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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2406 for Friday December 8th, 2023
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2406 with a release date of Friday
December 8th, 2023 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. HAMSCI releases its first solar eclipse findings.
AMSAT Canada arrives on the satellite scene -- and meet Newsline's
International Newsmaker for 2023. All this and more as Amateur Radio
Newsline Report Number 2406 comes your way right now.
**
HAMSCI RELEASES FIRST SOLAR ECLIPSE FINDINGS
PAUL/ANCHmembership-based organisation, AMSAT-CA.
AMSAT-CA's first venture will be a European and Canadian geosynchronous
amateur radio satellite over the North Atlantic, a future venture proposed
by the European Space Agency. A technical group is being assembled to
present a Canadian position paper for the project.
AMSAT-CA's website is still under development but visitors to amsat dot ca
(amsat.ca) can view a video from Frank Zeppenfeldt, PDØAP, of the ESA, at
the AMSAT-UK colloquium, describing the geostationary microwave amateur
payload proposal.
(AMATEUR RADIO DAILY, AMSAT-CA)
**
AMATEUR RADIO IN SPACE MARKS 40 YEARS OF QSOS
PAUL/ANCHOR: Congratulations to all the men and women in space and all the
students and educators who have connected with them over the years. In
November, amateur radio communications between space and the Earth marked
its 40th year. These dialogues began in 1983 with the program known as the
Shuttrned from more than 150
summit activations, qualifying her for the award. Two years later, she
achieved her second Mountain Goat designation.
It shows her commitment to traveling to recognized summits and it shows her
effectiveness achieving the required number of contacts to qualify a summit.
Writing on the SOTA reflector, Paula announced recently that a number of
events are planned for the coming year that focus specifically on YLs. She
is reaching out to YLs who are activating summits now or have an interest in
trying it out. She announced that a survey will be going out shortly to find
out what events in particular would get more YLs into SOTA, with the hope of
re-engaging those YLs who are no longer active or not active yet. As she
says on her page on QRZ.com, with its combination of radio operating and
outdoor activity, SOTA can be considered a "biathlon for geeks," and as we
know the winter Biathlon season is just starting.
This is Sel Embee, K-B-3-T-Zed-D.
(SOTA REFLECTOR)
**
SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR HAMS AND RADIO TECHNOLOGY TOPS .1 MILLION
PAUL/ANCHOR: Grants for scholarships, ham radio clubs and technology
classroom teachers are availablin the Sunderbans region,
which is particularly hard-hit by cyclones each year. Permanent stations
have already been established in two area locations, Gangasagar Island and
Gosaba. The third area station would be installed on Mousuni Island on a
trial basis. Disaster management officials told local media that the station
could become eligible for permanent status depending on the consistency and
quality of radio signals to and from the island. Hams at these stations in
the Sunderban delta would be connecting directly with state administrators
during disasters.
In mid-November, hams tested propagation on Mousuni Island using HF and VHF
radios. The West Bengal Radio Club and the Indian Academy of Communication
and Disaster Management oversaw the trial operation which was conducted as a
two-day DXpedition to the island with a special callsign, AT23JCB.
This is Jason Daniels VK2LAW.
(THEPRINT.COM, MILLENNIUM POST)
**
WRTC 2026 RELEASES LIMITED EDITION PADDLE
PAUL/ANCHOR: Do you want to telegraph your support of the World Radiosport
Team Championship, which will be held in England in 2026? Jeremy Boot G4NJH
tells us how.
JEREMY: You don't have to be a CW operator to support WRTC 2026, but it
helps, especially if you want to become the owner of one of the limited-
edition paddles designed for the event organisers by Filipe Lopes CT1ILT.
Each key sold in this limited-edition design will have its own unique serial
number. Display it in your shack or, better still, use it on the air during
the event in July of 2026 as 50 qualifying teams arrive in the UK to
represent their home countries in what is viewed as the Olympics of amateur
radio.
[DO NOT READ: https://www.wrtc2026.org/product/wrtc-uk-2026-morse-key/ ]
This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
(WRTC 2026)
**
WORLD OF DX
In the World of DX, the Christmas station PA23XMAS leads a group of stations
on the air from the Netherlands until the 31st of December. Certificates
will take the place of QSL cards for anyone who works at least two of the
stations. Other stations operating include PD23SANTA, PH23XMAS, PH23HNY and
PD24HNY. The two stations with the HNY suffix will remain on the air until
the 24th of January. Short-wave listeners may also send in their reports.
See QRZ.com for details.
Also in the holiday spirit, members of Radio Club Lliria, EA5RCL, based in
Valencia, Spain, are on the air as EH5XMAS for the holiday season, ending on
the 7th of January. See QRZ.com for QSL details.
Be listening as well for the popular 12 Days of Christmas special event from
December 14th through to the 25th, featuring stations from the US and
Canada.
If you plan on working stations in Bermuda, be aware that the Radio Society
of Bermuda is discontinuing its QSL bureau service on Dec. 31, 2024 for VP9
stations. Service will be phased out during the year ahead.
**
MEET YL RAISA, R1BIG, INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAKER FOR THE YEAR 2023
PAUL/ANCHOR: For our final story we have an awards presentation. The Amateur
Radio Newsline International Newsmaker of the Year award celebrates a clever
and creative innovator in this, its fifth year: She is YL Raisa R1BIG/OH7BG.
Through social media and various websites she has given the world a window
into what it means to struggle and grow as a ham. Newsline's editor Caryn
Eve Murray KD2GUT spoke with her.
CARYN: Congratulations to Raisa Skrynnikova, R1BIG, who began in 2018 to
channel her enthusiasm and humor to show how a newly licensed ham learns to
put up antennas, enter a contest, activate a SOTA summit and handle some
incredible pileups. Her blogs, livestreams and YouTube videos are a source
of information and good will. Raisa told Newsline why she decided to put her
own story in the spotlight.
RAISA: To show step by step that it is not very difficult to get and to pass
the exam, to make your own equipment. You can also make your antenna
yourself and set it up yourself also. I try to do all these videos to show
that the ham radio hobby is not so difficult and you can do simple steps and
know more and more information. Why I like the ham radio hobby is because
every day, every time, you need to learn something new - and this is the
best thing, I think.
CARYN: In 2021, Raisa advocated for greater friendship among the world's
hams by taking another bold step. Building on the earlier work of two hams,
she enlisted help from friends in different countries and assembled an easy-
to-use interactive online practice guide offering commonly used QSO phrases
in 11 different languages.
RAISA: It is so nice, you feel a very nice feeling, when someone talks a
little bit in your language and I thought, "Oh I would like to know some
phrases in the different languages and to say hello buon giorno, buona
sera." It's so wonderful and make people a little bit more happy.
CARYN: Her humor and her relentless optimism about ham radio's future have
provided a bright spot by using the technology that is guiding the next
generation's amateurs.
RAISA: I think that the new technology and the internet and social media
will not kill the hobby. I think that they will help the hobby because we
can use them for promoting the hobby and make this hobby more popular. And
that is exactly what I try to do.
CARYN: We are proud of this year's International Newsmaker, Raisa R1BIG. I'm
Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT.
PAUL/ANCHOR: A past two-time Newsmaker award winner, the West Bengal Radio
Club in India, continues their exemplary work combining amateur radio with
ongoing humanitarian efforts to reunite families and help save lives.
Newsline felt it needed to recognise this club's ongoing work and has
awarded ARN's first ever Special Award to them, long may they continue their
great work.
**
POETRY IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT
If this holiday season inspires you to feel a bit like a poet, send us an
amateur radio-related haiku and your creation might just be our pick of the
week. Visit our website to learn more about the Amateur Radio Newsline haiku
challenge - and be sure to follow the rules for writing in correct haiku
format.
NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Amateur Radio Daily; AMSAT-Canada; ARRL;
Central Coast ARC; CQ Magazine; David Behar K7DB; FCC; 425DXNews; HamSCI;
Irish Radio Transmitters Society; KB6NU blog; the Millennium Post;
ThePrint.com; QRZ.com; Radio World; Shane Manzara, WØNKA; shortwaveradio.de;
SOTA Reflector; Wireless Institute of Australia; WRTC 2026; and you our
listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. We remind our
listeners that Amateur Radio Newsline is an all-volunteer non-profit
organization that incurs expenses for its continued operation. If you wish
to support us, please visit our website at arnewsline.org and know that we
appreciate you all. We also remind our listeners that if you like our
newscast, please leave us a 5-star rating wherever you subscribe to us. For
now, with Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT at the news desk in New York, and our news
team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun WD9GCO in Valparaiso Indiana saying 73. As
always we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright
2023. All rights reserved.
73 de Bill, PY2BIL
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