Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 28 2017 11:04 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2074, for Friday, July 28, 2017
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2074, with a release date of Friday,
July 28, 2017, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. K2BSA gets on the air in West Virginia at the
largest Scouting event in the world. Hams in India welcome new licensees
trained on a college campus -- and an amateur in Australia reflects on
more than 20 years' involvement with the space program. All this and more,
as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2074, comes your way right now.
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K2BSA - THE BUSIEST CALL SIGN ON THE BANDS?
JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week with one of the busiest call signs on the
bands recently - K2BSA. It has been activated at the Boy Scout National
Jamboree, the single largest event in Scouting, and will be soon at two
other locations. As Amateur Radio Newsline went to production, the
Jamboree was wrapping up in West Virginia, but the other locations are
ready for action. Here's a report from Bill Stearns, NE4RD, who checked
in with us earlier in the week.
BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we have 3 activations of the the K2BSA
callsign, one activation from Scout Camps on the Air, and we're starting
day 5 at the National Jamboree.
Noel Pettit, WB0VGI, will be activating K2BSA/9 at Camp St. Croix in
Hudson, WI from July 30th through August 12th. Each year, his troop from
Minneapolis, camps at their site along the St. Croix River. Noel will
set up a portable battery powered HF and VHF station, and help get the
radio and electronics merit badges for the scouts. Scouts spend
significant time just listening to the radio, learning about digital and
analog signals for the many different uses of the bands.
David Hoshaw, AF7NO, will be activating K2BSA/7 at the Wilsonville Fun
in the Park in Wilsonville, OR, on August 5th. This is an annual
community event. Troops 528 & 194 along with Packs 199 & 194 will be
hosting a booth that will contain a ham radio station. A local volunteer
group will also have their radio trailer on site. Operators with HTs will
be roaming the event to allow anyone to talk on the radio. The main
station will have an HF rig to allow for QSOs.
Michael Wilson, N0MO, will be activating K2BSA/0 at the Cub Scout
Twilight Camp in Oak Brook, IL, from August 8th through August 12th.
James Gallo, KB2FMH, will be activating a special event station W2T, at
the Ten Mile River Scout Reservation in Narrowsburg, NY, from August 5th
through August 6th. The Special Event Station will be celebrating 90
years of Scouting at the oldest continually operated Scout Camp in the
country.
The K2BSA is through day 4 in its journey at the Boy Scouts of America
National Jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia, as this
report is written. So far, the demo station has processed 1228 Scouts,
and has 683 contacts, and our Radio Merit Badge team has completed 124
radio merit badges. The temps are hot and humid, and the bands are a bit
dry, but we thank the many amateurs that have helped us by staying on the
frequency to help us work through these eager Scouts. We have been active
on 40m through 70cm, plus Satellite, D-Star, and EchoLink. For QSL
information, please visit our Jamboree Live page on our website.
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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