Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jan 24 2019 11:48 pm
BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the Massasoit
Amateur Radio Association's 2 meter repeater, W1MV, in Bridgewater,
Massachusetts, and W1MV-R on EchoLink, on Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
**
NEW AWARDS PROGRAM TO DEBUT IN RADIO SCOUTING
JIM/ANCHOR: Radio Scouts have begun the new year with a full agenda, and
Bill Stearns, NE4RD, tells us what they've got planned.
BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we're beginning two countdowns, and a
new awards program is in the works.
Jamboree on the Air 2019 is just a mere 10 months away. The month of
January is when you get your event on the district or council calendar.
Most groups publish the calendar earlier, but if you failed to set some
2019 dates, now is the perfect time to begin those conversations. Start
recruiting members that can help you achieve your updated goals for 2019.
Check out our website for other January items that should be in your JOTA
checklist.
World Scout Jamboree is only 6 months away, and the leadership team for
the NA1WJ event are busy at work, meeting and organizing the team for
this major event. The leadership team met earlier this month to go over
progress in the various areas of the program, to assure all the materials,
equipment, and training is either in hand or in progress. The ARDF team is
putting together all the 80m gear for the foxhunts. The demo team is
putting together all the scripts, contact logs, and ensuring we have as
many bands and modes covered to make contacts possible. July will be here
before we know it!
While the K2BSA has had the Scout Camps On The Air website, and has been
a great resource for scheduling your radio scouting events, we are excited
to finally announce that we will be transitioning this to an awards
program. Similar to other "on the Air" programs, SCOTA will allow you to
earn points for activating and chasing activations, as well as other
details yet to be worked out. Once the program is finalized, we'll be
rolling out an update SCOTA.US site that will include the new aspects of
the program, and as well maintaining the ease of access to the activations
calendar.
For more information on this, and radio scouting, please visit our website
at k2bsa.net.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this
is Bill Stearns, NE4RD.
**
TWO SILENT KEYS IN NEW ZEALAND
JIM/ANCHOR: They were hams for a lifetime, a very long lifetime, and now,
two New Zealand operators are Silent Keys. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has that
story.
JIM MEACHEN: Two longtime amateur radio operators in New Zealand have
become Silent Keys. Reg Motion, ZL2LX, of Tauranga, was 97 years old, when
he died on the 14th of January, at Tauranga Hospital. Reg had at one time
been with the New Zealand Post Office as a radio technician. John Duncan,
ZL2JD, was 81 years of age, when he died on the 15th of January. John's
QR Zed page notes that he had been active on the HF bands, and was an
ex-Maritime Coast Station operator in Wellington. He had been licensed
since the 1960s, and got his first license in Auckland. His other call
signs were ZK1CI for the Cook Islands, C21JD for Nauru Island, and ZK2JD
for Niue Island.
Vale Reg Motion, and John Duncan.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
**
VOA'S BETHANY RELAY STATION MARKING A MILESTONE
JIM/ANCHOR: There's going to be a lot of partying going on, radio-style
of course, in West Chester, Ohio, as we hear from Stephen Kinford, N8WB.
STEPHEN: The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester, Ohio -
home to the West Chester Amateur Radio Association, WC8VOA - is marking
the 75th birthday of the VOA Bethany Relay station this year. This
milestone is being celebrated with a four-event series, conducted jointly
by the museum, and the MidPointe Library System. The series is called
"The Voice of Truth in America: Celebrating 75 Years of the VOA Bethany
Station", and underscores the power of radio during the active years of
the station's shortwave broadcasts. The series kicks off on March 6,
with a talk by Steve Herman, the VOA's White House bureau chief.
This series is among the dozen free events being held this year, inside
the VOA building. Others include the annual Hamvention Nights at the
VOA Museum on May 16, 17, 18 and 19, and a program on July 11th,
discussing stealth antennas for radio amateurs who live in communities
with HOAs.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB.
--- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32
* Origin: RadioWxNet: The Thunderbolt BBS tbolt.synchro.net (801:1/2)
� Synchronet � Temple of Doom BBS - tod.eothnet.com
