Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jul 21 2016 09:31 pm
SCOUTS' MICHIGAN CAMPOREE GETS ON THE AIR
JIM/ANCHOR: There's lots going on in radio scouting in the week ahead,
including a special event station. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill
Stearns, NE4RD.
BILL'S REPORT: This week in Radio Scouting in addition to our 3 scout
camps that are on the air this summer as K2BSA, and making the news, we
have a special event station coming on the air in Michigan, and updates
on the National Jamboree.
Richard Zarczynski, AC8FJ, will be the control operator for the portable
8 station at the Michigan International Camporee at the Northwoods Scout
Reservation in Lupton, MI from July 24 to July 31. This special camporee,
occurring once every four years, has scouts from over 20 countries as
well as from 14 U.S. states. The 1,000-scouters camp will experience a
miniature World Jamboree. Richard will have a special event station set
up to let other amateurs know on various frequencies about the event.
Jim Wilson, K5ND, announced that K2BSA has secured sponsorship for the
National Jamboree in 2017 from Icom America, DX Engineering, and MFJ
Enterprises. The volunteer roster is full, and all leadership roles are
filled. We are all looking forward to a successful event next summer.
Congratulations to the team at Camp Geiger on making it on the news.
Fox 26, KNPN, did a video segment on the scouts finishing their week of
radio merit badge work at camp. Be sure to check it out.
Please help support this activity, and others involving youth in amateur
radio, by working and spotting them on the air and online. For more
information on K2BSA and radio scouting, please visit
http://www.k2bsa.net/
For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this
is Bill Stearns NE4RD.
(K2BSA)
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THE WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, Pierre, HB9AMO, is operating as HH2/HB9AMO on CW until
July 26 from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Send QSL cards to M0URX.
Listen for ST2M using the special callsign ST0A from Khartoum, Sudan until
the end of July. You are most likely to hear him on 40m to 10m SSB. Send
QSLs directly to ST2M.
Noro, OM6NM, will be active from Corfu Island during the Radio Society of
Great Britain's IOTA Contest on July 30 and July 31. Listen for Noro
working as SV8/OM6NM. Send QSL cards to OM2FY.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTER SOCIETY, DX COFFEE)
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KICKER: EVERYTHING'S PEACHY FOR SOUTH CAROLINA HAMS
JIM/ANCHOR: We close this week's newscast with a story about propagation
and peaches. That's right: peaches. In South Carolina, this year's Peach
Festival ended up bearing a different kind of fruit for participating
amateur radio operators: successful contacts with hams as distant as North
Dakota, and even Mexico. The Special Event station, W4W, had been set up
at the peach festival by Cherokee County Coroner, Dennis Fowler, KG4JIA,
using a fully equipped emergency communications trailer reserved for
disaster response.
In a recent report in the Gaffney Ledger newspaper, Fowler shared his
excitement about the special operation, saying, QUOTE "Ham radio operators
all over the world were part of the festival." ENDQUOTE
Indeed, the station's log, compiled over a 24-hour period, showed 107
successful QSOs made on Saturday, July 16.
That surely proved to festival-goers and ham radio operators alike, that
the next best thing to enjoying fresh local peaches may be having the best
pickings from the crop of radio contacts worldwide.
(THE S.C. GAFFNEY LEDGER)
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