Subj : Newsline Part 1
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Oct 13 2016 10:08 pm
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2033, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2033, with a release date of Friday,
Oct. 14, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
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The following is a QST. Ohio school kids contact the space station - via
an amateur in Italy. The bicycling ham from Denmark returns home to
Copenhagen -- and hams from Australia, Europe, and points in between
prepare for a global Summit-to-Summit event. All this and more, as
Amateur Radio Newsline's Report #2033, comes your way right now.
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MUSEUM'S HAM CLUB LINKS STUDENTS TO ISS
JIM/ANCHOR: We open this week's newscast with a space station contact
that took a deliberate and well-planned detour from Cincinnati to Italy.
Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Stephen Kinford N8WB with the details.
STEPHEN: Sometimes the best route to take to get from Cincinnati to the
International Space Station goes through Italy. On a map this might not
make geographic sense but to everyone who was involved, it made radio
sense. The Telebridge in Italy with IK1SLD, was just what was needed for
a group of Science Technology students in Cincinnati, in the iSPACE
program, who spoke with astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, on Saturday, Oct.
8, The 10-minute contact was facilitated by members of the West Chester
Amateur Radio Association, at the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting.
That would be Jocelyn Brault, KD8VRX, son Christopher Brault, KD8YVJ,
and Joe Gruber, WD8AZQ, museum board member, who provided their
technical expertise to make it happen. According to the VOA Museum of
Broadcasting, the contact marks the first connection Cincinnati area
students have had with the ISS in more than a decade. It was also the
50th Telebridge contact for IK1SLD. It's likely one everyone will
remember for an even longer time.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB.
(ARISS, JOCELYN BRAULT KD8VRX, VOA MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING)
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CANADA 150 ANNIVERSARY and LIGHTHOUSE ACTIVATION
JIM/ANCHOR: There's nothing like a lighthouse to help illuminate a
special occasion -- in this case, the 150th anniversary of Canada's
confederation. We hear more from Amateur Radio Newsline's John Williams,
VK4JJW.
JOHN: When it turns 150 years old next year, Canada will become even
more of an OM - that is, if a nation itself can be considered an OM.
Amateurs however, celebrate just this kind of special longevity, and in
that spirit, there will be an amateur radio activation of the East Point
Lighthouse on Prince Edward Island, which was recently named Canada's
Confederation lighthouse.
The lighthouse's site manager, Nova MacIsaac, told the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation that the lighthouse is the only one in the
country that was built the same year as Confederation - which would be
1867 - that is still functioning as a lighthouse. That designation makes
it eligible for funding to upgrade its exterior, and make other
improvements.
Meanwhile, Prince Edward Island amateur George Dewar, VY2GF, is now hard
at work planning an activation befitting this milestone birthday. Since
that's next year, the event is going to come up fast -- like a flash of
light, even.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW
(GEORGE DEWAR VY2GF, CBC)
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