Courage Center Handiham System

How to write e-mail that actually gets an answer

By Patrick Tice, WA0TDA

Sure, I’ve made plenty of e-mail mistakes over the years. I might as well admit to that right now, because I don’t want to sound “holier-than-thou” when I talk about other people’s e-mail transgressions.

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader is popular, and many titles are available on a wide variety of subjects from many publishers. ARRL makes several of its book titles available on the Kindle, making it easy for any Kindle owner to simply purchase and download these books.

How about spicing up the dog days of August with an operating event? Cool off with the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend!

Conducted under the sponsorship of the AYR, Scotland Amateur Radio Group, this year's event takes place on the third full weekend of August, the 21st & 22nd.

The basic objective of the event is to promote public awareness of lighthouses and lightships and their need for preservation and restoration, to promote amateur radio and to foster International goodwill.

The event website states:

Space Weather News for August 9, 2010 reports that "The solar eruption of August 7th might affect Earth after all. Newly-arriving data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) show a CME heading our way with a significant Earth-directed component. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the cloud arrives on August 10th. A movie of the CME is featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com."

Your Handiham World Summer 2010 newsletter is now available in PDF. Download the newsletter and enjoy the articles online or print your own exact copy. Feel free to share the content on your local radio club's website, too. Just give us the credit for the article and include our contact information. We always appreciate it when you help us share the word about ham radio and the Courage Center Handiham System.

The link to the PDF version is here:

http://handiham.org/local/downloads/hhw_summer_2010.pdf

HOUSTON -- The first of two spacewalks by NASA astronauts to replace a failed ammonia pump on the International Space Station took place on Saturday, Aug. 7.

Below are key points from the August 7 post-spacewalk briefing with ISS Program Manager Mike Suffredini, Expedition 24 Spacewalk Flight Director Courtenay McMillan and Expedition 24 Spacewalk Officer David Beaver.

SUMMMARY POINTS