Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 15 2018 08:46 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2120, for Friday, June 15, 2018
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2120, with a release date of
Friday, June 15, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Australian amateurs catch Field Day fever;
YLs prep for their big convention this summer - and a radio amateur
gets a government post in Spain. All this and more, as Amateur
Radio Newsline Report 2120, comes your way right now.
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AUSTRALIA HAS FIELD DAY FEVER
JIM/ANCHOR: We open this week's newscast with the question: do you
have Field Day fever yet? If you're hearing this report in Australia,
a fair distance from the ARRL event of the same name, the answer is
probably yes. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, explains.
GRAHAM: Don't look now, but we're barely a week away from Field Day -
no, not the summer contest going on in that other hemisphere. Here in
Australia it's a winter event known as VHF-UHF Field Day, and hams
are gearing up for it on the 23rd and 24th of June. The competition
promotes amateur operation on VHF and microwave bands, as well as
portable operation - or, as the Wireless Institute of Australia puts
it - "head for the hills." Hams can even move from location to location
throughout the contest.
The 24-hour operation does not exclude home stations, either - they
simply have their own section for competition. Field Day does preclude
operation making use of satellites or repeaters: Work it simplex or
not at all.
Although the first VHF-UHF Field Day was a test undertaken in January
of 1989, Winter VHF-UHF Field Day came along much later. This year,
it marks its tenth year.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
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YOUNG LADIES' RADIO LEAGUE PREPS FOR CONVENTION
JIM/ANCHOR: With all our recent reports of Dayton Hamvention and
Friedrichshafen behind us, we take a look now at big plans being made
by an amateur radio group in which YLs help YLs. To tell us more,
here's Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
PAUL: Hamfest and convention season is upon us once again. I think it's
safe to say that most hams enjoy a good gathering of the tribe, so they
can catch up with old friends, meet new ones, enjoy some food, and prowl
through the swap meet, looking for that one special piece of stuff that
they can't live without.
Most ham radio gatherings, however, tend to be, well, guy-heavy. There
is one, however, that is specifically for women hams to learn from, and
to help other women hams, and that is August 2018 meeting of the YLRL.
I spoke with Michelle Carey, W5MQC, about the organization:
CAREY: The YLRL is the Young Ladies' Radio League. The club has actually
been around since 1939. It started with an ad in QST Magazine, where one
YL was looking for "where are all the other YL's?" The response to that
ad was twelve ladies, and that's what they're calling the "Founding
Mothers."
PAUL: Carey said that the group holds a convention every three to four
years at various locations around the country. According to Carey, the
last one was in Washington state, and before that, Ohio, and Alabama,
and this year, it's going to be in Oklahoma.
CAREY: The convention is going to take place at the Sheraton Hotel in
downtown Oklahoma City. At the convention, we're going to have some
really incredible speakers. We're going to have Ria, N2RJ - she's going
to talk to us all about digital modes, Andrea Slack, K2EZ is going to
get us all rovering - you know, she's one of the top rovers. Our banquet
keynote speaker is Nancy Hall, KC4IYD, a research scientist with NASA,
and she's the district representative for District 8 of the YLRL.
Carol Milazzo, KP4MD, she's going to get us all ready to go on a remote
vacation with her DXPedition. We're also going to have some Elmira-ing
sessions where we can all get together, and help each other so whether
it's Echolink, setting up your first HF rig, logging your contacts, DMR,
FT8, how do you program your radio, we're going to have some testing
sessions, and we're all going to have a little fun.
PAUL: Carey said that men can attend the convention, but that they must
accompany a licensed woman. She said that the focus is primarily on YLs.
So, if this all sounds fun to you, please check out the convention's
website at triple-w Y-L-R-L_convention dot org.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
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