Subj : Newsline Part 3
To   : ALL USERS
From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Fri Feb 05 2016 10:46 am

AIR CADETS BECOME LICENSED AMATEURS

The UK brings us word of more young amateurs in the news. In Essex, the
Orsett Hundred 106 Air Cadet Squadron has reason to celebrate: Four cadets
within the youth group recently passed their exam for the Foundation
amateur radio license. They follow in the footsteps of their commanding
officer, Darren Attersley, 2-E-ZERO-O-C-A (2E0OCA), who passed his
Foundation license exam last October and went on to Intermediate level
on December 6.

The cadets attended two weeks of weekly coursework at headquarters in
Essex, supplementing that with the Essex Ham's Foundation course online.
They were also supported in their training by members of the Thurrock
Acorns Amateur Radio Club, which helped them review the syllabus.

Welcome to the bands!

(ESSEX HAM, THURROCK ACORNS AMATEUR RADIO CLUB)

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HAMS KEEP ORDER AT NAVY FLEET REVIEW IN INDIA

In India, the prestigious International Fleet Review is getting a boost
from hams in and around Visakhapatnam (VEE-ZOK-HOPT'-NUM), a coastal city
in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Arza Ramesh Babu, VU2RDM, Director of City Ham Radio Academy, was
appointed coordinator of this year's review by the Wireless Monitoring
Organization. The spectacle, which engages the president, prime minister
and delegations from 51 countries, opened Thursday, Feb. 4 and features
a dozen ongoing events, concluding on Monday, Feb. 8. The review is an
exercise in assuring the nation of the Indian Navy's discipline, high
morale and preparedness.

Ramesh Babu said in a report in The Hans India that he and a team of 22
other ham radio operators from around that part of India will be present
throughout the event using HF and VHF equipment, software-defined radio
and VHF base sets, all owned by the individual amateurs. Stations were
also established at the airport, collector office, police control room,
the beach and the function hall.

Considered the Indian Navy's showcase event, this is the second time
since 2001 that it has been held in India.

(THE INDIA TIMES, THE HANS INDIA, SOUTHGATE NEWS)

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RST ACTIVITY TAKES TO THE AIR

Point your antennas north - if you can. RST stations in the Yukon
Territory, Alaska, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories will join with
the North Country DX Association in getting on the air, starting Feb. 15,
to work as many stations as possible. The QSL manager is K7ICE.

But the goal isn't just to log as many RST stations once per band and mode,
but also to promote amateur radio in that very remote part of the world.
The stations will continue to work 160 through 6 meters right up through
March 27, exchanging signal reports as well as states or provinces. If you
contact an RST station from the DX Association they will also send their
town or city. Stations will be on the air from Anchorage, Fairbanks,
Whitehorse, Yellowknife and other locations, including a diamond mine in
the Northwest Territories - and maybe even an Alaskan glacier.

A few good DX contacts should certainly help these hams in the far north
to break the ice.

(ARRL)

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THE WORLD OF DX

Operators Jim/W4RS (DU3JH) and Larry/N0QM (DU3LA) will be active as DX3R
from Subic Bay in the Philippines during the CQ WPX RTTY Contest on Feb.
13 and 14. Send QSLs via LoTW.

Operators Gildas/F6HMQ and Michel/F6GWV will once again be active from
Guadeloupe between February 26th and March 14th. Look for them to sign
TO66R during the ARRL International DX SSB Contest, which is being held
March 5 and 6. They will be working as a Multi-Single entry. Send QSLs to
TO66R via F6HMQ. Outside of the contest they will be active on all bands.
QSL via their home callsign.

Peter, DC0KK, is once again active as 4S7KKG from Moragalla, Sri Lanka,
between now and April 3rd. Peter will be working mainly in CW and digital
modes with operation on 20-10 meters. QSL via DC0KK, by the Bureau, which
is preferred, or direct. All QSLs will be sent via the QSL Bureau.

And finally, Sam, LY5W, will be on the air in Lithuania using the special
callsign LY16W for the month of February. This is a rare prefix for LY WPX
Trophies award credits. His time on the air celerates Lithuania's
independence on Feb. 16, 1918. Visit his QRZ page for more details.

(OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN)

**

KICKER: OLD MILITARY RADIO REPORTS FOR DUTY

We close with this story of new life for an old radio - a VERY old radio:
Doug Christensen of College Station, Texas, had no inkling that the antique
naval radio he bought from the collection of a late professor still had
life in it. For all his many talents at tinkering, the electrical engineer
just couldn't get the device to work.

Doing research on the Indiana War Memorial Museum website, he discovered
that the 120-pound radio had a strong resemblance to those used on early
20th century battleships -- in fact, one ship's radio in particular: the
ill-fated USS Indianapolis, sunk by a Japanese torpedo in 1945. The museum,
it seems, was recreating the battleship's radio room but was missing one
critical piece.

And that's how Christensen discovered a different way to get the radio to
work - by donating it to the museum.

He told the Bryan-College Station Eagle newspaper that he learned QUOTE
"This radio was a very high tech receiver for the time. No one could ever
reach a frequency as high as these radios went, so you didn't have to use
special codes for secrecy." ENDQUOTE

Arrangements were being made late last month to transport the radio to its
new home. And perhaps best of all, museum staffers said they were
confident that they might just get it back on the air after all.

(THE BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION EAGLE, TEXAS)

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; The Bryan-College
Station Eagle; The Chicago Tribune; Chicago Sun-Times; CQ Magazine;
DX.NET; Essex Hams; the Hans India; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the
India Times; the U.S. Navy; the Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM., Shure
Inc., Southgate Amateur Radio News; Thurrock Acorns Amateur Radio Club;
TWiT TV; Western Daily Press; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you,
our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email
address is [email protected]. More information is available at
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For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune, Miss.,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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