Time to clean out the HAM shack and pick up some new projects for the holidays. All are welcome to attend the next SOARA Fall Auction on Monday, November 16 at the Norman P Murray Center in Mission Viejo at 7pm. For more information on the SOARA live auctions, check here. A regularly scheduled FCC licensing examination will occur prior to the meeting at 6pm.
Upcoming Activities
- Ham Radio License Exams - 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, April 15, 2024
- Membership Meeting - 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, April 15, 2024
- SOARA Elmer Saturday - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, April 20, 2024
- SOARA Board Meeting - 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, April 22, 2024
- SOARA 50th Anniversary Special Event - 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, May 18, 2024 – May 19, 2024
ARRL Audio News
Today in History
364 - Roman Emperor Valentinian I appoints his brother Flavius Valens co-emperor
1834 - Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US
1953 - "Stock exchanges open, dikes closed" raises 5,200,000 guilders
1953 - US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1962 - Devastating 8 for 6 spell by West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs gives home side innings and 30 run 3rd Test win over India in Bridgetown
1972 - Elvis Presley records his final Top Ten hit, a cover of "Burning Love", written by Dennis Linde, and first recorded by Arthur Alexander
1905 - Marlin Perkins, American TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), born in Carthage, Missouri (d. 1986)
1911 - Myfanwy Piper, British librettist and art critic, born in London (d. 1997)
1930 - Robert Ashley, American composer, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2014)
1931 - Anatoly Lein, Soviet-American chess player (Grandmaster 1968; World Chess Hall of Fame), born in Leningrad, Russia (d. 2018)
1945 - Johnny Famechon, Australian boxer (WBC featherweight champion 1969-70), born in Paris, France (d. 2022)
1988 - Lacey Turner, British soap actress
1893 - Edmund Kirby Smith, American military officer (Confederate Army General), dies at 68
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1974 - Francoise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1994 - Albert Goldman, American rock biographer (Lives of John Lennon; Elvis), dies at 66
2003 - (Farrell) "Rusty" Draper, American country and pop singer ("The Shifting, Whispering Sands"; "Are You Satisfied?"), dies of pneumonia at 80