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   Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2015, June 10, 2016   
      
   *** CLOSED CIRCUIT ADVISORY ****   
      
   The following is a closed circuit advisory and not necessarily for    
   broadcast.   
      
   Just a brief reminder that time is running out for you or your club to    
   nominate a deserving young radio amateur for our Bill Pasternak Newsline    
   Young Ham Of The Year award.  Nominations must arrive by midnight local    
   time on June 30th of this year.  That's just a couple of weeks away.    
   Full information and the nominating form can be found on our website,    
   arnewsline.org, under the YHOTY tab. And please note, the California    
   mailing address is no longer valid. The new address is in New York and    
   is listed on the nominating form. If you'?ve sent your nominating    
   package to California, please resubmit it to the New York address. We    
   hope to honor your amazing young radio amateur this August as we award    
   the 30th anniversary edition of the Young Ham Of The Year award.   
      
   Also, this is a special, extended newscast and will contain 3 segments    
   and 2 ID breaks.   
      
   Thank you.  Now here's Paul Braun, WD9GCO with Newsline# 2015.  Paul?   
      
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2015 with a release date of Friday,    
   June 10, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a QST. ARES volunteers are activated in Texas and    
   Kentucky. A special lighthouse takes on a special mission. A    
   Massachusetts ham club faces the loss of its home. And on the first    
   anniversary of the passing of Newsline creator/producer Bill Pasternak,    
   WA6ITF, we offer a tribute from friends in this expanded edition of    
   Amateur Radio Newsline coming your way right now.   
      
   ****   
      
   BILLBOARD CART HERE   
      
   ****   
      
   ARES ACTIVATIONS NEEDED IN TEXAS, KENTUCKY   
      
   PAUL: We begin this week's newscast with a somber reminder that one very    
   vital aspect of amateur radio - the Amateur Radio Emergency Service, or    
   ARES - springs into action most effectively in the aftermath of a    
   tragedy or during a crisis. That was the case in Houston, Texas, last    
   week, as the region was besieged by deadly flooding. We hear more from    
   Mike Askins, KE5CXP.   
      
   MIKE'S REPORT: Unrelenting floods in Harris County, Texas, and much of    
   the southeastern region of the state spurred the county's Office of    
   Homeland Security & Emergency Management to move to a level of Increased    
   Readiness - Level 3 - activating the Amateur Radio Emergency Service in    
   South Texas District 14 for a short while on June 2.   
      
   The section's Emergency Coordinator, Frank Aguilar, N5SSH, said that in    
   spite of the fact that communications were not disrupted, ARES efforts    
   were nonetheless needed to deal with what he called "situational    
   awareness issues" in the weather-drenched region. Flooded streets posed    
   a particular problem as the dangerous weather failed to let up. District    
   14 Emergency Coordinator Jeff Walter, KE5FGA, requested South Texas    
   District 14 ARES volunteers to report through WebEOC or, lacking access,    
   to use repeaters.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP.   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: There was also a tragedy in Kentucky's Hardin County where    
   ARES volunteers were activated on June 1 to assist in a different crisis    
   - one involving a missing aircraft. Two days after the single-engine    
   plane was reported missing on May 30, the hams joined emergency    
   responders, law enforcement, the Red Cross and the Civil Air Patrol in    
   their search. The aircraft was bound for home at Owensboro Airport in    
   Kentucky at the time it went missing.   
      
   On June 1, the wreckage of the plane was spotted from a helicopter in a    
   remote wooded area. The search team later recovered the body of the    
   pilot, identified as retired physician Robert C. Dalzell of Owensboro.    
   He was 70 years old.   
      
   (WBKO-TV, ARRL)   
      
      
   **   
      
   TRANSMITTING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHTHOUSE   
      
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: A recent activation of a small lighthouse on Canada's    
   Prince Edward Island has become a shining example of how to promote good    
   will and tourism - and even ham radio! We hear more from Amateur Radio    
   Newsline's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.   
      
   NEIL'S REPORT: Because lighthouses serve as navigational aids for    
   travelers who often cross great distances, the Souris Lighthouse was a    
   natural choice for Bernie Cormier VE9BGC and his friend George Dewar    
   VY2GF, who activated the Prince Edward Island lighthouse for three days,    
   during the first weekend in June. Thus the small team of amateurs on    
   Prince Edward Island became a true beacon themselves - using 15, 20 and    
   40 meters to draw attention to this small province in Atlantic Canada.   
      
   Speaking recently with Amateur Radio Newsline, George said that despite    
   challenging band conditions, the hams logged more than 100 contacts.    
   Most were in the U.S., although signals from Croatia, France and Germany    
   found their way to the lighthouse. There was even one ham from    
   Melbourne, Australia who they worked with their 100 watts and Bernie's    
   vertical on 20 meters. The hams also attracted attention off the air,    
   from foreign tourists visiting the lighthouse who got to see some radio    
   magic happen.   
      
   But operating as VY2PLH was more than just a means of identification,    
   George said: It was the very conversation-starter they hoped for, as one    
   station or another would ask "VY2 - where is THAT?"   
      
   Being able to call attention to Prince Edward Island, an agricultural    
   region known more for its potatoes and its mussels, was a good thing, he    
   said. Connected to the rest of Canada by ferries and a single bridge,    
   PEI just gained another navigational route via the ionosphere. Or, as    
   George says, QUOTE "We are getting the place a little better known    
   around the world. Hey you never can tell."   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG.   
      
   ***   
      
   NOT JUST ALONG FOR THE RIDE   
      
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Although members of the Queen Anne's Amateur Radio Club,    
   K3QAC, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, will also be participating in Field    
   Day on Saturday, June 25, some hams are doing double duty by starting    
   early in the morning to ensure the safety of as many as 400 bicyclists    
   in the Two Rivers Bike Ride. The fifth annual ride is a benefit for the    
   Wye River Upper School, which serves students with learning    
   disabilities, and the Corsica River Conservancy, a nature preservation    
   group. The scenic ride begins in Centreville, Maryland, with courses    
   ranging from 15 to 100 miles.   
      
   The hams will be working net control, keeping in contact with radio    
   operators at seven rest stops. There will also be hams on roving    
   vehicles that provide aid to cyclists in need.   
      
   For more information about the benefit bike ride, visit    
   wyeriverupperschool.org   
      
   (MYEASTERNSHORE, MARYLAND)   
      
   **   
      
   SCOUTS KEEP K2BSA ACTIVE   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: K2BSA is on the air again. Working three portable stations    
   - in three different states - Boy Scouts continue to call CQ in the name    
   of scouting. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Bill Stearns, NE4RD, with    
   this week's report.   
      
   BILL STEARNS REPORT:   
      
   This week in Radio Scouting we have 3 scout camps on the air in MO, OH,    
   and NM.   
      
   William Coverdell, WD0BC, will be the control operator for the portable    
   0 station at Camp Geiger in St Joseph, MO.  William will have the camp    
   on the air on HF Voice Wednesdays through Fridays from 1500 to 1700 Zulu    
   time, beginning June 15th and continuing through the summer until July 23rd.   
      
   John Baddour, KC8KI, will be the control operator for the portable 8    
   station at Camp Wyandot at Firelands Reservation in Wakeman, OH.  John    
   will have his Radio Merit Badge participants on the air on Wednesdays    
   beginning June 15th and running through July 21st.   
      
   We continue to have Dale Finley, KB5NFT, the control operator for the    
   portable 5 station at the Philmont Scout Camp in Cimarron, NM, running    
   throughout the summer.   
      
   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.   
      
   **   
      
   IN THE RUNNING TO VOLUNTEER   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: The Boston Amateur Radio Club is looking for volunteer    
   radio operators to help at the Boston Athletic Association's 10K on    
   Sunday, June 26. Hams who want to provide support for the event should    
   plan to be available on that day from 6 a.m. to noon, and will need to    
   bring a handheld dual band radio -- one with a gain antenna would be    
   helpful.   
      
   Returning volunteers and newcomers can both sign up now, and should    
   visit the 10K site at baa.org, navigate to the volunteer page and select    
   the button reading "volunteer now." Then just follow the instructions    
   and complete the application. If you have questions about the process,    
   contact Brett Smith, AB1RL, the ham club's public service coordinator,    
   at ab1rl@brettcsmith.org   
      
   (BOSTON AMATEUR RADIO CLUB)   
      
   **   
      
   BREAK HERE:   
      
   Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio    
   Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the    
   W0CRA repeater system in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs on Sundays    
   at 9 a.m. local time.   
      
   ***   
      
   ONE HAM CLUB'S MOVING EXPERIENCE   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Every ham knows that finding a new radio-friendly house and    
   moving is no fun. But it's even less fun when you're an 83-year-old club    
   with a full station, antennas and other gear and you only have a few    
   months to do so. The Framingham, Massachusetts Amateur Radio Association    
   is facing just that right now. I spoke with club director Sumner, W1VIV,    
   about their situation and what they're looking for:   
      
   SUMNER WEISMAN: We are a very old club. We have been here in Framingham,    
   Massachusetts since 1933. We have an actual video of a 1933 club meeting    
   where they're all wearing suits and ties and things like that. We have    
   been in this facility for about 38 years and we want to remain a club in    
   Framingham, Massachusetts. We have always been in this town and we need    
   to find a new facility -- hopefully something cost-free as we have now    
   with this government facility. We need to find something before we're    
   forced to move out of our present facility, which is the basement of a    
   town-owned museum. We have to move out in early September. We're looking    
   for a place with an operating station where we can put up an antenna and    
   we can have some radios and things like that, where people can come in    
   every week and operate. It should have some kind of a classroom. We give    
   VE tests so we need some sort of a classroom and meeting space for board    
   meetings and VE tests.   
      
   PAUL: The problem they're facing is that the old civic building that    
   they're in needs costly heating system repairs to the tune of $1-million    
   and the town is not willing to spend the money. So the club and the    
   other tenants of the building all have to find a new home. If you'd like    
   more information or would like to help them find a suitable new home,    
   please visit their website at www.w1fy.org   
      
   We here at Amateur Radio Newsline wish them luck in their search. For    
   Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.   
      
      
   **   
   IRISH AMATEURS TAKE ON THE WORLD   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Just months after their first organizational meeting in    
   January, a group of ambitious DXers in Ireland is already preparing to    
   jump into an international championship in radiosport. Here's more from    
   Amateur Radio Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.   
      
      
   JEREMY'S REPORT: It didn't take long for a very new group of DXers in    
   Ireland to decide they could take on the world. Just this past January,    
   the amateurs held an organizing meeting in the Maldron Hotel in    
   Portlaoise and that was the genesis of new EI DX group. Now the newly    
   minted collective of contesters is preparing to work as many    
   International Amateur Radio Union stations as they can during the IARU    
   HF World Championship on 9 July and 10 July.   
      
   The amateurs will use the call sign EI0HQ, which is held by the Irish    
   Radio Transmitters Society.   
      
   Their plans, according to the IRTS website, includes creation of a    
   comprehensive multi-multi station at Garbally College in Ballinasloe.    
   The global contest will take place on six bands between 160 and 10    
   meters, in both SSB and CW.   
      
   When the DXing group first assembled and organized, its stated    
   objectives were to be a part of all DX activities possible, from chasing    
   DXCC to DXpeditioning. At the time, there was no mention of world    
   domination. Of course, winning a contest is all in good sport, and the    
   group does hope for a respectable showing next month.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, in Nottingham.   
      
   (IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)   
      
      
   **   
      
   THE WORLD OF DX   
      
   Dave, GM0LVI, is working between June 17th and July 6th as SV8/GM0LVI/P    
   from Zakynthos Island. He will operate holiday style using 10 watts. QSL    
   via GM0LVI, direct or by the Bureau. He is not accepting LoTW.   
      
   Hans, DK3PZ, will be on the air from June 11th to June 18th as LA/DK3PZ    
   from Rennesoy Island. He will be working the bands holiday style. Send    
   QSLs via his home callsign, direct or by the Bureau.   
      
   Mike, DG5LAC, is active on SSB through June 18 as EA8/DG5LAC from    
   Fuerteventura Island. Find him on 40 through 10 meters. Send QSLs via    
   his home callsign, direct, by the Bureau, LoTW or eQSL.   
      
   Members of a South Korean Amateur Radio Club will use the call sign 6M6M    
   from Jeju Island between June 23rd and June 26th. Find the club on 6    
   meters only using CW, SSB, FM and the Digital modes. QSL via HL2UVH.   
      
      
   (OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN)   
      
   **   
      
   KICKER: THEY BELIEVE IN BELIZE   
      
   PAUL: Are they alive or have they disbanded? Amateur Radio Newsline's    
   Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has this report on the mystery behind the    
   disappearance - and the reappearance - of the Belize Amateur Radio Club.   
      
   GRAHAM: Where on earth is the Belize Amateur Radio Club? Well, if you    
   know your geography, you might answer "Central America." Or if an    
   oldtimer, British Honduras. But if you ask the International Amateur    
   Radio Union, you'd be told it is nowhere -- it has gone missing for the    
   last 23 years. In fact, that's what the IARU formally stated in a late    
   May news release, reporting that a longtime lack of IARU activity from    
   the club could only be interpreted as its death knell.   
      
   But visit the website at barc.bz, and you'll find a different story. A    
   statement there - along with a link to the club's Facebook page - states    
   that the Belize group is far from dead. In fact, a news item posted on    
   the site on May 21 reports that the club was recently certified as an    
   NGO, a non-governmental organization.   
      
   So what's happening? By all reports, it seems the club has been    
   resurrected. A June 2 posting on its Facebook page declares QUOTE "We    
   are the new BARC.. there was an old BARC that ceased to exist some time    
   ago." The statement goes on to say that the new club has actually    
   submitted a formal application to represent Belize with the IARU in    
   Region 2.   
      
   That, it turns out, is just what the IARU is looking for.   
      
   Meanwhile, the club seems very full of activity and life. A May 29    
   posting on its Facebook page even shares an announcement of a meeting    
   members held in April - and photos of the group's field trips in May,    
   including one to the village of Blackman Eddy. It seems that in Belize,    
   where there's life, there's hope. And ham radio. Belize me!   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.   
      
   (FACEBOOK, IARU)   
      
   **   
      
   BREAK HERE:   
      
   Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio    
   Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the    
   w9EAR repeater in Vincennes, Indiana on Monday nights.   
      
   **   
      
   REMEMBRANCES OF BILL PASTERNAK, SK, June 11, 2015   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: In the final segment of this expanded news report, we take    
   time to remember Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. To many, he was a friend, a    
   mentor, a fellow ham, a brother, and a founding father of Amateur Radio    
   Newsline and its Young Ham of the Year Award. He is a Silent Key whose    
   influence on the amateur world will never be silenced. We hear from    
   Amateur Radio Newsline's Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, and others who were lucky    
   enough to share his world - as we mark one year since his passing.   
      
   Here's Don:   
      
   DON: Milestone.  A noun.  A stone functioning as a milepost.  A    
   significant event or stage in the life, progress, development, or the    
   like of a person, nation, etc.   
      
   We're marking a milestone.   
      
   On Saturday, June 11 2016 we mark the first anniversary of the passing    
   of Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF.  This is significant because it was Bill who    
   brought us all together.  Nearly 40 years ago he was one of the creators    
   of the Westlink Report.  That morphed into Amateur Radio Newsline.    
   Amateur Radio Newsline created the Young Ham Of The Year award.  But    
   Bill was so much more than Westlink, Newsline and the YHOTY.   
      
   I could go on and on about Bill and the impact he had on my life, but I    
   only knew him for a couple of decades.  Let's go farther back and hear    
   from some folks who knew him way before then.   
      
   In 1986, Bill had the idea to honor young radio amateurs, the Young Ham    
   Of The Year award, now named after Bill.  He got on the phone and called    
   up a few people to see if they were interested in helping sponsor the    
   award.  One of these was CQ Publications.  Rich Moseson, W2VU, is the    
   editor of CQ Magazine:   
      
   "I can't remember a single specific highlight of my relationship with    
   Bill, which went on over 30 years.   
      
   What stands out to me the most are 2 things.  One is how  he's a perfect    
   example of how ham radio can enable you to shine in ways that other    
   parts of your life may not.  Professionally, yes he worked in television    
   in Hollywood but he was a videotape editor and maintenance person.  He    
   kept their equipment running.  It's not a high profile position.  But    
   ham radio allowed him to shine as the producer of Newsline, as producer    
   of videos and as the founder of the Young Ham Of The Year award.  He    
   passed that along to other people as well.  He gave me my first    
   opportunity to do television field producing, to Meet Senator John Glenn    
   and I don't remember what else.   
      
   The other thing that stands out in my mind is with the Young Ham Of The    
   Year award how his total devotion was to the kids.  Every year he would    
   sponsor the dinner and he would give the kid the who won the award the    
   option of where to go.  I suppose we could have gone to some fancy    
   restaurant someplace, but we usually ended up at either a bar b q place    
   or, I remember one year we all went to 5 Guys and got hamburgers and    
   fries, because that's what the kid wanted.  That said so much to me about   
   Bill and his dedication to promoting youth in ham radio, and just his    
   whole way of life and of being.   
      
   Those are things that I'll always remember about him."   
      
   Thanks Rich.  Rich shared the stage with Bill and the young ham award    
   winner for many years.  Another sponsor from day one is Yaesu.  Now with    
   Ham Radio Outlet, Chip Margelli, K7JA, then with Yaesu, also shared that    
   stage for decades:   
      
   "This is Chip Margelli, K7JA and my remembrences of Bill Pasternak are    
   that he was every day, every minute of every day, trying to promote    
   amateur radio.   
      
   Trying to bring amateur radio to young people, trying to bring amateur    
   radio to people who didn't know the difference between a megacycle and a    
   motorcycle, and he was tireless in his efforts.   
      
   He also was tireless in his efforts to improve the knowledge base.  All    
   these videos that Bill and Dave Bell and others were so deeply involved    
   in weren't just to try to recruit new hams.  They were trying to improve    
   the knowledge base amond existing hams, and that's the thing I remember    
   the most about Bill.   
      
   He was always trying to make new hams out of no hams and to make better    
   hams out of current hams and to his last day he was going after that    
   goal of bringing more people the joy of amateur radio."   
      
   Thanks Chip.  Have you noticed a trend here?  Education.  Youth.  That's    
   not by accident.  A more recent addition to the Newsline fold is Mark    
   Abramowicz, NT3V:   
      
   "How does one reflect on the loss of a good friend and fellow ham ? a    
   man whose life was devoted to family and Amateur Radio.   
      
   That?s right, family was always first for Bill Pasternak. And, I guess I    
   became part of that extended family after my son, Josh, then KB3GWY, was    
   selected to become the Young Ham of the Year by Amateur Radio Newsline.   
      
   I listened to Newsline and it?s predecessor, the Westlink Report carried    
   on a local repeater for years here in my area of eastern Pennsylvania.   
      
   Little did I realize I would one day become a contributor.   
      
   But it went beyond that as Bill asked me to shepherd the Young Ham of    
   the Year Award after its long-time leader bowed out.   
      
   As I said, ham radio aside, Bill Pasternak was always the guy who put    
   family first ? his family and my family. His emails and phone calls at    
   all hours of the day and night ? weekends, too, were always welcome.   
      
   And, they always began with ? How?s the family? Yes, there was business    
   to transact but it was genuine concern for family that was first.   
      
   To tell the truth, I have missed those calls. And, I?ve come to miss a    
   man who was like a second father, an uncle, and a very, very dear friend.   
      
   He may be gone, but his legacy will live on not just in Newsline and    
   it?s work serving the amateur community ? but in my heart and the hearts    
   of many he touched with his genuine love of his family ? all of us."   
      
   Thanks Mark.   
      
   This just scratches the surface of the kind of man, the kind of ham,    
   that was Bill Pasternak.  He was the kind of guy that you didn't have    
   the heart to say no to.  That's how he brought in the dozens of    
   broadcast professionals into the all-volunteer team that made up, and    
   continues to make up Amateur Radio Newsline and the Young Ham Of The    
   Year award.   
      
   So as we mark this milestone on the path of life we pause to reflect,    
   remember and honor the man who brought us all together.  The Newsline    
   staff, those in the Young Ham Of The Year committee.  The 30 years of    
   young hams who have been honored, their families and you, the listeners    
   and supporters of Amateur Radio Newsline.  Without Bill, and without you    
   and all the others over the nearly 4 decades, none of this would matter.   
      
   So thank you Bill.  Thank you for everything.  We are all better people    
   just for knowing you.   
      
   I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.   
      
   **   
      
   NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; Boston Amateur Radio    
   Club; the CBC; CQ Magazine; Facebook; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the    
   IARU; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; K2BSA Amateur Radio Association;    
   MyEasternShoreMaryland; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO    
   Radio Show; WANE-TV; WBKO-TV; 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.   
      
   And we remind you once again of the June 30 deadline to nominate    
   candidates for the Bill Pasternak Young Ham of the Year Award. Please    
   visit our website at arnewsline.org and click on the tab that says    
   "Y-H-O-T-Y" for information and an application. Remember to mail your    
   applications to the New York address printed on the application.   
      
   For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,    
   and our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso,    
   Indiana saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.   
      
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