ï»¿Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2119 for Friday, June 8, 2018   
      
   Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2119 with a release date of Friday,    
   June 8, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.   
      
   The following is a QST. The Maritime Mobile Service Network helps a ham    
   in distress at sea. Amateurs celebrate a modern-day Marconi message --    
   and we visit German's Ham Radio Friedrichshafen. All this and more as    
   Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2119 comes your way right now.   
      
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   BILLBOARD CART   
      
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   QSO FROM CAPE COD WITH GUGLIELMO MARCONI'S DAUGHTER   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: We open this week's report with news that someone named    
   Marconi has successfully completed a contact by wireless across a body    
   of water. But wait - this is almost 120 years after this transmission    
   created unprecedented news - and this is, of course, a different    
   Marconi. The event - with Marconi's daughter - was a big happening    
   nonetheless as we hear from Kevin Trotman N5PRE.   
      
   KEVIN: Imagine a QSO with a Marconi. If you had been at the Cape Cod    
   National Seashore on Thursday May 31st you would not have needed your    
   imagination. At the Wellfleet Marconi Station there, the rig was tuned    
   to 14.224 MHz. At the microphone was Guglielmo Marconi's daughter,    
   Princess Elettra Marconi. Shortly before noon another wireless Marconi    
   message went out -- this time to the historic Signal Hill station in    
   Newfoundland, Canada. The special event coordinator of the Society of    
   Newfoundland Radio Amateurs, Chris Hillier VO1IDX, had arranged for    
   their station VO1AA to make the contact. At the microphone in Canada was    
   18-year-old Aaron Kent Abbott VO1FOX.   
      
   Although Princess Elettra has visited both Marconi stations on previous    
   occasions, the moment's significance was lost on no one - the radio    
   pioneer himself first transmitted from this New England station on Jan.    
   18, 1903 sending the first two-way wireless message from the U.S. to    
   Europe. It was at the Newfoundland station on Dec. 12, 1901 that    
   Guglielmo Marconi had received that historic first translatlantic signal    
   - the letter "S" sent in Morse Code from England.   
      
   More than a century later, the event in May was no less remarkable, said    
   Barbara Dugan N1NS, a trustee of KM1CC, the Marconi Cape Cod Radio Club.    
   She said [quote] "Marconi's magic was with us." [endquote]   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kevin Trotman N5PRE.   
      
   (ART DONAHUE W1AWX, BARBARA DUGAN N1NS)   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: To hear the QSO between Princess Elettra and the Society of    
   Newfoundland Radio Amateurs visit our website at arnewsline.org and    
   click on the tab that says "EXTRA."   
      
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   RADIO MUSEUM NEAR DUBLING GEARS UP FOR INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Fresh on the heels of the recent Museum Ships Weekend is    
   International Museums Weekend - and in Ireland, one participating radio    
   museum also has a Marconi connection. Here's Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
   JEREMY: Although ships, castles, pumping stations and aviation museums    
   qualify as locations for International Museum activations, one museum    
   near Dublin, Ireland is a natural for the event. Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy    
   Museum of Vintage Radio will be participating on Saturday and Sunday    
   16th and 17th of June with the callsign EI0MAR. The museum is located in    
   the Martello Tower the site of the first telegraphy station that    
   connected Ireland to Great Britain in 1852. It was in this tower that    
   America's Lee de Forest experimented with wireless telegraphy at the    
   turn of the 20th century. The tower was also home to a Marconi receiving    
   station that conducted experimental telegraphy communications with the    
   HMS Monarch. Hams will be operating from that tower during the weekend    
   and organizers say volunteer operators are needed for both SSB and CW.    
   For details on how to participate, send an email to ei0mar at eircom dot    
   net (ei0mar@eircom.net) The station is customarily operated by the Howth    
   Martello Radio Group on Sundays. The site opened as a museum in 2003.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Jeremy Boot G4NJH.   
      
   (SOUTHGATE)   
      
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   THOUSANDS FLOCK TO HAM RADIO FRIEDRICHSHAFEN   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: With Hamvention a memory, all eyes and ears turned recently    
   the largest hamfest in Europe. Ed Durrant DD5LP was there - here's his    
   report.   
      
   ED'S REPORT: As most will know, Ham Radio Friedrichshafen is the largest    
   Hamfest in Europe. This years theme was radio scouting (audio clip) of    
   course, with lots of fun, that was the combined scout troops from    
   several European countries who were attending Ham Radio Friedrichshafen    
   this year. The theme extended into other youth orientated events    
   including the hand-over of Youngsters on-the-air from the UK Organisers    
   to the South African organisers.   
   Attendance at the event was probably about 10% reduced due to the    
   unfortunate  coincidence that the date clashed with the IARU CW field day.   
      
   There were several new dealers with new products, with Magnetic loop    
   antennas practical for portable use to enormous, high power home station    
   ones. One young Spanish company Komunica are designing and building HF    
   and VHF mobile antennas in Europe, with new antennas due out in    
   September. It's good to see not everything is being produced in the far    
   east.   
      
   SDR radios were very much in presence with several different companies    
   displaying new or extended models. Of course the "big 5" were there and    
   this was a chance to see the new Kenwood TS-890S and talk with its    
   designer. As well as get a look at the Yaesu FTDX101D FT-818ND and the    
   software update to the FT-2D  Fusion handy to make it into a hot-spot.   
      
   In general the slightly reduced numbers in the very large halls made it    
   easier to get around. Only in the flea market was it as busy as ever.    
   The addition of the Maker Faire  with their Cosplay dressed people    
   walking around added some flair and fun.   
      
   Despite dire weather predictions, not one drop of rain fell over the    
   three days of the event. rather it was sunny and in the high twenties    
   Centigrade the whole time.   
      
   So if you've never been to Ham Radio in Friedrichshafen, why not plan a    
   visit for next year when it moves back to its usual weekend, which is    
   June 21st to the 23rd 2019.   
      
   That's Friedrichshafen for another year, now it's time to get ready for    
   the WRTC in 6 weeks time. How did that go? "Dib di Dib Dib Dah Dah Di Dah"?   
      
   For AR Newsline this has been Ed Durrant DD5LP.   
      
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   RADIO SCOUTING GOES TO CAMP   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Here in the United States, radio scouts are getting busy    
   with summer camp. Here's Bill Stearns NE3RD.   
      
   BILL'S REPORT: This week in Radio Scouting summer camp season has    
   started and scouts are breaking codes and sending CW in Oregon.   
      
   William Coverdell, WD0BC, is activating K2BSA/0 at Camp Geiger in St    
   Joseph, MO, from June 10th to July 21st.  The camp will be offering    
   radio merit badge classes throughout the six week period.  Scouts will    
   be getting on the air with a generous station that is completely scout    
   owned through 100% donations.   
      
   Ed Evans, WV8ED,  is activating K2BSA/8 at Camp Arrowhead in Ona, WV,    
   from June 17th to the 23rd.  Ed will have a ham radio demonstration    
   station located in the STEM area of the camp for the week.   
      
   Richard Zarczynski, AC8FJ, is also activating K2BSA/8 at D-Bar-A Scout    
   Ranch in Metamora, MI, from June 24th to the 29th.  This event is the    
   very successful Trail to Eagle program designed for the older Scout    
   which gives them the opportunity to work on the merit badges they need    
   to complete their Eagle Scout rank requirements in a timely manner.    
   Michael Boensch/W8MKB and Richard will again be offering the radio merit    
   badge course and maintaining the special event station making others on    
   the airwaves aware of and promoting the long history of the Trail To    
   Eagle program over the various amateur radio bands.   
      
   We have many other activations at other scout camps over on our Scout    
   Camps on the Air page at scota.us.  If you want to help out a local    
   scout camp with donations of gear or your time and don't know who to    
   contact, please contact us through our website.   
      
   Finally, I received a report from Russ Mickiewicz, N7QR, about scouts    
   out in Oregon that were having some fun with another popular merit    
   badge:  Signs, Signals, and Code.   
      
   A new generation of code-breakers and communications experts was    
   launched at Oregon's Sunset Trail District Camporee in May, 2018. About    
   100 scouts learned the crafts that had once been vital for    
   communications and survival: semaphore (flag) signals, Morse Code, and    
   code ciphers.   
      
   Scouts were broken up into teams after training.  One team would be    
   sending a coded message in semaphore, while the other team would decode    
   the message and then send their response back with Morse Code using a    
   flashlight.  The semaphore team would record the message and confirm the    
   correct decode by sending an R in semaphore back to the other team.   
      
   For the rest of the story and more information on radio scouting, please    
   visit our website at www.k2bsa.net.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this    
   is Bill Stearns, NE4RD   
      
   (K2BSA)   
      
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   SILENT KEY: LLOYD WICKS VO1PJ   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: A longtime amateur radio operator in Canada who trained for    
   a career in radio before becoming a noted judge in Newfoundland and    
   Labrador has become a Silent Key. Lloyd Wicks VO1PJ died on June 1. The    
   earliest part of his career began at the Radio College of Canada in    
   Toronto where he trained to become a radio technician. In his spare    
   time, he devoted himself to various activities as a ham radio operator.    
   As his interest in politics and public policy grew, he returned home and    
   switched careers, becoming first a lawyer and then a judge. Lloyd    
   eventually became Newfoundland and Labrador's first Child and Youth    
   Advocate and the first youth court judge. He retired in 1993.   
   Lloyd Wicks was 85.   
      
   (CBC)   
      
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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 K4LYL repeater at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in    
   Bedford, Virginia.   
      
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   MARITIME MOBILE SERVICE NETWORK AIDS IN MEDICAL EMERGENCY   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: High seas emergencies have always gotten top priority for    
   the Maritime Mobile Service Network since it began operations in 1968.    
   So when the latest call for help came in late May, the net answered, as    
   we hear from Christian Cudnik K0STH.   
      
   CHRISTIAN: Timothy Henning KE7WMZ wasn't expecting to end his    
   around-the-world sail with a distress call - but by the time the Arizona    
   radio amateur's vessel, the Victory Cat, was about 200 miles south of    
   Ensenada Mexico on May 23rd, he had developed a severe problem with his    
   right eye and was having vision issues. He made a distress call on 20    
   meters at about 1530 UTC and it was picked up by Maritime Mobile Service    
   Network Net Control Operator Harry Williams W0LS. Harry stayed on the    
   radio with Tim while contacting the Coast Guard in California. The Coast    
   Guard met Tim at Ensenada and he was taken from there to the Balboa    
   Naval Hospital in San Diego.   
      
   According to Net Manager Jeff Savasta KB4JKL, Tim got the diagnosis that    
   he had suffered a severely detached retina. He was taken to Phoenix,    
   Arizona for surgery.   
      
   Following his surgery, Tim emailed the members of the 50-year-old net to    
   express his gratitude for a response that was, his words "professional    
   and invaluable." His voyage completed, he can now concentrate on recovery.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Christian Cudnik K0STH.   
      
   (JEFF SAVASTA KB4JKL)   
      
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   (BROOM) HANDLING LOGISTICS FOR WRTC 2018   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: As the weeks move closer to the World Radiosport Team    
   Championship next month in Germany, it all comes down to logistics.    
   Here's Ed Durrant DD5LP with an update.   
      
   ED'S REPORT: Without 1300 broom handles it can't happen!   
      
   Almost casually, Robby P”schk, DM6DX, mentioned in our latest    
   teleconference: "We have the 1300 broom handles and the more than 30    
   Kilometres of barrier tape along with the more than 65 Dixie portaloos    
   in supplies." That caused some frivolity between the organizers of the    
   WRTC 2018 and some disbelief. Surprised at the 1300 broom handles, the    
   press spokesman asked why so many were needed. "Without sky hooks, I can    
   not secure the operators area in the sites," was the answer of the    
   logistics officer Robby P”schk.   
      
   The simple fence is the combination of 20 broom handles and 500 m of red    
   & white barrier tape to surround the antennas and the station tents at    
   the 65 locations. This avoids anyone tripping over the guy wires, having    
   access to the antennas and tent and possibly causing damage. It still    
   seems unusual though. Who would have thought of broom handles being    
   required for the amateur radio world championship!   
      
   Robby, DM6DX, talks about WRTC's small and big challenges in logistics:    
   "There are 130 tables, lamps, fans and 198 chairs that are not available    
   from the furniture store around the corner. So we had to order the lamps    
   for the stations directly from the manufacturer. "   
   Teleconferences take place in the areas of organization, Internet    
   technology and public relations, and quickly reveal the immense effort    
   involved behind the scenes for the WRTC. Logistics covers acquiring and    
   transferring material such as antennas, masts, generators and station    
   tents. There are intensive discussions with local authorities in    
   Wittenberg and Jessen. In the technical area the IT conferences move up    
   a level and those without IT knowledge understand nothing. Last of all,    
   how the WRTC is portrayed to the public through words, pictures and    
   films, and which news reports should be released is covered on the    
   agenda and the discussions of the PR team teleconference.   
      
   For every organizational group the clock is running and the countdown    
   continues unimpeded to the start of the World Championship. It has a    
   motivating effect on the organizers, the "To Do" lists show not only    
   open actions but also many entries marked as "done." "As this continues,    
   it creates a very positive adrenaline rush and more and more excitement    
   for what is coming," said Chris Janáen, DL1MGB, President WRTC 2018.    
   It's now less than 40 days until the start of the first ever German WRTC.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ed Durrant DD5LP   
      
   **   
   HOW ABOUT SOME DSTAR for FIELD DAY?   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Meanwhile hams in the U.S. have Field Day on their minds.    
   One group of hams, however, is adding a new element into the mix. Neil    
   Rapp WB9VPG explains.   
      
   NEIL: If you're looking for an educational activity bonus for this    
   year's Field Day, maybe D-STAR is the thing for you! D-STAR is one of    
   the several digital voice modes available on VHF and UHF that also makes    
   linking between repeaters easier.  The organizers of the Quadnet Array,    
   a group of linked reflectors and smart groups around the world on    
   D-STAR, are inviting groups that want to demonstrate D-STAR to join in    
   as a central gathering place during Field Day. Tom Early, N7TAE explains.   
      
   TOM: We are offering just to say, "Hey, we're here." If you want to    
   demonstrate D-STAR on your Field Day, then we're here and you can talk    
   to us or you can have people listen in. Hopefully it will be fairly    
   busy, so you'll hear some people checking in from all over. But that's    
   pretty much the standard way it is there anyway, because like I say    
   we've got a couple of international reflectors in the array, and there's    
   always someone interesting to talk to.   
      
   NEIL: To connect to the Quadnet Array you will need to either login to    
   one of the Smart Groups which include DSTAR1 in New York, DSTAR2 in San    
   Francisco, or DSTAR3 in Ohio. Or, link to one of the reflectors: XRF757A    
   in Atlanta, XLX049D in Northern Ireland, XLX307D in Wyoming, or XLX626D    
   in New Zealand. If you have any questions about connecting to the array,    
   email admins@openquad.net. While you won't be able to use repeaters for    
   scoring QSOs on Field Day, you can score some interest.   
      
   Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG in    
   Bloomington, Indiana   
      
   **   
   CONGRATULATIONS TO 'QSO TODAY'   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: We here at Newsline would also like to congratulate Eric    
   Guth ("GOOTH") 4Z1UG on reaching the milestone of his 200th edition of    
   his podcast "QSO Today."   
      
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   KICKER: WHEN PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS FLY LIKE AN EAGLE   
      
   PAUL/ANCHOR: Finally, what do public service announcements, also known    
   as PSAs, have in common with the American rock band, the Eagles? Mike    
   Askins KE5CXP has that answer.   
      
   MIKE: The latest releases from rock legend Joe Walsh WB6ACU are no match    
   for "Hotel California" or "Life's Been Good" which are staples for so    
   many of his fans. For ham radio operators, though, the guitarist and    
   songwriter has landed on the charts anyway - well, maybe more like the    
   band plan. Joe has recorded a series of public service announcements for    
   the American Radio Relay League explaining the importance of ham radio    
   and the league's advocacy role. The video and audio messages are being    
   made available to radio and TV outlets as well as ARRL affiliated clubs    
   to use at meetings or public events.   
      
   The recording artist's studio sessions were at league headquarters in    
   Connecticut at W1AW. Joe's previous visits to the station included    
   donations of some of his vintage equipment and some on-air operating    
   that generated massive pileups.   
      
   Joe's PSAs, however, are easily downloadable from the ARRL website. All    
   you need is....an Eagle eye.   
      
   For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Mike Askins KE5CXP.   
      
   (QRZNOW.COM, ARRL)   
      
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   NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Amateur News Weekly; the ARRL;    
   Art Donahue W1AWX; Barbara Dugan, N1NS; the BBC; CBC; CQ Magazine; DX    
   World; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Jeff Savasta KB4JKL; Ohio-Penn DX    
   Bulletin; QRZNOW.COM, 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 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 Paul Braun WD9GCO in Valparaiso Indiana    
   saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening.   
      
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