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| Author: | Scannerguy12 [ Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/201002 ... .disasters LAKE STEVENS — When people across the country turned their attention to TV screens broadcasting news from Haiti after the quake, Frank Remington turned on his amateur radio. A network providing emergency communications for the Salvation Army called out for volunteers to help handle emergency messages from the country. Remington, 68, a skilled radio operator with more than 40 years of experience, was up for the challenge. Meanwhile, voices were coming through, making contact with Remington. A priest off the coast of Haiti. A search and rescue team from South Africa whose plane just landed in Port-Au-Prince. A doctor who was looking for an armed guard to help a nurse deliver insulin for a diabetic patient. Staying tuned in from his Lake Stevens home, the retired Boeing worker wondered what would happen if the unspeakable happened right here in Snohomish County. “It makes you wonder, how prepared are we,” he said. “When all else fails, amateur radio operators are going to be the ones to supply communications.” Remington is part of a specially trained group that works directly with the county’s Department of Emergency Management to help with search and rescue operations and other missions in case of disaster. Few people know that hospitals and city halls are equipped with a radio, he said. It can be a lifeline in an emergency. Remington has a generator and his car is equipped with a radio transmitter. A special license plate bears his call sign, a unique code issued to ham radio operators. If a crisis hits home, he will be ready. Amateur radio operators, or hams, have to be licensed with the Federal Communications Commission. Remington first got his license in 1961. As a young boy, he lived next door to a ham and became interested in the hobby. His office reflects more than a century of electronic and radio communication equipment. Black-and-white photos show Remington as a young man with his first radios. A wooden “K7GSE,” his call sign, is proudly displayed atop his radio system, which he controls through a laptop. He also has telegraph keys, most of Remington’s collection dates back to the Civil War. Boxes and boxes of special postcards from people he talked to across the world are stored in the room. He’s chatted with people in Japan, Russia, South Africa and some 200 other countries. He connected military service members overseas to their families in the United States. He talked to researchers in Antarctica. He even talked to an astronaut orbiting the Earth. “It was kind of neat,” Remington said. Katya Yefimova: 425-339-3452, kyefimova@heraldnet.com To learn more To get involved with the Snohomish County Hams Club, go to http://www.wa7law.com. |
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| Author: | Matt Cawby [ Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
"Staying tuned in from his Lake Stevens home, the retired Boeing worker wondered what would happen if the unspeakable happened right here in Snohomish County." It's already happened, the no code license. |
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| Author: | chpalmer [ Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
Quote: It's already happened, the no code license. Wow- easy Matt... :shock: I know allot of hams that never did the code and have contributed a great deal of their time to the hobby... Myself included. The biggest enemy in my opinion falls under part 15... And the convenience of cell phones... |
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| Author: | Scannerguy12 [ Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
chpalmer wrote: Quote: It's already happened, the no code license. Wow- easy Matt... :shock: I know allot of hams that never did the code and have contributed a great deal of their time to the hobby... Myself included. The biggest enemy in my opinion falls under part 15... And the convenience of cell phones... We also won’t talk about the anti-ham Semitism. We don’t want a tower in our neighborhood. There seems to be a higher level of selfishness and control freaks these days. |
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| Author: | Matt Cawby [ Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
Just kidding. |
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| Author: | Rich [ Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
:bowrofl: |
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| Author: | chpalmer [ Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
I still hate cell phones though! :wink: |
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| Author: | Mark [ Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
anti-ham Semitism hmmmm... |
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| Author: | Scannerguy12 [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
Mark wrote: anti-ham Semitism hmmmm... Talk to a Home Owners Association and see what they say. |
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| Author: | Sean [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
Matt Cawby wrote: "Staying tuned in from his Lake Stevens home, the retired Boeing worker wondered what would happen if the unspeakable happened right here in Snohomish County." It's already happened, the no code license. NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Author: | N7QOR [ Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
Sean wrote: Matt Cawby wrote: "Staying tuned in from his Lake Stevens home, the retired Boeing worker wondered what would happen if the unspeakable happened right here in Snohomish County." It's already happened, the no code license. NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always liked the term "Welfare Extra", when code was dropped to 5WPM |
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| Author: | cascadian [ Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
as a 'diversity' extra, I have to agree with the last poster and literally laughed out loud at Matt's comment! Frank (the subject of the article) is a tremendously interesting person to watch as he's sitting and just slapping those paddles around. Makes me wish I could be that good too. (don't get too snarky, I still want to be as good as Randy Rhodes, be an astronaut, and as good as Dale Earnhardt) :shock: |
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| Author: | Vizwar [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
Matt Cawby wrote: "Staying tuned in from his Lake Stevens home, the retired Boeing worker wondered what would happen if the unspeakable happened right here in Snohomish County." It's already happened, the no code license. Preface: The following is totally in fun and jest. It's merely what happen to pop into my head. *Looks at everyone gathered, seated in a circle around him* Hello everybody, my name is Vizwar and... *gets choked up*... and I'm... *sniff...sigh* a no-code tech... *sobs* It all started back in '02... the city of Snoqualmie was offering free classes. Like, it was FREE, man...I couldn't say no, they practically handed it to me... told me to put it to my face and talk... it was fun, it felt good... it all happened so fast... before I knew it the feds knew my name and I was a "registered user" and I was served with a paper declaring it. |
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| Author: | the Outlaw [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
I'm a no-code tech. Never had the desire to learn beeps. |
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| Author: | kb7dqh [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 8:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ham radio Article Everett Herald. |
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