Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 01 2019 09:38 am
BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the K5VOM repeater
in Greenville, Texas, on Mondays at 7:30 p.m.
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LONG CLIMB LEADS TO HISTORIC SOTA ACTIVATION
NEIL/ANCHOR: History was made in February on an Argentinian summit, and
our own SOTA activator, Ed Durrant, DD5LP, has been following that story.
ED: The highest peak in the SOTA - Summits on the Air - awards scheme, at
the current time, is Aconcagua at 6,962m ASL, which has the reference
LUM/PH-001, in the relatively new Argentina (Mendoza) SOTA association.
This summit was activated for the first time ever on the 16th of February,
2019, by Tom Rudzinski, SQ9FVE, operating as LU/SQ9FVE. Tom is an
experienced and skilled mountaineer, as required for such an undertaking.
He planned the expedition carefully, including all necessary support.
The climb to the summit began 13 days before the actual activation, and
included several stage camps, and acclimatisation strategies. The actual
activation took place at 1747 UTC, and comprised of five QSOs on 2 metres
FM, all with Argentinian chasers located around 90km away.
In his post on the SOTA reflector, Tom thanks all of his helpers,
especially the local Argentinian Hams.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Ed Durrant, DD5LP.
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MIT HAM CLUB PUTS RADIO STUDIES ONLINE
NEIL/ANCHOR: Can you go back to school without actually *going* to
school? Hams can, as Jim Damron, N8TMW, explains.
JIM DAMRON: If you've ever wished you could attend MIT, you now have
your chance. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radio Society
is making a series of programs about radio available online, through the
school's Independent Activities Period. The Radio Society is W1MX, MIT's
amateur radio club, and it has arranged for nine lectures to be made
available on YouTube. These are intense courses - just what you'd expect
from MIT - and cover such subjects as software-defined radio, propagation,
radio astronomy, and radio history, for starters.
If you want to attend - virtually, of course -- visit the website at
w1mx dot mit dot edu forward slash iap hyphen 2019 (w1mx.mit.edu/iap-2019)
Best of all, you can do all of this at your leisure, so you don't have to
worry about oversleeping the start of class. Or even cramming for finals.
You're already part of a fraternity of radio, so why not go to class too?
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW.
(MIT)
**
IN DENMARK, CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF AMATEUR RADIO
NEIL/ANCHOR: Amateur radio is taking center stage in Copenhagen, and some
of its performance will be inside the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Here's Ed Durrant, DD5LP.
ED: Amateur radio is music to the ears of performance artist Helle
Fuglsang, who will fill the city of Copenhagen with her two "ON/OFF"
events, in the nine day Pulsar project, and will combine the sounds of
both amateur radio and music. On March 7th, at the Royal Danish Academy
of Music, an amateur radio operator will transmit CW from the concert
stage, causing lights to flash on the building's tower, left over from
its days as a radio studio. On stage, a musician will transform those
radio sounds into notes. The programme continues on Saturday, when Inger
Lundin, OZ7AGR, and Petra Larsen, OZ7PR, will be calling CQ on SSB,
from "Studiescenen" in Rosen0rns Alle. The YLs will be joined by a
composer combining original music with recorded voices of YLs from around
the world.
Helle is not a ham, but her radio-powered projects were inspired by Bent
Fuglsang, OZ4BF - who just happens to be her father - and who often
appears in her performances too. This proud father instilled in her a
love of the music of Morse Code.
HELLE: Why I got this idea is because my father is a radio amateur. I
have heard it all my life. And I love this spacey sound, the delays, and
people speaking - but also with Morse, my father told me he doesn't see
it as long and short, but he hears as a little beat [she sings a few
notes]..So it is music, it is a composition in itself!
ED: Because Friday March 8th is International Women's Day, the women's
programme the following day not only includes Inger and Petra, but a
musical work-in-progress that intermingles sounds of women around the
world calling CQ.
HELLE: It's not notes like Morse, but it's a musical part, and it is
very personal. There is one piece that a young composer is doing, and
it is called "Voices of the World." It is female voices, she has been
recording. Now we are trying to record the call signs of female radio
amateurs.
ED: Helle's programme is called "ON/OFF" in tribute to the pulsing
signals of CW. Helle says the whole programme also pays tribute to the
spirit of amateur radio, which is to communicate, without letting
borders and personal differences get in the way.
HELLE: The beauty is they are very open-minded people, who just want to
call out to the world, and whoever is there, you want to talk to them,
you know?
ED: Yes, Helle, a whole world of amateurs DO know, and thank you for
taking note - musical and otherwise. For Amateur Radio Newsline, this
is Ed Durrant, DD5LP.
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