Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 22 2019 10:50 am
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, amateurs in Turkey are using the special call sign
TC10GITRAD, to mark the 10th anniversary of the radio group GITRAD.
They are on the air all year through the 31st of December. The log will
be uploaded to eqsl and LoTW regularly. For any mis-copied callsigns,
please send an e-mail to TA7AZC. No cards are required. However, if you
need a paper QSL card, please mail yours directly to TA7AZC, and include
a stamped self-addressed envelope and money for postage.
Jean, VE2FDJ, is using the call sign 5J0JC, from Providencia Island,
Colombia, through the 27th of February. Listen on 80/40/20/6 meters for
him using SSB. QSL via VE2FDJ, direct or by the Bureau.
Kazu, JK3GAD, will be on the air as MJ0CFW, from Jersey, between the 15th
and 17th of March, and especially during the Russian DX Contest on the
16th and 17th of March. In that contest, listen for him using the call
sign MJ5Z. QSL via LoTW, M0CFW or via ClubLog's OQRS.
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KICKER: NOMINATIONS OPENING FOR NEWSLINE'S 'YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR'
PAUL/ANCHOR: Finally, remembering the great pride the late Bill Pasternak,
WA6ITF, took in talented young amateurs, we open the nomination period
once more, for Young Ham of the Year. Here's Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.
DON: For those of us on the Newsline staff the months of March, April,
and May, are filled with anticipation. March 1st is the day the
nominating period for the Young Ham Of the Year award, renamed several
years ago as the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham
Of The year Award, to honor Newsline's late founder. Quite the mouthful,
so we just call it "YHOTY" or Y-Hottie for short.
Bill Pasternak was a fanatic for education, and getting kids involved in
ham radio. I suppose you could say Bill was into STEM before STEM was
cool. STEM, of course, refers to Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics. Way back in 1986, a young amateur from Oklahoma, Shawn Allen
Wakefield, WK5P, was named our first YHOTY. Since then it has been a
33-year line of one incredible young ham after another, each one more
amazing than the one before.
The premise of the Young Ham Of The Year award is simple: Radio amateurs
under the age of 18 residing in the United States, its possessions, and
Canada are eligible. The young radio amateur has to have done something
extraordinary with amateur radio to further the state of the art, or in
service to the community. Other than that, it's wide open. Past winners
have been recognized for running nets during forest fires and tornado
outbreaks, training astronauts how to use amateur radio equipment for
school contacts, launching the mailing tube that contained an acceptance
letter from MIT to over 90,000 feet with a helium balloon, documenting
the construction, launch and recovery via a YouTube video, setting up a
personal DXpedition to Cypress, then writing a QST cover article on the
experience, manning a shelter during Hurricane Andrew, and keeping
everyone safe when the roof blew off. The list of achievements is as
varied as the recipients. To say we are humbled by our Young Hams Of
The Year is truly an understatement.
So on March 1st, we will open nominations again, in anticipation of the
award ceremony to be held at the Huntsville, AL hamfest on August 18th.
The Huntsville Hamfest has been the home of the award since 1993. If
you have not attended the Huntsville Hamfest, you really are missing
out on a great one. Arguably one of the top 5 hamfests in the United
States, the venue is truly top notch, and the hospitality is off the
scale. To find out more about the Huntsville Hamfest, please visit their
website. It's easy to remember... hamfest.org.
So, you know of a deserving young radio amateur, and you want to know
more about the nomination process? That's easy as well. Go to our
website, arnewsline.org, and look for the YHOTY tab. There, you'll find
all you need to know, including a downloadable nominating form. Fill it
out, and get it back to us before midnight on May 31st.
We are excited to see the nominations come in, and believe me, the
nomination committee always has their hands full. We would also like
to recognize and thank our corporate sponsors for all their assistance.
CQ Publishing, Yaesu, Heil Sound, and RadioWavz antennas. Of course,
our thanks to the Huntsville Hamfest for letting us have a home for the
last 26 years. And, we would like to thank you, our listeners. Without
you, we could not have a Young Ham Of The Year award. And of course,
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. We continue to do our best to follow along in
his footsteps, and we share his passion for youth in amateur radio.
The next generation is waiting in the wings, and we are honored to be
but the first to welcome them in.
See you in Huntsville!
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.
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NEWSCAST CLOSE:
With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT-South Africa; the
ARRL; CQ Magazine; the FCC; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the Hindu
newspaper; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; South African Radio League;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Wireless
Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's
all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Please send emails to our address at
[email protected]. More
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official
website at www.arnewsline.org.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valaparaiso,
Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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