Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 14 2020 01:28 pm
THAILAND PREPS FOR YOUNG AMATEURS' RADIO CAMP
PAUL/ANCHOR: Radio camp season is coming up fast - and in Thailand,
preparations are under way. Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, has those details.
JASON: The Radio Amateur Society of Thailand is preparing to host a
Youngsters On The Air camp in Rayong Province, on Thailand's
southeastern coast. The popular, fast-growing YOTA experience will
be open to youth throughout the region, from October 1st to the 3rd,
at the Rock Garden Beach in Rayong. Hosting the Region 3 camp is the
latest effort by the Thai radio society to encourage young students
to pursue their interest in ham radio.
RAST, which was selected as host during meetings last year, hopes to
support young students' education, and give them skills to prepare
them for licence exams, and to upgrade whatever licence they may have.
The IARU's YOTA Region 3 website reaffirms its commitment to young
hams saying: [quote] "Youngsters on the Air is a highly motivated
group of people of all ages, and from all over the world working
together tightly, to make sure that there will still be somebody to
answer your CQ call in the future." [endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
(RAST, IARU Region 3)
PAUL/ANCHOR: Meanwhile, applications are now being accepted for the
inaugural Youth on the Air summer camp in Cincinnati, Ohio, in June.
Applicants must be licensed amateurs between the ages of 15 and 25 --
but act fast: You have only until the 15th of March to apply. Visit
the website youth on the air dot org (youthontheair.org)
**
CALIF. MARINES LOG DX CONTACT ON HF MOBILE
PAUL/ANCHOR: Almost everyone loves the thrill of a good DX contact -
and United States Marines are no different, as we hear from Dave
Parks, WB8ODF.
DAVE: Hams around the world will be happy to know that even members
of the United States Marine Corps love a good DX contact. In late
January, Marines at Base Camp Pendleton in California, logged a
successful contact some 6,000 miles away with radio operators at
Camp Shwab in Okinawa, Japan. The hams in California were operating
mobile from the mountains just outside the base camp, transmitting
on HF, using a field expedient antenna.
Corporal Shelton Needham, a field radio operator, praised the antenna
for the value it brings to mobile operations. The Marines noted this
was the first such long-distance radio call in many years, for
operators at Camp Pendleton, and it gave them renewed confidence in
this kind of communication, if other modes, such as satellites, are
attacked, or otherwise taken offline.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Dave Parks, WB8ODF.
(U.S. MARINES WEBSITE)
**
MARINES CONSIDER HF FOR ALTERNATE COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS
PAUL/ANCHOR: Meanwhile, United States Marines elsewhere are learning
HF operations from the ground up. Kevin Trotman, N5PRE, has that report.
KEVIN: At Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, United States Marines are
getting some basic training of a different sort from the Brightleaf
Amateur Radio Club in Greenville. The hams there are teaching the
Marines the nuts-and-bolts of high-frequency radio operations, in
classes that include propagation theory, proper on-air operation
procedures, frequency band allocation, and antenna theory, that covers
both conventional, and field-expedient antennas.
The classwork is part of a program called the High Frequency Auxiliary
Initiative, which was created by Marine Corps. Col. Jordan Walzer,
commanding officer of II MIG. The colonel is hoping the coursework
provides additional options for Marines in a combat environment --
options that don't rely so much on space-based capabilities which he
believes are more vulnerable to attacks from hackers and drones.
The classes, which were held on the Marines' military base in late
January, were part of an overall ham radio licensing course. In a
press release issued by the military, Walzer called ham radio [quote]
"a reliable, low-cost alternative to satellite communications."
[endquote]
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman, N5PRE.
