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ARRL Products: Instructor Support (More) Understanding Signals -- This Stamps in Class guide shows you how to generate, view and measure a variety of wave forms with the Parallax USB Oscilloscope and BASIC Stamp-controlled circuits. Parallax USB Oscilloscope -- This portable two-channel digital storage oscilloscope is a handy and affordable tool for both hobbyist and student! What's a Microcontroller? Parts Kit and Text -- Incorporates a variety of fun and engaging experiments using motion, light, and sound. Boe-Bot Robot Kit -- The new USB Boe-Bot is a reprogrammable robot built on a high-quality brushed aluminum chassis. Basic Electronics Course and Kit -- The Basic Electronics Course and Kit is intended for those teachers and instructors that want a ready resource that they can adapt to their instruction of electronic fundamentals. The materials include a PowerPoint presentation and instructor's script. The course is designed around affordable components, prototyping board, and VOM and uses Understanding Basic Electronics as the associated reference (sold separately).

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Ham-radio-in-space pioneer Tony England, W0ORE, to be ARRL EXPO guest

April 20, 2005 -- Tony England, W0ORE, the second US astronaut to ever use Amateur Radio in space, will be a special guest of the League’s at ARRL EXPO 2005 at Dayton Hamvention. Present plans call for England to be at the ARRL EXPO 2005 area in the Ballarena of the Hara Arena complex Friday, May 20, from 9:30 until 10 AM, and at the ARRL youth activities area from 10 until 10:30 AM. Visitors may want to have England autograph their Dayton Hamvention programs or ARRL Passports. During his NASA career, England served on the support staff for the Apollo 13 and 16 flights. In 1985, England flew the Space Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) during the STS-51F Spacelab-2 mission. He retired from NASA in 1988 after logging 188 hours in space. England, 62, now is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the University of Michigan College of Engineering as well as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and professor of atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences.

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