Subj : Newsline Part 4
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 10 2017 07:57 am
SAILING TOWARD SIGNALS IN SYDNEY
ANCHOR/STEPHEN: Of course, some hams would rather try for radio contact
aboard a smaller boat, like a ferry, as we hear from Amateur Radio
Newsline's Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
JASON: Ferry boats aren't exactly battleships, but a few of the ones in
Sydney Harbor are going to see some competetive action soon during the
Sydney Amateur Radio Ferry contest on the 12th of March. The Waverley
Amateur Radio Society, VK2BV, is hosting its second annual ferry contest,
which is a VHF/UHF event utilizing both simplex frequencies and repeaters.
The competition invites hams to contact other hams on hand-held receivers
while on any of the ferries or wharves in and around Sydney Harbor.
The event takes place from 10 am to 4 pm local time. There will be a
number of honors including the coveted Worked All Ferries award. So, if
you're waiting for your ship - or perhaps your ferry - to come in,
consider the purchase of an Opal Card for $2.50 which permits a full
day's travel on board.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
**
ROUNDING UP CONTACTS FOR SCHOOL HAM CLUBS
ANCHOR/STEPHEN: OK, hams, you have some homework to do, as we hear from
Amateur Radio Newsline's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
NEIL: School Club Roundup is just around the corner once again. It's time
to support our school ham radio clubs by giving students a call on the
air! The on-air activity, in a contest-like format, starts at 1300 UTC
Monday, February 13th, and lasts through 2359 UTC on Friday, February
17th. Lew Malchick, N2RQ, the event's organizer from the sponsoring Long
Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club, or LIMARC, explains the goal of School
Club Roundup.
LEW: I constantly run into people who say we need new hams; young hams.
And, one of the ways to get them is to introduce them to ham radio. Get
'em on the air. And School Club Roundup is one of the ways to get them on
the air. Schools of course are the biggest attraction, biggest multiplier
in the scoring, and all of that; but It's not about the scoring, really.
It's just about the experience. You will hear elementary school age kids
operating like they've been on the air for a decade. And you'll hear kids
that have never touched a microphone or [worked] a digital contact before.
But the whole idea is to give them the experience. And hopefully, sow the
seeds of some new operators.
NEIL: In order for the kids to operate, they need some stations to
contact.
LEW: If we depended only on the schools talking to other schools, it
wouldn't be very much. You get on the air especially with the recent
conditions, you're not going to make that many contacts. So we need the
individuals. We want everyone to get on and have some fun! And so, we
have that opportunity. The other thing we'd like, since we've had some
complaints in recent years, is for individual operators, and maybe some
net people and stuff like that, to be courteous. Recognize that a lot of
these operators are very inexperienced. Give them a little slack, and be
a little bit more courteous than you might otherwise be...or patient.
NEIL: For recommended frequencies and complete rules, visit
www.arrl.org/school-club-roundup. And, I look forward to hearing YOU on
the air.
Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
**
KICKER: A SPECIAL REQUEST FOR A FRIEND'S SPECIAL PROJECT
STEPHEN: And finally, we close out this week's report with a special
request from a good friend, Hap Holly, KC9RP, who spoke with Amateur
Radio Newsline's Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
PAUL/ANCHOR: Most hams take the written word for granted. Whether it's
an online article, something in QST or CQ, or perhaps a magazine article
from a particular collector's club on the history of a radio.
But not everyone can do that. Take, for example, Hap Holly, KC9RP.
Hap is not only the founder of The Radio Amateur Information Network, or
RAIN Report broadcast, but a longtime contributor and supporter of
Newsline as well. He's also blind. For him, capturing and presenting
amateur radio information and history in audio form is not only fun, it's
critical. That is also the reason that he records every forum speaker at
Dayton every year and presents them later in his broadcast.
I recently spoke to Hap about RAIN, and a specific project he needs help
with:
HAP: I am concerned that, as time goes on, we are losing more and more of
our radio "pioneers." After all, we just lost one of my mentors, Bill
Pasternak, co-founder of Newsline, last year, and every year it seems that
there are more and more of those who were involved with ham radio
manufacturers back in the Sixties and Seventies who are becoming Silent
Keys. And I want to document - I want to archive - interviews with as many
of these people as I can from manufacturers who are no longer around. I.E.,
Hammarlund, National, Heathkit, Lafayette, Allied, Gotham, Hallicrafters,
you name it.
I have interviewed a few - Herb Johnson from Swan and Atlas - many back in
the early 90s - Wes Schum of Central Electronics, he's gone, and it
concerns me because I, as a blind person, do not have the access to some
of this history. Oh, yeah, if you look around on the Internet enough maybe
you�ll find it, but I want to have it easily accessible in audio format so
folks can play it in their own ham shack, put it on a net, play it in a
radio club - that sort of thing. And that's what the RAIN Report is for.
PAUL/ANCHOR: We here at Amateur Radio Newsline agree with Hap that it's
important to document the history of our hobby, and we also feel that is
best served by speaking directly with the people who were involved with
that history.
If you can help Hap with information or a contact, please visit the
newly-redesigned website at www.therainreport.com. If you're interested
in listening to or carrying RAIN:
HAP: The RAIN Report does update every week, usually on Saturday. And
anyone can transmit it on amateur radio - you don't have to ask me for
permission - and there is a break in the middle, of course because it's
formatted to be transmitted by amateur radio.
PAUL: We appreciate all that Hap has done for Newsline over the years, and
we'd like to help him, too.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; Dave
Kalter Youth DX Adventure; Fritz Raab W1FR; Hap Holly and the RAIN Report;
Irish Radio Transmitters Society; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; South
African Radio League; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO
Radio Show; USS Hornet Amateur Radio Club; the Wireless Institute of
Australia; WTWW Shortwave; the YL Beam Newsletter; 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 Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth, Ohio
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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