Courage Center Handiham System

Handiham volunteer Will Tice, KC0LJL, helped out at Camp Courage by soldering some PL-259's to random wire receiving antennas. Will learned to solder when he took an electronics class in high school.

"Look at these nice, shiny solder joints", he says.

The Handiham remote base station W0EQO was down following a thunderstorm and possible lightning strike that took out the Internet service at Courage North. We have now restored the station to normal use.

July Events
 
I hope each of you was able to participate in a local Field Day event. Our club here in North Carolina had a 10A operation and quite a lot of folks who operated and visited. We are already talking about next year’s Field Day!
 
There are many activities that are going on in amateur radio in the month of July. Be sure to look through the events. I’m sure you’ll find at least one activity that will catch your attention.
 
Until next month….
 
Regards,
- Laurie Meier, N1YXU
n1yxu@arrl.net

Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 30 June 2010

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Raining on a parade

Now that Field Day is over, we can look forward to a relatively quiet time on the HF bands. Summer thunderstorms are making a lot of racket, and even the 6 m band may have already peaked for the summer season. June is typically a good month for 6 m,

The old Technician Pool expires at end of the day June 30, 2010. It will be replaced with a new pool valid from July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2014. If you have been studying for your Technician license under the old pool, you have until the end of the day June 30 to take and pass the exam under the old question pool. After that, the new pool, with different questions, will be used to generate all Technician exams.

The old Technician audio lectures have been removed from the Handiham site.

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Image: TDRS-1 (Credit: NASA)

WASHINGTON -- After a long and successful career providing communications support, NASA's groundbreaking Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) 1 is retiring.