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   The winner will receive a complete HF, VHF/UHF station, including coax   
   and antennas, to make their proposal a reality where it can be used for   
   club use, mentoring, training and emergency communication. The winner   
   will also receive an own HF radio for personal use.   
      
   The deadline for submission of proposals is the 10th of December, with   
   the awardee's name announced on the 15th. They will be required to   
   provide written permission from the facility that they have chosen,   
   authorizing the installation of the station and antenna. The awardee   
   may become the station's trustee.   
      
   See the text version of this week's newscast script at arnewsline.org   
   for the email or US mail address where inquiries or submissions may   
   besent.   
      
   This is Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.   
      
   [DO NOT READ: By email to intrepiddxgroup@gmail.com or via US Mail to   
   The Intrepid-DX Group, 3052 Wetmore Drive, San Jose, California 95148 ]   
      
   (INTREPID DX GROUP)   
      
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   ARDC GRANTS SUPPORT STUDENTS' SATELLITE COURSES   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: A pair of AMSAT courses to teach students about satellites   
   have gained support from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, as we   
   hear from Jack Parker W8ISH.   
      
   JACK: In 2022, AMSAT rolled out its community-based Youth Initiative   
   Program which provides age-appropriate lessons about satellites for   
   youngsters in two age groups, grades 5-7 and grades 8-12. In that first   
   year, a grant from the Quarter Century Wireless Association helped get   
   things going.   
      
   Three years later, as the initiative gathers even more momentum,   
   Amateur Radio Digital Communication has announced that it is providing   
   the initiative with two grants designed to enhance both of the student   
   groups' learning experiences. One grant will allow production of a   
   coloring book for the younger students, who are of elementary school   
   age. The pages will depict satellites being used to aid in pollution   
   control, wildfire fighting, broadcasting and navigation.   
      
   The other grant will help secure more software licenses for online   
   courses for the older students, who are of high school age. The first   
   course is called "Introduction to Satellite Meteorology," and visitors   
   to Hamvention this past spring got a preview of its contents.   
      
   Central to the initiative are its two websites, KidzSat and BuzzSat,   
   which contain age-appropriate activities for the younger and older   
   students, respectively. The students also have access to a network of   
   online software-defined radios they can use as ground stations for   
   receiving images and telemetry from satellites making passes overhead.   
      
   This is Jack Parker W8ISH.   
      
   (AMSAT NEWS SERVICE)   
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including   
   the W8WKY repeater in Doylestown, Ohio on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. local   
   time, right before the weekly SARA net at 8 p.m.   
      
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   BRISBANE HAMS HOST INAUGURAL QTECH CONFERENCE   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: The weekend of November 1st and 2nd ushered in an   
   inaugural amateur radio conference in Australia organised by the   
   Brisbane VHF Group. John Williams VK4JJW brings us up to date.   
      
   JOHN: Known as QTech2025, the conference in Brisbane suburb of   
   Chermside it focused on the next generation of radio operators who will   
   become stewards of the airwaves. Their varied voices were heard   
   throughout the two-day programme, both as presenters and guests.   
      
   Two university students, Otto VK4OTZ and Finn VK4II sparked dialogue   
   with a talk on their theme, "Young Hams: YES We Do Exist." Young   
   amateurs' voices were also well-heard during a town hall style meeting   
   to discuss ways to attract new hams and ensure amateur radio's future.   
      
   According to a report by Kevin VK4UH, the Brisbane VHF Group's   
   president, more than 70 registered delegates attended and although a   
   handful did participate remotely, most of them were present in person.   
      
   Kevin's report, which appeared first in a Wireless Institute of   
   Australia newscast, said one of the  high points of the conference was   
   perhaps one of its briefest: an 11-minute contact between 15 students   
   and astronaut Jonny Kim KJ5HFP at the moment the ISS orbit passed over   
   Queensland.   
      
   Like amateur radio itself, the conference is expected to have a bright   
   future: Kevin said organisers are already working on QTech2027.   
      
   This is John Williams VK4JJW. (WIA)   
      
   **   
   COLLEGE DONATES LAPTOPS WISCONSIN HAM CLUB   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: Community generosity works in both directions, as one   
   amateur radio club in Wisconsin found out recently. Andy Morrison K9AWM   
   has the details.   
      
   ANDY: Hams are accustomed to being the ones providing community service   
   -- and so it was a special privilege for the Fond du Lac Amateur Radio   
   Club in Wisconsin to be on the receiving end recently. The Moraine Park   
   Technical College donated five laptops to assist the club with its work   
   in amateur radio education, license testing and emergency   
   communications, including its Field Day operations.   
      
   The donations kept club member Lloyd Vandervort N9RPU hard at work   
   setting up the club logging programs,   
      
   Dave McCumber, N9WQ, club president, issued a statement saying that the   
   additional computing power will [quote] "strengthen our ability to   
   teach, train and support both new and experienced radio operators   
   throughout the region." [endquote]   
      
   This is Andy Morrison K9AWM.   
      
   (FDL REPORTER, FOND DU LAC ARC FACEBOOK PAGE)   
      
   **   
   INSIGHTS INTO LOSS OF ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: What happens when a material loses its ability to conduct   
   electricity -- seemingly for no reason? Researchers have been working   
   to solve that mystery and they think they've figured it out, as we hear   
   from Kent Peterson KC0DGY.   
      
   KENT: It's uncommon but when it happens, as it does in the quantum   
   realm, scientists have previously been left shrugging their shoulders.   
   Now when material that had been capable of conducting electricity loses   
   that property, becoming an insulator, they're nodding their heads in   
   recognition instead.   
      
   As explained in a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters, an   
   international team of researchers working at the DESY Institute in   
   Germany made their discovery while working with a compound of the rare   
   earth metals: tellurium, selenium and thulium. They found that the   
   compound lost its inherent conductivity because of what researchers   
   described as a "particle dance" involving a group of particles called   
   polarons (POLE A RONS) -- quasiparticles which can combine and behave   
   as one particle instead of several. The polarons can spur activity   
   between electrons and the nearby atoms, impeding the flow of   
   electricity by slowing  it down and eventually halting it altogether.   
      
   The researchers wrote that their findings show "that the properties of   
   a material cannot be explained by its chemical composition alone."   
      
   The scientists concluded that their findings about polarons may   
   ultimately lead to development of new types of matter or the ability to   
   alter some materials' optical, magnetic or electrical properties.   
      
   This is Kent Peterson KC0DGY.   
      
   (GIZMODO, AZO QUANTUM.COM)   
      
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   STUDENTS' SATELLITE HAS NEWEST MICROWAVE LINEAR TRANSPONDER   
      
   NEIL/ANCHOR: There's a new microwave-band linear transponder in the sky   
   - and it was put there by university students, as we hear from Sel   
   Embee KB3TZD.   
      
   SEL: A student-built CubeSat from the University of Arizona is   
   providing the latest microwave-band linear transponder for use by   
   amateur radio operators.   
      
      
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