Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 16 2017 08:51 am
STILLWATER HAMS MARK 25 YEARS
NEIL: A quarter of a century may not seem like a long time, but for one
club in Stillwater, Minnesota, it's a lifetime - and a very productive
one at that. Amateur Radio Newsline's Heather Embee, KB3TZD, tells us
about the Minnesota club that's celebrating this milestone.
HEATHER: It's been 25 years since the Stillwater Amateur Radio Association
emerged from nothing but an idea in the mind of Hans Wald, a ham who came
to Stillwater, Minnesota regularly to spend his summers. He was one of
three local amateurs who, in 1992, formed a club where once there was
none. Now as it reaches the quarter-century mark, the club has grown to
80 members, and among them are some who've been there since the start,
including Shel Mann, N0DRX, and Mary Mann, N0DXH.
In the years since its long-ago founding, the club has stepped up in its
public service efforts, providing communications at major events,
including fundraising walks, and a 2004 visit by President George W.
Bush. The club is also at the ready to provide disaster communications
in case of an emergency at the Prairie Island Nuclear Plant in Welch,
Minnesota.
The group is involved with the Minnesota-based Courage Kenny HandiHams
program, which mentors disabled would-be hams, and assists them in
getting their licenses, and then on the air.
Perhaps operators nationwide, however, are most familiar with the club's
annual tradition - Ice Station W0JH - its challenging portable operation
from the frozen surface of Lake Elmo every winter.
While the Stillwater club looks forward to its next 25 years, it
continues to meet every Thursday night, and has more ambitious events
on its agenda - including its notable Radio in the Park gathering on
Thursday, June 29, at Valley View Park in Oak Park Heights, starting at
6 p.m.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD.
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K2BSA GETS BUSY AS SUMMER STARTS
NEIL/ANCHOR: School's out - and that means the K2BSA callsign is keeping
busy on the bands. There's a lot of activity to report this week, along
with plans for the scouts' National Jamboree - so let's hear the details
from Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD.
BILL: This week in Radio Scouting you can tell it's summertime, we have
5 activations of the K2BSA Callsign, 5 activations from Scout Camps on
the Air, and we hear from the Amateur Radio Direction Finding Lead at
the National Jamboree.
William Coverdell, WD0BC, will be activating K2BSA/0 for the summer at
Camp Geiger in St. Joseph, MO, from June 14 through July 14. This station
will be giving scouts their on-air component of their radio merit badge.
Jay Leeper, W4TFX, will be activating K2BSA/4 for the Order of the Arrow
Friday Nets at Camp Barstow in Batesburg, SC on June 16, 23, and 30, and
July 14. Camp Barstow will be conducting a two meter net on 146.715, at
1900 local with linked repeaters across South Carolina, during summer
camp as part of the intro to ham radio.
Chris Clark, W6CBC, will be activating K2BSA/6 for Scout Field Day at
the J.C. Penney Parking Lot in Temecula, CA on June 24. We hope that
other clubs are considering inviting their local districts and troops
out to field day!
Richard Zarczynski, AC8FJ, will be activating K2BSA/8 for the Trail to
Eagle at D-Bar-A Scout Ranch in Metamora, MI on June 25th through the
28th. This program is specifically designed for older Boy Scouts to give
them the opportunity to work on their merit badges they need to complete
Eagle Scout requirements.
John Baddour, KC8KI, will be activating K2BSA/8 at the Beaumont Summer
Camp in Rock Creek, OH on June 29. John will be giving a Radio Merit
Badge class at camp.
Russ Bush, N3YD, will be activating KB3BSA at Camp Olmsted in Scandia,
PA from June 24th through the 30th. Russ will be operating from the
Crew 73 Communications shed. Operations will include: 80m-6m SSB, CW,
Dig. 2m FM, SSB 70cm FM, and the KB3BSA Camp Repeater 145.250, negative
offset, 186.2 CTCSS or PL tone.
Keith Kaiser, WA0TJT, will be activating NR0AD for the ARRL Field Day
in Platte City, MO on June 24th with the Platte County Amateur Radio
Group.
David Gibbons, KC3AFR, will be activating KC3HNB this summer at Resica
Falls Scout Reservation in East Stroudsburg, PA from June 25 through
Sept. 19th. The Scout Camp will be running a KX3 with 100W amplifier
and a G5RV, look for this group throughout the summer looking to get
camp goers on the air.
Darryl Frasier, N3AOI, will be activating W3TSR at the Trexler Scout
Reservation in JONAS, PA starting on June 26th. This station operates
for the Summer camping season as well as JOTA. They have a TS 950 with
a TH7 multi-band beam at 40 feet, wire antennas for 40 meters and 80
meters, and a packet node at 145.010.
The National Jamboree is the Boy Scouts of America's flagship event,
and the K2BSA station is there to promote Amateur Radio in Scouting.
I had a chance to speak with Keith Kaiser, WA0TJT, about his leadership
role this summer.
KEITH: My name is Keith Kaiser, WA0TJT. I live in Kansas City, Missouri
and this will be my second year, second time at the National Jamboree.
2013, I was there in pretty much the same role in which I'll be in this
year, which is the team leader for the ARDF/Foxhunting. I have a tendency
to put both terms together ARDF, Amateur Radio Direction Finding, and
Foxhunting, because the program we do is kind of a hybrid of the two.
It's not a true ARDF in the sense that you're not running through the
woods as fast as you can with a Yagi tape measure antenna trying to find
your hidden fox, so much as it is that foxes have been put out there, in
this case in the Summit Center, and the goal is to find 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
or 5 of them, however many you feel like finding. Just getting an
introduction to how the sport is done. We're using a little different
equipment this year than we did last time. But the end result should be
pretty much the same.
BILL: We're looking forward to an exciting event starting July 15th
through the 28th.
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.
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