Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2120 for Friday, June 15, 2018

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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2120 with a release date of Friday, June 15, 2018, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Australian amateurs catch Field Day fever; YLs prep for their big convention this summer – and a radio amateur gets a government post in Spain. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2120 comes your way right now.
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AUSTRALIA HAS FIELD DAY FEVER
JIM/ANCHOR: We open this week’s newscast with the question: do you have Field Day fever yet? If you’re hearing this report in Australia, a fair distance from the ARRL event of the same name, the answer is probably yes. Graham Kemp VK4BB explains.
GRAHAM: Don’t look now but we’re barely a week away from Field Day – no, not the summer contest going on in that other hemisphere. Here in Australia it’s a winter event known as VHF-UHF Field Day and hams are gearing up for it on the 23rd and 24th of June. The competition promotes amateur operation on VHF and microwave bands as well as portable operation – or, as the Wireless Institute of Australia puts it – “head for the hills.” Hams can even move from location to location throughout the contest.
The 24-hour operation does not exclude home stations, either – they simply have their own section for competition. Field Day does preclude operation making use of satellites or repeaters: Work it simplex or not at all.
Although the first VHF-UHF Field Day was a test undertaken in January of 1989, Winter VHF-UHF Field Day came along much later. This year it marks its tenth year.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Graham Kemp VK4BB.
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YOUNG LADIES’ RADIO LEAGUE PREPS FOR CONVENTION
JIM/ANCHOR: With all our recent reports of Dayton Hamvention and Friedrichshafen behind us, we take a look now at big plans being made by an amateur radio group in which YLs help YLs. To tell us more, here’s Paul Braun WD9GCO.
PAUL: Hamfest and convention season is upon us once again. I think it’s safe to say that most hams enjoy a good gathering of the tribe so they can catch up with old friends, meet new ones, enjoy some food and prowl through the swap meet looking for that one special piece of stuff that they can’t live without.
Most ham radio gatherings, however, tend to be, well, guy-heavy. There is one, however, that is specifically for women hams to learn from and to help other women hams and that is August 2018 meeting of the YLRL. I spoke with Michelle Carey, W5MQC about the organization:
CAREY: The YLRL is the Young Ladies’ Radio League. The club has actually been around since 1939. It started with an ad in QST Magazine where one YL was looking for “where are all the other YL’s?” The response to that ad was twelve ladies and that’s what they’re calling the “Founding Mothers.”
PAUL: Carey said that the group holds a convention every three to four years at various locations around the country. According to Carey, the last one was in Washington state, and before that Ohio and Alabama and this year it’s going to be in Oklahoma.
CAREY: The convention is going to take place at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City. At the convention we’re going to have some really incredible speakers. We’re going to have Ria, N2RJ – she’s going to talk to us all about digital modes, Andrea Slack, K2EZ is

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