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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2130 for Friday, August 24, 2018 Audio – https://ift.tt/2BISy8F

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2130 with a release date of Friday, August 24, 2018 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. The United Nations may be back on HF soon. A New Jersey amateur gets White House recognition — and our top story, deadly flooding in south India. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2130 comes your way right now.
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NEIL/ANCHOR: We begin this week with breaking news out of southern India, where amateur radio operators are part of the team responding to deadly flooding there. Here’s Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
JEREMY: In the southern Indian state of Kerala, the region is reeling from what is being called the worst flooding in almost a century. As monsoon rains grew deadlier into mid-August, the state’s health minister and emergency service workers stepped up their efforts to bring people to safety. Hundreds were killed due to overflowing dams and more than 300,000 people had to be evacuated to relief camps. Meanwhile, amateur radio operators throughout the region began providing HF and VHF operations for local and more distant district offices, according to a report by emergency operator Jayu VU2JAU. A report in the Times of India said that in Kerala alone an estimated 120 ham radio operators deployed to send messages of medical aid or to report strandings. The ham control centre was overseen by Suwil Kumar, the IT head of Kerala’s Energy Management Centre. The hams passed messages to assist Senior District Administrators for handling evacuations and getting provisions such as medicines, food and water to evacuees. State officials said relief camps at one point were housing in excess of 800,000 people and were struggling with sanitation and other health issues. In one of the districts hit hardest by the deluge 1,000 residents were feared stranded. As waters began to recede a few days later, some residents were permitted to return home. But the crisis was expected to continue for some time.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I’m Jeremy Boot G4NJH.
(THE GUARDIAN, CNN, TIMES OF INDIA, IARU Region 1)
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FEDERAL BUDGET PUTS WWV AND WWVH AT RISK
NEIL/ANCHOR: Time itself may seem to go on forever, but the U.S. government’s budget for the fiscal year 2019 may actually be killing time – or at the very least putting a vital timekeeper at a dead stop. For that report, we turn to the newest member of the Amateur Radio Newsline family Dave Parks WB8ODF.
DAVE: If you have come to rely on the services of WWV and WWVH for time, frequency and other calibrations in your weather, marine, propagation and related radio activities, you may already know that all of this is earmarked to come to an end in the coming year’s proposed budget for United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Hams have been petitioning Congress to retain funding for WWV which received its call sign in 1919, assigned to the National Bureau of Standards. It is considered the oldest continuously operating radio station in the U.S. Likewise WWVB, broadcasting from Fort Collins, Colorado, is also imperiled as is its critical role in keeping tens of millions of radio-controlled clocks and other devices in sync as it has since 1963. As reported by a number of news outlets, the petition has until Sept. 15 to collect the needed 100,000 signatures. News sources have noted that defunding both stations would reduce the federal budget by $6.3 million, a very small fraction of the

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