General meeting information and Map Have an idea for a meeting? Email the RARS Vice President! Updated July 24, 2010 14:00:08 News14 Rebekah on the air! N&O story The monthly Raleigh area HAM Radio dinner will move to another location during this period and we are using an Online Poll to gather suggestions for a dinner location. Did You Know? The Wouff Hong (Source: The ARRL Letter - October 15, 2009)
Every amateur should know and tremble at the history and origins of this fearsome instrument for the punishment of amateurs who cultivate bad operating habits and who nourish and culture their meaner instincts on the air. The Wouff Hong was invented -- or at any rate, discovered -- by "The Old Man" himself, just as amateurs were getting back on the air after World War I. The Old Man (who later turned out to be Hiram Percy Maxim, W1AW, co-founder and first President of ARRL) first heard the Wouff Hong described amid the howls and garble of interference as he tuned across a band filled with signals that exemplified all the rotten operating practices then available to amateurs (considering the state of the art as they knew it). As The Old Man heard it, the Wouff Hong was being used on some hapless offender so effectively that he investigated. After further effort, "T.O.M." was able to locate and identify a Wouff Hong. The Old Man never prescribed the exact manner in which the Wouff Hong was to be used, but amateurs need only a little imagination to surmise how painful punishments were inflicted on those who stoop to liddish behavior on the air. The Original Wouff Hong is on display at ARRL Headquarters. Find out more about this dreaded instrument of torture here. The 2010 RARSfest hands-on project table featured a hand held antenna for reception of UHF downlink amateur radio satellite signals, as well as the popular J-Pole project we had in previous years. For those who missed the opportunity to build this antenna at RARSfest, Justin Pinnix has provided the following information:
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