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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2294 for Friday October 15th, 2021
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2294 with a release date of Friday
October 15th, 2021 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. A new California ham radio station has a very
terrestrial mission. Students in India receive a gift that opens the
airwaves to new licensees — and the first modern microsatellite turns 40.
All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2294 comes your
way right now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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NEW CALIFORNIA HAM STATION HAS EDUCATIONAL MISSION
PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story this week is about a new amateur radio station on
the West Coast of the US that is designed to be used by hams—but also
nonhams. Its goal is to expand appreciation for what goes on on-the-air as
well as terrestrially. Ralph Squillace KK6ITB has the details.
RALPH: A ABFSL2HM$5,550 grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications is helping
fund the creation of an amateur radio station at the new Chrisman California
Islands Center in Carpinteria, California. Amateur radio station K6TZ will
function as an educational outreach facility and become part of the center's
exhibit gallery. The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club and the Santa Barbara
Wireless Foundation will make the station available to the public when it is
not on the air so that visitors to the nonprofit center can access in in the
gallery. They can view an interactive presentation about amateur radio and
other forms of wireless technologies, especially as those technologies
relate to researchers and travelers on the islands off that part of the
coast. Webcams will be connected via the club's microwave data network,
giving gallery visitors a look at the islands themselves.
Club trustee Levi Maaia, K6LCM, said in a press release that the station
will be open next year. The club website describes the station as [quote] "a
fully-functional HF-VHF-UHF and microwave amateur radio station." [endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.
(DAN ROMANCHIK KB6NU)
**
GIFT PUTS STUDENT CLUB ON AIR IN INDIA
PAUL/ANCHOR: Meanwhile in India, another new amateur radio station is being
put together for a newly formed student club. This club has also benefitted
from a generous benefactor. Graham Kemp VK4BB picks up that story for us.
GRAHAM: For more than three dozen students at a government school in India's
Nalgonda District, lessons are about to become more than just academic.
Forty-three newly licensed radio amateurs are creating their club on campus
and have just received equipment for their shack from the nearby Lamakaan
Amateur Radio Club in Hyderabad (Hydra-Bod). The Dindi Amateur Radio Club's
faculty supporter is Sayed Jilani VU3OND, the teacher who encouraged and
coached the students to take the exam for their restricted grade amateur
radio licenses.
The shack's new equipment, however, is a gift from the Lamakaan Club, whose
vice president is Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE. Ashhar is a well-known experimenter
and accomplished homebrewer whose designs for the microBITX open-source HF
SSB transceiver have brought him a global reputation. The club presented the
equipment to the student club earlier this month. The students are now QRV
with a microBITX transciver, a power supply, an antenna and coax cable.
Calling CQ from a school in their village in Telangana, the students are
ready to take on the world.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Graham Kemp VK4BB.
(TELANGANA TODAY)
**
DEEP SPACE ATOMIC CLOCK ENDS MISSION
PAUL/ANCHOR: NASA has ended the mission of an experimental navigation aid
that transmitted from deep space for two years. Kent Peterson KC0DGY brings
us the details.
KENT: NASA has a message for its Deep Space Atomic Clock, the ultra-precise
spacecraft-navigation aid that's been in test mode for two years: Your
time—however precise it may have been—is up.
To its credit, the instrument outlived its original one-year test mission
that began with its launch in June of 2019 on board General Atomics’ Orbital
Test Bed spacecraft. On September 18th of this year, that journey came to an
end when NASA turned the clock's power off. Its ambitious function was not
without some high points: NASA credits it with breaking the record for
stability among atomic clocks sent into space. Hosted on board a
spacecraft, the clock had the same mission as its ground-based counterparts:
keeping time measurements to aid in the calculations of a spacecraft's
journey, factoring in that radio signals travel at the speed of light, 300
thousand kilometres per second. As spacecraft travel farther and farther
from Earth, onboard atomic clocks such as this one are seen as preferable to
the current ground-based instruments.
Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory say the clock has one more
mission to complete, however. Its data will be used in the development of
Deep Space Atomic Clock-2 another tech demo. Clock-2 is to be onboard NASA's
Venus mission set for 2028.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Kent Peterson KC0DGY.
(NASA)
**
FIRST MODERN MICROSATELLITE TURNS 40
PAUL/ANCHOR: Happy anniversary to UoSAT-1. Satellite enthusiasts recently
marked the 40th anniversary of its launch into orbit, which took place on
October 6th, 1981. Developed by a team based at the University of Surrey and
led by Martin Sweeting G3YJO, it was the first modern microsatellite
accessible to amateur radio operators.
The BBC carried an interview with the professor, who discussed the evolution
of his largely homebrew project and its subsequent launch by NASA. See the
text version of this week's Newsline script for a link to the BBC podcast.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v7pb ]
Meanwhile, three ham radio CubeSeats made by students from the Philippines
and Australia were sent into orbit from the International Space Station on
Wednesday. Australia's Binar-1 and the Philippines' Maya-3 and Maya-4
arrived at the ISS in August via a Cargo Dragon spacecraft. Details about
their operating frequencies can be found on the AMSAT-UK website.
(AMSAT-UK)
**
ARISS CONNECTS DEAF UK STUDENTS TO ISS
PAUL/ANCHOR: Right on schedule, students at the Mary Hare School for the
Deaf in the UK had their QSO with astronaut Mark Vande Hei KG5GNP aboard the
International Space Station. To hear this first-of-a-kind ARISS contact
follow the YouTube link in the text version of this newscast's script
at arnewsline.org
[https://youtu.be/wmI3qKZgjJ4 ]
(YOUTUBE)
**
FRANCE CELEBRATES YOUNGEST REUNION ISLAND HAM
PAUL/ANCHOR: Amateur radio loves to celebrate its newest and youngest
operators and in France, all eyes are on a certain proud 10-year-old. With
more, here's Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
JEREMY: Congratulations to Florian Barret of Reunion Island who at age 10
has received the call sign FR4UG, making him the youngest radio amateur in
France and its Overseas Territories. The announcement was made recently by
the amateur radio club in Saint-Leu in Reunion Island, following Florian's
training by Jacky FR4NP. France has only one class of amateur radio licence
and the French HAREC exam contains 40 questions.
According to an article in the outremers360.com website, Florian was
inspired to study to become a ham after watching his father get on the air
using a Citizens Band radio.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
(OUTREMERS360.COM)
**
RSGB CONVENTION AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
PAUL/ANCHOR: Although the 2021 Online Convention of the Radio Society of
Great Britain is over, if you missed it you can watch the interviews and
other parts of the program on the society's YouTube channel. Individual
presentations are not yet available but much of the other content can be
watched using the link that appears in the script for this week's newscast.
[www.youtube.com/theRSGB ]
**
BRAZIL, NORWAY JOIN POTA PROGRAM
PAUL/ANCHOR: Two new DXCC entities have joined Parks on the Air. Vance
Martin N3VEM brings us that report.
VANCE: [actuality audio "CQ CQ POTA, CQ Parks on the Airö]
And now in Parks on the Air news: In September POTA welcomed Brazil and
Norway to the program, which means we now have parks in 102 different DXCC
entities. Activators in Brazil can now choose from over 700 different parks
to activate, while activators in Norway, which is rich with nature reserves,
have more than 2,500 parks to choose from. In POTA events, coming up on
October 16th and 17th is the Autumn Support Your Parks Event. This is a
great opportunity to get out for low-key weekend activity, and make some
contacts before the weather turns cold, or for our friends in the Southern
Hemisphere, as seasons start to warm up.
In our last item of POTA news we’re excited to announce that September of
2021 was an all-time record-setting month for POTA with more than a quarter
of a million contacts made in one month. Although logs are still coming in,
the QSO count is currently 263,478.
This is November 3 Victor Echo Mike with your month ending September 2021
Parks on the Air update. Be sure to visit parksontheair.com for information
about the program, and pota.app for spotting, park information, leader
boards, and more.
(POTA)
**
WRTC COMPETITOR LIST RELEASED
PAUL/ANCHOR: The Italian WRTC 2023 organization has released the list of
competitors for this four-yearly competition of the best contesters in ham
radio "The Olympics of Amateur Radio." The event has been delayed by a year
because of COVID-19. The list's URL can be found in the script of this
week's newscast at arnewsline dot org.
(https://www.wrtc2022.it/score_redirect.asp?alltl=1 )
**
BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio
Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the N7OEI
repeater in Arizona's Navajo and Apache Counties on Thursdays at 7 p.m.
local time.
**
ALEXANDERSON ALTERNATOR TO TRANSMIT ON UN DAY
PAUL/ANCHOR: The Alexanderson Association is once again marking United
Nations Day - Sunday the 24th of October - by transmitting a global message
in Morse Code on the historic Alexanderson alternator at the World Heritage
Grimeton Radio Station in Sweden. This year's message was written by Parul
Sharma, a Swedish human rights lawyer and a proponent for sustainability.
The CW message will be transmitted on 17.2 kHz. The transmitter uses the
call sign SAQ. Test transmissions will be conducted on the 22nd of October
between 1100 and 1400 UTC and listeners are invited to submit comments to
info at alexander dot n dot se.
The event itself will be carried live on the association's YouTube channel.
(THE ALEXANDERSON ASSOCIATION)
**
IRELAND'S HAM EXAM MAY GET NEW OVERSEER
PAUL/ANCHOR: In Ireland, the regulator is seeking applicants to oversee the
amateur radio exam there. Jeremy Boot G4NJH has the details.
JEREMY: Ireland's communications regulator, ComReg, is looking for
organisations to oversee the country's amateur radio exams after the current
agreement expires with the Irish Radio Transmitters Society on the 21st of
December. The Harmonised Amateur Radio Certificate, or HAREC, is to be set,
organised and corrected by whoever enters into the new agreement with the
regulator afterward. ComReg is expected to publish its invitation to the
tender process shortly on its website. The IRTS has been administering the
60-question HAREC exams on paper. There has been no option to take the exams
online. A report on the Southgate Amateur Radio News website noted, however,
that the Radio Society of Great Britain has been using a Dublin-based
provider for its own online exams.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
(SOUTHGATE, COMREG)
**
AUSTRALIA BEGINS ALLOCATION OF 2x1 CONTEST CALLS
PAUL/ANCHOR: The allocation of the new 2x1 contest callsigns has begun in
Australia. Be listening sometime soon for 2x1 calls with the prefixes VK, VJ
and VL followed by the state number and the letters A through Zed. The
applications for these callsigns started being accepted on the 13th of
October by the Australian Maritime College on behalf of the Australian
Communication and Media Authority.
They will cost 70 Australian Dollars and are limited to only contest use
during a 12-month period after which all Advanced licence holders can apply
for them, no reservation of the call for a further year will be allowed.
(ACMA)
**
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, be listening for members of the International Amateur
Radio Contest DX Club who are using the call sign 4U2U until October 31st.
They are celebrating United Nations Day, which is October 24th. This station
counts as a contact with Austria, prefix OE, for DX purposes and it counts
as 4U for the Vienna International Centre for the CQ DX Marathon Award. Send
QSLs to UA3DX, direct or by the Bureau.
The CQ WW DX SSB contest taking place on October 30th and 31st offers the
opportunity for a number of stations in Indonesia, Kuwait and Hawaii.
In Indonesia, a team using the callsign 7A2A will be operating from a
contest station in central Java. QSL using LoTW or send QSLs direct or to
YB2DX.
In Kuwait, Abdallah, 9K2GS, will be active in the contest as 9K2K. Send QSLs
to EC6DX or QSL via LoTW.
Be listening for Alex, KU1CW, in Hawaii, using the callsign KH7Q from Oahu
Island. He will also be active before and after the contest using the
callsign KH6/KU1CW. QSL KH7Q via LoTW or direct to AH6NF.
(OHIO PENN DX)
**
KICKER: WI-FI? WHY NOT? A DIFFERENT KIND OF DX
PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story we look at a most unusual kind of DX. It
was accomplished recently using a mode that is usually associated with very
local signals. Ed Durrant DD5LP tells us about it.
ED: It's hardly the preferred mode for DXing, but Wi-Fi certainly went the
distance recently for two hams in Italy who succeeded in making contact
between the island of Sardinia and the Tuscan summit of Monte Amita, 304
kilometres, or nearly 200 miles away.
The connection made across the Tyrrhenian (TUH-REEN-EE-YUN) Sea was a
project undertaken by the Italian Center for Experimental Radio Activities
and was reported recently on the Wi-FiPLanet website. The report didn't say
who the hams were but the Italian center's spokesman Mirco Paesante (PIE-
SANTAY) IZ3HAD called the achievement a world record for Wi-Fi and a first
step in creating [quote] "a wide-band digital network to connect all Italian
ham radio users to each other and to other services provided by our
associations." [endquote] Those services include D-STAR, Echolink and
Amateur TV.
The 802.11a link was created using radio modules on both ends from Ubiquity
Networks based in San Jose, California. The modules were connected to 35dBi
5GHz parabolic dish antennas.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ed Durrant DD5LP.
(WI-FIPLANET.COM)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to the ACMA; the Alexanderson Association;
AMSAT-UK; the ARRL; COMREG; CQ Magazine; Dan Romanchik, KB6NU; David Behar
K7DB; NASA; Ohio Penn DX Bulletin; Outremers360; QRZ.com; Radio Society of
Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; SOTA
Reflector; space.com; spacenews; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Telengana
Today; Wi-Fi Planet; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from
the Amateur Radio Newsline. You can write to us at newsline@arnewsline.org.
We remind our listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all-volunteer non-
profit organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you
wish to support us, please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that
we appreciate you all.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT at the news desk in New York, and our
news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun WD9GCO in Valparaiso Indiana saying 73.
As always we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.
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