Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2116 for Friday, May 18, 2018

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2116 with a release date of Friday, May 18 2018 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Hams in Hawaii keep an eye on an active volcano. Findings are released in the death of a New Zealand amateur — and TV’s “Last Man Standing” is coming back. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2116 comes your way right now.
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INFORMAL NETS MONITOR HAWAII VOLCANO
DON:/ANCHOR: We begin this week with breaking news. The eyes of the world have been on the continuing eruptions of scalding lava from Hawaii’s Kilauea (Killa-Waya) volcano but formal assistance from the amateur radio community has not yet been needed. At Newsline’s production time, all normal communications remained functional and hams were simply monitoring the situation. However, two nets have been operating informally on the island – one on 40 meters and another on a 2 meter repeater run by Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. As evacuations continue and national parks and other locations remain shut, Amateur Radio Newsline will continue to follow developments.
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REPORT: FAULTY ELECTRIC BLANKET LED TO HAM’S DEATH
DON/ANCHOR: The death of a radio amateur in New Zealand last summer has been traced to a tragic malfunction of an electric blanket. Robert Broomhead VK3DN has that report.
ROBERT: Arthur Earle Plimley ZL1TAG became a Silent Key last August after a fire erupted in the room of his home in Thames. The 76-year-old retired electrician was pronounced dead on the scene, the result of asphyxiation from a smouldering fire.
A new report reveals that the fire had been set off by a 40-year-old electric blanket that he had modified. The blanket burned the mattress on his bed and it is believed that he got up from the bed in an attempt to reach the window but was overcome by smoke.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I’m Robert Broomhead VK3DN.
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NEW CHANCES TO COMPETE AT WRTC
DON/ANCHOR: While many of us have spent months planning for Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio, organizers in Germany have devoted their efforts to the World Radiosport Team Championship coming up this summer. Things just got a little more exciting for non-contestants too, as Ed Durrant DD5LP tells us.
ED’S REPORT: The list of available WRTC awards for non-contestants is getting longer. Five more will be added to the two existing, WWQR and VOTA award programs for WRTC 2018. These programs have already had more than 1800 certificates issued.

“With our awards, we want to support the already large, international interest in the WRTC and reward all the stations who will create the pile-ups for the competitors,” said Michael Höding, DL6MHW, from the WRTC organizing team.
Those who contact all WRTC stations can download the “Worked All WRTC Stations (WAWRTC)” certificate from the internet as soon as the competition completes. “A log does not have to be sent in. The data to create the certificates is generated from the log books of the WRTC stations.” explained Awards Manager Hajo Weigand, DJ9MH.
The “WRTC Sprint” award is all about speed. Those who contact all 63 WRTC stations regardless of operating mode or band within a short period of time will be honoured with a certificate. The leader in each of the 29 different WRTC qualifying regions will receive a prize in addition to the certificate.
Stations that contact the WRTC stations on all bands and modes should apply for the “WRTC Most QSOs (MQ)” award

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