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Participants Wanted for a Research Study
The Effects of Changes in Personal Care Assistance Hours or Services
Have you experienced or do you know someone who has experienced a change in Personal Care Assistance (PCA) hours or services in the past few months?
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effects of loss or reductions in PCA hours or services.
• This research study includes information about people of all ages who have been receiving PCA services under Medicare or County Waiver.
Participants Wanted for a Research Study
The Effects of Changes in Personal Care Assistance Hours or Services
Have you experienced or do you know someone who has experienced a change in Personal Care Assistance (PCA) hours or services in the past few months?
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the effects of loss or reductions in PCA hours or services.
• This research study includes information about people of all ages who have been receiving PCA services under Medicare or County Waiver.
Handiham World for 25 August 2010
Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 25 August 2010
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center Handiham System. Our contact information is at the end, or simply email handiham@couragecenter.org for changes in subscriptions or to comment.
Listen live to the Huntsville, AL Hamfest!
Telling the story: Mike Runholt, KC0YFV, on ARRL website
Photo: Mike, KC0YFV, left, and Bill, N0CIC, take down one of the wire antennas following a memorable radio camp session at Courage North. This radio camp was the last of a long run of week-long camp sessions at the Courage North location. In 2010, the radio camp session moved to Camp Courage, about 40 miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Courage Center owns both camps. The Handiham System headquarters is at Camp Courage.
Handiham World for 18 August 2010
Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 18 August 2010
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center Handiham System. Our contact information is at the end, or simply email handiham@couragecenter.org for changes in subscriptions or to comment.
Welcome to Handiham World! Second remote base station goes into beta testing phase
With the addition of the W0ZSW remote base at Handiham headquarters, members now have a choice of two remote base stations. Users who have signed up for access to the “Handiham Remote Base” (W0EQO) will be added automatically to the list for W0ZSW, with the same password. The remote base concept has been gaining in popularity as more of us want to be able to use an HF radio without the need to drag along a lot of extra gear while traveling. Some users live in condos or antenna-restricted areas and simply want to expand their operating horizons beyond VHF and UHF repeaters. The remote base stations allow users to operate real HF radios connected to real antennas, and make friends far and wide on the HF bands.
The W0EQO station at Courage North, a Kenwood TS-480SAT equipped with the VG-S1 voice module, is preferred by our members who are blind. We have a Kenwood TS-570S set up at this time in the W0ZSW station at Camp Courage. The two stations are quite a distance apart, hundreds of miles, so they can be used at the same time with no chance of interference between the two. W0EQO is in the tall pines of northern Minnesota, near the headwaters of the Mississippi river. The location is a very quiet one, with little interference. We have reports of users making very successful DX contacts. The station operates on 80 through 10 meters. This is due to the capabilities of the current antenna, a G5RV, which will not tune on 160 or 6 meters. The W0ZSW remote base station has a 300 foot "W0OXB Special" antenna, up an average of 45 feet. This antenna covers 160 through 6 meters, including the WARC bands. The W0EQO station will hopefully get an upgraded antenna system later this year, bringing it more in line with the W0ZSW station for band coverage and performance. Camp Courage is about 40 miles west of Minneapolis.
The DSL internet service has given us a great deal of trouble at Camp Courage, so the W0ZSW station has been off line as much or more than it has been on line. We hope to remedy this situation soon, but I have been tied up in meetings and office work and have been running behind with this project. One other issue with the W0ZSW remote is that we do not have the frequency speech readout working. The TS-570 does have the VS-3 voice module, but apparently the software does not support the voice readout. It may be necessary to replace the radio with another model for which the speech output will work if we cannot find a solution for the TS-570.
Lyle, K0LR, and Eliot, KE0N, have been working with me on this project and we are anxious to get it out of beta testing and on the air for our users.
St. Columbkille Summer Campers Explore Amateur Radio as Part of Sci-Tech Curriculum
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (August 2010) - Students attending this year's St. Columbkille Summer Camp at Boston College participated in a unique demonstration of an old technology that is in many ways still new today – amateur radio.
Handiham World for 11 August 2010
Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 11 August 2010
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center Handiham System. Our contact information is at the end, or simply email handiham@couragecenter.org for changes in subscriptions or to comment.
Welcome to Handiham World! Operating Skills: How things have changed... and what we need to do about it.
From time to time we will feature a special operating skills essay, a short discussion of a topic related to building better operating habits on the air. There has always been a need to learn operating skills in amateur radio, but a great deal has changed over the history of radio, so the skills necessary must also follow this changing technology.
Some operating skills are very basic and one might think that they have changed little over the years.
How to write e-mail that actually gets an answer
ARRL Tech Q & A Fifth Edition accessible via Amazon Kindle
International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
How about spicing up the dog days of August with an operating event? Cool off with the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend!
Conducted under the sponsorship of the AYR, Scotland Amateur Radio Group, this year's event takes place on the third full weekend of August, the 21st & 22nd.
The basic objective of the event is to promote public awareness of lighthouses and lightships and their need for preservation and restoration, to promote amateur radio and to foster International goodwill.
The event website states:
CME & Perseids headed our way
Space Weather News for August 9, 2010 reports that "The solar eruption of August 7th might affect Earth after all. Newly-arriving data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) show a CME heading our way with a significant Earth-directed component. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the cloud arrives on August 10th. A movie of the CME is featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com."
Handiham World Summer 2010 in PDF
Your Handiham World Summer 2010 newsletter is now available in PDF. Download the newsletter and enjoy the articles online or print your own exact copy. Feel free to share the content on your local radio club's website, too. Just give us the credit for the article and include our contact information. We always appreciate it when you help us share the word about ham radio and the Courage Center Handiham System.
The link to the PDF version is here:
NASA Space Station Update
HOUSTON -- The first of two spacewalks by NASA astronauts to replace a failed ammonia pump on the International Space Station took place on Saturday, Aug. 7.
Below are key points from the August 7 post-spacewalk briefing with ISS Program Manager Mike Suffredini, Expedition 24 Spacewalk Flight Director Courtenay McMillan and Expedition 24 Spacewalk Officer David Beaver.
SUMMMARY POINTS
Handiham World for 04 August 2010
Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 04 August 2010
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center Handiham System. Please do not reply to this message. Use the contact information at the end, or simply email handiham@couragecenter.org.
You can also listen to the content online:
MP3 audio stream:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.m3u
Download the 64 kbs MP3 audio to your portable player:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.mp3
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Welcome to Handiham World! Daisy book version of Handiham World Summer 2010 is released
DAISY books provide spoken word audio that is connected to text. The Summer Handiham World will soon arrive in regular print, but that isn't much good to our blind members, except for the giving envelope that will be enclosed. We are hoping that our members will
Daisy book version of Handiham World Summer 2010 is released
DAISY books provide spoken word audio that is connected to text. The Summer Handiham World will soon arrive in regular print, but that isn't much good to our blind members, except for the giving envelope that will be enclosed. We are hoping that our members will help us out with a little extra this summer so that we can keep our services coming.
August Events by N1YXU
August Events
I hope you are enjoying your summer and that you have been “radio active”. Please take a look through the August Events information. You will find several, diverse activities that should pique your interest. When you have a minute, I would love to hear from you and any suggestions that you have for the events page. Your input and comments are truly appreciated.
Until next month…
Regards,
Laurie Meier, N1YXU
n1yxu@arrl.net
Bet you didn't know the "Y" offered radio classes!
The YMCA actually offered radio-electronics classes, and they advertised them in a 1933 QST magazine. Can you say "YMCA" in Morse?
The text of the ad reads:
Radio Operating, Radio Servicing. Prepare for the new Government Radio Operating license examinations. Radio Operator, Marine & Broadcasting. Also Radio Amateur Telegraph & Telephone. Resident courses. Write for booklet "Opportunities in Radio". West Side YMCA Trade & Technical Schools, 4 West 63rd Street, New York City.
Don't bother applying for this class in 2010!
Handiham World for 28 July 2010
Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of Wednesday, 28 July 2010
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center Handiham System. Please do not reply to this message. Use the contact information at the end, or simply email handiham@couragecenter.org.
You can also listen to the content online:
MP3 audio stream:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.m3u
Download the 64 kbs MP3 audio to your portable player:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.mp3
Get this podcast in iTunes:
RSS feed for the audio podcast if you use other podcasting software:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/handiham
Welcome to Handiham World! Update: Larry Huggins, KA0LSG, Handiham Volunteer, holds the Wouxun HT on cover of Worldradio
Last week's mention of the Wouxun talking dual band handheld radio created quite a stir, so we are devoting some time to a follow up. I heard from a number of our readers and listeners who said that the PDF online version of the "With the Handihams" article was difficult to read because of the PDF layout. Although the magazine has done a great job making the layout easy to follow for sighted readers, I have heard that there is a need for a more straightforward text version for our blind readers and listeners. I have placed the text of the article on the Handiham website, as well as a link to an audio version of the article read by Bob Zeida, N1BLF, who reads for us and for The Talking Information Center of the Massachusetts Reading network. Since we didn't specify retailers, we also provide you a link to some sources.
Handiham World for 21 July 2010
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