Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jan 15 2021 08:07 am
FANS OF RADIO'S FIRST VOICE MODE PREP FOR AM RALLY
JIM/ANCHOR: Amplitude Modulation, or AM, was the first voice mode over
radio. It has three parts - a carrier, an upper sideband, and a lower
sideband - and in just two weeks, it will be gaining a fourth part:
The AM Rally. This is an annual event designed to encourage AM
activity for newcomers as well as longtime fans who may be firing up
their vacuum tube rigs to make contacts.
This year's event will be held from 0000Z on Saturday, February 6th to
0700Z Monday February 8th - or for those in the United States, 7 p.m.
Eastern Time on Friday February 5th to 2 a.m. Eastern time Monday
February 8th. Organizers said YLs in particular are invited to return,
based on the success of last year's "Ladies' Night" feature. All types
of radios are permitted, from modified military and broadcast
equipment to homebrew and those commercially manufactured.
For additional details, and to find operating and logging guidance,
visit the website amrally dot com (amrally.com)
(CLARK BURGARD N1BCG)
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WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, AMSAT Argentina, LU7AA, will celebrate the 31st
anniversary of the LUSAT satellite (LO-19) between January 16th and
24th. Be listening on the HF bands on SSB, CW and the digital modes.
A special certificate is available. Visit QRZ.COM for additional
details.
In Israel, listen for 4X0RMN to be operating from the Ramon Crater,
Israel's largest national park, in the Negev desert between the 30th
of January and the 1st of February. Send QSLs to 4X6ZM, LoTW and eQSL.
A certificate will be available for working three out of the four
special stations that are operating as part of the ongoing Land of
Craters Program that kicked off last year. For more details, visit
QRZ.COM.
Be listening for Bo, OZ1DJJ, operating in his spare time as OX3LX from
Tasiilaq (TAZZY-Uh-LACK) Island in Greenland through the 30th of
January. Send QSLs to LoTW, Club Log's OQRS or direct to OZ0J.
**
KICKER: GOT A MINUTE? ER, 59 SECONDS?
JIM/ANCHOR: Got a minute? Or maybe a millisecond less? It's time for
Graham Kemp, VK4BB, and our final story of the week.
GRAHAM: Things might just get a little challenging for UTC -
Coordinated Universal Time, that is - the time-keeping system so
familiar to us hams who pursue precision in our DX contacts or use
some of the newer digital modes. As reported on the UK news website,
The Telegraph, scientists are now suggesting that the world's atomic
clocks, which control UTC, shorten the minute so that UTC can better
keep pace with the irregular rate of the Earth's rotation, which most
people measure using the less precise method known as "solar time."
Let's face it, it's hard to stay in sync. When the Earth's rotation
was seen to be slowing, scientists added something called a "leap
second" to the end of a particular year. They've done this 27 times
since 1972 to keep atomic clocks and UTC sympatico with solar time.
Scientists believe Earth's 24-hour rotation has grown swifter now,
making the days ever-so-slightly shorter. They also believe 2021 could
well be the shortest year we've had in many decades. They say this
will ultimately have an impact on navigation systems and satellite
communications and anything else that requires precision in cosmic
timekeeping.
This very subject is up for discussion at the World Radiocommunication
Conference in 2023 which is at least two years - and many, many, many,
many seconds away.
Now that's a thought that could probably make our own heads spin a lot
faster too.
Having the time of my life with that report for Amateur Radio
Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.
(NTIA, BUSINESS INSIDER, TELEGRAPH)
**
NEWSCAST CLOSE:
With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; AMSAT-EA; the ARRL; Business
Insider; Clark Burgard N1BCG; CQ Magazine; David Behar, K7DB;
Hamvention; EOS.org; the NTIA; Ohio Penn DX newsletter; Orlando
HamCation; QRZ.com; QSO Today; the Radio Society of Great Britain;
Southgate Amateur Radio News; South African Radio League;
shortwaveradio.de; Southgate; the Telegraph; Ted Randall's QSO Radio
Show; the Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you,
our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Please send emails to our address at
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website at arnewsline.org.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW, in Charleston,
West Virginia, saying 73. As always, we thank you for listening.
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