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NewsWeekly news from Courage Center's Handiham program. Handiham World for 25 February 2009
Courage Center Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of 25 February 2009
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.
Handiham World for 03 December 2008
Courage Center's Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of 03 December 2008
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center's Handiham System. Please do not reply to this message. Use the contact information at the end, or simply email handiham@courage.org. Welcome to Handiham World!WA0TDA: Remote Base Update As we have been reporting, the Handiham Remote Base HF station is on track to go live to member use in early 2009. Stan, W4MQ, is working on some software updates to make the process of setting up and operating the rig control software easier for our blind Handiham members. Our thanks to him and to our beta testers, and especially to Lyle, K0LR, project engineer, and Joe, N3AIN, our expert JAWS volunteer and TS-480 user, for working with Stan to identify issues with the accessibility of the system.
One concern that Lyle and I have had is what would happen to the TS-480, the system computer, and the related interface electronics when the temperature dropped in the "shack", which is unheated. Temperatures have not fallen below about 10 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 Celsius) outdoors yet, but we have had no problems thus far. The station is located in the attic of the Courage North dining hall, and the entire building is unheated. In northern Minnesota, which is near the center of the North American continent, dense, cold Arctic air often settles in for long periods of time. It is not unheard of for this part of North America to reach morning low temperatures far below zero. International Falls, Minnesota is used as a testing spot for cold weather operation of new cars. This cold spot was satirized in the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons as "Frostbite Falls". How true to life that is! At any rate, we will no doubt experience our coldest temperature at the remote base site sometime in January, about two weeks following the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, which is December 21. Slacker sun still disappoints
The Handiham World for 9 July 2008
The Handiham World for 18 June 2008
This is a free weekly news & information update from Courage Center's Handiham System. Please do not reply to this message. Use the contact information below, or simply email handiham@courage.org. Contact us at: Courage Center - Handiham System Website: http://handiham.org Welcome to Handiham World! Image: Pat in the sunny Courage Center cafeteria one morning, holding Handiham coffee mug. Photo by K0HLA. It's almost summer, so how about a dip in the pool? Of course I mean the question pool, since this is about ham radio.
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