Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 08 2019 11:40 am
INDIANA CLUB HAS 35 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE
JIM/ANCHOR: In Indiana, one especially active ham radio club is inviting
everyone to share in its anniversary plans. Jack Parker, W8ISH, has those
details.
JACK: Members of the Mid-State Amateur Radio Club in Johnson county,
Indiana, are gearing up to celebrate their 35th Anniversary as an ARRL
Chartered club. Thirty-five years ago in 1984, a handful of Central
Indiana hams gathered at a Franklin Indiana fire house, chose a president
and other officers, and then settled on the Mid-State name since there
were hams in attendance from several other counties.
Over the years, the club has grown, and become more invested in their
community by providing communications for dozens of public service events
around Johnson county. Like radio waves, they didn't stop at the county
line when it came to public service. Many MARC members have helped with
major world sporting events, like the 1987 Pan American Games, and the
2001 Police and Fire Games, held in Indianapolis. More recently, some of
the club members provided frequency coordination during Super Bowl 46.
And, they are always on hand to help with the annual Indianapolis 500
Festival Mini-Marathon.
The Mid-State ARC will celebrate 35 years, with breakfast at their monthly
meeting March 16th, beginning at 8am. Immediately following their VE
testing session, the club will fire up their one day Special Event station
using the club call sign of WA9RDF.
Look for them on 20 and 40 meters single sideband, beginning around 1600
hours UTC. QSL info will be available on the WA9RDF QRZ page, and the
mid state hams dot org website.
Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Jack Parker, W8ISH.
**
THEY'RE YOUNG, THEY'RE COMPETITIVE AND THEY'RE YARC
JIM/ANCHOR: Youthful energy is the engine behind a rising group of the
hobby's youngest members. Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, spoke to one of them.
NEIL: In October 2017, David Mosden, KF1SHY, started a club, and an online
chat on Discord for young hams. This club quickly became YARC, the Young
Amateurs Radio Club. The club now has over 900 members, and has a web site
at yarc.world. The club has hosted a QSO party, and other activities. Now,
the club is recruiting contest stations, and young hams, for an inaugural
event. Sterling Mann, N0SSC, one of the board members of YARC, explains.
STERLING: Another program we're thinking of, with Team Exuberance in mind...
you may have heard of them, as well as YOTA, the Youngsters on the Air
program in Europe in IARU region one, we're starting a program called the
youth contesting program, which is similarly named to the youth contesting
program of YOTA, but it's a little bit different. Instead of having
advanced young contesters, who have had a lot of experience contesting
going to a megastation, like K3LR for example; we are wanting to try to
pair hosts who have, you know, good contest experience, to set up
competitive contesting stations, with young hams who are interested in
improving their contesting skills. We don't want to like add any
unnecessary expense to this, so a one day's days drive would be a great
opportunity to be able to just drive to a host station, who would be
operating it for this contest, meet a few young hams there, and then
operate the contest over the 48-hour period for the CQ worldwide WPX
contest on March 30.
NEIL: While the time for the contest is drawing near, there is still
time to register to be a host, or a youth operator.
STERLING: It's not too late to sign up. If you go to YARC.world/ycp,
there is a survey there, and you can sign up by March 14. I think by
March 1, we'll start announcing matches. Currently we're up to 10 host
stations and 17 youth operators, so we're looking for more than that.
This is an experimental thing, so please don't be disappointed if you
don't get selected for the operation, since there might not be a host
operation station within a day's drive to your location. Of course, we
don't want to have to make people fly in to do these sorts of things,
because there are lots and lots of ham stations out there, and we think
that there are lots of hosts that are more than willing to host their
station for a event like this. This is, of course, the inaugural event.
Many more will come hopefully for more contests in the future, as we
kind of figure out the logistics, and planning the coordination of this
whole thing. This first one will give us a lot of insight, as well as
Team Exuberance, will give us a lot of insight on how we can maintain
and promote contesting and ham radio to young operators in the world.
NEIL: Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.
**
IN SEARCH OF THE 2019 YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR
JIM MEACHEN/ANCHOR: Young radio amateurs are what it's all about, and
it's what Amateur Radio Newsline honors with its Young Ham of the Year
Award. We have opened up the nomination period once again, and are in
search of candidates for this year's honor, named in memory of Newsline's
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Award recipients offer the amateur community,
and the community-at-large, the best of their talents. All information
about eligibility is available on our website, arnewsline.org, under the
YHOTY tab. You'll be able to download a nomination form, which is due
back to us before midnight on May 31st. The award will be presented on
August 18th at the Huntsville Hamfest, in Huntsville, Alabama.
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