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   Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2016, June 17, 2016   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2016 with a release date of Friday,    
   June 17, 2016 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a QST. A noted DXer dies after a fall from a tower.    
   Amateurs and CB radio operators team up - seriously! - to watch the    
   weather. Another NASA astronaut becomes a ham and a California city    
   takes earthquake lessons from Nepal. All this and more in Amateur Radio    
   Newsline Report Number 2016 coming your way right now.   
      
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   MILT JENSEN, N5IA: DEATH OF A DXer   
      
   STEPHEN: This week's newscast opens with word of a tragic accident that    
   has hit hard within the international ham radio community: Well known    
   DX-peditioner and DXer Milt Jensen N5IA of Virden New Mexico died on    
   June 9th after falling from a ham radio tower.  Newsline's Kent Peterson    
   KC0DGY spoke with Jensen's wife Rulene (Roo Lean), KB5VTM   
      
   RULENE: He was just an avid DXer contest person, if we got in the car he    
   was on the radio all the time. He loved building new things.  The    
   challenge of building a better antenna system.   
      
   KENT: Newsline reached out to Milt Jensen's wife Rulene KB5VTM who    
   shared some of her memories of Milt's DX-peditions.   
      
   RULENE: Actually he did three, He went to Myanmar twice ...  the first    
   time I went along with him, that was an eye opener to me.  He had me get    
   on. I think I had two minutes and everybody was getting irritated with    
   me because I didn't know what I was doing and I got off and gave it back    
   to him  He loved it. They were there to do the 160 part, that was his    
   main joy he loved doing 160.  Other than Myanmar he went to Ducie Island    
   with an international group. I got on his Facebook over the past couple    
   of days. They all responded to it from Germany, Lithuania.  I always    
   teased him about living on Gilligan's island. That's what that island    
   looked like to me with the pictures.   
      
   KENT: Rulene got her ham license just to stay in touch with Milt.   
      
   RULENE: He was always gone to a mountain top to do something.  We didn't    
   have cell phones back then. He convinced me to get my license. I got my    
   license so that I could get hold of him when I needed to, that didn't    
   always work either.   
      
   KENT: Milt worked for a power utility and learned climbing safety from them.   
      
   RULENE: He was trained in all the safety stuff, he always said ... Tie    
   off ... Tie off ... Tie off. Have your gear on.  He wasn't careless    
   about climbing.   
      
   KENT: On June 9th Milt was in Tuscon to help a fellow ham.   
      
   RULENE: The tower he was working on was for a friend and fellow ham that    
   lives in Tuscon that doesn't climb  and so he went to do do whatever    
   tower work was needed on his tower for him.   
      
   KENT: Besides Rulene two of Milt's sons also have ham licenses.   
      
   RULENE: My husband had told our oldest son sometimes his hand went to    
   sleep and he couldn't hang on and so we're thinking that's what it was    
   because he stressed safety.  If that was the case I'm going to slap him    
   when I get up to Heaven.   
      
   KENT: Milt Jensen K5IA was 73 years old. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm    
   Kent Peterson, KC0DGY.   
      
   STEPHEN: As a postscript to Milt's passing, we also note that a day    
   later, in Radcliff, Kentucky, police reported that a man was seriously    
   injured after a fall of about 30 feet from an amateur radio tower. He    
   remained conscious while emergency workers transported him to a hospital    
   in Louisville where, at press time, there were no further updates on his    
   condition or what led to his fall. With both these stories in mind,    
   Amateur Radio Newsline urges listeners, on a personal note, to please    
   adhere to strict safety practices when doing any tower work.   
      
   (THE NEWS ENTERPRISE)   
      
      
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   UNLIKELY PARTNERS, LIKELY WEATHER-WATCHERS   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Can CBers and ham radio operators work hand-in hand? The    
   answer is yes, in one Alabama County, where we hear more from Newsline's    
   Bobby Best, WX4ALA.   
      
   BOBBY'S REPORT: In the community of weather watchers, the critical    
   information passed by storm spotters who receive formal training from    
   the National Weather Service is known as "ground truth." Those details    
   are lifelines. When serious weather and tornados hit places like Dixie    
   Alley, comprising much of the Southeast, the weather is  severe and    
   right now the region is bracing for the Atlantic hurricane season, which    
   just started on June 1.   
      
   In Jefferson County, Alabama -- the most populated county in that    
   southern state - a unique kind of partnership has become paramount.    
   Amateur radio operators, passing along this vital "ground truth"    
   alongside another group of radio operators as part of what some might    
   consider an unlikely team. These other spotters, who are also trained by    
   the weather service, work on the 11-meter band. That's right, you can    
   find them on CB radio. The deployment of CB'ers and hams has been a    
   priority for the Sylvan Springs Amateur Radio Club in western Jefferson    
   County and they're proud of their effort.   
      
   According to James Keller KF4JQP, a charter member and current president    
   of the club, QUOTE "We've reached out to members of the community that    
   are NWS trained spotters, but that don't hold an Amateur Radio license    
   and invited them into our meetings and circles"... "While we would hope    
   that one day they will become interested in gaining their Amateur Radio    
   license, but until that day comes, there is a way that they can assist    
   at saving lives!" ENDQUOTE   
      
   The Sylvan Springs Amateur Radio Club has installed at their E.O.C. an    
   11-Meter or CB radio base station with its antenna located high atop    
   their ham tower. Keller added; "whenever we go into a stand-by alert    
   status, in addition to monitoring our own 2-Meter repeater, as well as    
   other severe weather NETS, we also monitor 27.065 Mhz or channel 9,    
   which is a reserved and restricted channel, by The FCC, for emergency    
   communication only!" Any information we receive that meets The NWS'    
   criteria for severe weather, damage reports, or any other emergency    
   traffic, we can then immediately pass on via Amateur Radio, to stations    
   at; The NWS, The EMA, The Red Cross, or even to Alabama's State E.O.C.    
   via 80-Meters on our state's designated HF emergency frequency on 3.965    
   Mhz" ENDQUOTE   
      
   CB and ham radio operators may seem, at times, to be on different parts    
   of the spectrum - in more ways than one - but the idea of this kind of    
   teamwork is catching on in Jefferson County, Alabama!   
      
   From the perspective of this meteorologist, such creative deployment of    
   radio operators can only lead to expanded weather coverage and, in Dixie    
   Alley, that's a good thing.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bobby Best, WX4ALA in Jasper, Alabama.   
      
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   HONORS FOR WEATHERING THE STORM   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Speaking of weather, one New York ham's devotion to    
   watching for storm systems has won him special recognition. Here's    
   Newsline's Heather Embee, KB3TZD.   
      
   HEATHER'S REPORT: Dave Robinson, N-4-U-A-R, of Oswego County, New York,    
   isn't exactly a fair-weather friend. What would be the point of that,    
   anyway? His skills and volunteer efforts are especially needed when bad    
   storm systems roll in. He is a trained weather spotter in the SKYWARN    
   program of the National Weather Service and a member of the county's    
   Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services.   
      
   More recently, Dave became an emergency communications honoree,    
   receiving this year's RACES Service Award for his work in central New    
   York, where he joined RACES in 2008. That work has not just garnered him    
   honors; it has also kept him busy and made him a leader during drills as    
   well as real weather emergencies.   
      
   Dave was praised at a recent RACES meeting by Radio Officer Fred Koch,    
   K-A-2-H-P-G. Fred said: QUOTE "Dave is one of the first to show up for    
   RACES work details. He is a quiet individual who is invaluable to the    
   group as a leader and mentor." ENDQUOTE   
      
   He now has the award to remind him of that - just in case he gets too    
   busy during the storm season ahead.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Embee, K-B-3-T-Z-D.   
      
      
   (OSWEGO COUNTY TODAY)   
      
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   IN THE AIR AND ON THE AIR   
      
   STEPHEN: There's a new ham in town. Actually ABOVE town. He's way, WAY    
   above town! He's NASA astronaut Scott Tingle, now known as KG5NZA.    
   Having passed his technician exam on June 3, he is now getting ready to    
   join the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, or ARISS,    
   program.   
      
   Although amateur radio studies are optional during the two years of    
   astronaut training he began in Russia, his interest in ham radio grew    
   during his studies and he was determined to exercise that option.   
      
   Meanwhile, three amateurs aboard the ISS are to be back home on Earth by    
   Saturday, June 18. They are Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra, KE5UDN;    
   Flight Engineer Tim Peake, KG5BVI/GB1SS, and Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUJP.    
   So with the crew up there always in transition, Scott Tingle can expect    
   to find plenty of room when he launches with the Expedition 53 crew in    
   the fall of 2017.   
      
   (SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO NEWS)   
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   BREAK HERE:   
      
   Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio    
   Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the    
   W4WVP repeater in Arlington, Virginia on Tuesday nights at 7.   
      
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   AUSTRALIA HAM WITH NASA PROGRAM   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: In amateur radio, as in most things, it's not just what    
   you know but WHO you know. One ham in Queensland, Australia found that    
   out a few years ago when the "who you know" ended up being an astronaut    
   from Australia. Here's Amateur Radio Newsline's Graham Kemp, VK4BB, with    
   that story.   
      
   GRAHAM: Shane Lynd, VK4KHZ, of central Queensland didn't exactly have    
   high-flying ambitions on that day, 18 years ago, when his signal was    
   picked up unexpectedly by Australia's man in space, Andy Thomas, VK5MIR,    
   on board the Russian space station Mir.   
      
   It turned out to be more than just a memorable QSO: That radio    
   connection got him to thinking about his personal connections to space    
   and how many learning opportunities await in the great, vast void above    
   the earth.   
      
   Not long after, Shane was invited to join as one of three Australian    
   volunteers, working with NASA, supporting Amateur Radio on the    
   International Space Station. Surely Shane could relate to the thrill    
   students would have connecting with voices in space, since he'd    
   experienced that himself. He would also be on standby, having his shack    
   available to NASA in case of an emergency, such as a lost communications    
   link with the space station.   
      
   Along the way, Shane made some important ground-based connections too.    
   Now, in local schools, he brings and demonstrates one of his tracking    
   stations to students and helps them have the same space experience he    
   enjoyed with Andy Thomas.   
      
   That happened recently, when he helped students at Glenmore State High    
   School in Rockhampton contact Tim Kopra,  KE5UDN, commander of the ISS.    
   As part of the ARISS volunteer team, he is working to help plan plenty    
   more connections like that. If space is a void, Shane Lynd hopes to be    
   out there personally, doing his very best to fill that void -- with the    
   sound of ham radio, of course.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB   
      
   (ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA)   
      
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   LESSONS LEARNED FROM NEPAL   
      
   STEPHEN/ANCHOR: There's a great distance between Nepal and the state of    
   California, but when it comes to being vulnerable to earthquakes, the    
   two are a lot closer than most people can imagine. Here's Amateur Radio    
   Newsline's Skeeter Nash, N5ASH.   
      
   SKEETER's REPORT: The story of the 2015 Nepal earthquake is a story    
   worth telling again and again -- not just because it's important to    
   remember the horror of that April day, but to learn from the response by    
   radio amateurs who stepped in.   
      
   That was the narrative that one of the amateurs from Kathmandu shared    
   earlier this month on a visit to Santa Clara, California. Sanjeeb    
   Panday, 9N1SP, made his presentation to an audience of about 100,    
   comprising Santa Clara firefighters, ARES and RACES members, Bay-Net    
   participants and others in that city. Panday's visit was arranged to    
   help in fine-tuning earthquake response in this California region,    
   especially since the Kathmandu Valley where the April 2015 quake    
   occurred, has a pattern of fault lines similar to those beneath this    
   Silicon Valley city.   
      
   Panday told his listeners: QUOTE "The Nepali people have gone through a    
   tremendous ordeal. If our experience can help others in different parts    
   of the world [to] better prepare for disasters, then this can be    
   regarded as a positive outcome." ENDQUOTE   
      
   Panday had come to the U.S. for the International Microwave Symposium,    
   where he talked about ham radio in post-secondary education. But he was    
   pleased to be able to share how ham radio provided emergency response    
   and continued to make post-quake relief available. The magnitude 7.9    
   quake is considered to be the worst to hit Nepal in 80 years.   
      
   His hosts and listeners had something to share with him as well. He was    
   given two hand-held transceivers as gifts to Scouts in Nepal from local    
   Scout leader Richard Silkebakken, KM6CPH, and members of the Monterey    
   Bay Council's Cub Scout Pack 32. The Global Nepali Professional Network    
   also received a certificate of recognition from Congress, presented by    
   Rep. Mike Honda. It was the Network's Radio Mala program that built two    
   ham radio repeaters which were the only ones able to operate in Nepal    
   during the quake.   
      
   Speaking of repeaters, Panday made note of their successful operation    
   and encouraged licensed hams attending the presentation to join him and    
   his fellow hams on the 9N1SP repeater via IRLP and EchoLink. They'll be    
   listening - as always.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Skeeter Nash, N5ASH.   
      
   (CITY OF SANTA CLARA WEBSITE, ARRL)   
      
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   GRIEF FOR MOHD RIZAL MAHMUD, 9M2RDX, SILENT KEY   
      
   STEPHEN: Hams in Malaysia associate the callsign 9M2RDX with a top DXer,    
   a mentor, a friend. This month, however, he became a Silent Key. Here's    
   Newsline's Jason Daniels, VK2LAW, with more.   
      
   JASON's REPORT: Members of the Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitters    
   Society are grieving the loss of Mohd Rizal Mahmud, 9M2RDX, who became a    
   Silent Key on the 12th of June in a Malaysian hospital. The    
   award-winning DXer was a noted contester and beloved Elmer who was also    
   active in Scouting. Since becoming licensed in 2006, he filled his life    
   with amateur-radio activities.   
      
   His friend, Piju 9M2PJU, who notified Amateur Radio Newsline of Rizal's    
   death, described him as QUOTE "a great man, down to earth, humble. A    
   motivated and dedicated QSL manager. Also a Scout leader. A great    
   motivator [who] used to hold ham radio introduction classes and [was]    
   involved in emergency communications. He helped his local ham radio    
   community and also our national ham radio club."   
      
   ENDQUOTE   
      
   A hospital medical assistant by profession, he was described by his    
   friend Piju as a "kind and helpful guy." As seen on his profile page on    
   QRZ, he was also unfliching in his love of amateur radio. The very    
   bottom of his biography page displays this sentiment: "Life is simple.    
   Eat. Sleep. DX."   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jason Daniels, VK2LAW.   
      
   (PIJU, 9M2PJU, QRZ)   
      
      
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   THE WORLD OF DX   
      
   In the world of DX, there are still a few remaining days to work Koji    
   JM1CAX, who will stay on in Gambia as C5NX until June 18. QSLs should be    
   directed to Logbook of The World.   
      
   Nobuaki JA0JHQ is active as 9N7NH from Katmandu, Nepal from June 16th to    
   20th, and will participate in the All-Asian DX Contest on June 18 and    
   19. QSL via his home call.   
      
   Using the callsign 3B8/M0RCX, Robert M0RCX is operating holiday style    
   from Mauritis until July 14th. QSL Manager is EB7DX.   
      
   Listen for John K9EL working as FS/K9EL from St. Martin Island until    
   June 23rd. He is on all bands 80 to 6m working CW, SSB and RTTY. QSLs    
   can be obtained via Club Log OQRS.   
      
   (IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)   
      
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   KICKER: ALL AT SEA   
      
   There's nothing like kicking back on a sunny day, afloat in the South    
   Pacific, doing a little low-power transmitting on 30 meters. As the    
   weather turns warmer, what ham WOULDN'T envy this kind of privilege?   
      
   OK, well, that call sign doesn't belong to any OM or even a YL, but a    
   marine buoy with the call sign ZL1SIX. That's spelled B-U-O-Y, for    
   marine buoy. This is a solar-powered buoy, being carried steadily on the    
   waters of the Pacific Ocean, where it was launched from a yacht this    
   past May 17.   
      
   Being at sea like this can be a good thing. In this case, the ocean    
   floater is helping track sea currents and propatation. New Zealand    
   amateur Bob Sutton, ZL1RS, noted in a published report that its weak    
   signal on WSPR and JT9 modes has been reporting on the tides, current    
   and wind, also sending its battery voltage, position and information    
   about the temperature.   
      
   To tune in, try dialing to 10.1387 MHz for WSPR. For JT9 signal, be    
   listening just above the "WSPR band" at 1730Hz on the waterfall.   
      
   You'll get everything but that nice South Pacific breeze.   
      
   (SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO CLUB, QSL.NET)   
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   NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine;    
   Facebook; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the IARU; Monica Grimaldo of    
   Tucson News Now; QSL.Net, 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.   
      
   June 30th will be here before you know it. That's our 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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