Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2128 for Friday, August 10, 2018

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2128 with a release date of Friday, 
August 10, 2018 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. Indonesian hams help after a deadly quake. No 
new building for next year's Hamvention - and it's time for a QSO with 
TV's "Last Man Standing." All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline 
Report 2128 comes your way right now.

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INDONESIAN AMATEURS RESPOND FOLLOWING DEADLY QUAKE

JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week with breaking news. As an Indonesian 
earthquake's death toll climbs, hams deploy to assist communications. 
John Williams VK4JJW tells us more.

JOHN: Members of the Indonesian Amateur Radio Organisation, known as 
ORARI, were deployed not long after a deadly 6.9 magnitude quake rocked 
Indonesia on Sunday August 5th, leaving a death toll that was fast 
approaching 100 as Amateur Radio Newsline went to production. Hardest 
hit were the resort areas on Lambok where tourists emerged from a 
landscape of massive debris and swarmed the beaches. The quake could be 
felt as far away as the island of Bali. More than 300 were reported 
injured. The hams established counter-disaster communications on 7110kHz 
and a call was issued to amateurs worldwide to keep the frequency clear. 
Stations within the immediate region were being asked to monitor 
emergency traffic and assist where they could. ORARI also established 
radio operations on VHF at 145.5 MHz and 147 MHz. The quake came on the 
heels of an earlier one, on July 29th, which hit the same area with a 
magnitude of 6.4, killing 16 and injuring several hundreds, many of them 
hikers who were at the summit of a mountain in Lombok that collapsed 
into the mouth of a volcano.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m John Williams VK4JJW.

(NEWS.COM.AU, CNN, Greg G0DUB and Ewan VK4ERM)
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NO NEW BUILDING FOR HAMVENTION 2019

JIM/ANCHOR: In the U.S., hopes for a new building in time for next 
year's Dayton Hamvention have been dashed. Andy Morrison K9AWM has that 
report.

ANDY: There will be no new building after all for Hamvention 2019 when 
it opens in Xenia, Ohio next spring. Hamvention General Chairman Jack 
Gerbs WB8SCT announced on Aug. 5 that negotiations have failed to reach 
an agreement on a contract between Hamvention organizers and the Green 
County Fairgrounds and Expo Center. He said the county and the fair’s 
board still have a good relationship with Hamvention at this point but 
there will not be a building in time for the next gathering. Jack made 
the announcement jointly with Hamvention assistant chair Rick Allnutt 
WS8G, noting that the improvements attendees saw at the 2018 Hamvention 
site will continue into next year: tent shelters will be improved, there 
will be another forum room and the flea market area will feature 
permanent paths.
Both Rick and Jack expressed hope that the amateur radio community would 
continue to give Hamvention their full support.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Andy Morrison K9AWM

(ARRL)

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YOUNG LADIES RADIO LEAGUE HOSTS SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION

JIM/ANCHOR: Further west in the U.S., a successful gathering of YLs 
wrapped up recently in Oklahoma City. We turn to Heather Embee KB3TZD 
for those details.

HEATHER: For attendees at this year’s Young Ladies Radio League 
Convention in downtown Oklahoma City, it’s all over now but the 
memories. YLRL president Marilyn Melhorn AF7BI welcomed the group of 43 
YLs and 22 OMs who traveled from 21 states and the Canadian provinces. 
The local SCARS club sent five OMs to work as volunteers at the event, 
which ran from August 2nd to 5th. There was a forum on digital modes led 
by Ria Jairam N2RJ, rovering by Andrea Slack K2EZ and Mission Kosovo led 
by Jim Fenstermaker K9FJ. NASA research scientist Nancy Hall KC4IYH 
delivered the keynote speech at the convention banquet.

According to one member of the three-person organizing committee, 
Michelle Carey W5MQC, the prize table was chock full of goodies from 
convention sponsors and Saturday also featured Elmira roundtable 
sessions offering help on DMR, antennas, CW, logging, programming rigs 
and just about anything else. YLs got to make Morse Code bracelets. 
Carol Milazzo KP4MD treated the YLs to a talk on the right way to 
organize a DXpedition style holiday.

There were also moments of personal triumph: Pamela Saalbach KC3LCX 
became a General class and a new ham, Aria Cunningham, passed her 
Technican test. The YLRL convention only happens once every three or 
four years so these are memories – and moments – that are sure to last.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Heather Embee KB3TZD.

(MICHELLE CAREY, W5MQC)

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LAND MOBILE RADIOS GET NEW BAND IN NEW ZEALAND

JIM/ANCHOR: There's nothing like getting a new part of the spectrum and 
that's good news to land mobile radio users in New Zealand where Jim 
Meachen ZL2BHF has this report.

JIM: Almost everyone welcomes the approval of new radio bands to use and 
in New Zealand, a new band has been created for use by land mobile 
radios. It’s known as the G band and it allows transmissions between 174 
MHz and 184 MHz. Users wanting to operate must possess licenses 
certified by an Approved Radio Engineer. Although the band became 
available for licencing effective the 2nd of August, licencees will not 
be able to begin transmissions until the 1st of September. According to 
RSM, the band is being made available following a technical consultation 
that took place in 2017. Use of the band is covered under Crown Spectrum 
Management Rights and a band plan is available on the website of Radio 
Spectrum Management, a business unit of the Ministry of Business. Learn 
more about the band plan by navigating from the home page at rsm dot 
govt dot nz (rsm.govt.nz).

For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.
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(SOUTHGATE)

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HAM IN IRELAND GOES RECORD DISTANCE ON VHF

JIM/ANCHOR: A recent contact between a ham in Ireland and a ham off 
Africa's coast is being called a record. Ed Durrant DD5LP tells us how 
it happened.

ED: World records aren’t easy to come by so when Mark EI3KD made contact 
from his QTH in Ireland with D4Z on the Cape Verde Islands off Africa’s 
coast on the 5th of August, it was a big deal. For one thing, it was on 
CW at 144.300 MHz, and for another this was a distance of 4163 
kilometres, or not quite 2600 miles. As reported on Southgate Amateur 
Radio News, this constitutes a new record for tropo in IARU Region 1, 
besting a record set in July 2015 of 4130 kilometres, or roughly 2560 
miles. The news was first reported on the blog written by John EI7GL on 
Monday the 6th of August. The blog speculates that marine ducting most 
likely helped propagation. With marine ducting, the water’s surface and 
a layer in the lower atmosphere trap the VHF and UHF signals enabling 
them to travel a greater distance than normal.
August 5th was apparently a good day as well for D4Z, the Monteverde 
Contest Team, based in Cape Verde. The team also worked G7RAU and G4LOH 
on 2m SSB in the southwest of England.

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

(SOUTHGATE)

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'LAST MAN STANDING' CALLING QRZ

JIM/ANCHOR: If you are a fan of TV’s “Last Man Standing” but never got a 
QSL card from KA6LMS – the amateur radio station on the set – be near 
your shack on Tuesday the 14th of August. The Facebook page of the newly 
revived show has announced that even as the popular sitcom returns to 
the air this season – this time on Fox - its ham radio station is doing 
the same on HF. Be listening around 4 p.m. Pacific Time for KA6LMS club 
member Rob AA6RA. Rob is not only an original member of the club but was 
a VE who took part in the exam that gave the show’s star Tim Allen his 
license. Watch the show’s Facebook page and spotting sites for details.

(FACEBOOK)

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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 WW8GM repeater of the General Motors Amateur Radio Club in Detroit, 
Michigan on Saturdays at 9 p.m. local time.

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HAMS SCORE HOME RUN HELPING BASEBALL HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS

JIM/ANCHOR: When the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York 
inducted six new membrs, hams helped keep things safe and orderly for 
tens of thousands of fans, as we hear from Neil Rapp WB9VPG.

NEIL: A crowd of about 53,000 turned out in Cooperstown New York to see 
six athletes inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame – but looking out 
for these tens of thousands was a much smaller crowd: ham radio 
operators who’d been activated under RACES to provide communications 
support at the event on behalf of the county’s office of emergency 
services.
Brian Webster N2KGC, the Otsego County Amateur Radio Officer and an ARRL 
District Emergency Coordinator, said about 15 amateurs were directly 
involved at stations on the air. He said another half dozen or so were 
assigned directly to various agencies where they also worked as 
communications technicians. Volunteers came from Otsego and three 
surrounding counties as members of the Oneonta Amateur Radio Club. They 
operated primarily on a 2 meter analogue repeater using two 440 analogue 
repeaters for backup near area hospitals.
July 29th was a big day for players Chipper Jones, Jim Thome, Trevor 
Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jack Morris and Alan Trammell who drew the 
second largest crowd in the history of such inductions. Although a few 
medical transports were required, Brian said the big event was largely 
uneventful except of course for the inductions. The amateur radio 
operators’ role is significant at this event, Brian said, because you 
never know what dignitaries may show up or what kinds of security 
concerns there might be.
Baseball fans, if you think this meant a free pass to the event think 
again: Brian told Amateur Radio Newsline: [quote] “We only had two hams 
on the actual site and they were both involved supporting the EMA 
activities. The rest of us watched the ceremony on TV like many others.” 
[endquote]
Still, with a crowd that size, the teamwork scored a home run.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Neil Rapp WB9VPG.

(BRIAN WEBSTER N2KGC)

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U.S. COAST GUARD HAS HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND GOOD SIGNAL REPORTS

JIM/ANCHOR: Members of two U.S. Coast Guard amateur radio groups kicked 
off the month of August by marking the Coast Guard's 228th birthday on 
the air. Kevin Trotman N5PRE tells us about the celebration.

KEVIN: What do birthday celebrations call for, other than a cake? 
Conversation, of course. There was plenty of conversation happening on 
the air Friday August 3rd and Saturday August 4th as two separate Coast 
Guard Ham Radio groups helped celebrate the U.S. Coast Guard’s 228th 
birthday.
According to Dick KE7A, president and trustee of the Coast Guard Amateur 
Radio Club, the event’s goal was to make hams more aware of Coast Guard 
history and to encourage more meaningful chatter instead of the usual 
rapid-fire exchanges found during such events. The Coast Guard CW 
Operators Association joined in the celebration on Friday by operating 
special event station K1CG on CW at 10 different locations, including 
Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Washington state. Members of this 
group are all Coast Guard veterans and have stood a CW watch in the 
Coast Guard. The Coast Guard stopped using CW in 1995.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Coast Guard Amateur Radio Club special event station 
W5CGC operated that Saturday on SSB, FT8, PSK31 and RTTY from 12 
different locations including a park in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, Marine 
Mobile moored at Reedville, Virginia and aboard the US Coast Guard 
Cutter Ingham Museum Ship in Key West, Florida. Dick said there are 915 
members active in the U.S. Coast Guard’s Amateur Radio Club who are 
either active on duty in the Coast Guard or are veterans of the Coast 
Guard.
Band conditions were poor on both days but despite that the CW operators 
logged 95 QSOs on 4 bands and the Coast Guard ARC logged 512 on five bands.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Kevin Trotman N5PRE.

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SCOUTS BUSY WITH JAMBOREE PLANS AND K2BSA ACTIVATION

JIM/ANCHOR:  Radio Scouts continue with their activations as Bill 
Stearns NE4RD tells us.

BILL: This week in Radio Scouting we have 1 activation of the K2BSA 
Callsign, Jamboree on the Air is just around the corner, and World 
Jamboree programs are coming together. Mike Cullen, K1NPT, will be 
activating K2BSA/1 at Camp Yawgoog in Rockville, RI from August 19th 
through the 26th.  BSA Troop 3 out of Newport, RI will be heading to 
this camp, the fourth-oldest continuously run scout camp in the United 
States. Troop 3 will be operating 20M/40M/80M voice & digital using 
battery and solar power. Jamboree on the Air 2018 is the weekend 
of October 19th - 21st. The JOTA-JOTI team have established trusted 
partnerships for connecting units digitally during the event with JOTI 
Radio, JOTI.TV, and Scoutlink.  JOTI Radio is the official JOTA-JOTI 
radio station with trusted partner status. They will be providing 
non-stop, live broadcasts throughout JOTA from their UK studios and are 
powered by the wonderful team at Avon Scout Radio.  JOTI.tv is another 
trusted partner that will gather all the webcams of scout groups all 
over the world and build them together in one big mosaic. This will give 
you a look inside JOTA-JOTI from the perspective of the participating 
stations.
ScoutLink is a global, non-profit organisation that aims to connect 
Scouts and Guides from all over the world. They do this in many ways, 
but their 3 main services are IRC/Webchat (text chat), TeamSpeak (voice 
chat), and Minecraft.
Finally we're looking forward to NA1WJ at the World Jamboree next year 
in North America.  The team has been busy putting plans together and 
organizing the program offerings that will include Amateur Radio demo 
stations, ARDF on VHF and HF, multiple balloon launches with VHF APRS 
and HF WSPR payloads, and hopefully an ARISS contact.  Please stay tuned 
to our website for ways you can help the team provide these programs.
For more information on JOTA or Radio Scouting, or to signup for our 
JOTA newsletter, please visit our website at k2bsa.net.
For Amateur Radio Newsline and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this 
is Bill Stearns, NE4RD.

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IN MALAYSIA, A PREFIX AND A PARTY

JIM/ANCHOR: Meanwhile, if you happen to hear the prefix 9M61 on the air, 
you're hearing the sound of a special Malaysian celebration. Graham Kemp 
VK4BB tells us more.

GRAHAM: It’s been 61 years since Malaysia declared its independence, 
first known as the Federation of Malaya, with a new prime minister. The 
new country raised its own flag for the first time and everywhere there 
was dancing, bonfires and even fireworks. On the 16th of September 1963 
the federation, along with North Borneo or Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, 
formed into a larger federation of Malaysia. This year the ham radio 
community is setting off its own fireworks of sorts by calling QRZ under 
special event call signs that are regional, but all of them bear the 
prefix 9M61. The celebration is already ongoing and will be active 
through the 1st of September. Successful contacts can earn you four 
different certificates from the Malaysian DX and Contest Group at 
bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels. The event is in keeping with 
the mission of the contest group which is to promote and raise the 
profile for HF contesters and encourage DXing throughout Malaysia.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Graham Kemp VK4BB.

(SOUTHGATE, HISTORY TODAY)


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KICKER: BRITAIN'S INLAND WATERWAYS GET THEIR OWN EVENT

JIM/ANCHOR: Finally, amateurs who love radio - and radio by the water - 
have an event all their own in Britain as we learn from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY: Now here is an all-purpose event that would combine Bicycles on 
the Air, Boats on the Air and even Running Shoes on the air if they 
existed: It’s the British Inland Waterways on the Air event being held 
between the 25th and 27th of August – which is the August bank holiday 
weekend. Amateurs who are making use of reservoirs, rivers, lakes, 
canals and tow paths will be activating them either as individuals or as 
a club event, some even using Special Event Station call signs. A number 
of them may be using their own call signs while they operate portable or 
mobile. Stefan Lattimer 2E0VKM, a member of the Nunsfield House Amateur 
Radio Club, has been keeping track of which stations will be 
participating. Primary bands will be 40 meters and 2 meters but 
operators are not being restricted from using any band. The event is as 
a way of encouraging hams to use their radios to celebrate the UKs 
waterways and of course amateur radio. Organisers are hoping that 
everyone will, of course, be inspired by their closeness to the water 
and simply go with the flow.

For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(RADIO SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; ARISS; 
the ARRL; CQ Magazine; Greg G0DUB; Ewan VK4ERM; Hap Holly and the Rain 
Report; History Today; Irish Radio Transmitters Society; John Desmond 
EI7GL; Michelle Carey W5MQC; News.com.au; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ; 
Radio Society of Great Britain; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted 
Randall's QSO Radio Show; Wireless Institute of Australia; 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 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 Jim Damron N8TMW in Charleston, West 
Virginia saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.

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