Subj : Newsline Part 4
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 30 2016 02:16 pm
THAT'S THE SPIRIT! LOOK OUT FOR INTREPID DX AWARDS
NEIL/ANCHOR: Hams prepare to honor the notable DXers of 2016, while
preparing for a major international DX convention in 2017 in Visalia,
California. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Heather Embee, KB3TZD.
HEATHER: If you're a DXer, and know a fellow DXer who's got a spirit
that's fearless, generous, bold, innovative and dedicated - and that's
just for starters! - you may want to nominate them for the 2016 Intrepid
Spirit Award. The honor is conferred annually in recognition of an
individual or a group who possesses these qualities.
Winners will join the ranks of noted DXers such as Zorro Miyazawa,
JH1AJT, the 2015 honoree and Dmitri Zhikharev, RA9USU, who was chosen
in 2014.
For more details, see the website at www.intrepid-dx.com
While we're on the subject of DX, don't forget the 68th annual
International DX Convention, being held in California, April 21st
through 23rd. Registration is now open for the gathering, which is
sponsored by the Northern California DX Club. Planning is still under
way, and convention events are still taking shape; but already, there
are DX and technical seminars on the schedule, as well as basic and
advanced level training on contesting.
Get updated details at www.dxconvention.com
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD
(NORTHERN CALIF. DX CLUB, INTREPID DX GROUP)
**
SCOUT MERIT BADGE FINDS NEW DIRECTION
NEIL/ANCHOR: There are some big changes in the Radio Merit Badge program
for Boy Scouts, as we learn from Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns,
NE4RD.
This week in Radio Scouting, we have updates to the Radio Merit Badge
program to announce.
A big new addition to the Radio Merit Badge is a new option of Amateur
Radio Direction Finding. This combines orienteering and foxhunting, and
opens a new interactive component to this program. Cellular telephone
topics have been added, and different types of radio modulation have
been included. Key requirement changes were dropping open, closed, and
short circuits, as well as schematic symbols and components, as these
are covered in the Electricity and Electronics merit badges.
Other revisions include: minor edits and reordering of requirements in
the Amateur Radio option; Radio Broadcasting option now includes
Internet streaming, regulations, and power levels; Medium Wave and
Shortwave Listening option includes both types of listening, as well as
listening via streaming services on your smartphone.
These updates will take effect in 2017, and those scouts working on the
previous set of requirements generally can finish them up the same year.
For this, and more information on K2BSA, and Radio Scouting, please
visit www.k2bsa.net.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this
is Bill Stearns, NE4RD.
**
WORLD OF DX
In the world of DX, you can hear DXpeditioner Mek, SP7VC, in the Azores
until January 3rd. He will operate on all bands from 10m to 160m, using
the callsign CU2/SP7VC. Activity will be mainly on SSB. Send QSLs to his
home call sign, and via Logbook of The World.
Listen for Neven, LZ1COM, in the Maldive Islands, through the 5th of
January, operating as 8Q7ND on the HF bands. Send QSLs to his home call
sign.
Between January 1st and 7th, an IOTA expedition will operate from Al
Safliyah Island near Qatar, using the callsign A70X. (A Seven Zero X).
Expect large pileups: The island has not been activated since 1995. QSL
manager is M0OXO.
**
KICKER: A NET GAIN FOR THE SANTA NET
NEIL/ANCHOR: And finally, with Christmas 2016 behind us, we reflect on
Santa's popularity. It's big, because he has his own 80-meter Net.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Damron, N8TMW, has more:
JIM: Christmas is over, and the results are in: Santa is apparently more
popular than ever on ham radio. The 3916 Nets, which run the annual Santa
Net, connecting youngsters to the voice of Santa on ham radio, reports
that 426 stations, and 656 children, spoke to the big elf this year.
According to Pete Thomson, KE5GGY, the stations were from all over the
U.S. and into Canada. Best of all, the number represents an increase of
54 percent over the check-ins in 2015. No doubt this gives the Santa Net
operators, and even folks at the North Pole, a lot of ho-ho-hope for
Christmas next year.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW.
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; CNN;
Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Intrepid DX Club; Irish Radio Transmitter
Society; Northern California DX Club; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; the Santa
Net of the 3916 Tailgaiters and Freewheelers; Southgate Amateur Radio
News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; The Torquay Herald Express; WTWW
Shortwave; and you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio
Newsline. Please send emails to our address at
[email protected].
More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official
website located at www.arnewsline.org.
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 Bloomington,
Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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