The Amateur Radio legend is in red across the bottom of the new plates, which also display a tower on the left-hand side. The official told Thompson that, in 26 years of working at the division, no one had even asked him about the possibility of a new design. Thompson reports that Alabama was the first state to permit ham radio license plates, passing the legislation in 1951. Between 1941 and 1994, Villard authored or co-authored more than two dozen articles for QST . The Jansky Lectureship is awarded for outstanding contributions to the advancement of astronomy.
Masers are the radio equivalent of lasers.
VLBI allows astronomers to image celestial objects at a level of detail unmatched by any other technique. In a recent spectacular result, Moran and his colleagues used VLBI observations of a rotating disk of masers near the center of the galaxy NGC 4258 to show that the galaxy's center contains an enormous black hole with a mass 36 million times that of the sun. Moran credits Amateur Radio with starting him on his career path. Encouraged by his father, James M. Moran Sr, W1QUO, Moran was first licensed at the age of 13. The senior Moran is a longtime amateur, and his son still vividly remembers being shown a wood-chassis transmitter with a 35T tube that his dad had built in the 1930s.