Camp Courage, which is a big change for us, actually brings the Handiham program closer to its roots.

Dr. Dave remembers when the first radio camp sessions, then called "convocations", were held at Camp Courage. For the past 20 years Minnesota Radio Camp has been at Courage North, deep in the pines of Northern Minnesota, near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Camp Courage, founded in 1955, is just an hour west of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, in southern Minnesota.

The new location will provide campers like Dr. Dave excellent accommodations and much more convenient transportation options.

Find out more about camp or download an application:
http://www.handiham.org/node/358

Greetings, Handiham World readers!

Jerry Kloss, N0VOE, asked me to let our readers know about a special session of the Wednesday EchoLink net, 11:00 a.m. CST. Jerry will take the net control duties, and he will have a representative of the local media present, doing a story on ham radio! How cool is that?

Let's turn out for the Echolink net. 145.450 MHz here in the Twin Cities, or via Echolink on node 89680 or HANDIHAM, node 494492 at 11:00 a.m. Central Time!

Regards,

Patrick Tice
wa0tda@arrl.net