Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Apr 12 2019 09:13 am
HELP US HONOR A YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR
JIM/ANCHOR: If you know a bright young U.S. or Canadian radio amateur,
who gives of himself or herself to the hobby and the community, you
probably know a strong candidate for Amateur Radio Newsline's Young Ham
of the Year Award. The honor is named in memory of Newsline's Bill
Pasternak, WA6ITF. We are currently accepting nominations -- but the
deadline of May 31st is fast approaching. Information about candidate
eligibility is available on our website, arnewsline.org, under the YHOTY
tab. You can download a nomination form there to return to us. The award
will be presented on August 18th at the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville
Alabama. See you there!
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BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the KR4CW repeater
of the Stephens County Amateur Radio Society in Toccoa, Georgia, on
Tuesdays, at 8 pm local time.
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POLAND DX CONTEST GOES THE DISTANCE
JIM/ANCHOR: Hams in Poland are busy submitting their logs after what
turned out to be a very busy contest weekend. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has
those details.
JEREMY: As many as 800 radio amateurs throughout Poland were calling
QR Zed in CW, and on SSB, throughout the weekend of April 6th and 7th.
The annual SP DX Contest, which has been held since 1933, is the biggest
operating event of the year in Poland. Although it is a competition for
various awards among serious contesters, it also provides a welcome
opportunity for hams to casually reconnect with friends on the air. There
are different levels of the POLSKA Award, which is given to hams working
the 16 provinces within the country.
According to Adam, SQ9S, of the contest committee, there was plenty of
good DX to be had, especially between Poland and the U.S.
Participants have until the 30th of April to submit their logs. According
to the contest website, preliminary scores will be released on the 5th of
May, and the official results on the 31st.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(ADAM SQ9S)
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SPECIAL EVENT STATION REMEMBERS YURI GAGARIN
JIM/ANCHOR: More than a half century after his historic space flight, the
late cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is being remembered, with a special event
station. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, who worked the station, has been following
that story.
ED: If you hear call sign RG61PP calling QR Zed on the bands, you are
hearing the sounds of history. The "61" stands for 1961, the year
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rode into outer space inside a Vostok space
capsule from what was then known as the Soviet Union. In that year, on
April 12th, he became the first human to travel into space, with a flight
that lasted 108 minutes. Special event station RG61PP has been marking
this anniversary on the air since March 9th -- what would have been the
cosmonaut's 85th birthday.
Meanwhile, another ham radio commemoration, which began on the 6th of
April, concludes on the 14th at 2359 UTC. This is being held by a youth
amateur radio league in Kazakhstan, to honor the 58th anniversary of the
flight. The stations are using all radio modes, including digital. The
special call signs are UP58G, UO58G, and UN58G.
As for RG61PP, it will continue its operation through to the end of April.
According to the station's page on QR Zed.com, the call sign stands for
"Russia Gagarin 61 Planet Pioneer."
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP.
(QRZ.COM, SPACE.COM)
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SPANISH OPERATORS PERMITTED ON SATELLITE'S FREQUENCIES
JIM/ANCHOR: There's a little more real estate for hams in Spain for
operating on 2.4 GHz - and a very good reason for it, as John Williams,
VK4JJW, tells us.
JOHN: Hams in Spain now have good reason to be excited about the Es'hail-2
geostationary satellite launched last year by Qatar (kat-ARR). Spanish
officials have announced that amateur radio operators will be permitted
access to a greater part of the 2.4 GHz band than they previously had, in
order to communicate with the transponders on board. Until the 26th of
September, hams are getting use of the band between 2400.050 MHz and
2409.500 MHz to access the satellite for SSB communications. Until now,
only the portion of the band between 2316 and 2332 MHz had been authorised.
The hams may use a maximum EIRP of 1500 watts. The satellite was launched
last November. It carries the first amateur radio transponders to be in
geostationary orbit, and can link hams from Brazil to Thailand, and all
places in between.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.
