Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Sep 23 2022 08:10:42 UK AMATEURS ACTIVATE FOR RAILWAYS ON THE AIR PAUL/ANCHOR: All aboard: It's time to celebrate Britain's heritage steam railways, and Jeremy Boot, G4NJH has just the ticket. JEREMY: The Moorlands and District Amateur Radio Society has a special link to the Foxfield Light Railway as that is where the club is based. Foxfield, which is run by a preservation society, is one of Britain's oldest heritage steam railways. Club members are putting it on the air during the Railways on the Air event on September 24th and 25th using the callsign GB1FLR. Railways on the Air is an annual celebration of the role that these trains played in the nation's heritage. Be listening on HF and VHF phone as the Foxfield amateurs operate from locator square IO82. The club welcomes QSL cards via eQSL, direct or through the bureau. Full details are on the GB1FLR qrz.com page. For details about the event and a list of other stations, visit rota dot barac dot org dot uk. (rota.barac.org.uk) This is Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. (QRZ.COM) ** REGISTRATION OPENS FOR TASSIE HAM RADIO CONFERENCE AND EXPO PAUL/ANCHOR: Registration has opened for a major amateur radio conference Down Under. John Williams, VK4JJW, tells us what's happening in Tasmania. JOHN: Speakers from around the world will be presenting lectures on a wide range of amateur radio topics during the Tassie Ham Radio Conference and Expo in November. Registration has opened. The two-day event, which is being organised by the Radio and Electronics Association of Southern Tasmania, will be held on the Sandy Bay campus of the University of Tasmania. The conference will be held on Saturday the 5th of November and presentations will include such topics as interference mitigation, remote station operation, low-power portable EME, promoting your amateur radio club and youth engagement. The expo will be held the next day. Registration is mandatory for those who wish to attend. See the link in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org. [PRINT ONLY: reast.asn.au/news-events/tassie-ham-radio-conference-and-expo/ ] This is John Williams, VK4JJW. (REAST) ** CUB SCOUTS TO GET HAM RADIO PREVIEW PAUL/ANCHOR: When youngsters meet up on Saturday, October 1st at the Peterloon Scout Camp in Cincinnati, they will be getting a preview of two things: These 10-year-old boys, known in Scouting as Webelos (wee- buh-lows) will see what awaits them when they leave the rank of Cub Scout and become full-fledged Scouts. They will also get a preview of amateur radio. Be listening for a special event station being operated by the West Chester Amateur Radio Association operating all day from the scout camp with the call sign N8P. Hams will be on the air using the club's Go-Box, calling CQ and looking for future hams in Scouting. (JOCELYN BRAULT, KD8VRX/VA2VRX) ** UK HAM LOGS FIRST-TIME 8M CONTACT WITH SOUTH AFRICA PAUL/ANCHOR: Imagine being the first amateur to log a DX contact on a band that is experimental in your country. Well, that happened to one ham recently in England. We hear about him from Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. JEREMY: For Paul, G7PUV, it was an experiment that worked. The East Sussex amateur, who holds an Innovation and Trial licence to use 40 MHz, announced that he has made the first SSB contact on the band between the UK and South Africa, where 8 metres is a standard ham frequency which gives amateurs a primary allocation with a maximum of 400 watts output between 40.675 and 40.685 MHz. Paul reports that he accomplished this Trans Equatorial Propagation contact with Willem, ZS6WAB. He writes on his QRZ.com page that Ofcom has permitted him access to the band on frequencies between 40 and 42 MHz for testing purposes. Paul posted a video of the 17th of September contact on his Twitter feed. You can watch it by following the link that appears in the text version of this week's newscast at arnewsline.org [FOR PRINT ONLY: https://twitter.com/AceBlaggard/status/1571161819846164482 ] I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. (TWITTER, SOUTHGATE) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .