Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 07 2018 10:59 am
VOICE BEACON GOES LIVE ON FOX-1CLIFF SATELLITE
NEIL/ANCHOR: At different times of the day, depending upon where you are
in the world, you might point your HT skyward, tune it to 145.920, and
hear this: [insert clip] "Fox-1Cliff Safe Mode." That voice beacon also
has a telemetry stream, sending data back to AMSAT-North America, using
sub-audible tones, giving the status of the Fox-1Cliff satellite, which
was among numerous ham radio satellites launched on December 3rd from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was activated a few hours
later.
Paul Stoetzer, N8HM, the executive vice president of AMSAT-NA, told
Newsline that it's still in the testing phase - so it's for listening
only. That's what Newsline's Dale Cary, WD0AKO, was doing, when he
captured that clip for us as it passed over his Minnesota QTH on
Monday, December 3rd at 9:54 p.m. local time, shortly after its
activation. Sometime after the second week of December, AMSAT hopes
to enable operations on the 70cm and 23 cm uplink frequencies as
well - but not just yet. Meanwhile, hams are encouraged to listen for
this transmission of initial telemetry, with the beacon on the
satellite's passes, and then join the more than 110 amateurs around
the world, who have already uploaded details to the organization's
servers at amsat dot org (amsat.org) The message repeats every two
minutes. As for the voice you're hearing deliver it, that's a young
woman named Veronica, who is the daughter of Tony Monteiro, AA2TX.
Tony had been AMSAT's vice president of engineering, and an unwavering
advocate for the FOX series of satellites. Tony became a Silent Key in
2014, but now it is his daughter who is spreading the word that another
satellite is making its way across the sky.
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TALLYING THE RESULTS FROM JAMBOREE ON THE AIR
NEIL/ANCHOR: There were big numbers, and big results, for radio scouts
in this year's Jamboree on the Air. Bill Stearns, NE4RD, adds it all
up for us.
BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we take a look at our results from
Jamboree on the Air, we have one December activation to share, and we
take a look ahead to 2019.
Jamboree on the Air in the United States brought out 10,700 scouts,
4,005 visitors, and 266 reporting stations. This was a 36 percent
increase in scouts, and nearly 18 percent increase in reporting stations.
It was a busy weekend for all, including those participating in Jamboree
on the Internet, which saw an increase of 300 percent in activity. I see
this as a call to the Amateur Radio community to double our efforts for
next year! Our featured station in the report this year was K4L at
Camp La-No-Che, in Paisley, FL which reported:
This was our first official JOTA-JOTI at our camp in over a decade. We
had a soldout weekend of 1800 Cub Scouts for Cub Halloween & Fall
Festival. We setup our new 60-foot tower, and used everything under the
sun: HF, VHF, UHF, D-Star, DMR and Fusion. With 5 hams, and 5-10 helpers
throughout the day, we managed to get everything through our two little
pop-up tents.
Congratulations to them, and to all the other units, and amateurs that
helped to make this year such a success.
For December activations, we have one to share by Thomas Barker, WA1HRH.
He'll be activating a special event callsign W1M at the Moses Scout
Reservation in Russel, MA, from December 13th through the 16th. All the
radio activity for scouts will be Saturday during the Woronoco Heights
Outdoor Adventure, where they not only have radio as activity, but scouts
will be participating in Blacksmithing, Disc Golf, Geocaching,
Orienteering, and more. Catch this active group on the bands!
Finally, we're looking at very busy 2019 ahead of us. We have new goals
to meet for Jamboree on the Air 2019, but before we get there, we'll be
doing World Jamboree this summer. This will truly be the year of Radio
Scouting, and we're looking forward to you participating!
For more information on Radio Scouting, 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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