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   named the 2025 Carter Craigie, N 3 AO, Memorial Educator. The   
   Carter Craigie, N 3 AO, Memorial Educator of the Year program funds a   
   seat at the A.R.R.L. Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology.   
      
   Zoe serves as the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics   
   teacher as well as the Raymond schools technology integrator and library   
   media specialist. She also started a club for 3rd through 8th graders called   
   Girls Who Code.   
      
   UNITED KINGDOM   
      
   The Radio Society of Great Britain is excitedly  announcing the launch ofthe   
   RSGB mobile app.   
      
      
   This fantastic members benefit allows them to enjoy RadCom, RadCom Basics   
   and RadCom Plus wherever they are. Complementing the RSGBs existing web app,   
   with the new mobile app users can save editions to read offline, bookmark   
   articles to enjoy later, and have seamless access to extra digital content.   
   With easy-to-use navigation, the app is THE one-stop shop   
      
   for RSGB publications.   
      
   For our RSGB members tuned today, you can download it via the Apple App and   
   Google Play stores or go to rsgb.org for links.   
      
   NEW ZEALAND   
   Call Book 2026   
      
   As Daniel ZL2DRV announced at the NZART AGM, they will be producing a   
   hard copy call book. However, as this will be a special edition to mark   
   their 100-year centenary, this will be sent out in February next year.   
      
   So to our New Zealand listeners and viewers please make sure you are a   
   fully paid-up NZART member to ensure you get this publication next year.   
      
   At this stage, call book compiler, Daniel ZL2DRV, has yet to receive the   
   printable information for call signs, from Radio Spectrum Management.   
   If there is something you would like to see included in this publication   
   next year, please send it to Daniel, ZL2DRV so he can include it.   
      
   WORLD WIDE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP NEWS   
   SUMMITS ON THE AIR, WORLD WIDE FLORA, FAUNA PROGRAM,   
   PARKS ON THE AIR and other ADVENTURE GROUPS.   
      
   hema.org.uk/index.jsp   
   minesontheair.com/about-mota   
   parksontheair.com/   
   sota.org.uk   
   sotawatch.sota.org.uk/en/   
   facebook.com/SotaAustralia/   
   wwffaustralia.com/   
      
   The V.K.F.F. National Get Together is October 24-27 Canberra, but, before   
   that, infact this very moment, the world wide quarterly support your parks   
      
   weekend is happeningd Sat 18 & Sun19 Oct.   
      
   This is an official Parks on the Air (POTA) event that encourages operators   
   to make their way to a park and enjoy the day.   
      
   Support Your Parks Weekend takes place 4 times per year, winter, spring,   
   summer, and autumn.   
      
      
   Getting started with POTA can happen via one of two paths  as an activator   
   who heads out into the parks or as a hunter who is trying to contact someone   
   in a park. The easiest way to participate in POTA is as a hunter.   
      
      
   And a reminder if you are an activator, the park MUST be a registered POTA   
   PARK with a unique "number".   
      
      
   docs.pota.app/docs/events.html   
   (ARD)   
      
   SOTA Croatia is marking 10 years. Listen for the special callsign   
   9 A 10 SOTA. The callsign is on the air through to 2026, the 30th of   
   September 2026 to be precise.   
      
   A certificate will be available for contacts made between  the 1st of October   
   and the 31st of December THIS YEAR.. QSL via LoTW.   
      
   (newsline2501)   
      
   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - BALLOONS   
      
   Jeff Potteiger, a licensed amateur radio operator and local resident of Ohio   
   USA, with the help of his son Erik and grandson Matthew, (also   
      
   licensed amateur radio operators) recently sent a pico balloon around   
   theworld.   
      
      
   A pico balloon is a small, lightweight high-altitude balloon equipped with a   
   radio transmitter. Hobbyists use the radio aboard to track the balloons   
      
   journey across the globe, receiving real-time telemetry data about its   
   location, altitude and the extreme conditions it encounters.   
      
   They launched their balloon on Sept. 13 and recently, it completed a full   
   circumnavigation of the Earth -- and it is still airborne.   
      
      
   Telemetry from the balloon has shown it reached altitudes above 40,000 feet   
   and temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero.   
      
      
   advertiser-tribune.com/news/643578/around-the-world/   
      
   (eHam)   
      
   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - FINAL FRONTIER   
   AMSAT-VK Secretary - secretary@amsat-vk.org   
      
   For the first time in Mexico's history, the National Polytechnic Institute   
   (IPN) made a direct radio connection with the International Space Station   
   (ISS).   
      
      
   The educational institution reported that contact was made with the   
   commanding astronaut of NASA and SpaceX's Crew-11 mission, who answered   
   questions from children and young people. The director general of the IPN   
      
   explained that the broadcast was intended to encourage the younger generation   
   to pursue careers in the aerospace industry. The link was made possible by   
   the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program, an educational   
   initiative that allows students from around the world to communicate in real   
   time with astronauts in orbit, to spark their interest in science and   
   technology. An antenna built in Mexico by IPN engineers was used for this   
   purpose.   
      
   tinyurl.com/2f9a8m2j   
   (eHam)   
      
   In another first, a first in several ways, the Namibia Scientific Society   
   (NSS) facilitated the first-ever Amateur Radio on the International Space   
   Station (ARISS) contact with that country.   
      
      
   The public was invited to witness the live communication event which took   
   place at the Windhoek Afrikans Private school.   
      
      
   Tickets however were essential for attendance and were priced at   
   $100 Namibia Dollars for adults and $50 Namibia dollarsfor children   
   under 18. The organizers noted that no late payments or payments on the day   
   of the event were to be accepted.   
      
      
   The Society said for the first time in the country, local students had   
   the opportunity to connect directly with astronauts aboard the International   
   Space Station via amateur radio.   
      
      
   As the ISS passed overhead, students asked questions live to the crew on   
   board. This rare and historic moment brought space exploration closer to   
   Namibias youth and hopefully inspires new possibilities in science,   
   technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).   
      
   bit.ly/3VWrDfP   
   (TWIAR)   
      
   Just six years after launching its first nano satellite, Sri Lanka has   
   launched its third - and this new ham radio CubeSat is orbiting the Earth.   
      
      
   The BIRDS-X Dragonfly CubeSat has marked a milestone for Sri Lanka, becoming   
   that nation's third nano satellite in space. Developed with help from the   
   Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies an the Kyushu Institute of   
   Technology in Japan, it began its orbit last month following its launch from   
   SpaceX-33.   
      
      
   Its mission is to serve as an APRS digipeater and to test a new low-cost   
   communication system. It will also demonstrate the relay of store-and-forward   
   data. Its callsign is JG 6 YOW. The APRS FM digipeater frequency is 145.825   
   MHZ and its CW beacon is on 437.375 MHz.   
      
   tinyurl.com/mw35fzmc   
   (newsline2502)   
      
   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - IOTA   
   iota-world.org/--------------   
      
   Active is OX 3 LX from Greenland, IOTA number NA-018, until the 21st of   
   October. The station is being spotted regularly on the HF bands using FT8.   
   QSL via Logbook of the World, Club Log's OQRS or via OZ 0 J.   
      
   (rsgb)   
      
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   Listen and work J 79 FJ from Dominica IOTA number NA-101 on 20-29   
   October. J 79 FJ will operate CW, SSB and maybe FT8, and will   
   participate in the CQ WW DX SSB Contest with the J75A team.   
   (425dxn)   
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   OC REMINDERS   
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   OC-047 - H44MS - Malaita Island in the Solomons.   
      
   Bernard, H44MS will be active from Manakwai village, nearby Maluu   
      
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