HAMS READY IN CASE THINGS GO AWRY FIELD DAY TESTS SET FOR JUNE 24-25.Byline: Daily News SAUGUS -- Ham radio See ham. operators, who provide critical communication services in emergencies, will show off their skills next weekend in an overnight exercise. The Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Amateur Radio Club, W6JW Inc., will hold a live demonstration of emergency communications abilities from 11 a.m. June 24 to noon June 25 on the hilltop grounds of the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency, 27234 Bouquet Canyon Road, Saugus. This annual Field Day is the climax of the weeklong Amateur Radio Week sponsored by the Amateur Radio Relay League A relay league is a chain of message forwarding stations in a system of optical telegraphs, radio telegraph stations, or riding couriers. An interesting description of these early 19th century methods and its evolution into the electrical telegraph networks of the mid and . More than 30,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event. Using only generators, batteries or solar power, the hams will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, and yes, local hilltops to test their emergency and disaster communications skills under all situations. The participants view the operation as an important trial run. The city of Santa Clarita calls on the operators in emergencies, particularly when phones and other communications are down. ``We hope that our community will come out and see for themselves: This is not your grandfather's radio anymore,'' event chairman Todd Hitzeroth said. ``It may still be called `amateur radio' because we are unpaid, but that absolutely does not mean we're not prepared.'' Over the weekend, hams will be demonstrating AM, sideband sideband, any frequency component of a modulated carrier wave other than the frequency of the carrier wave itself, i.e., any frequency added to the carrier as a result of modulation; sidebands carry the actual information while the carrier contributes none at all. , digital, code and even satellite communications. Some clubs will also be experimenting with TV signals and extremely high-frequency equipment. It was from such practical experience that many electrical engineers This is a list of electrical engineers, people who made contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
There are 670,000 amateur radio operators in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , and more than 205 million around the world. ``Our operators are on alert 24 hours a day, ready for any emergency, whether it is local or worldwide,'' Hitzeroth said. The Santa Clarita Emergency Communications Team conducts weekly emergency preparedness drills, working with sheriff's and fire officials, business leaders and health and government officials. FOR MORE INFORMATION To learn more about the Santa Clarita Amateur Radio Club, visit www.w6jw.org. For information about amateur radio, go to www.hello-radio.org. CAPTION(S): box Box: (ran in SAC edition only) FOR MORE INFORMATION (see text) |
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