Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 01 2019 09:38 am

TWO SILENT KEYS: KRISHNAMURTHY NAGARAJAN VU2KNN, Bill Thompson W2MTA

NEIL/ANCHOR: The global ham community has lost two more of its prominent
members. We hear first from Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.

JASON: The founding president of the Lamakaan Amateur Radio Club in
Hyderabad {pronounced: High-Durr-a-bod} has become a Silent Key.
Krishnamurthy Nagarajan VU2KNN, who was known as Rajan, had been known
as a mentor to many in the amateur radio community. His best students,
in fact, included himself: a student of commerce, he had taught himself
the field of electronics. A report in the Telangana Today newspaper
noted that Rajan was believed to be one of the few hams in Hyderabad
who used SSB during the 1970s, which was a time when amateur radio
operators were more active on AM and CW.

In postings on social media, many friends and fellow amateurs recalled
him as a superb home brewer, who knew his way around tube radios as
well as newer gear. He was described as well as a supporter of newcomers
to the hobby, whom he would contact on EchoLink, and he enjoyed eyeball
QSOs.

Rajan died on Saturday, the 23rd of February at the age of 72.

Vale Rajan.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.
 
NEIL/ANCHOR: Another noted amateur became a Silent Key here in the U.S.
and Stephen Kinford, N8WB, has that report.

STEPHEN: A longtime amateur radio operator honored by the ARRL - and a
U.S. military veteran - has become a Silent Key. Bill Thompson, W2MTA,
a former ARRL Western New York Section Manager, had served in that post
from 1980 until 1999. The ARRL presented him with the league's Knight
Distinguished Service Award in 2009, an honor which recognizes section
managers for notable contributions to the ARRL. He was a life member of
the league. Bill was especially active with the National Traffic System,
and served as Second Region Net manager, chairing the system's Eastern
Area staff. He had also served as an assistant director of the league's
Atlantic Division. Licensed as a ham since 1952, he served in Korea as
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Bill Thompson died on the 16th of February. He was 87.

Vale {pronounced: VAR-LAY} Bill Thompson.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB.

(TELANGANA TODAY, ARRL)

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YOUNG CONTESTERS OF TEAM EXUBERANCE LIVE UP TO THEIR NAME

NEIL/ANCHOR: A team of young hams is being assembled for the CQ Worldwide
WPX contest March 30th and 31st. Co-leader Marty Sullaway, NN1C, tells
how it all started.

MARTY: The idea for this project came from Violetta, KM4ATT. Violetta was
the one who approached Tim Duffy, K3LR, the owner of the K3LR superstation,
to make this a go. She was inspired by her operations from PJ2T as part of
the Dave Kalter Youth DX project, and wanted to continue her operating
career.

NEIL: Planning is a major undertaking, but the team is fulfilling that
role as well.

MARTY: Part of multi operator contesting is working together as a team to
build the contest plan, as well as figuring out all the logistics for the
actual contest operation. So as a youth team, we are internally handling
all the logistics regarding flights, hotels, meals, contest scheduling,
operator scheduing, station information, and handbooks; and really making
this a comprehensive effort. We are taking this extremely seriously, and
we hope our diligent planning will pay off, all of this being handled by
fantastic youth. So we're really looking forward to that.

NEIL: Marty also talked to me about the goals of this event.

MARTY: We really view this as an excellent opportunity to get youth
involved in amateur radio contesting, youth that already know how to
contest get more experience, work together as a team, have fun (because
we do this to have fun, right?), and gain skill. So this is an activity
in skill building, team building, networking, having a lot of fun on the
radio contesting... Hopefully this is the start of some bigger work to
engage youth in contests in North America.

NEIL: To provide funding for some of the young hams to get to the K3LR
superstation, a GoFundMe page has been set up. You can find it at
TeamExuberance.org.

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IN SEARCH OF NOMINATIONS FOR THIS YEAR'S YHOTY AWARD

NEIL: Youthful exuberance is, in fact, one of the core criteria we look
for in candidates for Young Ham of the Year. We just heard from Marty
Sullaway, NN1C, who was Amateur Radio Newsline's Young Ham of the Year,
for 2017. Last year's winner was Bryant Rascoll, KG5HVO, of Montgomery,
Alabama. We have opened up the nomination period once again, and are in
search of candidates who, like Marty and Bryant, have offered the amateur
community the best of their talents. All information is available on our
website, arnewsline.org, under the YHOTY tab. You'll be able to download
a nomination form, which is due back to us before midnight on May 31st.
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