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...Using nothing but dots and dashes and a few volts, members of the Harvard Wireless Club—America’s oldest amateur radio club—can reach out to over two million users around the world...
...radio operators must be licensed through the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), which offers exams that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The exam used to include both a multiple choice section and a Morse code test, but this December, the FCC scrubbed the dots and dashes from the exam. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...have a little bit of pain around the ears, but I'm O.K.' MANJIT SINGH, security-company owner and amateur record breaker, after pulling a 7.4-ton, 30-seat passenger plane 3.4 m with his ears. Singh, 57, who lives in the U.K., hopes the feat will be the latest addition to the 30 world records he already holds, including one for pulling a double-decker bus by his hair...
...Pertile says. Harvard boasts some of the world’s finest collegiate crew teams, but there is no lack of skill in the non-varsity undergraduates. “We have about half experienced and half almost no experience,” says Baclig. Luckily, amateur oar-benders don’t have to worry about any hard-core recruits blowing them out of the water. Per IM rules, “anyone who is a JV or Varsity team member for a sport in this school year is not eligible to play...
...cigarette butts are high on the suspect list. Two small conflagrations have been witnessed in the same mulch bed outside Winthrop’s E-entryway in the past month. The scene of the (alleged) crime is in a prime location for smokers to take a few drags, says amateur firefighter Alexandra M. Fallows ’08, who extinguished one of the fires. But there was something else fanning the flames. Literally: a hot-air vent is located directly above the would-be fire-pit. Fallows witnessed the small but potentially dangerous fire firsthand during a 1 a.m. snack...