Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Sep 23 2022 08:10:12 Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2343 for Friday September 23rd, 2022 Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2343 with a release date of Friday, September 23rd, 2022 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1. The following is a QST. Hams respond as Hurricane Fiona bears down. China prepares to launch another ham radio satellite -- and Youth on the Air camp heads to Canada in 2023. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2343 comes your way right now. ** BILLBOARD CART ** HAMS AID IN EFFORTS AFTER HURRICANE FIONA PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story this week is Hurricane Fiona, which brought devastation to the islands of the Caribbean. Amateur radio operators were part of the team responding to the vast needs of the region. RANDY: As Hurricane Fiona ravaged the region, amateur radio operators were hard at work in areas of the Eastern Caribbean and Western Atlantic. Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the Turks and Caicos islands, suffered severe flooding, catastrophic wind damage and major power outages as the storm, which grew to Category 4, made its way toward Bermuda. In addition to local communications support, the Hurricane Watch Net was activated and Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network was handling health and welfare traffic. William Planas-Montes, NP3WP, ARES section emergency coordinator for Puerto Rico reported that around 45 ham radio operators were working with different government municipalities and ARES personnel were setting up equipment in anticipation of additional activity. Jason Tremblay, VE3JXT, emergency coordinator for the Bermuda area of IARU Region 2, told AR Newsline that, at the time of this report, planning was still underway by their executive team for that area. This is Randy Sly, W4XJ ** SWITZERLAND AMATEURS SHARPEN THEIR RADIO READINESS PAUL/ANCHOR: Disaster preparedness, even when there is no immediate disaster, is also a big part of amateur radio. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, tells us how hams in Switzerland worked recently with their radio teammates to polish their skills. ED: Hundreds of hams, citizens band operators and owners of private mobile radios teamed up throughout Liechtenstein and Switzerland in a wide-ranging emergency-response drill on Saturday, September 18th. The fictional scenario was similar to the simulated regional power shortage that played out three times before. The radio event has come to be known as the Swiss Emergency Contest but it is less of a true competition than a measure of readiness if all or part of the power grid fails. Hams in the Union of Swiss short wave Amateurs, the USKA, have taken the lead in this effort. Only days earlier, at its board of directors meeting, the leadership announced it was developing an operating framework for hams and those using other types of radios to assist during blackouts and power shortages when communication during emergencies takes even higher priority. The latest exercise employed a variety of equipment and modes and used such alternate power sources as solar panels and batteries. This is Ed Durrant, DD5LP. (BERNARD WEHRLI, HB9ALH; USKA) ** CHINA PREPS NEXT AMATEUR RADIO SATELLITE PAUL/ANCHOR: China is preparing to send a new ham radio satellite into orbit in the next few weeks. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has the details. JIM: The CAS-10 amateur radio satellite is set to go into space from China's Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in early November, where it will be sent to the Tiangong Space Station aboard the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft. The satellite, which carries a V/U linear transponder, will become operational sometime after its deployment from the space station around the 15th of December. The transponder is expected to operate all day throughout the satellite's lifetime, using a VHF uplink and UHF downlink with a 30 kHz bandwidth. CAS-10 is also equipped with a camera. Hams will be able to send DTMF commands to download photos taken by the camera and stored in the satellite's flash memory. Satellite telemetry data will be sent via Morse Code. For additional details and frequencies, visit the AMSAT-UK link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org [FOR PRINT ONLY: http://www.amsatuk.me.uk/iaru/finished_detail.php?serialnum=858 ] I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF. (AMSAT-UK, SOUTHGATE) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .