Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 08 2022 10:28:08

HAMVENTION 2023 GETS NEW GENERAL CHAIRMAN

DON/ANCHOR: With Hamvention 2022 now just a memory, planning is already 
under way for next year. Congratulations to Jim Storms, AB8YK, on being 
named general chairman of Hamvention for 2023. The Dayton Amateur Radio 
Association announced Jim's new responsibility on Friday, July 1st. Jim 
has served as vice president of DARA for three years and has been an 
officer for several other local amateur radio clubs. He is a co-leader 
for the Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure program, which he helped found. 

Jim has been Hamvention's chairman of advance registration since 2017. 
The DARA board also announced that Brian Markland, N8UDQ, will serve as 
Hamvention's assistant general chairman.

(DARA)

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FIRST 'HAMCAMPTION' SET FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIA

DON/ANCHOR: You've heard of Hamvention and Hamcation but are you ready 
for HamCamption?? If your QTH is Down Under, it is coming your way! 
Here's John Williams, VK4JJW.

JOHN: Darren, VK6EK, has big hopes for Mayanup HamCamption, a weekend 
getaway for recreation and radio. It is the fruit of a discussion Darren 
had with Rob, VK6LD, president of the Southern Electronics Group, VK6SR,
in Western Australia, and it becomes reality on September 10th and 11th 
at the sports ground in Mayanup. Darren said that with its dipole-
friendly trees as well as bathrooms and a shed facility, it is an ideal 
location for this first try at a radio camping event. More of a social 
outing than a field day, it will present an opportunity for socialising 
with like-minded hams and still present plenty of opportunity for radio. 
There may even be a little fox hunting. Darren plans to run an FT8 
station on 20 metres during the day and 40 metres at night. There is a 
70cm repeater about 9 kilometres away from the grounds and it will be 
connected to the club's Allstar Node 42482.

Darren said the informal event is expected to be an ideal warmup for 
Perth Tech, a camper-friendly symposium being held in October at the 
Gidgegannup Sport and Recreation Centre. He told Newsline that if all 
goes well, HamCamption may return to the Mayanup grounds next May when 
the weather is still a bit warmer and drier. The club will just need to 
schedule their time around the horse and pony clubs who also have their 
own equestrian version of field day there.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.

(DARREN VK6EK)

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NET IS REVIVED FOR ADVANCED CLASS HAMS

DON/ANCHOR: The A-13 Net is back on the air and it's going back - way 
back - to its roots. The net, which is being organizd by the Advanced 
Class Preservation Society, returns to 20m on Monday, July 11th. Instead 
of being a formal net, it's going back to being the general roundtable it 
had been at the very start. Be listening for Scott, W5URX, to kick things 
off at 1700 UTC on 14.213 MHz.

Participants are holders of an Advanced Class license issued by the 
United States FCC. The agency stopped issuing these licenses in the year 
2000, but they are renewable.

Editor Paul Buescher, N8HHG, writes about the revival of the net in the 
most recent A-13 Newsletter, saying [quote] "We will give this a try and 
see how it works out.  Please consider joining in the net and listen for 
future net days and times." [endquote]

According to the newsletter, the preservation society has 315 members in 
50 states and two US territories.

(A-13 GROUP NEWSLETTER, LLOYD COLSTON KC5FM)

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