Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 23 2019 11:15 am
SILENT KEY: THE REV. WALTER HORN W3OKX OF READING, PA.
PAUL/ANCHOR: Amateur Radio Newsline extends its sympathies to the Reading
(pronounced: REDDING) Radio Club and the family of the Rev. Walter Horn,
W3OKX.
A longtime member of the Pennsylvania club, Walt had served it as
president in 1997, 1998, 2003, and 2004. He died at the Reading Hospital
on Monday, August 19th.
Walt was 100 years old.
(READING RADIO CLUB)
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RADIO SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN CONVENTION FEATURES BUILDATHON
PAUL/ANCHOR: When the Radio Society of Great Britain hosts its convention
later this year, it will have something special on the menu, as we hear
from Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY: Just as there are menu choices at the gala dinner at the Radio
Society of Great Britain's convention in October, the weekend also offers
a menu choice that is an alternative to the dinner itself. Convention
organisers are hosting a buildathon on Saturday evening, 12th of October,
and participating hams will get an SMD Sudden 2, which is a 40m direct
conversion receiver by Kanga Products, UK.
Those who attend won't just be building new skills, but will get this new
piece of equipment to add to their shack.
The Bath Buildathon team will be there to provide guidance in different
techniques for surface-mount work. And lest anyone should think all that
hard work means going hungry, while the dinner gets underway elsewhere at
the Kents Hill Park, Milton Keynes, there will also be a hot and cold
buffet, so in between working with all those electronic components, hams
will be able to choose among the culinary components, and build their own
dinner, too.
For more details about the convention, visit the web page
rsgb.org /convention.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(RSGB)
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HAMS IN BELGIUM PUSH BACK AFTER FALSE ACCUSATIONS
PAUL/ANCHOR: In Belgium, hams have pushed back at a broadcast report that
made false accusations of wrongdoing against them. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF,
has that story.
JIM: Amateur radio operators in Belgium have had their reputations
cleared, after a report by the Flemish broadcaster VRT blamed them for
hacking into the system that delivers traffic information displayed on
motorists' dashboards. An August 13th report said the disruption was the
work of people with equipment that can pick up an FM frequency, connect
to the local transmission tower, and forward inaccurate information to
those on the road. The original report added that [quote] "The burglars
are most likely radio amateurs," [endquote} nothing that hams possess
the radio equipment necessary to do this.
Belgium's national amateur radio society, the Royal Union of the Belgian
Radio amateurs - known as the UBA -- lashed out at the broadcaster. The
UBA said hams were wrongly accused by the report, and the collective
reputations of the nation's licensed radio operators had been damaged.
The UBA noted that it believed piracy had been involved, and not any
legally licensed radio operator.
The VRT has since issued a correction.
A note on the UBA website quotes a spokesman for the Flemish Traffic
Center, saying that hacking and false notifications have occurred a
number of times over the years, and little can be done to prevent it.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
