Nicknamed ‘Inky’ early in life, this photographer was well-rounded
93-year-old Joe “Inky” Rusczek, of Wallingford, holds a 35mm film camera he used while a photojournalist for the Record Journal. Ruszek is a WWll army veteran and a ham radio hobbyist.
Radio operators take to the air
Acts of God are beyond human control, but thankfully there’s always ham.
Hamming it up in an emergency
When forest fires were ravaging B.C.’s Nazko Valley a few years back, Bob Holowenko was there to help. He, along with a handful of his fellow amateur radio operators, were on site to assist with communications.
National Amateur Radio Day Open House IS Friday
Amateur radio’s National Annual Open House Field Day will be Friday and Saturday, for 24 hours, from noon to noon, at the Tennessee River Park, 4301 Amnicola Hwy. Visitors are encouraged to stop any time during the time the radios and antennas are set up and learn more about wireless communication.
At Jamboree, Local Scout Gets to Talk to an Astronaut
A boy scout from Wayne — who’s attending the national jamboree in Virginia — was among six selected from the more than 40,000 boys there for an out-of-this-world experience. KYW’s Mark Abrams reports fifteen-year-old Life Scout Fritzi Fischer of Devon Troop 50 got to talk with astronaut Doug Wheelock aboard the International Space Station as [...]