Subj : Newsline Part 2
To : ALL
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Jun 09 2016 07:36 pm
SCOUTS KEEP K2BSA ACTIVE
PAUL/ANCHOR: K2BSA is on the air again. Working three portable stations -
in three different states - Boy Scouts continue to call CQ in the name of
scouting. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD, with this
week's report.
BILL STEARNS REPORT:
This week in Radio Scouting, we have 3 scout camps on the air in MO, OH,
and NM.
William Coverdell, WD0BC, will be the control operator for the portable 0
station at Camp Geiger in St Joseph, MO. William will have the camp on the
air on HF Voice Wednesdays through Fridays from 1500 to 1700 Zulu time,
beginning June 15th, and continuing through the summer until July 23rd.
John Baddour, KC8KI, will be the control operator for the portable 8
station at Camp Wyandot at Firelands Reservation in Wakeman, OH. John will
have his Radio Merit Badge participants on the air on Wednesdays beginning
June 15th and running through July 21st.
We continue to have Dale Finley, KB5NFT, the control operator for the
portable 5 station at the Philmont Scout Camp in Cimarron, NM, running
throughout the summer.
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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IN THE RUNNING TO VOLUNTEER
PAUL/ANCHOR: The Boston Amateur Radio Club is looking for volunteer radio
operators to help at the Boston Athletic Association's 10K on Sunday,
June 26. Hams who want to provide support for the event should plan to be
available on that day from 6 a.m. to noon, and will need to bring a
handheld dual band radio -- one with a gain antenna would be helpful.
Returning volunteers and newcomers can both sign up now, and should visit
the 10K site at baa.org, navigate to the volunteer page, and select the
button reading "volunteer now." Then just follow the instructions, and
complete the application. If you have questions about the process, contact
Brett Smith, AB1RL, the ham club's public service coordinator, at
[email protected]
(BOSTON AMATEUR RADIO CLUB)
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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 W0CRA repeater
system in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs on Sundays at 9 a.m. local
time.
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ONE HAM CLUB'S MOVING EXPERIENCE
PAUL/ANCHOR: Every ham knows that finding a new radio-friendly house and
moving is no fun. But it's even less fun when you're an 83-year-old club
with a full station, antennas, and other gear; and you only have a few
months to do so. The Framingham, Massachusetts Amateur Radio Association
is facing just that right now. I spoke with club director Sumner, W1VIV,
about their situation and what they're looking for:
SUMNER WEISMAN: We are a very old club. We have been here in Framingham,
Massachusetts since 1933. We have an actual video of a 1933 club meeting
where they're all wearing suits and ties and things like that. We have
been in this facility for about 38 years, and we want to remain a club in
Framingham, Massachusetts. We have always been in this town, and we need
to find a new facility -- hopefully something cost-free, as we have now
with this government facility. We need to find something before we're
forced to move out of our present facility, which is the basement of a
town-owned museum. We have to move out in early September. We're looking
for a place with an operating station, where we can put up an antenna,
and we can have some radios and things like that, where people can come
in every week and operate. It should have some kind of a classroom. We
give VE tests, so we need some sort of a classroom and meeting space for
board meetings and VE tests.
PAUL: The problem they're facing is that the old civic building that
they're in needs costly heating system repairs to the tune of $1-million
and the town is not willing to spend the money. So the club and the other
tenants of the building all have to find a new home. If you'd like more
information or would like to help them find a suitable new home, please
visit their website at www.w1fy.org
We here at Amateur Radio Newsline wish them luck in their search. For
Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
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IRISH AMATEURS TAKE ON THE WORLD
PAUL/ANCHOR: Just months after their first organizational meeting in
January, a group of ambitious DXers in Ireland is already preparing to
jump into an international championship in radiosport. Here's more from
Amateur Radio Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
JEREMY'S REPORT: It didn't take long for a very new group of DXers in
Ireland to decide they could take on the world. Just this past January,
the amateurs held an organizing meeting in the Maldron Hotel in Portlaoise,
and that was the genesis of new EI DX group. Now the newly minted
collective of contesters is preparing to work as many International
Amateur Radio Union stations as they can, during the IARU HF World
Championship on 9 July and 10 July.
The amateurs will use the call sign EI0HQ, which is held by the Irish
Radio Transmitters Society.
Their plans, according to the IRTS website, includes creation of a
comprehensive multi-multi station at Garbally College in Ballinasloe.
The global contest will take place on six bands between 160 and 10 meters,
in both SSB and CW.
When the DXing group first assembled and organized, its stated objectives
were to be a part of all DX activities possible, from chasing DXCC to
DXpeditioning. At the time, there was no mention of world domination. Of
course, winning a contest is all in good sport, and the group does hope
for a respectable showing next month.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, in Nottingham.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)
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