Amateur
radio was featured in a recent podcast by radio technology reporter Kim
Komando. According to ARRL Media and Public Relations Director Sean Kutzko,
KX9X, the 15-minute segment focused on the value of ham radio during
emergencies. And the technology blog, Hackaday¸ recently featured a profile of Rufus Turner, W3LF (SK), said to be the first African-American radio amateur in the United States. The ARRL Letter says Turner helped develop the venerable 1N34A diode and wrote a 1949 article in Radio-Electronics magazine in which he explained how to build your own transistor before they were commercially available.