1 >
 |
 |
 |
| The award-winning monthly publication of The Baltimore Radio Amateur Television Society P.O.Box 5915 Baltimore, MD 21282-5915 |
December, 2009
George E. Smith, AA2EJ, Wins Nobel Prize
Around 5:30 on the morning of October 6, George E. Smith, AA2EJ, of Barnegat, New Jersey, got a phone call
that changed his life: He had just
found out he had won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2009 "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit
-- the CCD sensor." Smith will share the prize money with two other recipients: Charles K. Kao, of Standard
Telecommunication Laboratories in the United Kingdom and Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China,
and Willard S. Boyle, of Bell Laboratories. Each recipient will receive a diploma, a medal and a document confirming
their share of SEK 10 million (about 1.4 million US dollars); Kao will receive 50 percent, while Smith and Boyle will
each receive 25 percent of the monetary award.
FCC Looks to Revise, Clarify Vanity Call Sign Rules
On Wednesday, November 25, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) -- WT Docket No.
09-209 -- seeking to amend the Commission's Amateur Radio Service rules to clarify certain rules and codify
existing procedures governing the vanity call sign system, as well as revise certain rules applicable to club stations.
GAREC Returns to Region 2 for 2010
The 2010 meeting of the Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference
( GAREC ) will take place October
11-12 on the Dutch island of Curacao in the Caribbean. The theme of the conference will be Learning through
Practicing. According to GAREC 2010 Organizing Committee Chairman Seppo Sisatto, PhD, OH1VR, GAREC's mission
is two-fold: To help Amateur Radio operators be better prepared for emergency communications and to create emergency
communications exercises at both the national and international levels. Exchanging information and experiences among
all Amateur Radio operators and groups that are interested in emergency communications helps to promote GAREC's
vision of having regular worldwide cooperation and understanding between governments and the Amateur Radio Service
in the field of emergency communications. GAREC 2010 is organized in cooperation with the Dutch Amateur Radio
Emergency Service ( DARES ) and Club for Experimental Radio
Examination Netherland Antilles ( VERONA ).
Sisatto said that details on the upcoming conference will be announced as they become available.
Happy Holiday Season to All, from the BRATS!
For email notifications of BRATS meetings and new issues of The Milliwatt, join theMilliwatt Yahoo! group
| December, 2009 |  |
Page 1 Next > |