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   Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2013, May 27, 2016   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline report number 2013 with a release date of Friday,    
   May 27, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a QST. Dayton 2016 is done - and we share some moments    
   in a special report. Girl Scouts join the pack - the Amateur Radio Patch    
   pack, that is. In England, a World War II wireless station gets official    
   protection. And we hear from our 1998 Young Ham of the Year Award    
   winner. All this and more in Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2013 coming    
   your way right now.   
      
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   SPECIAL REPORT: DAYTON HAMVENTION 2016 REVISITED   
      
   SKEETER: Missed going to Dayton Hamvention??? Well, we begin our    
   newscast this week by bringing a little bit of Dayton to you. Here's a    
   special report by Amateur Radio Newsline's Stephen Kinford, N8WB.   
      
   STEPHEN'S REPORT: From May 20 to May 22, Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio was    
   the place to be. Ask anyone. Ask Gordon West:   
      
   [GORDON]: "Hi there, Gordon West, WB6NOA, we're in Dayton, Ohio,    
   2016.............We're having a great time in Dayton this year as we do    
   every year. So if you've not done Dayton put it on your schedule and    
   we'll see you next year. Gordo, WB6NOA, clear."   
      
   STEPHEN: And the more than 25,000 attendees were from everywhere around    
   the world:   
      
   MASHUP OF AUDIO FROM Chip Margelli, K7JA; Qatar Amateur Radio Society,    
   A71A represented by Saleh Alqahtani, A71EZ; Nick Henwood, G3RWF,    
   president of the Radio Society of Great Britain; and Vicki Mate, K8VGM    
   of the 3905 Century Club.   
      
   STEPHEN: Seminars, workshops, VE sessions, and whole lot of new radios,    
   antennas and other products vied for everyone's attention. Vendors found    
   Hamvention the perfect place to showcase new introductions to the    
   amateur world. So did AMSAT, the nonprofit amateur radio satellite    
   organization. We spoke to Barry Baines, WD4ASW, AMSAT's president.   
      
   BARRY CLIP: "So one of the projects we are working with is called Phase    
   4B, "4" meaning geostationery or geosynchronous........."   
      
   STEPHEN: In all, it was a time for eyeball QSOs, banquets, prizes,    
   expanding knowledge and to carry home a lot more luggage on the return    
   trip home. Because no ham can resist something good for the shack and    
   Hamvention had plenty of that. Before we leave, why don't we listen to    
   one more hamster at Dayton: Bob Heil.   
      
   BOB HEIL CLIP: "Well it's Dayton 2016, here we are again. My first one    
   was 1959......."   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, reporting from    
   Wadsworth Ohio.   
      
      
   **   
      
   GIRL SCOUT RADIO PATCH IN THE WORKS   
      
   SKEETER/ANCHOR: Now here's a new kind of radio patch you won't find in    
   any catalogue. Amateur Radio Newsline's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG has the details.   
      
   NEIL: Patches are nothing new to seasoned hams, but there's a new kind    
   of patch in the works that breaks entirely new ground for Girl Scouts.    
   That's right, Girl Scouts will soon be eligible to learn about ham radio    
   and earn a patch, just as Boy Scouts have been doing with the    
   longstanding Merit Badge.   
      
   In an announcement at the Instructors' Forum at the Dayton Hamvention on    
   Friday, May 20, Maria Lysandrou, KD9BUS, described the new    
   patch-in-progress, a joint effort between the ARRL and two Girl Scout    
   troops. It's called the Radio and Wireless Technology patch and the    
   program behind it includes a curriculum for Girl Scouts at all levels,    
   introducing them to radio waves, the electromagnetic spectrum, GPS, and    
   of course ham radio itself.  Local clubs are encouraged to work with    
   Girl Scouts and help them along.   
      
   According to the ARRL website, authors of the curriculum in addition to    
   ARRL Education Services Manager Debra Johnson, K1DMJ include two girl    
   scout troop leaders:   Jill Galus, KB1SWV of the Girl Scouts of the    
   Green and White Mountains, and Laura Northrop, KJ4ECA  of the Girl    
   Scouts of Greater Atlanta.  Cathy Freeman, KI4SBK;   James Neufell,    
   K2GM;  Steve Sant Andrea, AG1YK;  and James Youngberg, K1NKR also    
   contributed to the development of this program, and Carole Perry WB2MGP    
   and others consulted with the group.   
      
   No, the patch is not a copy of the Boy Scout Merit Badge, but it has    
   merit in other ways: It offers similar experiences and goals and kindles    
   an interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) subjects    
   and, hopefully, later careers. The patch has been a long time coming,    
   and only recently met final approval.   
      
   Debra Johnson, K1DMJ, is also the contact person for this patch at the    
   League.  You can find the information on the ARRL web site, or email    
   djohnson@arrl.org.   
      
   Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp WB9VPG, in    
   Bloomington, Indiana.   
      
   (DAYTON HAMVENTION, GIRL SCOUTS, ARRL)   
      
   **   
      
   MORE SCOUTS ON THE AIR   
      
   SKEETER: Speaking of Scouting, the K2BSA callsign is active and Boy    
   Scouts are on the air again, so be listening. We hear the details from    
   Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD:   
      
   BILL'S REPORT: This week in Radio Scouting we have 2 activations of the    
   K2BSA callsign in California and New Mexico, and reports from the field.   
      
   Steven Chambers, KK6YAV, will be the control operator for the portable 6    
   station at the Crew Training Backpacking Campout at Mt Baden-Powell in    
   Glendora, CA.  Steven's crew will be hiking the Colby Trail and will be    
   on-the-air sporadically between May 26th and May 31st.   
      
   Dale Finley, KB5NFT, will be the control operator for the portable 5    
   station at the Philmont Scout Camp in Cimarron, NM beginning June 1st    
   and running throughout the summer.   
      
   Now, from the field:   
      
   Jim Wilson, K5ND, reports that the K2BSA presence at Hamvention was a    
   success.  Interest in Radio Scouting is increasing and we are looking    
   forward to an active summer camp season with Scout Camps on the Air.   
      
   Russ Mickiewicz, N7QR, reports their activation at the Columbia Pacific    
   Council Camporee hosted 200 scouts through the shack, and put 52 scouts    
   on the air.   
      
   Ron Glass, WN7Y, reports the NPOTA station at the Black Otter District    
   Spring Camporee hosted 150 scouts through the station, and put 45 scouts    
   on the air.   
      
   Please help support this activity, and others involving youth in amateur    
   radio, by working and spotting them on the air and online.  For more    
   information on K2BSA and radio scouting, please visit http://www.k2bsa.net/.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this    
   is Bill Stearns NE4RD.   
      
      
   **   
   BREAK HERE:   
      
   Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio    
   Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the    
   KB6OZX repeater in Riverside, California on Tuesdays.   
      
   **   
      
   HERITAGE PROTECTION FOR UK SECRET STATION   
      
   SKEETER: In Britain, a radio relic from the Second World War has not    
   just come out of the shadows, but gotten special protections. Here's    
   Amateur Radio Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.   
      
   JEREMY's REPORT: While most radio operators are proud of the rigs and    
   other equipment displayed proudly in their shacks, there is one wireless    
   station just outside Norwich in the UK that operated in obscurity, from    
   the very start, its access hidden behind a fake bookcase. The station    
   also had to a nearby escape  tunnel. Clearly, this was not a typical    
   radio shack, nor was it meant to be shared or even discovered -- at    
   least not during World War II.   
      
   Keeping it hidden was the whole point when it was set into operation in    
   1940 by Winston Churchill. Civilian volunteers were dispatched there to    
   transmit and receive messages for the Army, trading information to help    
   ward off an invasion from Germany.   
      
   The station, which finally came to public light in 2012, was recently    
   granted Heritage Protection by Historic England, a public organization    
   that helps preserve the nation's historic buildings and other important    
   entities. This station, one of many set up by Churchill to monitor    
   potential invasion, is known as the Pinebanks station. Located at Thorpe    
   St. Andrews near Norwich, it is now among three underground wireless    
   stations similarly protected - the others being Hare Warren Control    
   Station in Wiltshire and a Second World War Zero Station at Heiferlaw in    
   Northumberland.   
      
   But perhaps best of all, the station and its good work is now not only    
   treasured, but needn't be a secret treasure anymore.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, in Nottingham, the UK   
      
      
   (BBC, HISTORIC ENGLAND)   
      
   **   
      
   ARRL'S PETE KEMP, KZ1Z, BECOMES SILENT KEY   
      
   Pete Kemp, KZ1Z, was well-known inside the Connecticut headquarters of    
   the ARRL. He had been Connecticut Section Communications Manager for six    
   years during the 70s and 80s. In his long association with the league,    
   he also held other field roles, for a time serving as an assistant    
   director for New England's Division Director.   
      
   Pete Kemp, who most recently was living in Wesley Chapel, Florida,    
   became a Silent Key on May 17.   
      
   Not only was he a licensed amateur for 47 years, he also authored one of    
   the ARRL's publications, "A Teacher's Guide to Amateur Radio    
   Instruction." An educator by profession, he had a polished way of    
   imparting knowledge and it earned him Connecticut's award as Technology    
   Teacher of the Year. He also became the ARRL's first Educational Advisor.   
      
   A retiree from the Bethel, Connecticut public school system, Kemp could    
   be found as well in the classrooms at Central Connecticut State    
   University as an adjunct member of the faculty.   
      
   The ARRL's Connecticut Section Manager, Betsey Doane, K1EIC, remembers    
   him as QUOTE "a superb teacher in the high school, a wonderful mentor,    
   licensed over 700 hams, an active member of Candlewood Amateur Radio    
   Association and one who really understood what it meant to actualize his    
   potential." ENDQUOTE   
      
   And an amateur radio friend of his, Bill Barrett, KW1B, called him QUOTE    
   "a good soul with a gentle nature." ENDQUOTE   
      
   Pete Kemp was 67.   
      
      
   (ARRL)   
      
      
   **   
      
   THE WORLD OF DX   
      
   As the Wireless Institute of Australia prepares for its annual general    
   meeting and conference on Norfolk Island, a team of Australian amateurs    
   are activating the island through May 31, working as VK9NT. Listen for    
   them on all bands from 160m to 10m, working CW, SSB & RTTY. Be listening    
   too during the meeting weekend for the WIA's Commemorative Station    
   VI9ANZAC. Other stations operating will include VK9WI and VK9WIA.   
      
   Olli, OH0XX, is activating PZ50X from Suriname through June 1 and can be    
   found mainly on CW, from 160 meters to 6meters. Send QSLs to his home    
   call; logs will be uploaded to Logbook of The World.   
      
   Listen for Randy WW6RG on Diego Garcia Island in the Chagos Archipelago    
   through May 30. He will be using the call sign VQ9RA, working SSB on 20,    
   17 and 15m. Send QSLs to his home call.   
      
   Finally, a World War II special event station is being operated by the    
   Radio Club des Ardennes through June 21. Their call sign is OS101AB,    
   honoring the 101st Airborne Division's action during the Battle of the    
   Bulge. Send QSL cards via the Belgian QSL Bureau.   
      
   **   
      
   KICKER: ONE "YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR," REVISITED   
      
   SKEETER: Our last report for this week answers the question: "Whatever    
   happened to some of those winners of our Young Ham of the Year Award?"    
   We have an answer from our 1998 winner -- and from Don Wilbanks, AE5DW,    
   who caught up with him recently.   
      
   DON: We got an email recently from Richard Paczkowski, KF4BIA.  Richard    
   was our 1998 Young Ham Of The Year and he joins us now via Skype.    
   Richard, great to catch up with you! Bring us up to speed on where life    
   has taken you since 1998.   
      
   [Richard]   
      
   DON: Let's go back to that day in 1998.  The phone rings and its Bill    
   Pasternak, WA6ITF informing you that you're the Young Ham Of The Year.    
   Tell us about that.   
      
   [Richard]   
      
   DON: How is life in your world these days?   
      
   [Richard]   
      
   DON: I think that is an amazing idea!  Tell us how to enter.   
      
   [Richard]   
      
   DON: Frugal Florida Fun.com/radio.  Richard Paczkowski, KF4BIA, our 1998    
   Young Ham Of The Year.  It's been great catching up with you!   
      
      
   [Richard]   
      
   DON: Again, the website is Frugal Florida Fun.com/radio.  Pass it along.    
   There's more to our chat and you can hear it all as a Newsline Extra.    
   Visit our website, ARNewsline.org and click the Extra tab at the top    
   of the page.  While you're there, check out the YHOTY tab. I'm Don    
   Wilbanks, AE5DW.   
      
      
   SKEETER: Great things happen to great young hams! With that in mind, We    
   remind our listeners that the deadline is June 30 -- so there's only a    
   little time left to nominate candidates for this year's Bill Pasternak    
   Young Ham of the Year Award. This honor recognizes licensed amateurs no    
   older than 19 and living in the U.S., Puerto Rico or Canada, and who    
   have made significant contributions to ham radio and their community.    
   Visit our website, www.arnewsline.org, and click on the tab for    
   "Y-H-O-T-Y" for an application. Send completed applications to: The    
   Young Ham of the Year Award, in care of Amateur Radio Newsline Inc.,    
   Editorial Office, P.O. Box 451, Huntington Station, New York 11746.    
   Remember you have only until June 30.   
      
   **   
      
   NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; the BBC; CQ    
   Magazine; Dayton Hamvention; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Historic    
   England; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; the K2BSA Anmateur Radio    
   Association; 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 located 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 Skeeter Nash, N5ASH, in Topeka, Kansas    
   saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.   
      
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