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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2075 for Friday, August 4, 2017

*** CLOSED CIRCUIT ADVISORY ****

The following is a closed circuit advisory and not for broadcast.

Newscast #2075 is an expanded edition of Amateur Radio Newsline, 
containing a special report about this year's winner of the Bill 
Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Young Ham of the Year Award. This newscast has 
three segments and there are two breaks for identification.

And now, here's this week's report.

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2075 with a release date of Friday, 
August 4, 2017 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. We have a winner! Meet Amateur Radio Newsline's 
Young Ham of the Year for 2017. Amelia Earhart tribute pilot Brian Lloyd 
WB6RQN is safely home -- and are you ready for this month's solar 
eclipse? All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2075 comes 
your way right now.


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BILLBOARD CART

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MARTY SULLAWAY KC1CWF NAMED 2017 YHOTY

DON/ANCHOR: He's just 15. But he impressed a distinguished panel of 
independent judges who came to a unanimous concluson that he is worthy 
of special recognition for his contributions to amateur radio. Amateur 
Radio Newsline's Mark Abramowicz NT3V, the chairman of the Young Ham of 
the Year award committee, has his story....


MARTY: "That's an honor, that's just such an honor and I'm so grateful. 
I think's that's so special and I'm so happy."

MARK: And that's Marty Sullaway, KC1CWF, Amateur Radio Newsline's 2017 
Bill Pasternak WA6ITF  Memorial Young Ham of the Year.

The 15-year-old resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is the son of Robert 
Sullaway and Gail Schulman.

Marty got his Technician ticket in November 2014 - a month before his 
13th birthday. He says it was an app about amateur radio that piqued his 
interest and motivated him to study to get a license.

MARTY: "After I got licensed, I got a Handi-talkie and got on local 
2-meter repeaters. I didn't know a ton of people but I started to go to 
different club meetings to see if I could meet some other local hams. 
And, then I studied again by myself and passed the General exam."

MARK: That was February 2015 and Marty was on his way to starting the 
Eastern Massachusetts Contesting Club in suburban Boston and applying 
for a club call sign - KR1DX - for which he serves as trustee.

MARTY: "And we held contests where kids could get on the air and make 
contacts and together we do radio," Marty says. "And, I'm quite involved 
in contesting and I've done a lot of serious contest operations on HF. 
And I just live and breathe the radio."

MARK: Of course, if you're from New England and you're into contesting, 
it doesn't take long for the Yankee Clipper Contest Club to find you. 
Marty says he's an active member of that group and has earned the 
respect of his contesting peers.

He was the winner of the 2015 CQ Worldwide Phone plaque as the top 
rookie in the USA.

Using K1VR's station, Marty put up an impressive score of more than 1.3 
million - a record that still stands on CQ's "1-land" records.

Marty also quickly got connected to the Yukon Canam Contest Club and 
serves as QSL manager for three call signs.

MARTY: "Whenever I do something, people are generally very excited to 
work with me or talk with me or learn from me and I've never really felt 
that I've been put down because I was a kid."

MARK: He's also serves as a board member for the Clay Center Amateur 
Radio Club at the Dexter/Southfield School in Brookline, Massachusetts 
and has been involved in that club's Field Day operaton as well as 
working with antenna and HF station design.

Marty also launched a podcast with Sterling Coffey, N0SSC, and he has a 
lot of followers tuning in for stories, interviews and information about 
contesting, home brewing and activities of youth in amateur radio.

MARTY: "I kind of touch on a lot of different things and I think I 
really try to make an effort to make amateur radio not just something 
that I do but something, you know, I can spread to other people."

MARK: Marty was part of the Youth Forum at the 2016 Dayton Hamvention 
where he presented "Homebrewing Fun: Making Your Own Gear for Contest 
Stations."

He also likes taking part in public service activities and has served as 
a net control at the Boston Marathon.

Marty, who earned his Extra ticket just last February, will begin his 
sophomore year at Meridian Academy in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts this 
fall.

He says amateur radio has lit a spark for a future career...

MARTY: "I love engineering, I love science, I love technology, I love, 
you know, soldering something together and designing my own antenna 
systems or antenna arrays or control systems or whatever it may be. And, 
I see myself kind of pursuing this because I love it so much."

MARK: Because of his outstanding contributions in promoting amateur 
radio, and immersing himself in and participating in so many aspects of 
the hobby, the Amateur Radio Newsline judges are privileged to have 
selected Marty Sullaway KC1CWF as the 2017 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF 
Memorial Young Ham of the Year.

For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V, in Philadelphia.

DON/ANCHOR: Marty will receive the award at the Huntsville Hamfest in 
Huntsville, Alabama on Saturday, Aug. 19.


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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 
W3BN, the 2-meter repeater of the Reading Radio Club in Reading, 
Pennsylvania on Friday evenings at 8 p.m. local time.


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AROUND THE WORLD AND BACK AGAIN

DON/ANCHOR: The Spirit has landed. With the single-engine aircraft's 
wheels once again on the ground, rest assured that the traveling days of 
pilot Brian Lloyd WB6RQN aren't over just yet. He completed his 
around-the-world tribute flight to Amelia Earhart with a July 31 landing 
at California's Oakland Airport. The 80th anniversary flight honoring 
Earhart's final trip is in the books. While logging all those miles and 
all those QSOs too, Brian faced some technical as well as bureaucratic 
challenges. As of production deadline at Newsline, he was on his way 
safely home to Spring Branch, Texas with a stopover at Earhart's 
Atchison, Kansas birthplace -- and thus, Brian Lloyd pays Amelia Earhart 
his final tribute.

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SUN CAN'T ECLIPSE EMERGENCY SERVICES

DON/ANCHOR: Here comes the sun - or rather, there goes the sun as an 
eclipse moves in on Aug. 21. So what happens to emergency 
communications? Jim Damron N8TMW has this report.

JIM: As the saying goes, "when all else fails, ham radio." In this case, 
with the coming of a total solar eclipse, what's going to fail - in a 
manner of speaking - is the sun itself, at least for a short while.

Emergency dispatch centers around central Oregon aren't taking any 
chances. Oregon is expected to have a 70-mile-wide zone of totality when 
the eclipse happens. According to a report in the Central Oregon 
Bulletin, a number of emergency services personnel are already making 
plans that include area amateur radio operators so that emergency calls 
still get through.

Nathan Garibay, a sergeant with the Deschutes County sheriff's office 
and emergency services manager for the county has coordinated with Don 
Shurtleff WB0DVS, information officer for the Deschutes County Amateur 
Radio Emergency Service and the High Desert Amateur Radio Group. 
Shurtleff's team will staff a joint-information center throughout the 
eclipse, joining others from emergency response teams from around the 
region. If necessary, hams will be sent to locations, such as busy 
highways, to make sure emergencies are noted and reported.

Meanwhile, to the north in Jefferson County, Mark Carman KI7MRC, the 
emergency management coordinator there, will staff a communications 
center where eight hams will be checking in from their designated patrol 
areas. Their job will be to give realtime traffic reports either by foot 
patrol, golf cart or any other means that doesn't involve an automobile.

Mark Carman told the Bulletin newspaper [QUOTE] �We�re going to have 
hams up and down the Highway 97 corridor." [ENDQUOTE]

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron N8TMW.

(THE BULLETIN OF CENTRAL OREGON)

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ECLIPSE EXPERIMENT SHOULD SHED SOME LIGHT

DON/ANCHOR: This month's eclipse is also turning into an amateur radio 
project for a college team based in Virginia. We hear more from Mike 
Askins KE5CXP.

MIKE: A senior at Virginia Tech is using her Blacksburg, Virginia 
backyard as a kind of propagation laboratory. Magda Moses KM4EGE is part 
of a team of students and faculty who - like so many others - are 
eagerly awaitng the solar eclipse on Aug. 21. The team's backyard 
experiment is focused on a different kind of special effects that 
involve measuring - not viewing. The group is hoping to study changes 
that occur in the ionosphere during the total solar eclipse. It is the 
first such eclipse to be visible from the U.S. since 1979.

The team is being led by Greg Earle W4GDE, a professor of electrical 
engineering at Virginia Tech. Faculty and students will be monitoring 
radio waves from locations in Oregon, where the eclipse will begin, 
Kansas, the eclipse's mid-point and South Carolina, as the eclipse departs.

Magda's backyard has been outfitted with four pole-mounted antennas. The 
team will analyze data they collect about how radio waves behave when 
the moon blocks the sun's radiation from entering the ionosphere - 
exactly what will be happening as the eclipse occurs.

Those few moments are the students' only chance to be doing this as 
undergraduates: the next such eclipse won't be happening until 2024.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins KE5CXP

(THE ROANOKE TIMES)

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IN ILLINOIS, A SPECIAL SOLAR EVENT

DON/ANCHOR: Meanwhile, another group of eclipse-minded experimenters 
will be testing the layers of the ionosphere as well on Aug. 21. The 
Lewis & Clark Radio Club K9HAM will set up a special event station in 
Riverview Park in Alton, Illinois and attempt to work as many stations 
as possible between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

A report in Illinois' Telegraph newspaper said that the event's 
chairman, John Nell K9JDN, considers it a to be a "citizens' scientific 
experiment." In other words, they'll use the momentary darkness to shed 
some light on things -- or hope to, anyway.

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KIDS ENJOY A SUMMER OF SOLDERING, NOT SWIMMING

DON/ANCHOR: The annual Youngsters on the Air summer event, organized by 
Region 1 of the International Amateur Radio Union, is coming to England 
this year. More on that from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY: If amateur radio is about forming friendships, few gatherings 
can do it better than the summer camp taking place just outside London 
this year hosting 80 young radio amateurs from 30 different nations. 
While some camps are content to offer swimming and archery, these young 
amateurs will be building antennas, engaging in direction-finding, 
trying their hands at kit-building and operating Special Event station 
GB17YOTA. There will also be side trips to the Science Museum in London 
and an outing to historic Bletchley Park where both the British code 
breakers worked during the second World War and the National Radio 
Centre is located. This year's camp, which his hosted by the Radio 
Society of Great Britain, will meet up at the large wooded facility at 
Gilwell Park which is also the headquarters of UK Scouting. But there'll 
probably be more soldering irons and circuit boards here than 
counsellors - and lots of fun.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(IARU, RADIO SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN)

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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, AN OPPORTUNITY

DON/ANCHOR: Amateur radio is all about community service. If you want to 
be of further service to the amateur community, listen to this report 
from Jack Parker W8ISH on an opportunity for Indiana residents.

JACK PARKER: If you have some technical skill, live in the southeastern 
Indiana area and would like to help with your fellow hams and friends 
here is a call to serve you can't pass up. Mark Westermeier N90Z Indiana 
Section technical coordinator, is looking to fill a technical specialist 
position in the Richmond and southeastern Indiana area. If you are 
interested and want to find out more information, email him at 
N90Z@arrl.net  That's this week's news you can use from Indiana. This is 
Jack Parker W8ISH.

DON/ANCHOR: For more news of the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana area, visit 
our friends at amateurnewsweekly.com


(AMATEUR NEWS WEEKLY)

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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 
North Coast Amateur Radio Club's 2 meter Net on Sunday nights at 9 in 
Brunswick Ohio.

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'FATHER OF COMPETITIVE RADIO' IN USSR BECOMES SK

DON/ANCHOR: A pioneer in the formative years of competitive radio has 
died in Moscow. Ed Durrant DD5LP has those details.

ED'S REPORT: Boris Stepanov RU3AX of Moscow, once known as the Father of 
Competitive Radio in what was then the Soviet Union, has become a Silent 
Key. Boris, once active as an amateur radio journalist, had been ill for 
some time when he died on July 28. He was not only known for his 
extensive writing on amateur and broadcast radio in books and magazines 
but also his work as deputy editor of Radio magazine. He is perhaps best 
known among the world's contesters as one of the developers of the 
format used by the World Radiosport Team Championship. When the first 
such contest was held in 1990 in the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington, 
Boris served as one of its judges. His love of contesting spurred his 
work in helping create amateur radio competitions on the HF bands in the 
Soviet Union. He also had a role in getting the Mir space station 
equipped for its earliest amateur radio communications.

His love of radio dates back to the early 1950s when he was a shortwave 
listener. He became licensed in 1960 with the call sign UW3AX.

Boris Stepanov was 76.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant DD5LP.

(SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO NEWS)

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OHIO HAMS HOST 40-YEAR CELEBRATION

DON/ANCHOR: Four decades of growth have paid off for hams in one Ohio 
club and the members are celebrating in style this month. Here's Stephen 
Kinford N8WB with more.

STEPHEN: For the hams who belong to the Silvercreek Amateur Radio 
Association, the last 40 years have been a picnic. It's not that the 
group hasn't worked hard to grow since it began but there's plenty to 
celebrate and a picnic is one-half of what they've got planned. From 
August 19th through August 26th, the club will operate a Special Event 
anniversary station using its call sign W8WKY. Plans are to operate on 
20, 40 and 80 meters. According to the its website, the club is basing 
its operation on a pretty high-profile model: The centennial event W1AW 
hosted in 2015. Throughout the week, club members will be operating from 
their home stations or will be portable -- but on the last day of the 
station's operation, the hams will be working Field Day style in Norton, 
Ohio while having their 40-year picnic. Be listening!

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford N8WB, and a proud member 
of the Silvercreek Amateur Radio Association

(SARA WEBSITE)

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WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, be listening for Koji JI1LET who will be operating 
as JD1BOI from the Ogasawara Islands from August 3rd to the 12th. Listen 
for him on all the HF bands operating on SSB, RTTY and CW. QSLs can be 
sent to his home call.

You'll have plenty of time to listen for Alan KE4TA. Starting in another 
week or two, he'll be operating from Rwanda as 9X0TA for the next three 
years. You are most likely to find him on 20m and 17m. Send cards to his 
QSL manager N4GNR.

Until August 6th, you have a chance to contact the TX5EG team. They are 
in the Marquesas Islands and the group counts as a separate entity for 
the DXCC Award. Send QSL cards to the team's manager F6BCW.

Finally, here's a call sign to listen for - HD086QRC. It belongs to the 
Quito Radio Club HC1QRC in Ecuador, which is marking its 86th 
Anniversary. Catch them on the HF bands whenever you can - members are 
using the occasion to run this celebration as a special event.


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KICKER: THE ARRL GOES MOBILE?

DON: Our last story is about the ARRL. Well, no, not THAT ARRL. This is 
an ARRL that operates mobile in Ontario Canada where it really gets 
around. It's an ARRL that is properly licensed but not to get on the 
air. What we're talking about is a license plate seen recently on the 
back of a Kia compact car registered to a motorist in Canada. Two 
members of the North Shore Amateur Radio club in Ontario noticed a 
fellow driver nearby not too long ago with the license plate tags that 
had those familiar initials - ARRL - followed by "365." The two hams 
Alex VE3ZSH and Sabrina VA3AXU even posted a photo of the car on the 
club's blog. They noted that the person behind the wheel was a YL. 
Unfortunately, she did not appear to be a fellow ham. There was not even 
an antenna in sight. Just plenty of traffic - on the street, that is, 
not on the bands.

(NORTH SHORE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB)


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the Bulletin of Central Oregon; CQ Magazine; Hap Holly and the Rain 
Report; the IARU; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; North Shore Amateur 
Radio Club; the Radio Society of Great Britain; Silvercreek Amateur 
Radio Association; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio 
Show; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur 
Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at 
newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio 
Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, 
and our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks AE5DW saying 73 and as 
always we thank you for listening.

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