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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2008, April 22, 2016


Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2008 with a release date of Friday, 
April 22, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. Hams mobilize as Ecuador digs out from a deadly 
earthquake. Getting on the air from Brazil just become a whole lot 
easier during the Summer Olympic Games. Radio amateurs assist with 
elections in West Bengal, India. And a new museum of radio science in 
the UK competes for a big prize. All this and more in Amateur Radio 
Newsline Report 2008 coming your way right now.

(Billboard Cart Here and Intro)

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STEPHEN: We open this week's newscast with an update on the amateur 
radio response to an earthquake in Ecuador that is being called that 
nation's most powerful quake in decades. We hear more from Amateur Radio 
Newsline's Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

GRAHAM: As officials continued to revise their counts of Ecuador's dead 
and injured following the magnitude 7.8 quake on Saturday the 16 of 
April, rescue operations stepped up with more than 10,000 troops and 
3,500 police. Countless radio amateurs were also mobilized to assist 
with emergency communications and other vital matters, and hams 
everywhere were being advised to free up the band on 7.060 MHz for 
emergency traffic. DXpeditioners were also cautioned to stay below that 
frequency while operating RTTY.

In the days following the quake, the emergency frequency was carrying 
messages around the clock, with Ecuadorean amateurs making use of 
battery power and mobile stations to assist with recovery 
communications. Officials reported that power systems and 
telecommunications were either destroyed or disabled after the tremors.

As an emergency net became operational on the emergency frequency, 
stations in countries nearby tuned into the frequency and prepared to 
assist if necessary.

Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, returned to his devastated nation 
from a trip to Italy and declared the immediate focus to be on locating 
survivors.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

(IARU, Region 1, BBC, CNN, the Daily DX)

STEPHEN: Amateur Radio Newsline will continue to monitor hams' 
involvement in these developments. As of Amateur Radio Newsline's 
deadline, there was no word on amateur radio involvement in the deadly 
magnitude-6.5 earthquake that rocked Japan just a few days earlier, on 
Thursday, April 14. Those tremors, near the city of Kumamoto, were 
considered the strongest since 2011.

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WHEN RADIO SCIENCE IS AN ART

STEPHEN: Already the new Radio Communication Museum of Great Britain is 
finding itself involved in some heavy duty contesting. But this 
competition has more to do with art than radiosport, as Amateur Radio 
Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH tells us.

JEREMY: This summer, when the new Radio Communication Museum of Great 
Britain opens in Derby in the UK, it hopes to be a winner in more ways 
than one. Even before opening its doors for the first time, the museum 
has already become a finalist in a national competition that would 
provide the institution with the talents of a leading contemporary 
artist to create a major event on site later this year -- an event that 
celebrates radio.

With so many other British museums vying for the prize, including some 
in London, the decision is being left up to the public. That puts a lot 
of power in the hands of museum fans - and of course, that means radio 
fans as well - especially with the voting taking place online in just 
another week.

Radio amateur Stephen Haseldine, G8EBM, a Derby businessman and museum 
trustee, has designed the museum to be a showcase of amateur, military 
and professional radios. Activities there will teach visitors about the 
science of wireless communication while showing them the equipment that 
has made it possible through the years. General manager William Presland 
said he is hoping the competition will enable the museum to challenge 
the guest artist to QUOTE "find art where there is none - in a museum of 
science and technology - and present this to the public." ENDQUOTE The 
contest culminates in a major event to be held in October called the 
Museums at Night Festival.

Voting begins at 1100 UTC on Friday the 29 of April and remains open 
through Saturday the 14th of May. The website for balloting is 
museumsatnight.org.uk

The museum, which devotes itself to the varied uses of radio waves 
through the years, is based on Stephen Haseldine's private radio collection.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, in Nottingham, the UK.

(SOUTHGATE ARC, THE DERBY TELEGRAPH, RADIO COMMUNICATION MUSEUM OF GREAT 
BRITAIN)

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NEW JERSEY'S NIGHT FOR RADIO

STEPHEN: Any night is a good night for radio but if you're in southern 
New Jersey, Thursday is an especially good night for radio. The Ocean 
Monmouth Amateur Radio Club, hosts a regularly scheduled Radio Night 
Thursday evenings between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. local time, and welcomes 
newcomers. The club itself has 70 members and is an ARRL affiliate - but 
you don't have to be a club member, or even a local ham, to get on the 
air with them. The club is also preparing for its spring Tailgate 
Hamfest which will take place on Saturday, May 7, at the Diana Site, 
2300 Marconi Road in Wall Township, New Jersey.

(OCEAN MONMOUTH AMATEUR RADIO CLUB)


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AN OLYMPIAN EFFORT IN BRAZIL


STEPHEN: The Summer Games in Rio don't include radiosport, but things 
just got a little bit easier for radio amateurs who want to travel to, 
and work the bands, from Brazil. We hear from Amateur Radio Newsline's 
Paul Braun, WD9GCO.

PAUL: Attending the Olympics and getting on the HF bands from Brazil 
shouldn't require an Olympian effort itself. The good news is that now 
it won't come to that. It's expected to be less of a struggle for radio 
amateurs to operate in Brazil during the 2016 Summer Olympics as a 
result of eased restrictions on the part of the Brazilian authorities. 
Regardless of whether an amateur's country has a reciprocal agreement 
with Brazil, authorizations for those hams will be simplified thanks to 
an agreement between authorities and the Brazilian Amateur Radio League, 
also known as LABRE. The radio league recently received permission from 
Brazil's telecommunications regulator, ANATEL, to handle the 
authorizations -- and without any fees.

Interested amateurs should email the radio league a copy of a valid 
passport, a copy of their amateur radio license, a list of cities in 
which you plan to operate, and on what dates, and include an email 
address. The documents should be scanned and sent to the radio league 
via email at executiva@labre.org.br.

When the paperwork arrives, you should be able to dive right in. Just 
don't use any of the Olympic-sized pools.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.

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SCOUTING FOR QSOs IN SPECIAL EVENT

STEPHEN: A group of Scouts in Texas plans to be on the air during the 
next two weekends and they're hoping to work your station. Amateur Radio 
Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD, tells us where to look for these youngsters.

BILL: This week in Radio Scouting there will be an activation of K2BSA 
in Abilene Texas at the Buffalo Mountain District Cub-O-Ree on April 
22nd & 23rd.  Russ Parramore, K5MQR, will be the control operator for 
the portable 5 station and will be active on 20 and 40  Phone.

There will also be an activation in Mt. Enterprise, TX at the East Texas 
Area Council's Quadrennial All Council Jamboree on April 29th through 
May 1st.  Jeff Sorrells, KG5BTF, will be the control operator for the 
portable 5 station and will be active on 20 and 40 phone.  Jeff will 
also demonstrating QRP gear for portable operations.

Please help support this activity, and others involving youth in amateur 
radio, by working and spotting them on the air and online.  If you would 
like to activate K2BSA for your Scouting event, please visit 
http://www.k2bsa.net/.  If you would like to get involved in radio 
scouting, find your local council by visiting http://www.scouting.org/.

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 
N9IAA repeater in Valparaiso, Indiana, on Thursday nights.

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AN INSTITUTE TO TEACH THE TEACHERS


STEPHEN: Every ham needs a teacher or two to guide them on their radio 
journey. But who teaches the teachers? Amateur Radio Newsline's Neil 
Rapp, WB9VPG, tells us about the ARRL's Teachers Institute on Wireless 
Technology, where the application deadline is fast closing in.

NEIL: There are only a few more days left for teachers to submit their 
applications to the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology, 
which is preparing to present its summer coursework for the 13th year. 
The professional development seminar offers teachers guidance on 
presenting radio science to their students at levels starting as young 
as elementary school. The classes include robotics, radio science, 
satellite communications, weather science, microcontroller programming 
and basic electronics. All expenses are paid. Coursework is available at 
increasing complexity right through the university level. The institute 
holds its classes at different locations throughout the country.

But the deadline to apply is May 1. If you're interested, but still 
haven't put in your application, you can download the form from the web 
page for the ARRL Teachers Institute at arrl.org

If you have additional questions, contact ARRL Education Services 
Manager Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, at djohnson@arrl.org

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.

(ARRL)

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REPEATERS ON THE MOVE

There's going to be a change of address for the Minuteman Repeater 
Association's 2 meter and 440 repeaters, which are headed to a new site 
in North Reading from their Burlington location. The Minuteman amateurs 
are looking for volunteers on Saturday, April 30 to help take antennas 
down and move the equipment to the new site, and then assist with setup. 
The nonprofit association makes these repeaters available for community 
and emergency events and maintains a system of repeaters at various 
sites in central and eastern Massachusetts.

If you're interested in volunteering with the move, any hours you can 
work between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. that day - or even for a half-day - will 
be helpful, club members said.

The association is also planning to host a work party in June at its 
Marlborough East site, where volunteers are needed to help with 
weed-removal and other maintenance to improve access to the shelter. 
Interior cleanup of the shelter is also being scheduled, as well as some 
outside maintenance of the shelter building.

Please email Bob K1IW at k1iw@mmra.org, if you are interested and 
available for either of these volunteer opportunities. The date in June 
for the Marlborough East site has not been determined yet.

(MINUTEMAN REPEATER ASSOCIATION)

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HAM RADIO HELPING in WEST BENGAL ELECTION

How do you connect an otherwise disconnected archipelago in the Indian 
state of West Bengal? Ham radio. During the Assembly elections there 
this month, radio amateurs are playing a decidedly nonpartisan roll in 
helping with the poll results. A number of very remote districts, made 
up of an archipelago, lack mobile connectivity and are relying for the 
first time this year on local hams, according to Ambarish Nag Biswas, 
VU2JFA, Secretary of the  West Bengal Radio Club, who spoke with The 
Hindu newspaper.

At last report, the voter turnout throughout the state was encouraging. 
As of Wednesday, April 20, the Hindustan Times reported that nearly 80 
percent of the electorate throughout the state had shown up at polling 
places to cast their ballots.

(THE HINDU, THE HINDUSTAN TIMES)

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WORLD OF DX

Listen for Mike, DF8AN, working as 9M0S from the Spratly Islands through 
April 29. He is working from Layang-Layang Island on 160m to 6m mainly 
using CW. QSL to the home call.

Elvira, IV3FSG, is operating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo 
as 9Q0HQ/1 until April 30. She will then use the callsign 9Q0HQ from May 
1 through May 30. Her QSL manager is IK3GES.

Be listening for a group of Italian amateurs using the callsign, TK9C, 
from Corsica Island until April 25. They will be on CW, SSB and Digital. 
Their QSL manager is IK2AHB.

Doug, VK4ADX, is operating holiday style from Norfolk Island from April 
23 through May 2,  using the callsign VK9NU. Listen for him on SSB only. 
Logs will be uploaded to Logbook of The World.

(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)

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KICKER: A SINGULAR SOLAR ACHIEVEMENT

STEPHEN: And finally, a tale of hope for hassled, harried hams. You 
can't outsmart the sun, and you certainly can't outshine it, but some 
radio amateurs in India recently had their moment in the sun during the 
National Field Day held by the Amateur Radio Society of India on 
Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17.

Camped out on a hilltop in the Turahalli forests, the group from 
Bengaluru was looking to go the distance, wherever that distance might 
take them. It didn't look like that was going to be very far, however. 
Conditions were not the greatest. They were marred by strong solar 
flares, making HF contacts extra challenging - or nonexistent. To add to 
that, the operators found the midday sun to be brutally hot and blistering.

And then - contact! Operator Madhu Prasad, operating station VU3NPI, 
connected on 21 MHz with Hong Kong station VR2XMT. It was enough. More 
than enough. Signal reports and call signs were exchanged. And the 
moment became one of the brightest spots during the 24-hour period. 
Prasad told the Bangalore Mirror QUOTE "Within a minute of the rig going 
live, we could establish contact." ENDQUOTE.

Among his colleagues in the Bangalore Amateur Radio Club, Antarctica is 
the farthest anyone has contacted on their rigs. But Hong Kong, under 
tough conditions, still proved to be a shining moment. And VU3NPI 
enjoyed his Field Day moment in the sun after all.

(THE BANGALORE MIRROR, AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY OF INDIA)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the Amateur Radio Society of 
India; the ARRL; the Bangalore Mirror; CQ Magazine; DX.NET; Hap Holly 
and the Rain Report; the Hindu; the Hindustan Times; Irish Radio 
Transmitter Society; K2BSA Amateur Radio Association; the Minuteman 
Repeater Association; the Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; Southgate Amateur Radio 
News; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's all 
from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email address is 
newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio 
Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org.

We also remind our listeners that there's still time to nominate 
candidates for the 2016 Bill Pasternak Young Ham of the Year Award. This 
honor recognizes licensed amateurs who are no older than 19 and living 
in the U.S., Puerto Rico or Canada, and who have made significant 
contributions to ham radio and their community. To download an 
application form, visit our website, www.arnewsline.org, and click on 
the tab for "Y-H-O-T-Y." Completed applications should be sent to: The 
Young Ham of the Year Award, in care of Amateur Radio Newsline Inc., 
Editorial Office, P.O. Box 451, Huntington Station, New York 11746.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, 
and our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth, 
Ohio, saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.

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