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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Oct 04 2019 10:52 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2188, for Friday, October 4th, 2019
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2188, with a release date of Friday,
October 4th, 2019, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. A remote South Pacific island is on the air.
Disc jockeys find a net that's just for them - and hams push for a
second geostationary amateur satellite. All this and more, as Amateur
Radio Newsline Report Number 2188, comes your way right now.
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BILLBOARD CART
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SATELLITE BECOMES AVAILABLE FOR AZORES HURRICANE COMMUNICATIONS
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: We begin this week's report with a story of cooperation
in the face of a yet another hurricane. While hams in the Azores
activated their emergency network with the approach of Hurricane
Lorenzo in the final days of September, AMSAT announced it was making
amateur satellite AO-92 available as requested by hams in the Azores.
The availability of the satellite helped bolster readiness, which also
got a boost from HF operations, local analogue repeaters and DMR. The
AO-92 satellite was launched in January of 2018. In an unusual
occurrence, the hurricane crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and was headed
toward Europe as an extratropical cyclone, weakening somewhat enroute.
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REMOTE PACIFIC ISLAND LIGHTS UP AIRWAVES
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The Tokelau (TOKE-ALLOW) expedition is active. Jim
Meachen, ZL2BHF, tells us more about this team effort in the South
Pacific.
JIM: The remote South Pacific Tokelau (pronounce: TOKE-ALLOW) Islands
have come alive with a large international team of radio operators
who are on the air as ZK3A until the 11th of October. The DXpedition,
which is taking place a little more than 300 miles, or 500 kilometres,
north of Samoa, was recently approved by the ARRL's Award Branch for
DXCC credit. The hams are operating from the New Zealand territory
using CW, SSB, Earth-Moon-Earth and various digital modes including
PSK-31, FT8 and RTTY. Listen for them on 160 through 6 metres. The team
comprises 19 operators from nine nations and four continents: North
America, Europe, Oceania and South America.
Follow them on the website tokelau2019 dot com - and then start listening.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.
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CALIF. LIBRARY GETS TO BOOK A RADIO DATE WITH SPACE STATION
STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Never mind going to the library to find a book - how
about checking out a chat with an astronaut instead? For those details,
we turn to Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
KEVIN: It's not unusual for the Sonoma County Main Library to bring the
world to visitors: all the books, videos, and other media in the Santa
Rosa, California library deliver a universe of wisdom and experience. On
the first of October, however, the library delivered the world via radio -
a radio aboard the International Space Station, operated by astronaut Ken
Hague, KG5TMV. In a telebridge contact sponsored by the Sonoma County
Radio Amateurs, and linked with the ARISS Telebridge Station K6DUE in
Greenbelt, Maryland. Youngsters from the Santa Rosa Middle School got to
ask the astronaut a range of questions, according to amateur radio club
member Darryl, KI6MSP.
The students, many of whom had been affected by the recent California
wildfires, wanted to know how natural disasters, including the current
crop of Atlantic hurricanes, looked when viewed from space - and what it
felt like sitting aboard a rocket as it hurtled away from the earth.
Tim Bosma, W6MU, director of the amateur radio ground station at the
Santa Rosa Junior College, said the college's involvement in the ARISS
contact helped spark the students' imaginations, and hopefully increase
their interest in science. Of course, if they're looking for any books
on that subject, they'll be back at the library before too long.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
(DARRYL PAULE KI6MSP, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT)
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