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   Prospective campers living outside the United States are being given   
   priority and are encouraged to leave sufficient time to obtain the   
   required passport and tourist Visa, where applicable. First-time   
   campers are also being given priority. Attendees from past years are   
   welcome to apply to serve as leaders.   
      
   Meanwhile, plans are in the works to inaugurate two other camp   
   experiences next year: subregional camps and a YOTA Junior USA camp   
   serving hams younger than 15.   
      
   Visit youthontheair dot org - that's youthontheair - one word - dot org   
   (youthontheair.org) For additional information, please contact Camp   
   Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG via the email address, director at   
   youthontheair dot org (director@youthontheair.org)   
      
   (YOUTH ON THE AIR)   
      
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   SILENT KEY: ALBANIAN AMATEUR RADIO LEADER JOVAN BOJDANI, ZA1H   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A leader in Albania's amateur radio community has   
   become a Silent Key. We hear about him from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
   JEREMY:  From the very beginning, radio was almost certain to be in the   
   future for Jovan Bojdani, ZA1H. He grew up watching his father at the   
   helm of Radio Tirana, Albania's first broadcast radio station which   
   transmitted its powerful signal on 7050 kHz. Jovan's own history-making   
   involvement in radio came with the creation of the Albanian Amateur   
   Radio Association, which he served in as secretary. Jovan had been one   
   of the first students to be trained in the ZA1A IARU amateur radio   
   program in 1989, in preparation for amateur radio's reintroduction into   
   Albania the following year.   
      
   Notices posted on a variety of DX websites praised Jovan's efforts to   
   welcome international operators to Albania and to provide whatever   
   guidance he could to local hams. A note posted on DX News said that   
   [quote] "Jovan worked tirelessly to unite competing amateur radio   
   groups in Albania though sadly, he did not live to see the fruits of   
   his efforts." [endquote]   
      
   Details about the date and cause of his death were not available when   
   Newsline went to production.   
      
   This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
   (425 DX NEWS)   
      
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   SILENT KEY: KEITH LAMONICA, W7DXX, PIONEERED INTERNET-REMOTE HAM   
   STATION   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A lifelong ham radio enthusiast and former broadcaster   
   who co-developed the first Internet-remote amateur radio station has   
   become a Silent Key. We hear about him from Dave Parks WB8ODF.   
      
   DAVE: If you've ever operated an amateur radio station remotely via the   
   Internet, you have Keith Lamonica, W7DXX, to thank. The former   
   broadcaster, who was the recipient of numerous awards including the   
   noted Peabody Award, was perhaps best known among hams for working with   
   another amateur, Bob Arnold, N2JEU, to establish an internet-controlled   
   base for amateur radio enabling radio operators without antennas to get   
   on the air remotely with computers. This groundbreaking station was   
   profiled in a 1999 article in CQ magazine. Both Keith and Bob were   
   inducted into CQ's Hall of Fame in 2016.   
      
   Keith died on Thursday, the 26th of September following a series of   
   illnesses, according to a notice on QRZ.com. His accomplishments as a   
   ham started very early on in his life when he made front page-news in   
   the local California newspaper for being the first person in the area   
   to hear radio transmissions being sent by the Soviet satellite Sputnik.   
      
   A satellite enthusiast, he developed the satellite radio talk show as a   
   format, creating a program known as FM America. He also hosted a Sun   
   Broadcast Network radio talk show.   
      
   His long professional career in radio and TV had him crisscrossing the   
   US to markets from the East Coast to the West Coast. The Peabody Award   
   was presented to him for his coverage of the trial of James Earl Ray,   
   who was convicted of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin   
   Luther King Jr. in 1968.   
      
   Keith was 81.   
      
   This is Dave Parks WB8ODF.   
      
   (QRZ.COM)   
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, like the   
   George County ARES repeater in Lucedale, Mississippi Wednesdays at 7:37   
   p.m. local time.   
      
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   SEMINAR FOCUSES ON RADIO AS TOOL FOR WOMEN'S WELL-BEING   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A recent seminar on a university campus in India   
   focused on ham radio as a tool for the well-being of women. Jim Meachen   
   ZL2BHF tells us what the students learned.   
      
   JIM: As part of their efforts to promote amateur radio and STEM careers   
   among women in India, Sister Nivedita University and OSCAR India, a   
   programme of the All India School of Management and Information   
   Technology, spent a day exploring the value that involvement in radio   
   can bring to women's lives.   
      
   The all-day seminar, held on September 30th on the university's Kolkata   
   campus, placed a special emphasis on radio communication's vital role   
   in ensuring women's security.   
      
   Undergraduates enrolled in the university's Mass Communication and   
   Engineering departments were given an opportunity for hands-on   
   experience with radio equipment, especially gear used in emergencies.   
   OSCAR India's Convener Nilkantha Chatterjee, VU2OII, shared a sample of   
   VoIP-based communication, traditional radio modes and Morse Code.   
      
   OSCAR India, which has conducted training seminars across 20 states in   
   India during the last eight years, has placed a greater emphasis in its   
   recent programmes on young women using radios. The organisation, whose   
   name is an acronym for Open Source Convention for Amateur Radio, is   
   encouraging young women in particular to use ham radio as a gateway to   
   greater personal security. These seminars are designed to increase   
   understanding of technology and general societal well-being through   
   radio connections.   
      
   This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.   
      
   (TELEGRAPH INDIA)   
      
   **   
   BALLOON TO TAKE HAM PAYLOADS ALOFT IN SOUTH AFRICA   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The liftoff of a balloon from a South African air strip   
   will carry a variety of ham radio payloads into near space. Jason   
   Daniels VK2LAW has more details for us.   
      
   JASON: A dramatic early-morning weather balloon launch on Saturday, the   
   12th of October, is scheduled to lift a series of CubeSats into a   
   near-space environment above South Africa as hams follow and track the   
   balloon from locations as far away as possible. The hams were   
   encouraged to use the various payloads, which included cross-band   
   repeaters, LORA and APRS trackers, parrot repeaters, WSPR beacons and   
   SSTV payloads The CubeSats remain aloft until the hydrogen-filled   
   balloon bursts and then they parachute back to earth.   
      
   The launch at a model air strip near Secunda, coordinated by the   
   Secunda Radio Club, ZS6SRC, is known as BACAR-12. The acronym stands   
   for Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio.   
      
   This is Jason Daniels VK2LAW.   
      
   (SARL)   
      
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   VOICE OF AMERICA GETTING NEW HQ   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The parent agency of Voice of America is preparing for   
   relocation to new headquarters in Washington, D.C., leaving the   
   historic Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building that VOA has called home   
   since 1954.   
      
   Beginning this year, the US Agency for Global Media will begin moving   
   VOA and its four other international broadcast entities: Radio Free   
   Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting   
   Networks and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. The relocation to 1875   
   Pennsylvania Avenue NorthWest is being called a financially sound move.   
   The media agency said that it will save taxpayers more than   
   $150-million over the lease's 15-year lifetime.   
      
   (RADIO INK)   
      
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   WORLD OF DX   
      
      
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