Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Sep 16 2022 11:09:34 CANADIAN LICENSE-HOLDERS ASKED TO WEIGH IN ON CALLSIGNS DON/ANCHOR: Radio Amateurs of Canada is hoping to push for some changes that affect license-holders' callsigns and the group is asking for input. We hear the details from Andy Morrison, K9AWM. ANDY: Radio amateurs who hold a Canadian Certificate and have a Canadian callsign are being asked to complete a survey for Radio Amateurs of Canada, which wants to advocate for changes in policies regarding Canadian callsigns. The results of the survey will be used by the RAC to come up with proposals to show Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada, the governmental regulator. According to the RAC website, hams are being asked to weigh in on questions about special-event callsign authorisations, two-letter suffixed callsigns, the handling of callsigns for Silent Keys; and various special prefix authorisations. The survey will also explore whether it should be mandatory for hams to change their callsigns if they relocate to another region in Canada. Hams are also being asked whether callsigns with one suffix letter should be issued as permanent personal call signs. This is just a sampling of the issues included in the survey, which opened on the 5th of August and will remain accessible to hams until the 30th of September. Though the questions are thorough, they take no more than 10 or 15 minutes to complete. The survey was created by Dave Goodwin, VE3KG, the RAC's regulatory affairs officer. Amateurs holding Canadian callsigns wishing to take part in the survey can do so by using the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org This is Andy Morrison, K9AWM. [FOR PRINT ONLY: https://www.rac.ca/canadian-amateurs-call-sign-policy-survey/ ] (RADIO AMATEURS OF CANADA) ** ARRL GRANT MAKES ARKANSAS SCHOOL CLUB A REALITY DON/ANCHOR: School is only back in session barely a week for many youngsters in the United States, but one group of teenagers already has some serious homework to do. Dave Parks, WB8ODF, tells us about their assignment. DAVE: It's official: Cave City High School in Arkansas, has its own radio club at last. The club recently received its charter from the American Radio Relay League along with an $8,000 grant from the ARRL's Grant Foundation. Those funds will be used to purchase and install radio equipment, including a local repeater. Science teacher Lynn Williams, N5TLW, told the Guard On Line that the club received lots of support from the Batesville Area Radio Club whose members helped the high school club's president, Ithyca Bacon, KI5QOS, get things in motion. The students are hoping their station and the repeater will be on the air within the next few months. In the meantime, the school club is going to host a number of informational meetings for community members who want to learn more. The achievement is bittersweet for many involved in setting up the new club. The president of the Batesville area amateurs, Steve Shelton, AE5RU, became a Silent Key on the 27th of August. Lynn, who is a member of the Batesville club, said on the Batesville club's Facebook page that the success of the students' efforts to form the Cave City High School Amateur Radio Club comes in large part due to Steve's dedication to that effort. He wrote: [quote] "The current and future students in the club will benefit from his influence." [endquote] This is Dave Parks, WB8ODF. (GUARDONLINE, FACEBOOK) ** CHINA RESCHEDULES LICENSE EXAMS FOR 'C' CLASS DON/ANCHOR: Candidates for the top-level amateur license in China have a few more weeks to wait to take their exam, which has been postponed. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has that story. JIM: Amateurs in China will soon sit for a technical proficiency assessment being given for those seeking the highest class of the nation's amateur radio licence - the "C" class. C class hams are permitted up to 1 kW of power on bands below 30 MHz and 25 watts above 30 MHz. The exam will be held in Beijing on November 5th and will be overseen by the Beijing Radio Association. The announcement came from the Chinese Radio Amateurs Club, the national ham radio association, which said that the assessment had originally been scheduled for October 22nd but had to be rescheduled. This is Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF. (CRAC, SOUTHGATE) ** EQUIPMENT SETS SAIL FOR PALAU DXPEDITION DON/ANCHOR: It won't be long now before 15 hundred pounds, or 680 kilograms, of equipment for the T88WA DXpedition arrives at its final destination: The Republic of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. The ship set sail on the 7th of September. The operators, members of the Western Washington DX Club, are to leave the United States at the end of October: Justin, K5EM; Jack, N7JP; Rob, N7QT; Brian, N9ADG; and Robin, WA7CPA, the only YL in the group. The expedition will take place inside an operating bungalow between November 2nd and 14th using three stations and six antennas. One hexbeam will be pointed towards Europe and another towards North America. The group writes on their page on QRZ.com that they are hoping to make the first activation of 60m from Palau and be lucky enough to give EU contacts on the low bands. (QRZ) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .