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Central Texans. Come out this Friday and say HI! Travis County Amateur Radio Emergency Service will have their EmComm Trailer there to tour. Find opportunities to learn and lend a hand for your community. Friday, September 22, 2023. 3:00pm-7:00pm.

Join us at the Austin Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management's Get Ready Central Texas - Emergency Preparedness Fair on Friday, 9/22, from 3-7pm at the ACC Eastview Campus (3101 Webberville Rd, 78702)! Learn how to make a plan, build an emergency kit, stay informed, & more. Pick up free supplies (while they last) & enjoy refreshments & DJ music.

Make emergency preparedness one of your superpowers!

Testing our preparedness during our drill this morning.

Radio Frequency Hopping invention by Movie Star! What undiscovered talents may yet to be revealed in yourself? We should all be Life-long learning students.

Hedy Lamarr, Movie Star and Inventor!

On This Day In History 1942 - American actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals; it later became a component of satellite and cellular phone technology.

Lamarr shared her concept for using “frequency hopping” with the U.S. Navy and codeveloped a patent with Antheil 1941. Today, her innovation helped make possible a wide range of wireless communications technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.

Although Lamarr had no formal training and was primarily self-taught, she tinkered in her spare time on various hobbies and ideas, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink.

During World War II, Lamarr read that radio-controlled torpedoes had been proposed. However, an enemy might be able to jam such a torpedo's guidance system and set it off course. When discussing this with her friend the composer and pianist George Antheil, the idea was raised that a frequency-hopping signal might prevent the torpedo's radio guidance system from being tracked or jammed. Antheil succeeded by synchronizing a miniaturized player piano mechanism with radio signals. Antheil sketched out the idea for the frequency-hopping system, which was to use a perforated paper tape which actuated pneumatic controls (as was already used in player pianos).

Antheil was introduced to Samuel Stuart Mackeown, a professor of radio-electrical engineering at Caltech, whom Lamarr then employed for a year to actually implement the idea. Lamarr hired the Los Angeles legal firm of Lyon & Lyon to search for prior knowledge, and to craft the application for the patent which was granted as U.S. Patent 2,292,387 on August 11, 1942, under her married name Hedy Kiesler Markey.

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The Air Force May Have Actually Shot Down a Wholesome Ham Radio Balloon Well, that’s awkward.

Monitoring the ice storm conditions affecting the road and infrastructure.

Safety Officers are models of practice. Effective Safety Officers approach this role with an eye on nurturing a culture of concern versus an impersonal and bureaucratic culture of safety. The responsibility is great, but the rewards are greater. For Safety Officers who convey genuine concern for their members, the safety message becomes a cause the members believe in. When the members believe in something, compliance is not work, but a passion.

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Attention Austin residents.

City of Austin giving out winter weather home supplies this week — how to pick up The City of Austin is helping residents prepare for winter weather by giving out supplies this week.

Emergency Management "Sunday School". All-Hazards includes those storms from the cosmos that can disrupt GPS, communications and the power grids.