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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 24 2018 09:11 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2130, for Friday, August 24, 2018
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2130, with a release date
of Friday, August 24, 2018 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. The United Nations may be back on HF soon.
A New Jersey amateur gets White House recognition -- and our top
story, deadly flooding in south India. All this and more, as
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2130, comes your way right now.
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NEIL/ANCHOR: We begin this week with breaking news out of southern
India, where amateur radio operators are part of the team responding
to deadly flooding there. Here's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: In the southern Indian state of Kerala, the region is reeling
from what is being called the worst flooding in almost a century. As
monsoon rains grew deadlier into mid-August, the state's health
minister and emergency service workers stepped up their efforts to
bring people to safety. Hundreds were killed due to overflowing dams
and more than 300,000 people had to be evacuated to relief camps.
Meanwhile, amateur radio operators throughout the region began
providing HF and VHF operations for local and more distant district
offices, according to a report by emergency operator Jayu, VU2JAU. A
report in the Times of India said that in Kerala alone an estimated
120 ham radio operators deployed to send messages of medical aid, or
to report strandings. The ham control centre was overseen by Suwil
Kumar, the IT head of Kerala's Energy Management Centre. The hams
passed messages to assist Senior District Administrators for handling
evacuations, and getting provisions such as medicines, food, and water
to evacuees. State officials said relief camps at one point were
housing in excess of 800,000 people, and were struggling with sanitation
and other health issues. In one of the districts hit hardest by the
deluge, 1,000 residents were feared stranded. As waters began to recede
a few days later, some residents were permitted to return home. But, the
crisis was expected to continue for some time.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(THE GUARDIAN, CNN, TIMES OF INDIA, IARU Region 1)
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FEDERAL BUDGET PUTS WWV AND WWVH AT RISK
NEIL/ANCHOR: Time itself may seem to go on forever, but the U.S.
government's budget for the fiscal year 2019 may actually be killing
time - or at the very least, putting a vital timekeeper at a dead stop.
For that report, we turn to the newest member of the Amateur Radio
Newsline family, Dave Parks, WB8ODF.
DAVE: If you have come to rely on the services of WWV and WWVH for time,
frequency and other calibrations in your weather, marine, propagation,
and related radio activities, you may already know that all of this is
earmarked to come to an end in the coming year's proposed budget for
United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Hams have
been petitioning Congress to retain funding for WWV, which received its
call sign in 1919, assigned to the National Bureau of Standards. It is
considered the oldest continuously operating radio station in the U.S.
Likewise WWVB, broadcasting from Fort Collins, Colorado, is also imperiled
as is its critical role in keeping tens of millions of radio-controlled
clocks and other devices in sync as it has since 1963. As reported by a
number of news outlets, the petition has until Sept. 15 to collect the
needed 100,000 signatures. News sources have noted that defunding both
stations would reduce the federal budget by $6.3 million, a very small
fraction of the proposed $4.1 trillion budget.
Amateur Radio Newsline is making available the link on our website,
arnewsline.org to the online petition, for those hams who wish to make
their views and voices heard. You will find the link in the printed
version of this script.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Dave Parks, WB8ODF.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/maintain-funding-nist-stations-
wwv-wwvh
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