Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 09 2018 03:34 pm
AMATEURS PREPARE TO MARK ALABAMA'S BICENTENNIAL
JIM/ANCHOR: Meanwhile, Alabama hams everywhere are poised to celebrate.
What's the big deal? Stephen Kinford, N8WB, tells us.
STEPHEN: Fresh from celebrating its 198th birthday on December 14th,
the State of Alabama is ready to party, ham-radio style. It's a big
blowout, that will continue for the next two years, until the state's
bicentennial year. The Alabama Bicentennial Amateur Radio Club, AL2C,
marked the occasion late last year, with Gov. Kay Ivey, and control
operator Otto Arnoscht, N4UZZ, but that on-air moment is hardly the
end of it. Special event stations will be operating throughout the
state in the months ahead, beginning with a station at the
BirmingHamFest on March 2nd and 3rd, on HF and possibly D-Star on
REF058B. Any special event operations that happen subsequently on DMR
can be found on Brandmeister TG-3101 Alabama.
You can keep track of happenings on the club's Facebook Page, or on
the website al2c dot org (al2c.org) or QRZ. Send QSLs via Logbook of
the World. Hams wanting a certificate can download and print one out
at the club website.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB.
(Grady L. Evans W4GLE)
**
IN THE UK, SOTA ENTHUSIAST REACHES NEW PEAK
JIM/ANCHOR: Hams in the Summits on the Air program always set their
sights on new peaks - and one ham in the UK just reached a new one,
as we hear from Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: There's nothing like having a cooperative spouse, if you're
going to achieve great heights in amateur radio. For one UK amateur,
active in the Summits on the Air program, it proved invaluable to his
achieving the honor of Mountain Goat status. On his latest SOTA
expedition, Simon Melhuish, G4TJC, reached the qualifying 1,000 points,
as an activator, earning him that honor. The Derbyshire amateur was
operating in the company of his friend, Allan Jones, GW4VPX, himself
a Mountain Goat. To achieve his goal, Simon had to collect four
distinct QSOs, from a summit in the Arenig range of Snowdonia. His
friend, Allan, wasn't his only inspiration, however. That all-important
fourth QSO was what made the difference - it was with Simon's XYL,
Helen, 2E0VMP/P, who was operating from Derbyshire on a local hill.
Helen can not only be proud of her husband, but perhaps share in some
of that credit.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(ED DURRANT DD5LP)
**
GETTING IN SHAPE FOR AMATEUR RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING
JIM/ANCHOR: It's ham radio on the run. Finding hidden transmitters in
the woods is a growing sport. Here's Joe Moell, (MELL) K-zero-O-V, with
an upcoming opportunity.
JOE'S REPORT: Spring is still a few weeks away, but the season has
already started for Amateur Radio Direction Finding, or ARDF.
California's first introductory session of on-foot transmitter hunting,
took place in Irwindale, on January 28.
And later this month, there will be nine days of intense ARDF training
near Raleigh, North Carolina. It's sponsored by the Backwoods
Orienteering Klub, and it will be led by Illia Ivanko. He's a former
member of the elite Ukrainian ARDF team, and now lives in the USA.
Illia was a multi-medal-winner at the 2017 IARU Region 2 ARDF
championships, with the best in both classic events, in the age category
requiring the finding of all five-fox transmitters. At the 2012 World
Championships in Serbia, he was silver medalist in both the two-meter
and 80-meter classic competitions, beating competitors from a dozen
other countries.
This month's training sessions will begin on February 17, and will take
place in The Triangle area near Raleigh-Durham Airport. More information
is at backwoodsok.org.
From southern California, this is Joe Moell, K-zero-Oscar-Victor.
**
BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the N8VAA
repeater, serving parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, and
Pennsylvania, and the Potomac Highlands Amateur Radio club, from
Moorefield, West Virginia on Monday nights at 8.
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