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    Amateur radio in the news: 83 year old uses ham radio on solo voyage,
    school uses ham radio to prepare students for STEM careers

    Posted: 19 Apr 2022 06:12 AM PDT https://www.kb6nu.com/amateur-radio-in-the-news-83-year-old-uses-ham-radio-on-solo-voyage-school-uses-ham-radio-to-prepare-students-for-stem-careers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

    Solo voyager Horie, 83, passes Hawaii 3 weeks into Pacific trip

    HAWAIIOctogenarian Kenichi Horie, who aims to become the oldest solo
    voyager to cross the Pacific, passed Hawaii on April 17, a week ahead of schedule and apparently in good shape and spirit.



    Although Horie carries a satellite phone, communicating with others through
    a ham radio remains one of his favorite pastimes.

    “March 31: I spotted a tanker on the sea’s horizon this morning for the first time since I set out. The vessel was traveling eastward. Tomorrow, I
    am going to use the ham radio.”

    Amateur radio fans across Japan tried to communicate with Horie on April 1, with some setting up large antennas. But they could not reach him due to
    the poor conditions for radio wave transmission. The following day, some
    could.
    Kenichi Horie waves on his yacht, Suntory Mermaid III, as he sails off Honolulu. (© Kenichi Horie)
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    Launch into more: Gloversville school club prepares students for more than careers in STEM

    GLOVERSVILLE, NY – Once a weather balloon is launched – payload attached –
    Gloversville Middle School science teacher Chris Murphy is behind the
    wheel, ready to drive to wherever the landing site might be. In the
    backseat are students following the airship on computers and punching in
    data that helps determine his directions.

    The advisor for the school district’s High Altitude Achievement club has
    been going on these adventures with students since 2013, and ham radio operators along the route and someone at a home base help direct, too. The experience varies from a car caravan to a single vehicle, and from students
    on a second or third launch to their very first. The seventeenth, and most recent launch, on March 17 was, however, a first. It was the beginning of a launching era including eighth graders in the experience.
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    Ham radio operator reflects on 40 years in the hobby

    Peru resident Bill McAlpin said he vividly remembers being a kid and
    someone giving his father a shortwave radio.

    Shortly after acquiring it, McAlpins family strung an antenna up between
    his house and his grandparents house next door, and hed sit for  hour listening to communications from all over the world.

    And McAlpins been hooked on amateur (ham) radio ever since.
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