2 tower legs bent, caused collapse that killed Prelog

Source: TWIAR News Feed | 1 Jul 2009 | 8:19 pm

When Larry Prelog suffered a fatal fall from a radio tower Saturday at a ham radio demonstration in Watervliet, he was doing the routine task of installing an antenna. It was something the 57-year-old Niles man had done time and time again as a profess...

Ham radio expert Phillips dies (Ohio)

Source: TWIAR News Feed | 1 Jul 2009 | 8:19 pm

Joseph J. Phillips Jr., former Enquirer education reporter and amateur radio columnist, died June 20 of a pulmonary embolism at his home here. He was 68. Mr. Phillips retired from a 28-year career as an English teacher for the Princeton Schools in 1999...

Niles man dies after falling from ham radio tower

Source: TWIAR News Feed | 1 Jul 2009 | 8:17 pm

An experienced installer of ham radio equipment has died after a 60-foot-high radio tower he was scaling during an antenna-installation competition collapsed beneath him. Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey says 57-year-old Larry Prelog of Niles died Su...

Tuning in Tokyo: Dozens of ham radio operators meet, compete at Stub Stewart

Source: TWIAR News Feed | 1 Jul 2009 | 8:17 pm

Visitors to Buxton's L.L. Stub Stewart State Park were greeted with a forest of a different kind Saturday and Sunday, as amateur radio operators from around the Northwest set up a tall stand of antennas to try to tune in as many friends as possible from a...

Kodiak tunes into Amateur Radio Week (Alaska)

Source: TWIAR News Feed | 1 Jul 2009 | 8:17 pm

The Kodiak Island Amateur Radio Club had its annual field day of emergency ham radio demonstrations, Saturday afternoon, at the Kodiak Military History Museum at Fort Abercrombie State Historical Park's Miller Point.