Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2025 with a release date of Friday, July 20, 2018

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The following is a closed circuit advisory and not for broadcast.
This is a special, extended newscast and will contain 3 segments and 2 ID breaks to accommodate an expanded report on the World Radiosport Team Championship. Thank you.
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Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2025 with a release date of Friday, July 20, 2018 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Contest season heats up in Korea. A smartphone app provides a gateway to ham radio – and in this special expanded edition of Amateur Radio Newsline, we revisit the World Radiosport Team Championships.
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CONTEST SEASON HEATS UP IN KOREA
JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week’s newscast with the good news that if you think the championship season is over, think again. With two big summer contests behind us, one of the next big competitions will take place in Korea. The focus here is on amateur radio direction-finding, or foxhunting – as Jason Daniels VK2LAW tells us.
JASON: Just in case you can’t get enough of the big contest scene, hams are now preparing for the action to shift to Korea where the country’s natural landscape will share the spotlight with some of the hobby’s best in foxhunting. The 19th World Amateur Radio Direction Finding Championships will be hosted by the Korean Amateur Radio League not far from another prominent contest venue – the 2018 Winter Olympics location in Pyeong Chang.
The championship search for low-power transmitters will be held September 2 through 8th. According to the latest bulletin from the Korean radio league, 418 amateurs representing 25 countries have committed to participate so far. The panel of jurors consists of hams from Belgium, Sweden, Canada, Ukraine and Japan.
The 18th World ARDF championships were held in Bulgaria in 2016.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Jason Daniels VK2LAW.
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AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL SESSION GOES SKY HIGH
JIM/ANCHOR: Imagine having a guest speaker at your public school who is some 250 miles above the Earth. Well, youngsters in Melbourne, Australia didn’t have to imagine. It really happened – and just as planned. Here Robert Broomhead VK3DN with those details.
ROBERT: Just as planned, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station kept her appointment with the students at the Essex Heights Primary School in Melbourne Australia on the evening of Tuesday, July 17th. As the ISS approached Australia’s southern coast at 27,500 kilometers per hour, the youngsters had their first conversations that took place more than 400 kilometers, or almost 250 miles, above the earth. Ham radio made it possible. “This is your little moment in history, your opportunity to do something that very few people are able to do,” moderator Ciaran Morgan M0XTD had told them. From the north, Shane Lynd VK4KHZ, put out the call to astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor KG5TMT and Ciaran set the discussion in motion from his QTH in England. The students cheered and then took turns at the microphone with their questions: how does the body react to being in space? What foods do you miss most? For the children, it was ham radio’s finest moment as the dialogue went forward courtesy of a telebridge between Shane in Queensland and NA1SS, the International Space Station Amateur Radio Club outside Washington, D.C. It lasted barely 10 minutes but for those twelve children joined by 400 family and friends in the school hall it would be a memory forever. The event was featured the following evening on Australia’s

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