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Prospective campers living outside the United States are being given
priority and are encouraged to leave sufficient time to obtain the
required passport and tourist Visa, where applicable. First-time
campers are also being given priority. Attendees from past years are
welcome to apply to serve as leaders.

Meanwhile, plans are in the works to inaugurate two other camp
experiences next year: subregional camps and a YOTA Junior USA camp
serving hams younger than 15.

Visit youthontheair dot org - that's youthontheair - one word - dot org
(youthontheair.org) For additional information, please contact Camp
Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG via the email address, director at
youthontheair dot org (director@youthontheair.org)

(YOUTH ON THE AIR)

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SILENT KEY: ALBANIAN AMATEUR RADIO LEADER JOVAN BOJDANI, ZA1H

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A leader in Albania's amateur radio community has
become a Silent Key. We hear about him from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY:  From the very beginning, radio was almost certain to be in the
future for Jovan Bojdani, ZA1H. He grew up watching his father at the
helm of Radio Tirana, Albania's first broadcast radio station which
transmitted its powerful signal on 7050 kHz. Jovan's own history-making
involvement in radio came with the creation of the Albanian Amateur
Radio Association, which he served in as secretary. Jovan had been one
of the first students to be trained in the ZA1A IARU amateur radio
program in 1989, in preparation for amateur radio's reintroduction into
Albania the following year.

Notices posted on a variety of DX websites praised Jovan's efforts to
welcome international operators to Albania and to provide whatever
guidance he could to local hams. A note posted on DX News said that
[quote] "Jovan worked tirelessly to unite competing amateur radio
groups in Albania though sadly, he did not live to see the fruits of
his efforts." [endquote]

Details about the date and cause of his death were not available when
Newsline went to production.

This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(425 DX NEWS)

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SILENT KEY: KEITH LAMONICA, W7DXX, PIONEERED INTERNET-REMOTE HAM
STATION

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A lifelong ham radio enthusiast and former broadcaster
who co-developed the first Internet-remote amateur radio station has
become a Silent Key. We hear about him from Dave Parks WB8ODF.

DAVE: If you've ever operated an amateur radio station remotely via the
Internet, you have Keith Lamonica, W7DXX, to thank. The former
broadcaster, who was the recipient of numerous awards including the
noted Peabody Award, was perhaps best known among hams for working with
another amateur, Bob Arnold, N2JEU, to establish an internet-controlled
base for amateur radio enabling radio operators without antennas to get
on the air remotely with computers. This groundbreaking station was
profiled in a 1999 article in CQ magazine. Both Keith and Bob were
inducted into CQ's Hall of Fame in 2016.

Keith died on Thursday, the 26th of September following a series of
illnesses, according to a notice on QRZ.com. His accomplishments as a
ham started very early on in his life when he made front page-news in
the local California newspaper for being the first person in the area
to hear radio transmissions being sent by the Soviet satellite Sputnik.

A satellite enthusiast, he developed the satellite radio talk show as a
format, creating a program known as FM America. He also hosted a Sun
Broadcast Network radio talk show.

His long professional career in radio and TV had him crisscrossing the
US to markets from the East Coast to the West Coast. The Peabody Award
was presented to him for his coverage of the trial of James Earl Ray,
who was convicted of the assassination of US civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr. in 1968.

Keith was 81.

This is Dave Parks WB8ODF.

(QRZ.COM)

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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, like the
George County ARES repeater in Lucedale, Mississippi Wednesdays at 7:37
p.m. local time.

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SEMINAR FOCUSES ON RADIO AS TOOL FOR WOMEN'S WELL-BEING

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A recent seminar on a university campus in India
focused on ham radio as a tool for the well-being of women. Jim Meachen
ZL2BHF tells us what the students learned.

JIM: As part of their efforts to promote amateur radio and STEM careers
among women in India, Sister Nivedita University and OSCAR India, a
programme of the All India School of Management and Information
Technology, spent a day exploring the value that involvement in radio
can bring to women's lives.

The all-day seminar, held on September 30th on the university's Kolkata
campus, placed a special emphasis on radio communication's vital role
in ensuring women's security.

Undergraduates enrolled in the university's Mass Communication and
Engineering departments were given an opportunity for hands-on
experience with radio equipment, especially gear used in emergencies.
OSCAR India's Convener Nilkantha Chatterjee, VU2OII, shared a sample of
VoIP-based communication, traditional radio modes and Morse Code.

OSCAR India, which has conducted training seminars across 20 states in
India during the last eight years, has placed a greater emphasis in its
recent programmes on young women using radios. The organisation, whose
name is an acronym for Open Source Convention for Amateur Radio, is
encouraging young women in particular to use ham radio as a gateway to
greater personal security. These seminars are designed to increase
understanding of technology and general societal well-being through
radio connections.

This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.

(TELEGRAPH INDIA)

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BALLOON TO TAKE HAM PAYLOADS ALOFT IN SOUTH AFRICA

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The liftoff of a balloon from a South African air strip
will carry a variety of ham radio payloads into near space. Jason
Daniels VK2LAW has more details for us.

JASON: A dramatic early-morning weather balloon launch on Saturday, the
12th of October, is scheduled to lift a series of CubeSats into a
near-space environment above South Africa as hams follow and track the
balloon from locations as far away as possible. The hams were
encouraged to use the various payloads, which included cross-band
repeaters, LORA and APRS trackers, parrot repeaters, WSPR beacons and
SSTV payloads The CubeSats remain aloft until the hydrogen-filled
balloon bursts and then they parachute back to earth.

The launch at a model air strip near Secunda, coordinated by the
Secunda Radio Club, ZS6SRC, is known as BACAR-12. The acronym stands
for Balloon Carrying Amateur Radio.

This is Jason Daniels VK2LAW.

(SARL)

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VOICE OF AMERICA GETTING NEW HQ

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The parent agency of Voice of America is preparing for
relocation to new headquarters in Washington, D.C., leaving the
historic Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building that VOA has called home
since 1954.

Beginning this year, the US Agency for Global Media will begin moving
VOA and its four other international broadcast entities: Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting
Networks and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. The relocation to 1875
Pennsylvania Avenue NorthWest is being called a financially sound move.
The media agency said that it will save taxpayers more than
$150-million over the lease's 15-year lifetime.

(RADIO INK)

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