ARLA/CLUSTER: Visita Virtual à sede da ARRL-

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 Take a virtual tour of W1AW today

W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, will conduct a virtual tour of
W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, Sunday, February 12 at
2200 UT (5 PM EST).

Join W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, on a virtual tour of W1AW,
the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, the Amateur Radio station at
ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. Carcia will lead this
tour via a live webcast on Sunday, February 12 at 5 PM EST (2200 UTC).

Anyone with an Internet connection will be able to watch the tour here
http://www.awecast.tv/channels/arrl/

“We want viewers of this live Internet tour to feel as if they are
actually at W1AW,” Carcia explained. “If you came to W1AW in person,
you would see the same things that we are going to show on the virtual
tour:
The three operating stations, the W1AW workshop, the transmitter racks
that we use to send out our bulletins and use for the code practice
transmission, the control console and “Old Betsy,” Hiram Percy Maxim’s
personal spark gap transmitter.”

Al Petrunti, KA1TCH, of the New Day Group, will follow Carcia as he
leads viewers through the station. ARRL Staff members, including Media
and Public Relations Manager Allen Pitts, W1AGP, and Chief Operating
Officer Harold Kramer, WJ1B, as well as local television weatherman
Geoff Fox, K1GF, will also be on hand at W1AW during the tour.

“Hams around the world know of W1AW, and thousands have made contacts
with this impressive station -- but most hams never get to see it,”
Pitts said. “Thanks to Al Petrunti’s group, we hope that folks enjoy
seeing what’s at the other end of the signals. As in all live
broadcasts, you never know just what might happen. We invite you to
join us.” Pitts is producing the live web tour.

This is the second video that the New Day Group has made for the ARRL.
In 2011, they created the HR 607 video that educated radio amateurs of
a bill in Congress that addressed certain spectrum management issues,
including the creation and maintenance of a nationwide Public Safety
broadband network using current Amateur Radio spectrum.

Virtual Tour 2200 UT Feb 12
http://www.awecast.tv/channels/arrl/

ARRL
http://www.arrl.org/