Subj : Newsline Part 2
To : ALL
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu May 26 2016 10:44 pm
MORE SCOUTS ON THE AIR
SKEETER: Speaking of Scouting, the K2BSA callsign is active, and Boy
Scouts are on the air again, so be listening. We hear the details from
Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD:
BILL'S REPORT: This week in Radio Scouting, we have 2 activations of
the K2BSA callsign in California, and New Mexico, and reports from the
field.
Steven Chambers, KK6YAV, will be the control operator for the portable
6 station at the Crew Training Backpacking Campout at Mt Baden-Powell
in Glendora, California. Steven's crew will be hiking the Colby Trail,
and will be on-the-air sporadically between May 26th and May 31st.
Dale Finley, KB5NFT, will be the control operator for the portable 5
station at the Philmont Scout Camp in Cimarron, New Mexico, beginning
June 1st, and running throughout the summer.
Now, from the field:
Jim Wilson, K5ND, reports that the K2BSA presence at Hamvention was a
success. Interest in Radio Scouting is increasing, and we are looking
forward to an active summer camp season with Scout Camps on the Air.
Russ Mickiewicz, N7QR, reports their activation at the Columbia Pacific
Council Camporee hosted 200 scouts through the shack, and put 52 scouts
on the air.
Ron Glass, WN7Y, reports the NPOTA station at the Black Otter District
Spring Camporee, hosted 150 scouts through the station, and put 45
scouts on the air.
Please help support this activity, and others involving youth in
amateur radio, by working, and spotting them on the air, and online.
For more information on K2BSA and radio scouting, please visit
http://www.k2bsa.net/.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association,
this is Bill Stearns NE4RD.
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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 KB6OZX
repeater in Riverside, California on Tuesdays.
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HERITAGE PROTECTION FOR UK SECRET STATION
SKEETER: In Britain, a radio relic from the Second World War has not just
come out of the shadows, but gotten special protections. Here's Amateur
Radio Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY's REPORT: While most radio operators are proud of the rigs and
other equipment displayed proudly in their shacks, there is one wireless
station just outside Norwich in the UK that operated in obscurity, from
the very start, its access hidden behind a fake bookcase. The station
also had to a nearby escape tunnel. Clearly, this was not a typical radio
shack, nor was it meant to be shared or even discovered -- at least not
during World War II.
Keeping it hidden was the whole point when it was set into operation in
1940 by Winston Churchill. Civilian volunteers were dispatched there to
transmit and receive messages for the Army, trading information to help
ward off an invasion from Germany.
The station, which finally came to public light in 2012, was recently
granted Heritage Protection by Historic England, a public organization
that helps preserve the nation's historic buildings, and other important
entities. This station, one of many set up by Churchill to monitor
potential invasion, is known as the Pinebanks station. Located at Thorpe
St. Andrews near Norwich, it is now among three underground wireless
stations similarly protected - the others being Hare Warren Control
Station in Wiltshire, and a Second World War Zero Station at Heiferlaw
in Northumberland.
But perhaps best of all, the station, and its good work, is now not only
treasured, but needn't be a secret treasure anymore.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, in Nottingham, the UK
(BBC, HISTORIC ENGLAND)
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ARRL'S PETE KEMP, KZ1Z, BECOMES SILENT KEY
Pete Kemp, KZ1Z, was well-known inside the Connecticut headquarters of
the ARRL. He had been Connecticut Section Communications Manager for
six years during the 70s and 80s. In his long association with the
league, he also held other field roles, for a time serving as an
assistant director for New England's Division Director.
Pete Kemp, who most recently was living in Wesley Chapel, Florida,
became a Silent Key on May 17.
Not only was he a licensed amateur for 47 years, he also authored one
of the ARRL's publications, "A Teacher's Guide to Amateur Radio
Instruction." An educator by profession, he had a polished way of
imparting knowledge, and it earned him Connecticut's award as
Technology Teacher of the Year. He also became the ARRL's first
Educational Advisor.
A retiree from the Bethel, Connecticut public school system, Kemp could
be found as well in the classrooms at Central Connecticut State
University as an adjunct member of the faculty.
The ARRL's Connecticut Section Manager, Betsey Doane, K1EIC, remembers
him as QUOTE "a superb teacher in the high school, a wonderful mentor,
licensed over 700 hams, an active member of Candlewood Amateur Radio
Association, and one who really understood what it meant to actualize
his potential." ENDQUOTE
And, an amateur radio friend of his, Bill Barrett, KW1B, called him
QUOTE "a good soul with a gentle nature." ENDQUOTE
Pete Kemp was 67.
(ARRL)
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