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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2301 for Friday December 3rd, 2021
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2301 with a release date of Friday
December 3rd, 2021 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Ham radio marks 100 years of signals crossing the
ocean. A well-known author and podcaster becomes a Silent Key -- and we
announce the winner of the 2021 Amateur Radio Newsline International
Newsmaker of the Year award. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline
Report Number 2301 comes your way right now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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AMATEUR RADIO'S 100 YEARS OF TRANSATLANTIC SIGNALS
NEIL/ANCHOR: We begin this week by marking a turning point in amateur radio
history: the first transatlantic communications on the amateur portion of
the spectrum 100 years ago this month. A video from the Antique Wireless
Museum in New York celebrates the one-century-mark of what the museum is
calling "The Triumph of the Amateurs," which began with the first test on
Dec. 11 1921. Jack Parker W8ISH picks up the story from here.
JACK: A dramatic video released recently by the Antique Wireless Museum
tells how hams conceived of a historic test in 1921 that showed the world
that the shortwave spectrum below 200 meters was anything but useless when
it came to sending messages across the ocean. This was the now-famous
Transatlantic Test Project. In a one-hour video, Ed Gable, K2MP, and Mark
Erdle, AE2EA, tell how the amateur spirit of experimentation put ham station
1BCG on the air with a tube-based transmitter on 1.3 MHz. The CW
transmission from Connecticut by the Radio Club of America was successfully
copied in Scotland.
As hams prepare to re-enact that day on its anniversary using a replica of
the original transmitter, hams everywhere can learn all about the moments
that made history on 160 meters. Find a link to the YouTube video in the
text version of this week's newscast on our website arnewsline.org
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jack Parker W8ISH.
(FOR PRINT ONLY, DO NOT READ: LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=zt_M5VVsR1Q )
(YOUTUBE, ANTIQUE WIRELESS MUSEUM)
**
RADIO CAROLINE SEEKS REPORTS ON NEW TRANSMITTER
NEIL/ANCHOR: Who doesn’t love the thought of a better, more powerful
transmitter? You don’t even have to be a ham: In the UK, an upgrade has been
made at Radio Caroline, a once-notorious pirate radio station, leaving the
station feeling loud and proud. Jeremy Boot G4NJH picks up the story from
here.
JEREMY: If you can hear the new, high-power signal of Radio Caroline on 648
KHz AM, you can thank its new 25 kW transmitter, a Harris DX25U which is a
nice step up from the station’s older 10 kW Nautel model.
The station manager, Peter Moore, writes on the Southgate Amateur Radio News
website that the station is keen to know how much further its signals are
reaching these days. He asks for reception reports to be sent to help the
crew achieve even more improvements. You can find a link to the reception
report at radiocaroline.co.uk
Peter said: [quote] “Now the new transmitter is in service covering a much
larger area than before, we hope to reconnect with more of our listeners
from the past.ö [endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
(RADIO CAROLINE, SOUTHGATE)
**
CYCLING HAMS HELP RAISE FUNDS TO BEAT CANCER
NEIL/ANCHOR: All hams know that public service is a big part of what we do —
but it isn't always done holding a radio, as we hear from Graham Kemp VK4BB.
GRAHAM: When the Great Cycle Challenge rolled out in October to raise funds
to find cures for childhood cancers, the Bendigo Amateur Radio and
Electronics Club was ready for this monthlong bicycle-based event. This
time, however, members weren't stationed along any particular route, as hams
often are during one-day events; they were on the road themselves throughout
the month, pedaling more than 600 kilometres toward their financial
destination. The club reports that the BAREC Pedal Radio Group's efforts
helped raise nearly AU 0,400.00 for the cause, adding their total to the
national fundraising total of more than .9 million.
Of course that's not to say there wasn't some kind of radio involved. BAREC
pedal group member Graeme Knight VK3GRK said afterward in a press release:
[quote] "Some of our radio club members enjoy bike riding, and some of us
even use radios to keep in touch with others while out riding." [endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Graham Kemp VK4BB.
(BAREC)
**
FINDING POWER WITHOUT RELYING ON BATTERIES
NEIL/ANCHOR: Imagine a world in which your various internet-linked devices
didn't have to rely on batteries. Well, researchers in Spain can already see
that day coming. Kent Peterson KC0DGY tells us more.
KENT: They've been on the wish list for lots of us but now battery-free
devices have made the leap to the list of possibilities for some researchers
in Spain. Scientists at the IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid are using
LiFi and Radio Frequency backscatter technologies to make it happen. After
three years of research, they've created a sustainable wireless
communication system that they call PassiveLiFi and say it could be deployed
for systems in smart agriculture, smart cities and even smart homes. A
November 26th article on the Hackster website describes how LiFi happens.
The article says: [quote] "IoT devices would transmit data by reflecting and
modulating the incoming RF signals present in the environment, a passive
transmission technique known as RF backscattering that consumes very little
power." [endquote]. One of the researchers notes that when the scientists
began their work, LiFi technology and RF backscattering were viewed as
independent from one another.
Will they now make a winning and workable combination? With an estimated 64
billion or more users of battery-powered IoT devices in the world, there'll
be plenty of people watching to find out.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson KC0DGY.
(HACKSTER)
**
SILENT KEY: QST COLUMNIST JOEL R. HALLAS, W1ZR
NEIL/ANCHOR: A longtime contributor to the library of amateur radio
knowledge and expertise has become a Silent Key. Joel R. Hallas (Hal luss)
W1ZR was the author of numerous books and a contributing editor to the
ARRL's QST magazine, which he had formerly served as technical editor. His
QST column "The Doctor is In" also inspired a popular podcast. An amateur
radio operator since 1955, Joel died on November 25th at the age of 79.
(ARRL)
**
BELGIUM PLANS TO OFFER EXAMS IN EARLY 2022
NEIL/ANCHOR: Radio exams will be back in Belgium in just a few weeks. Ed
Durrant DD5LP has the details.
ED: Shortly after announcing that it was suspending all amateur radio
licence exams through to the end of this year due to the pandemic, Belgium's
regulator BIPT has scheduled its first examination in 2022 for Friday, the
7th of January. The test will not be given at BIPT facilities, which the
regulator has deemed insufficient to comply with COVID precautions. The exam
site will instead be the Euro Space Center, a science museum in Wallonia in
the Belgian-Luxembourg Province in southern Belgium. The testing procedures
will be the same that are followed at the regulator's site.
The announcement was made public on the website of the UBA, the national
amateur radio member society. Candidates may test for the basic ECC report-
89 ON3 licence; the CEPT Novice ON2 licence; or the HAREC Full licence.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ed Durrant DD5LP.
(SOUTHGATE, UBC)
**
ARISS NAMED NEWSLINE'S INT'L NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR
NEIL/ANCHOR: Following two great recipients in previous years — namely The
West Bengal Radio Club in India and the Radio Society of Great Britain-
National Health Service's Get-on-the-air-to-care project, both of whom
continue to do great work, we are proud to announce the winner of the 2021
ARNewsline International Newsmaker of the Year Award. This year's honor goes
to Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, or ARISS, an
organization I've had the pleasure of working with myself. This group, based
across fifteen countries around the world, has been supporting amateur radio
from the space station and performing school links around the world to
astronauts for over 20 years. As well as enthusing youngsters in the magic
of space and radio, they have also generated publicity for Amateur Radio in
the mainstream media channels of radio, TV and newspapers. Congratulations
to a deserving award-winner from all of us at Newsline.
**
BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio
Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the Metro
Area Repeater Association's WD0HWT repeater in Oakdale Minnesota at 7 p.m.
local time on Sundays.
**
SUCCESS WAS IN THE (QSL) CARDS
NEIL/ANCHOR: For one ham club in Massachusetts, a recent QSL sorting party
became a celebration party. Andy Morrison K9AWM shares the details.
ANDY: The recent QSL sorting party of the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio Club
was anything but routine. As they handled the coveted confirmations of DX
contacts, preparing the cards to be sent to their recipients, the volunteer
crew found itself on the receiving end of something as well: The
Massachusetts club was presented with a plaque from the ARRL's DX QSL Bureau
System for the group's 25 years of service to the ARRL regional bureau. Club
president Bruce Blain, K1BG, accepted the honor on behalf of the club from
the bureau's comanager, Eric Williams, KV1J.
With hams enjoying a better sunspot cycle now, there's likely to be lots
more DX on the horizon so the club can look forward to sorting many more of
those cards for the foreseeable future.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Andy Morrison K9AWM.
(JOE REYNOLDS KA1GDQ)
**
CHANGES COMING FOR AUSTRALIAN LICENSEES
NEIL/ANCHOR: Australia's regulator is seeking input on two proposed changes
affecting amateur radio licensees. Graham Kemp VK4BB brings us that story.
GRAHAM: Australia's communications regulator has proposed syllabus changes
impacting the Advanced, which is the Full amateur licence and, in a separate
move, seeks to restrict further issuance of two callsign suffixes associated
with emergencies.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority's proposal for the
Advanced licence would adopt the exam syllabus from the CEPT
Recommendations, making the certificate of proficiency fully compatible with
CEPT HAREC.
Separately, the regulator is seeking to drop callsign suffixes SOS and PAN
from future allocations because of their association with international
emergency and distress calls. Hams with callsigns already containing these
suffixes will not be affected. Going forward, the suffixes will be added
instead to a list of reserved call signs.
The regulator invites comments on both of these proposals and asks hams to
respond no later than the close of business, Australia time, on Monday, the
13th of December. A link to the survey is in the text version of this
newscast on our website arnewsline.org.
In another move, hams have been notified that the ACMA now requires all
equipment sold or imported into Australia to comply with ARPANSA's
electromagnetic energy exposure levels, simplifying the mandatory testing
procedure for most amateurs.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Graham Kemp VK4BB.
[FOR PRINT ONLY, DO NOT READ: https://tinyurl.com/yc7w3hz8 ]
(ACMA)
**
SPECIAL ACTIVATION MARKS PEARL HARBOR'S BOMBING
NEIL/ANCHOR: The US Battleship Iowa's original Navy callsign, NEPM, will be
heard on the air on Tuesday, December 7th, marking the anniversary of
Japan's surprise aerial bombing of the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in
1941. That attack spurred the United States' entry into World War II.
The US Navy's Third Fleet Spectrum Manager has authorized the callsign's
activation by the Battleship Iowa Amateur Radio Association and the Iowa's
Innovation and Engineering Team. The hams will be operating split; be
listening for them on 14.781.5 MHz and answer their call using 14.343 MHz.
The activation will take place between 1600 and 2359 UTC.
For more details, visit the QRZ.COM page for NEPM.
(BATTLESHIP IOWA AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION)
**
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, Datta (Dah-tah) VU2DSI is on the air until December 14th
with the special event callsign AU2JCB. He is commemorating the November
30th birth date of India's wireless pioneer Jagadish Chandra Bose. He is
operating on 10, 15, 20, 40 and 80 metres SSB and can be heard on 6m and 10
m in FM mode. Send QSL cards direct to his home callsign.
Operators Tom DL7BO and Tom DJ6TF are on the air as Z22O and Z21A,
respectively, from Harare (ha rar eh), Zimbabwe, until the 15th of December.
Listen for them on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and FT8/FT4. Send QSLs for
both callsigns to DJ6TF. Ukraine stations should send to UY5ZZ or use LoTW.
Members of the Dolomites Contest Team, IQ3DQ, based in the region of Belluno
(Bell oo no), are marking their 55th anniversary with the special event
callsign IB3ABM until December 15th. They will be on the air on 80/40/30/20
meters using CW, SSB, RTTY and FT8. For information on how to earn diplomas
available at the end of the event, see their page on QRZ.com.
(OHIO PENN DX)
**
KICKER: CELEBRATING A YOUNGSTER WHO'S IN (AND ON) THE AIR
NEIL/ANCHOR: Although December is YOTA month, celebrating Youngsters on the
Air, for one 10-year-old in New England, every day of every month is an
occasion to be a youngster **IN** the air. We finish this week's newscast
with his story, shared by Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.
RALPH: The third time was the charm for Max Kendall W0MXX, whose high-
altitude APRS ballooon projects explore science and the stratosphere, all
the while using amateur radio during launching, tracking and recovery.
The Medway, Massachusetts 10-year-old told Newsline in an email that his
third and latest balloon, identified as WB-3, was by far his most
successful. The balloon launched in October with a camera and a 2m APRS
tracker. It stayed aloft for about three hours, carrying weather sensors and
a few science experiments. Coached by his Elmer Mike Hojnowski (HODGE-NOW-
SKEE) KD2EAT, from the Medway Balloon Society, Max is hoping the experiments
will help him learn more about CO2 levels at high altitudes, among other
things.
The learning and experimenting won't stop there, however; Max has plans for
WB4 in his next year's line-up. He told Newsline that WB4 will be all about
the tracking interfaces when using different protocols such as WSPR, APRS,
4FSK and FSQ. The sky, after all, is the limit.
To hear Max talk about the latest flight - and see a part of it - visit his
YouTube channel. A link to the video appears in the text version of this
week's newscast at arnewsline.org
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.
[FOR PRINT ONLY, DO NOT READ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDGSaZW2EUQ]
(MAX KENDALL W0MXX, YOUTUBE)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to the Antique Wireless Museum; the ARRL;
Australian Communications and Media Authority; Bendigo Amateur Radio and
Electronics Club; CQ Magazine; David Behar K7DB; Joe Reynolds, KA1GDQ; Max
Kendall W0MXX; Ohio Penn DX; Radio Caroline; QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great
Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; shortwaveradio.de; Wireless Institute
of Australia; YouTUbe; 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 Neil Rapp WB9VPG in Union Kentucky saying 73. As
always we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2021. All rights reserved.
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