NJ Ham Group Enters 'Innovation Competition'
The 721st Mechanized Contest Battalion, a group of young
hams from New Jersey, has entered its Emergency Antenna Platform System (E-APS)
in the Boca Bearings Innovation Competition, which offers prizes for innovative
projects using any sort of bearings. The E-APS is a robotic device that can
carry an antenna up virtually any parking lot light pole and use is as an
ad-hoc tower. Applications for emergency communications and other portable
operations are obvious. The group has demonstrated the system at Dayton, the
New York Maker Faire and the ARRL Centennial Convention. To learn more, visit
< http://bit.ly/1umbAkK >.