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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 20 2018 10:16 am

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2125 for July 20, 2018

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The following is a closed circuit advisory and not for broadcast.

This is a special, extended newscast, and will contain 3 segments,
and 2 ID breaks to accommodate an expanded report on the World
Radiosport Team Championship.  Thank you.

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2025 with a release date of
Friday, July 20, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. Contest season heats up in Korea. A smartphone
app provides a gateway to ham radio - and in this special expanded
edition of Amateur Radio Newsline, we revisit the World Radiosport
Team Championships.

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BILLBOARD CART HERE

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CONTEST SEASON HEATS UP IN KOREA

JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week's newscast with the good news that if
you think the championship season is over, think again. With two big
summer contests behind us, one of the next big competitions will take
place in Korea. The focus here is on amateur radio direction-finding,
or foxhunting - as Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, tells us.

JASON: Just in case you can't get enough of the big contest scene,
hams are now preparing for the action to shift to Korea, where the
country's natural landscape will share the spotlight with some of the
hobby's best in foxhunting. The 19th World Amateur Radio Direction
Finding Championships will be hosted by the Korean Amateur Radio League,
not far from another prominent contest venue - the 2018 Winter Olympics
location in Pyeong Chang.

The championship search for low-power transmitters will be held
September 2 through 8th. According to the latest bulletin from the
Korean radio league, 418 amateurs representing 25 countries have
committed to participate so far. The panel of jurors consists of hams
from Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Ukraine and Japan.

The 18th World ARDF championships were held in Bulgaria in 2016.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.

(KOREAN AMATEUR RADIO LEAGUE)

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AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL SESSION GOES SKY HIGH

JIM/ANCHOR: Imagine having a guest speaker at your public school, who
is some 250 miles above the Earth. Well, youngsters in Melbourne,
Australia didn't have to imagine. It really happened - and just as
planned. Here is Robert Broomhead, VK3DN, with those details.

ROBERT: Just as planned, an astronaut aboard the International Space
Station, kept her appointment with the students at the Essex Heights
Primary School in Melbourne, Australia, on the evening of Tuesday,
July 17th. As the ISS approached Australia's southern coast at 27,500
kilometers per hour, the youngsters had their first conversations that
took place more than 400 kilometers, or almost 250 miles, above the
earth. Ham radio made it possible. "This is your little moment in
history, your opportunity to do something that very few people are
able to do," moderator Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD, had told them. From the
north, Shane Lynd, VK4KHZ, put out the call to astronaut Serena
Aunon-Chancellor, KG5TMT, and Ciaran set the discussion in motion
from his QTH in England. The students cheered, and then took turns at
the microphone with their questions: how does the body react to being
in space? What foods do you miss most? For the children, it was ham
radio's finest moment, as the dialogue went forward, courtesy of a
telebridge between Shane in Queensland, and NA1SS, the International
Space Station Amateur Radio Club outside Washington, D.C. It lasted
barely 10 minutes, but for those twelve children, joined by 400 family
and friends in the school hall, it would be a memory forever. The event
was featured the following evening on Australia's Channel 7 evening TV
News service, and again the following night, on Channel 10's "The
Project," a news and current events talk show. For the rest of the
world, you can watch the YouTube by pickup up the link from on the
school's website. Visit www dot essexheightsps dot vic dot edu dot au
(www.essexheightsps.vic.edu.au)

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Robert Broomhead, VK3DN.

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K2BSA SCOUTS ON THE AIR IN CALIFORNIA

JIM/ANCHOR: Scouts in the U.S. are activating K2BSA again this week,
and opening registration for their big on-air happening, Jamboree on
the Air. Bill Stearns, NE4RD, has that report.

BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we have 2 activations of the K2BSA
callsign, one activation from Scout Camps on the Air, and Jamboree on
the Air registration is open for 2018.

Chris Clark, W6CBC, will be activating K2BSA/6 at Camp Chawanakee in
Shaver Lake, CA, from July 28 through August 4. Chris will be operating
a station at the camp in preparation for JOTA.

Frederick Donkin, KA7MMM, will be activating K2BSA/9 at the National
Order of the Arrow Conference in Bloomington, IN, from July 30 through
August 4. The NOAC is a conference that is held every 3 years, and is
the second biggest national scouting activity.

BSA Troop 20 Amateur Radio Club will be activating their callsign
WS5BSA at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Vic Ely, MN, from July 30
through August 4. The Canoe Trek will set up at daily campsites, and
make QSOs until 0130 UTC. They will most likely work 40/20 meters due
to time of day and latitude. They are also hoping that one or two
stations will try to work a schedule with them every evening. Find
their contact information on our SCOTA.US site.

Jamboree on the Air, and Jamboree on the Internet, is just a short 3
months away now. Registration has been opened, and has been greatly
simplified. You can find the registration page with our shortcut of
jota2018.k2bsa.net , that's J O T A 2 0 1 8 .k2bsa.net, or by searching
the jotajoti.info site. Stations can register events with Boy Scout or
Girl Scout units. You can even edit your event information after you
have registered, so be sure to include a current email address, and
you'll receive a link to your registration for updating.

Another event that is just 12 months away is World Jamboree. This is
a quadrennial event that is held in locations all over the Scouting
World every four years. In 2019, it will be hosted in North America,
at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia. Our callsign for this
event will be NA1WJ. You'll be hearing more about this event as it
nears. For now, check out our landing page for it at na1wj.net.

For more information on JOTA, or Radio Scouting, or to signup for our
JOTA newsletter, please visit our website at k2bsa.net.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association,
this is Bill Stearns, NE4RD.
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