Sentences with phrase «of ham radio»

In the Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid writes that Cindy Bernard «s poignant show at Boston Center for the Arts» Mills Gallery evokes the far - flung community of ham radio operators who kept in touch long before the Internet and blogging made world - building so common.

Whether you are a neuron or the operator of a ham radio, doubling your signal - to - noise ratio demands quadrupling your energy consumption — a law of rapidly diminishing returns.

For example, teams of ham radio operators from the American Radio Relay League and The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network have deployed to help with communications and reunification.

Not exact matches

That headache would go away overnight were Twitter to embrace what it has been all along for most of its fans: a megaphone, not a ham radio.

Even so potent a means of production as the short - wave transmitter has been tamed in this way and reduced to a harmless and inconsequential hobby in the hands of scattered radio hams.

After Hurricane Maria hit a week ago, residents on the small island of Vieques off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico were so cut off that the only way they could reliably contact the main island was through a ham radio a resident rigged up on his own.

Instead, Aalborg University sent special equipment down to German ham radio operator Mike «DK3WN» Rupprecht in Brombachtal, south of Frankfurt, so he can act as the liaison between the student's control center in Aalborg and the satellite in space when it passes over Europe.

With the help of enthusiastic European ham radio operators, Aalborg University engineering students now have two - way communication with their home - built ESA - sponsored satellite AAUSAT5 that was sent into orbit around Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 5.

These were the contenders of the 2014 World Radiosport Team Championship, the pinnacle event of the surprisingly thrilling world of competitive ham radio.

We live in a suburb of a southern California and I have a neighbor who is an avid ham radio operator.

As a young boy in the 1970s, Tom Popper (Jim Carrey) eagerly jumped out of bed every time the ham radio would signal that his father was on the other end.

The film begins with a quick flashback of young Tommy Popper getting ham radio dispatches from his world - traveling adventurer father (an absentee dad, in modern parlance).

He's a bit of a tinkerer — he's got a ham radio in the basement, listens for signs of life elsewhere, and works to devise a hearing aid for his hearing - impaired daughter (Millicent Simmonds).

It starts off promisingly with a pre-Passion of the Christ Jim Caviezel discovering in 1999 that he can somehow communicate with his dead father (Dennis Quaid) via ham radio.

I have to wonder if in ten years — after some type of embedded telekinetic mind chip or immersive virtual reality have taken over — the use of cell phones and social media instruments like «Twitter» and «hashtags» featured in current films will be as ludicrous a sight as the brick - like bag phone brought out in Lethal Weapon (1987) or ham radios from Convoy (1978).

Of course the absolute ham that I am, I really enjoy broadcast and would welcome the opportunity to do a little TV / radio work.

I have also installed 14,000 Lumens of off - road light bars and a 75 watt shortwave HAM radio in it.

In his spare time he would sit in the basements of our various houses and fool with his ham radio.

In 1961, I was a high school student, and a radio ham, and the youngster sitting in the back of the room at Project OSCAR meetings, watching my mentors design and build the world's first non-government communications satellite.

Ann, 16, and her parents, both of whom are HAM radio operators and like to fiddle with electronics, were satisfied with that result.

Although the Canadian engineer behind this solar - powered ham - radio setup uses it for camping and search - and - rescue missions, we can also see this being adopted for broader emergency use, especially in the aftermath of natural disasters that may damage

I do however have a shortwave radio, but have only been able to receive garbled news transmissions from North Korea's Radio Pyongyang, Radio Beijing, Radio Canada International, and a host of American Christian fundamentalist / end of the world / armageddon / end of days broadcasters, who have Sarah Palin's face carved into their cornfields, transmit from ham radios in their barns, and own many radio, but have only been able to receive garbled news transmissions from North Korea's Radio Pyongyang, Radio Beijing, Radio Canada International, and a host of American Christian fundamentalist / end of the world / armageddon / end of days broadcasters, who have Sarah Palin's face carved into their cornfields, transmit from ham radios in their barns, and own many Radio Pyongyang, Radio Beijing, Radio Canada International, and a host of American Christian fundamentalist / end of the world / armageddon / end of days broadcasters, who have Sarah Palin's face carved into their cornfields, transmit from ham radios in their barns, and own many Radio Beijing, Radio Canada International, and a host of American Christian fundamentalist / end of the world / armageddon / end of days broadcasters, who have Sarah Palin's face carved into their cornfields, transmit from ham radios in their barns, and own many Radio Canada International, and a host of American Christian fundamentalist / end of the world / armageddon / end of days broadcasters, who have Sarah Palin's face carved into their cornfields, transmit from ham radios in their barns, and own many guns.