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Multiple Events Planned for Centennial of "Transatlantic Tests"

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 04:17 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/multiple-events-planned-for-centennial.html



Next month will mark the 100th anniversary of the 1921 "Transatlantic
Tests" that marked the beginnings of international shortwave communications
via amateur radio, and many events and activities are planned to mark the occasion, including an article here in CQ next month. The ARRL and RSGB
(Radio Society of Great Britain) are jointly sponsoring several events, according to the ARRL Letter. The first will be the Transatlantic Centenary
QSO Party on 16 meters between 0200 and 0600 UTC on December 12, the date
on which ARRL's Paul Godley, 2ZE, at a station set up in Androssan,
Scotland, successfully received the signals of several amateur stations in North America. The first was 1BCG in Connecticut, operated by members of
the Radio Club of America. For the centennial, the ARRL will have W1AW on
Top Band and the RSGB, along with the GMDX Group (see last month's DX
column) will operate GB2ZE from Scotland. All participants will be able to download a certificate and a special prize will be awarded to the first stations in both North America and the UK to contact both special event stations. In addition, the Crocodile Rock Amateur Group (CRAG) will operate GB1002ZE from its base near Androssan between December 1 and 26, and all amateurs in the UK and Crown Dependencies have been authorized during that
time period to add "/2ZE" after their call signs. For information on
additional activities, visit <www.arrl.org/transatlantic> or <www.rsgb.org/transatlantic-tests>. Finally, the Antique Wireless
Association has been busy refurbishing a replica of the transmitter used on
the Connecticut end of the Transatlantic Tests at 1BCG, and plans to have
it on the air December 11 from a location near the original 1BCG station.

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Bouvet DXpedition Garners Grants

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 04:05 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/bouvet-dxpedition-garners-grants.html

The Norwegian group organizing the 3Y0J DXpedition to Bouvet Island
scheduled for next year has received grants from multiple amateur radio organizations in support of its efforts. The ARRL has donated $5000 to
Amateur Radio DXpeditions, the trip's sponsor, according to the ARRL
Letter. This follows grants of $15,000 from INDEXA, 10,000 Euros from the German DX Foundation, and $100,000 from the Northern California DX
Foundation. The DX column in the November issue of CQ contains a
comprehensive report on planning for the adventure by expedition co-leader
Ken Opskar, LA7GIA. Meanwhile, the Intrepid DX Group, which originally
planned this expedition but had to cancel it when "Braveheart" captain
Nigel Jolly, K6NRJ, put the vessel up for sale, reports that the boat now
has a new owner who has promised to continue to make it available for
amateur radio DXpeditions from its future base in Ushuaia, Argentina.

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Covid Continues to Cause Cancellations

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:59 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/covid-continues-to-cause-cancellations.html


The 2021 Tokyo Ham Fair
has been cancelled due to
the ongoing Covid pandemic
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has prompted additional cancellations. The
ARRL Letter reports that the Japan Amateur Radio League, JARL, has
reluctantly decided to cancel the 2021 Tokyo Ham Fair, which is the world's largest hamfest (yes, even bigger than Dayton). In addition, AMSAT changed
its October 30, 2021 annual symposium and general meeting from in-person
to virtual. It was scheduled to be held on Zoom and livestreamed on YouTube
at <https://youtu.be/RTvcceM7Tz0>. The AMSAT News Service also reported
that the event had been renamed the 2021 AMSAT Dr. Tom Clark, K3IO,
Memorial Space Symposium and Annual General Meeting in memory of its former president and satellite pioneer, who died in late September (see next item
for more on K3IO).

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Milestones: K3IO, K7SZ, SKs

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:57 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/milestones-k3io-k7sz-sks.html

Inaugural CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame member Dr. Tom Clark, K3IO
(formerly W3IWI), became a Silent Key on September 28 at age 82. Clark was
a leading authority on Very Long Baseline Interferometry, a key player in
the development of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and a pioneer in
amateur radio digital and satellite communications. As a founding member of TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio), the AMSAT News Service reported, Clark
was a leader in developing the AX.25 digital protocol on which all amateur packet radio is based. He was also AMSAT's second president and was instrumental in developing much of the hardware that flew on multiple
amateur satellites. He spent his professional career at NASA. Longtime CQ
and Popular Communications columnist Rich Arland, K7SZ, passed away October
7. Rich was also an authority on QRP (low-power) communication and authored several editions of the ARRL's Low Power Communications book. He was
CQ's "Learning Curve" editor from 2010-2012 and a longtime columnist for Popular Communications..

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Antarctic Eclipse Festival: Hams Wanted!

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:55 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/antarctic-eclipse-festival-hams-wanted.html



There will be total eclipse of the sun over Antarctica on December 4, but
the HamSCI citizen science group is asking amateurs around the world to
help collect data on changes it causes in radio propagation. According to
the ARRL Letter, it is expected that the shadow of the moon crossing over Antarctica will generate traveling ionospheric disturbances, or TIDs, that
will in turn affect propagation.

Hams and shortwave listeners with HF radios connected to computers are
asked to collect Doppler-shift data from WWV or other time-and-frequency standard stations between December 1 and December 10 and report the data to
an internet site. Complete details and additional information on the
Antarctic Eclipse Festival are available at <www.hamsci.org/festivals>.

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Parks, Parks and More Parks

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:51 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/parks-parks-and-more-parks.html



The Parks on the Air organization, POTA, has announced the addition of more than 1000 parks to its list of accredited locations. According to a report
on Newsline, a small group of volunteers has spent the last several months examining user requests for new park accreditations and adding those that
meet the criteria to the system list.

The organization also announced the formation of a formal help desk,
staffed by a rotating group of volunteers, to provide technical support to
POTA participants. The desk may be reached at <help@parksontheair.com>. For general information about the program, visit <parksontheair.com>; maps, spotting, leaderboards, etc. are at <pota.app>.

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Radio Silence on the Far Side of the Moon

Posted: 12 Oct 2021 03:49 PM PDT http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/2021/10/radio-silence-on-far-side-of-moon.html


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