Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Jul 20 2018 10:16 am Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2125 for July 20, 2018 *** CLOSED CIRCUIT ADVISORY **** The following is a closed circuit advisory and not for broadcast. This is a special, extended newscast, and will contain 3 segments, and 2 ID breaks to accommodate an expanded report on the World Radiosport Team Championship. Thank you. ** Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2025 with a release date of Friday, July 20, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. Contest season heats up in Korea. A smartphone app provides a gateway to ham radio - and in this special expanded edition of Amateur Radio Newsline, we revisit the World Radiosport Team Championships. **** BILLBOARD CART HERE ** CONTEST SEASON HEATS UP IN KOREA JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week's newscast with the good news that if you think the championship season is over, think again. With two big summer contests behind us, one of the next big competitions will take place in Korea. The focus here is on amateur radio direction-finding, or foxhunting - as Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, tells us. JASON: Just in case you can't get enough of the big contest scene, hams are now preparing for the action to shift to Korea, where the country's natural landscape will share the spotlight with some of the hobby's best in foxhunting. The 19th World Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships will be hosted by the Korean Amateur Radio League, not far from another prominent contest venue - the 2018 Winter Olympics location in Pyeong Chang. The championship search for low-power transmitters will be held September 2 through 8th. According to the latest bulletin from the Korean radio league, 418 amateurs representing 25 countries have committed to participate so far. The panel of jurors consists of hams from Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Ukraine and Japan. The 18th World ARDF championships were held in Bulgaria in 2016. For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW. (KOREAN AMATEUR RADIO LEAGUE) ** AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL SESSION GOES SKY HIGH JIM/ANCHOR: Imagine having a guest speaker at your public school, who is some 250 miles above the Earth. Well, youngsters in Melbourne, Australia didn't have to imagine. It really happened - and just as planned. Here is Robert Broomhead, VK3DN, with those details. ROBERT: Just as planned, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, kept her appointment with the students at the Essex Heights Primary School in Melbourne, Australia, on the evening of Tuesday, July 17th. As the ISS approached Australia's southern coast at 27,500 kilometers per hour, the youngsters had their first conversations that took place more than 400 kilometers, or almost 250 miles, above the earth. Ham radio made it possible. "This is your little moment in history, your opportunity to do something that very few people are able to do," moderator Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD, had told them. From the north, Shane Lynd, VK4KHZ, put out the call to astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, KG5TMT, and Ciaran set the discussion in motion from his QTH in England. The students cheered, and then took turns at the microphone with their questions: how does the body react to being in space? What foods do you miss most? For the children, it was ham radio's finest moment, as the dialogue went forward, courtesy of a telebridge between Shane in Queensland, and NA1SS, the International Space Station Amateur Radio Club outside Washington, D.C. It lasted barely 10 minutes, but for those twelve children, joined by 400 family and friends in the school hall, it would be a memory forever. The event was featured the following evening on Australia's Channel 7 evening TV News service, and again the following night, on Channel 10's "The Project," a news and current events talk show. For the rest of the world, you can watch the YouTube by pickup up the link from on the school's website. Visit www dot essexheightsps dot vic dot edu dot au (www.essexheightsps.vic.edu.au) For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Robert Broomhead, VK3DN. ** K2BSA SCOUTS ON THE AIR IN CALIFORNIA JIM/ANCHOR: Scouts in the U.S. are activating K2BSA again this week, and opening registration for their big on-air happening, Jamboree on the Air. Bill Stearns, NE4RD, has that report. BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we have 2 activations of the K2BSA callsign, one activation from Scout Camps on the Air, and Jamboree on the Air registration is open for 2018. Chris Clark, W6CBC, will be activating K2BSA/6 at Camp Chawanakee in Shaver Lake, CA, from July 28 through August 4. Chris will be operating a station at the camp in preparation for JOTA. Frederick Donkin, KA7MMM, will be activating K2BSA/9 at the National Order of the Arrow Conference in Bloomington, IN, from July 30 through August 4. The NOAC is a conference that is held every 3 years, and is the second biggest national scouting activity. BSA Troop 20 Amateur Radio Club will be activating their callsign WS5BSA at the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Vic Ely, MN, from July 30 through August 4. The Canoe Trek will set up at daily campsites, and make QSOs until 0130 UTC. They will most likely work 40/20 meters due to time of day and latitude. They are also hoping that one or two stations will try to work a schedule with them every evening. Find their contact information on our SCOTA.US site. Jamboree on the Air, and Jamboree on the Internet, is just a short 3 months away now. Registration has been opened, and has been greatly simplified. You can find the registration page with our shortcut of jota2018.k2bsa.net , that's J O T A 2 0 1 8 .k2bsa.net, or by searching the jotajoti.info site. Stations can register events with Boy Scout or Girl Scout units. You can even edit your event information after you have registered, so be sure to include a current email address, and you'll receive a link to your registration for updating. Another event that is just 12 months away is World Jamboree. This is a quadrennial event that is held in locations all over the Scouting World every four years. In 2019, it will be hosted in North America, at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in West Virginia. Our callsign for this event will be NA1WJ. You'll be hearing more about this event as it nears. For now, check out our landing page for it at na1wj.net. 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. --- 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 .