Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Jun 22 2018 08:42 am Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2121, for Friday, June 22, 2018 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2121, with a release date of Friday, June 22, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. A pioneer in CW keying becomes a Silent Key. The Technician class license exams in the U.S. are about to get new questions -- and we look ahead at the Ducie Island DXpedition. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2121, comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** MAKING THE ROUNDS FOR DUCIE ISLAND NEIL/ANCHOR: We begin this week with an update on the Ducie Island DXpedition which sets off in late October. Excitement is building - and progress is too. For that update, we turn to Jason Daniels, VK2LAW. JASON: The Ducie Island DXpedition team continues to gather momentum toward its operations as VP6D on October 20th through November 3rd. The newest member of the pilot team is 15-year-old Mason Matrazzo KM4SII, who made his debut DXPedition last year at age 14, operating from Iceland. He is heading to Curacao next month as PJ2/KM4SII. The DXpedition team has been making the rounds, attending at Dayton Hamvention, and the International DX Convention in Visalia (Viz-AIL-yah) California in the U.S. and Friedrichshafen (FREED RICK'S Harfen) in Germany to talk up the trip and meet with corporate sponsors. They also continue with their fundraising to help defray personal expenses of the team members themselves. For more information about this much-awaited South Pacific DXpedition, or to help support it, visit vp6d.com For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW. (SOUTHGATE) ** FIELD DAY: SMALL VOICES, BIG DREAMS NEIL/ANCHOR: Remember your first Field Day? Whether it was long ago - or just last year - one group of hams in California is hoping you'll make this year's Field Day memorable for some young first-timers. Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, tells us more. DON: Field Day has been in everyone's sights for quite some time now -- but for one group of youngsters in California, it marks their long-awaited first Field Day, and a first opportunity to operate on HF. Members of Scout Troop 44, and Cub Scout Pack 458, are operating side by side with the San Mateo Amateur Radio Club, using the club call sign W6UQ. In addition, they will be running their own small-scale Field Day operation as KZ6BSA. Donn Lovell, K8DLL, whose son 14-year-old Connor, K7CBL, will be among those radio Scouts, said that the youngsters will have their own miniature Field Day, with simplex contacts on 2 meters, and 70 cm. He also said they will get some practice air time, just for fun, using FRS/GMRS radios and later, repeaters. Donn told Newsline the Scouts' hope that even with all the QRN and pileups that are sure be happening, hams will be listening for those squeaky little voices out there calling "CQ Field Day." For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW. ** FIELD DAY GREETINGS FROM GERMANY NEIL/ANCHOR: In an apparent show of solidarity with Field Day participants in the U.S., the Mighty KBC, as it is known in Germany, plans to transmit greetings in MFSK64, in the hopes it will be heard by amateurs throughout North America. The transmission by the 100 kW HF broadcast transmitter is set for the 24th of June sometime around 0130 UTC. This is to occur during the weekly "Giant Jukebox" broadcast of the Mighty KBC on 9925 kHz. Naturally, reception reports are encouraged. Hams should email them to themightykbc@gmail.com. --- SBBSecho 3.05-Win32 * Origin: RadioWxNet: The Thunderbolt BBS wx1der.dyndns.org (801:1/2) þ Synchronet þ Temple of Doom BBS - tod.eothnet.com .