Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 05 2019 11:07 am
SILENT KEY: FORMER IARU REGIONAL DIRECTOR SANGAT SINGH 9M2SS
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A satellite enthusiast and leader in Malaysia's ham
community has become a Silent Key. Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, tells us more.
JASON: A former director of Region 3 of the International Amateur Radio
Union, and former member of the Malaysian Government's Space Committee,
has become a Silent Key. Sangat Singh, 9M2SS, who was first licensed in
1962, was also a satellite enthusiast since the mid-1980s, when he first
began to track them. He later operated a Satellite Ground Station that
regularly made radio contacts between schoolchildren, and hams aboard the
International Space Station, through the ARISS programme. According to his
profile on QRZ.COM, he was an active operator on all current digital mode
amateur satellites. He had served the IARU's Region 3 as director from
1987 to 2000.
Sangat had distinguished himself in his professional career as the first
Sikh to do planting at rubber plantations in Malaysia. He eventually
became a senior plantation manager, a position he retired from in 1988.
He was also a pioneer member of the nonprofit Sikh Naujawan Sabha Malaysia,
a youth organization for Sikhs in Malaysia.
A native of what is now Pakistan, Sangat Singh was 86.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
(QRZ.COM, INDIA OF THE PAST, THE NEW STRAITS TIMES)
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SILENT KEY: RTTY CONTESTER, REFLEcTOR MODERATOR BILL TURNER W6WRT
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: RTTY contesters and visitors to the RTTY Reflector
discussion group are grieving the loss of an amateur, who played a major
role among those using the mode. Bill Turner, W6WRT, has become a Silent
Key. Licensed since 1957 at the age of 14, he was drawn later to RTTY
contesting and DXing. He wrote on his QR Zed profile page that he was
especially fond of the challenge of RTTY on 160 meters, and had been
hoping for a Worked All States award there. He moderated the RTTY
Reflector, one of the oldest discussion groups on the internet, between
2007 and 2016. The California resident was reported inactive for the past
year.
Bill was 77.
(FACEBOOK, QRZ.COM)
**
MARS MEMBERS UPBEAT OVER RECENT NATIONAL EMERGENCY DRILL
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The U.S. Mililtary Auxiliary Radio System has just
completed an important drill - and Paul Braun, WD9GCO, fills us in.
PAUL: Amateur radio operators and MARS stations - part of the U.S.
Military Auxiliary Radio System - reaffirmed their cooperation with
the U.S. Department of Defense during a nationwide emergency
preparedness exercise. Known as COMEX 19-2, the 48-hour drill carried
the code name "Fog of War", and presented MARS members with an additional
challenge requiring that they operate off the grid for the first 24 hours
as they received traffic from hams around the country, and passed it
along encrypted to defense offices. Michael J Molloy, W9MJM, the national
public information officer for MARS Air Force, said that the exercise
posed additional challenges to radio readiness, by introducing security
breaches into the exercise, requiring operators to correctly identify
some of the fake military call signs in use. Michael said that with no
specific hour identified as the official start of the drill, operators
were also given very little time to prepare - just 12 hours' prior notice
that activity was to commence at the time of local sunrise, a start time
that varied depending on operators' location. Michael, who also holds the
military call signs AFN9I and AFA9BV, said that while it will still take
more time to compile and assess all the activity between June 18th and
21st, participation was up among members of both Army and Air Force MARS.
Michael told Newsline in a phone call: {quote} "From the preliminary
results, we are very happy with how it went." [endquote}
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
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