Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Aug 24 2018 09:11 am

BREAK HERE:

Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the AH6LE repeater
in Beavercreek and Wilsonville, Oregon, on Sundays at 6 p.m.

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PAGING ALL HAMS IN AUSTRALIA

NEIL/ANCHOR: In Australia, hams are experimenting with a different way
to keep in touch. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has those details.

GRAHAM's REPORT: Paging all Australian amateurs. Literally.

A group of hams here in Australia is planning the rollout of an amateur
paging network, that will be linked across the internet, and capable of
sending messages via transmitters and hot spots around the country. The
Decentralised Amateur Paging Network, as it will be known, will make use
of two frequencies - 432.625 MHz, which is the same as a frequency used
for a paging network in New Zealand, and 144.625 MHz. The system is based
on a German application known as DAPNET. Participants must be licensed
amateur radio operators.

According to the organisers' Facebook page, there already are amateur
DAPNETs operating in Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Canada.
This project is being valled VKAPNET, and its Facebook page was
established to solicit as many hams as possible to participate, and share
their expertise. The network of pager transmitters is designed to send
messages that can be addressed directly to an amateur operator's call
sign, or transmit emergency and weather information based on regions.

The system will make use of the standard asynchronous paging protocol
known as POCSAG, which stands for Post Office Code Standardisation
Advisory Group. The Facebook page is a closed group known as VKAPNET
Paging, and interested hams should visit the page, and ask for inclusion
in the group.

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

(FACEBOOK)

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MONITORING SYSTEMS TRACKS DOWN BAND INTRUDERS

NEIL/ANCHOR: Illegal traffic on the bands is getting easier and easier
to pinpoint. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has those details.

JEREMY’S REPORT: The latest edition of the International Amateur Radio
Union Monitoring System newsletter for Region 1, reports some encouraging
news about tracking down intruders on the ham radio bands, with more
precision. Use of the Kiwi-SDR system's online bearing feature, has
worked effectively in finding illegal traffic in recent weeks. It noted
that intruders were located on 40 meters from Northern Ireland where
fishermen were using the frequency on a daily basis, as if it were a
telephone. Fisherman in Spain were found to be using 80 meters USB
illegally with a voice scrambler. The newsletter also noted that in
Morocco, fishermen were using 40 meters USB and 10 MHz USB regularly -
both in the area near the Canary Islands, and near Casablanca. They were
heard discussing their daily schedule, and making jokes about radio
amateurs.

The IARU also notes that reports of intruders on the bands can be reported
on the Region 1 Monitoring System logger by visiting their website.

The website URL appears in the printed script of this week's newscast at
arnewsline.org

http://peditio.net/intruder/bluechat.cgi

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

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WORLD OF DX

In the world of DX, you have a few more days to work special event
station CY1R, which has been on the air for the month of August,
celebrating two centuries of North America's oldest recorded sporting
event - the Royal St. John's Regatta in Canada. Be listening all bands
on SSB, CW, RTTY, and FT8. QSL Via VO1IDX, OQRS, QRZ.COM and LOTW.
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