Crap, I just ordered form Tower hobby.
Really? Please explain. When people today think "forefront of digital communications" they think Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Google, Apple, Verizon, Skype, Facetime, etc, not ham radio.
and Mom and Pop would always screw you at the full retail price.
Crap, I just ordered form Tower hobby.
"Ham" Operators can do things you may not realize. You might think of Ham radio as a powerful licensed CB station, there is a bit more to the hobby than that. Many Ham's know quite a lot about digital electronics and communication. Most of the things you listed in your post are internet applications or cell phone apps. Many of those don't work at all when there is a power outage, when the internet is out, or the cell tower is out of range. Ham operators communicate around the world. Ham operators are never out of range. During a disaster, when the power is out, when every other form of communication is broken... Ham operators are busy providing emergency communications. You probably don't know... ham's operators made mobile phone calls - years before cell phone technology. Ham's have been sending/receiving text and pictures before Facebook, Twitter or the internet were around.
LOL, we had a Model 1 with 16k of memory and a cassette drive...you were using the Star Wars version, compared to my cave man version.
I had an early CoCo with 4k RAM. Immediately opened it up and hacked it up to 16k. Big time! Within maybe 6 months you could buy a 16k version from the Shack. Probably couldn't hold a single email message.I started with a 4K Level I TRS-80 - bought the third one that came to our town (first two went to RS employees). With only 4K RAM and that pared-down BASIC, you had to get REALLY creative and tight in your programming!
"Ham" Operators can do things you may not realize. You might think of Ham radio as a powerful licensed CB station, there is a bit more to the hobby than that. Many Ham's know quite a lot about digital electronics and communication. Most of the things you listed in your post are internet applications or cell phone apps. Many of those don't work at all when there is a power outage, when the internet is out, or the cell tower is out of range. Ham operators communicate around the world. Ham operators are never out of range. During a disaster, when the power is out, when every other form of communication is broken... Ham operators are busy providing emergency communications. You probably don't know... ham's operators made mobile phone calls - years before cell phone technology. Ham's have been sending/receiving text and pictures before Facebook, Twitter or the internet were around.
However, it's not just the "learning the tools" as much as learning the mindset. Maybe Word isn't the most critical for kids, but word processing is a basic skill they should know.
I actually buy very little of my "hobby" supplies from Amazon. Most often the prices are just so-so or the seller doesn't stock it.
However, I do most of my hobby related spending online .... It isn't worth the effort to even bother going to a store that is only going to have half of what you need when you can pick up your laptop, tablet, phone, etc., and never leave the house.
Ham radio is NOT "old school". We are at the forefront of digital communications.
Ham's have been sending/receiving text and pictures before Facebook, Twitter or the internet were around.
In fact, Charles Lindbergh telephoned his mother from Paris, France after his epic flight across the Atlantic.
Most of the things you listed in your post are internet applications or cell phone apps. Many of those don't work at all when there is a power outage, when the internet is out, or the cell tower is out of range. Ham operators communicate around the world. Ham operators are never out of range. During a disaster, when the power is out, when every other form of communication is broken... Ham operators are busy providing emergency communications.
. https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-maria-ham-radio-operators-trnd/index.html(CNN)The phone call from the Red Cross came in late Friday night, just as the full scale of Hurricane Maria's calamity began taking shape.
"We need 50 of your best radio operators to go down to Puerto Rico."
In the days after the worst storm in three generations hit the American island -- and for many more to come -- public electrical, land-line and cellular communication systems showed few signs of life. And radio networks used routinely by police officers, power company workers and other first responder still were down
In the case of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in late August 2005, ham operators managed to quickly get on line and begin relaying calls for help, wrote Gary Krakow for NBC News. They monitored distress calls and rerouted emergency requests for assistance throughout the U.S. until messages were received by emergency response personnel, the Bush White House wrote in its post-mortem of the Katrina disaster response.
In the wake of Katrina, the operators who relayed emergency calls to first responders and connected people with lifesaving resources got press attentionand, for the first time ever, some government funding to help maintain and develop their network.
This attention is credited with fostering the resurgence of hams in America, writes T.W. Burger for The Patriot-News. As of 2016, there were over 735,000 licensed ham operators in the United States, according to the ARRL. This surge in membership means the United States actually has more registered amateur radio operators now than at any other point in American history, according to the ARRL.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...emergency-officials-turn-ham-radio/651994001/VERO BEACH, Fla. Operators of amateur radios, also known as ham radios, play a vital role in the gathering of information during hurricanes like Irma.
We take for granted our communications, said Etta LoPresti, emergency management coordinator for Indian River County.
But when you have something catastrophic like they do in the Keys and in the west coast of Florida, where youre not going to have communication, these amateur radio operators take care of things for us.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/05/19/ham-radio-old-technology-gets-new-respect.html"Emory HealthCare is among a growing number of hospital systems to adopt ham radio. Hospital administrators and government officials took a lesson from Hurricane Katrina, which left some Gulf Coast medical centers isolated from the outside world, as landlines and cell towers failed.
When power, phone and Internet services go down, a battery-powered amateur radio and portable antenna can provide that crucial link to the outside world."
https://www.arrl.org/digital-data-modes"A great number of exciting new digital operating modes have developed, largely because of the availability of personal computers, soundcards, and advanced software. But amateur digital communication began in earnest in the late 1940's (if you don't count Morse as a digital mode!) when hams worked out techniques of connecting mechanical Teletype keyboard/printers to amateur gear using FSK and AFSK modulation. There are too many different modes to list individually, but here are some of the major ones:"
https://www.wia.org.au/discover/introduction/slowscan/Exchange Pictures Wordwide Using Amateur Radio
The Beginning
The first steps to transmit pictures used wire to connect transmitter and receiver. As might be expected, initially the transmissions were of single pictures and it was much later that transmissions were of multiple photographs to the stage where we have television.
The Estes site is down...........................:-(
Cooking class is different from home economics. Home ec not only taught cooking but smart budgeting of a "simple grocery list; savings and multi-use ingredients.Wood shop, metal shop (from welding, bending, joining to casting,CNC lathe, mill, plasma and laser cutting and 3D printing), multiple cooking courses, a print shop (silk screen and various printers and cutters)
Better that then have it disappear.Let's hope not. If Estes were operated in the same manner as Tesla, we'd be comparing Estes to Curtis Turner...
Down for me. Odd.Just checked the Estes site, it's up.
Try switching your DNS to use Google or opendns instead of your ISP.
Try switching your DNS to use Google or opendns instead of your ISP.
I suspect Estes was one of the cash cows for Hobbico. According to some research I did Estes employs 200 people and has sales of around $34 million. There will be buyers for Estes.
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