ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Adds Third Level

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ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Adds Third Level

ARRL continues to develop the highly successful ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology. Much as is done with new equipment in the amateur radio hobby, a prototype is being tinkered with this week: TI3. The third phase of the program is centred around space. Teachers who have each been through the previous versions of the program are at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, to test the program.

ARRL Education and Learning Manager Steve Goodgame, K5ATA, said having the experienced educators on hand to test out the new training is invaluable. “This is really about taking it a step further – providing a highly specialized form of training. We’ve developed a good program, but you never know how well something is going to work in practice until you try it.”

The educator-hams of this first cohort couldn’t be happier to experiment with it.

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Spacex Gives Details Of Spacecraft To De-Orbit ISS

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SpaceX had been awarded a contract from NASA for a spacecraft that is to deorbit the International Space Station in 2030, when its operational lifetime concludes. At a July 17th press briefing with NASA, SpaceX said it will help NASA accomplish this by creating an enhanced version of its Dragon spacecraft, known as the United States Deorbit Vehicle. It will be based on the original Dragon, but its trunk section will be redesigned and twice and long, with more thrusters. The final ISS crew will depart the station once the altitude reaches 330 kilometres, down from its present 400 kilometres as part of a natural decay in its orbit.

More Information - https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-selects-international-space-station-us-deorbit-vehicle/

ARRL on The Weather Channel

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ARRL® The National Association for Amateur Radio® joined The Weather Channel on Thursday 11th July 2024, for a live chat about the value of amateur radio during hurricane season and beyond. ARRL’s Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, talked about how radio helps inform the warning process through surface observations relayed through the Hurricane Watch Net and other nets to WX4NHC, the amateur radio station at the National Hurricane Centre.

Viewers were told how local ARRL volunteers serve their local agencies through the Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) and how they could get licensed through ARRL materials and become a part of it.

ARRL - http://www.arrl.org/news/view/arrl-on-the-weather-channel