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   given name and callsign. Some relics that once belonged to him are   
   housed in a small museum inside the church building. The museum also   
   displays some of the awards the amateurs have won while operating in   
   contests with this callsign as a way to pay tribute to St. Maximillian.   
   The operators are on the air this month from the 1st through to the   
   31st using all modes on all HF bands through to the end of the month.   
      
   The station's operations manager, Chuy, XE2N/N5MEX, told Newsline   
   [quote]: "We want to celebrate what we love on the radio." [endquote]   
      
   This is Jim Davis W2JKD.   
      
   (CHUY, XE2N; QRZ.COM)   
      
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   HAMTV BACK ON THE AIR FROM THE ISS   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: The most popular digital amateur TV show in space is back   
   and better than ever. With its installation completed recently by ISS   
   astronauts, HamTV resumed its transmissions on Tuesday, the 29th of   
   July. In Salisbury, Southern England, Dave G8GKQ was among the happy   
   radio operators to report to the British Amateur TV Club that he had   
   good copy during the first pass of the ISS with HamTV turned on again.   
   HamTV had been out of service since 2019, so its welcome-back from Dave   
   and other fans was clearly a warm one.   
      
   To see a live stream of HamTV when it is near the receiver stations,   
   follow the link in the text version of this week's newscast at   
   arnewsline.org   
      
   [DO NOT READ:   https://live.ariss.org/hamtv/ ]   
      
   (BRITISH AMATEUR TV CLUB, AMATEUR RADIO DAILY)   
      
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   FIELD DAY WAS 'MERIT BADGE DAY' FOR THEM   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: Most of us remember the big weekend in June known as Field   
   Day. For 14 Scouts who attended the activation with one ham club in   
   Southern California, it will always be remembered as Merit Badge Day.   
   Ralph Squillace KK6ITB explains.   
      
   RALPH: Operators with the San Fernando Valley Amateur Radio Club W6SD   
   do a lot of planning each year for Field Day but this year their plans   
   included something else for the first time - the inclusion of Scouts   
   from Troop 415 who were there to observe, learn about amateur radio and   
   perhaps qualify for scouting's Radio Merit Badge. Fourteen of them did   
   just that - in a single day - as they learned about radio communication   
   and watched the hams make QSOs at the activation site at the First   
   Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills. Some of the Scouts even   
   experienced the thrill of HF by getting on the GOTA station - the   
   so-called "Get On The Air" station provided at many Field Day sites to   
   allow them to have a QSO or two under supervision of a licensed ham.   
      
   The Scouts had other inspiration to draw on too. Club secretary Bernard   
   KG6FBM told Newsline that one of the Scout's fathers, Eric Arevalo,   
   KO6KFL, had just received his Tech license after taking a class with   
   Roozy, W1EH.   
      
   Bernard said the club is very proud of the Scouts, whose ages range   
   from 11 to 17. As to whether a merit badge eventually leads to a   
   license, Bernard said: "Some scouts did show interest. Maybe someday   
   they'll follow up."   
      
   (BERNARD FALKIN KG6FBM)   
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur   
   Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including   
   the W4HPL repeater in Cookeville, Tennessee on Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m.   
   local time.   
      
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   PAKISTAN HIKES RADIO-RELATED FEES   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR:  It's going to cost more for radio amateurs to get on the   
   air in Pakistan. Jim Meachen ZL2BHF brings us up to date.   
      
   JIM:  Calling its existing fee structure outdated, Pakistan's   
   government has approved its first change to the fee structure for   
   radio-based services in 25 years. More than 1,100 licence holders,   
   including amateur radio operators and private radio networks, are being   
   affected by a fee hike. According to media reports, fees remained   
   unchanged until now despite Pakistan's inflation rising by more than   
   700 percent.   
      
   Pakistan's amateur licence is initially issued for a one-year period   
   but can be renewed for a five-year period afterward. The fee is   
   increasing from 450 rupees to 5,000 rupees - or, in US currency, from   
   $1.60 to $18 for the term of the licence.   
      
   The change was approved in late July by the Economic Coordination   
   Committee. The ECC acted after being told by the Pakistan   
   Telecommunications Authority that fees no longer cover the expenses for   
   managing licenses and overseeing use of the spectrum.   
      
   This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.   
      
   (DAWNTODAY.COM, PROFIT.PAKISTANTODAY.COM)   
      
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   HAMS COACH INDIAN POLICE ON AMATEUR RADIO'S CRISIS ROLES   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: Ham radio training for police officers? In India, it's   
   considered an essential tool, as we hear from John Williams VK4JJW.'   
      
   JOHN: In India, law enforcement personnel from the remote region of   
   Darjeeling and the coastal area of the Sunderbans joined with police in   
   Kolkata for a one-day session on how amateur radio can assist them when   
   conventional communications systems are compromised.   
      
   The regulations governing radio - and the technical side of operating   
   -were covered in the one-day session held on Friday the 25th of July in   
   Kolkata. The training was conducted by Jayanta Baidya VU2TFR, Arnab Roy   
   Chowdhury VU2TFT and Ambarish Nag Biswas VU2JFA - all from the West   
   Bengal Radio Club.   
      
   Remote regions of India can be particularly challenged when natural   
   disasters strike but even in the heart of a city like Kolkata, law   
   enforcement has concerns about how useful their radios are. The hams   
   noted that high rise buildings, such as those under construction in   
   Kolkata, can interfere with the wireless frequencies used by the police   
   radios.   
      
   The seminar is the latest to be organised and hosted by the club, which   
   often does such training for law-enforcement personnel.   
      
   This is John Williams VK4JJW.   
      
   (MILLENNIUM POST)   
      
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   SOUTH AFRICAN AWARDS SCHEME FOCUSES ON HERITAGE, HISTORY   
      
   JIM/ANCHOR: Lightwaves and radio waves have much in common - perhaps   
   most notably the fact that they share a home on different parts of the   
   same spectrum. In South Africa, however, a popular operating awards   
   scheme unites light and amateur radio in a very different way. Graham   
   Kemp VK4BB explains now.   
      
   GRAHAM: HOTA - an awards programme that originated with the Bo-Karoo   
   Amateur Radio Club in South Africa - has its origins as Heliographs on   
   the Air. The original concept, credited to Jannie Smith, ZS3CM, was to   
   encourage amateur radio operators to activate sites where members of   
   the military once sent coded messages to the troops by reflecting   
   sunlight off mirrors. Other club members soon expanded the programme's   
   scope to focus on a broader array of historical sites. What was renamed   
   History on the Air soon morphed into Heritage on the Air, the programme   
   as it is known today. Using a spreadsheet developed by Steve Brooks   
   ZS3SB, activators and chasers alike keep track of their contacts and   
   ultimately their cumulative score which they submit at the end of each   
   year.   
      
   Organisers believe that the exercise offers a greater opportunity to   
   learn about history, either by chasing, activating or proposing new   
   sites for inclusion. Proposals are required to be well-researched   
   applications that explain the historical significance of the location,   
   which must be connected to war, telecommunications or general history.   
   The sites must have a significance dating back at least 75 years.   
      
   As for modes, well, that's a nod to history too: operators can use SSB,   
   AM, FM CW and yes, even heliographs. Of course.   
      
   This is Graham Kemp VK4BB.   
      
   (SARL, HERITAGE ON THE AIR)   
      
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   WORLD OF DX   
      
      
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