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 On April 3, 2023, Ria Jairam, N2RJ, joined the board of directors of Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC). Jairam has been a licensed amateur radio operator since 1997, after first having been licensed in her native Trinidad and Tobago. She has served on the boards of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and the ARRL Foundation. She is actively involved in amateur radio outreach and education through speaking at clubs and conventions, social media, her weekly radio show on WRMI shortwave radio and her YouTube channel. She holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from NYU Tandon School ... Read more

 Saelig Company, Inc. has announced Pulsiv OSMIUM – a novel patented power electronics technology for efficiently converting AC to DC that involves charging/discharging a small storage capacitor without the need for a PFC inductor. The OSMIUM microcontroller family and supporting components can be combined with commodity flyback DC-DC converters to displace higher-cost LLC solutions, achieving an unrivalled efficiency profile. For instance, a universal input, single switch 150W flyback power supply using the Pulsiv OSMIUM design delivers 97.5% average (99.5% peak) front-end efficiency while maintaining 90% at just 2W. Pulsiv OSMIUM microcontrollers do not directly determine output power and so they ... Read more

Lending a rescue paw ********************      The Fire Services Department is putting its first batch of self-bred working dogs to good use. They are being deployed to find hikers lost on hillsides and persons trapped in structural collapse accidents or landslides.      News.gov.hk spoke to Fire Services Department Search and Rescue Dog Team Dog Handler Chan Chu-hong to learn more about the canines’ new training methods for mountain rescues and how their experience at Türkiye’s earthquake zone has enhanced their training.      The story is available at www.news.gov.hk/eng/feature today (April 10) in text and video format.

Further enhancements to appointment booking arrangements for identity cards application ***************************************************************************************      The Immigration Department (ImmD) announced today (April 10) that starting from April 12, two enhancements to the appointment booking arrangements for identity cards application will be introduced: (I) Appointments for applications during extended service hours of Registration of Persons (ROP) Offices for replacement of Hong Kong identity cards for persons already in possession of Hong Kong identity cards reaching 11 or 18 years of age       Since March 6, 2023, the working hours of four designated ROP Offices, viz. Hong Kong Office, Kowloon Office, Kwun Tong Office and ... Read more

Fatal traffic accident in Tuen Mun **********************************      Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Tuen Mun this morning (April 9) in which a 60-year-old woman died.           At 5.56 am, a light goods vehicle driven by a 38-year-old man was travelling along Tuen Hop Street towards Tuen Mun Ferry Pier. When approaching the junction with Tuen Mun Heung Sze Wui Road, it reportedly knocked down the 60-year-old woman who was crossing the road.      Sustaining serious head injuries, the woman was rushed to Tuen Mun Hospital in unconscious state and was certified dead at 9.42pm.                 The driver was arrested for dangerous ... Read more