Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Oct 06 2022 19:45:00

BREAK HERE: 

Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline 
heard on bulletin stations around the world including the W3NTT repeater 
in Palmerton Pennsylvania at 9 p.m. on Sundays.

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AMSAT-INDIA GIVES ENGINEERING STUDENTS AN INTRO TO HAM RADIO

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Amateur radio was the big lesson of the day recently on 
one university campus in India. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, tells us what 
everyone talked about happened.

JIM: There was perhaps no better way to mark the occasion of Engineering 
Day in September than to hold an amateur radio workshop on a university 
campus and provide some eye-opening lessons for tech students there.

AMSAT-India's regional coordinator, Rajesh Vagadia, VU2EXP, did just that 
at Marwadi University in Gujarat, and in four hours the 80 students from 
the Information and Communications Technology Department, along with a 
special team assigned to a student project, gained insights into amateur 
radio as well as ham radio satellites. For that one special team of 
students, the timing could not have been better: The university recently 
announced that they will be building a satellite to be launched by the 
ISRO. The workshop provided some bonus preparatory work for them.
 
The more terrestrial-minded demonstrations - from digital modes and VHF 
FM to SSTV - were conducted with the help of Sakshi Vagadia, VU3EXP, and 
Shyama Vagadia, VU3WHG, who is also part of the student satellite team. 
Workshops also covered such topics as the jargon of amateur radio, 
operating in the POTA and IOTA award programmes, high-altitude balloon 
tracking and, of course, CW.

Just as every amateur contact on the air is usually followed up with a 
QSL of some sort, this workshop is not the end of the contact with this 
campus. Rajesh reported that the university administrators were so 
pleased that AMSAT-INDIA can expect to come back to conduct more 
programmes.

This is Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.

(QRZ.COM)

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EXTRA CLASS 'GERATOL' NET TURNS 50

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A popular Extra Class net is back on the air after taking 
a break for a few months. We hear about their plans from Sel Embee, 
KB3 T Zed Dee.

SEL: The GERATOL Net is back. That's spelled G E R A T O L, which stands 
for Greetings Extra Radio Amateur Tired of Operating Lately, except after 
a few months of NOT operating lately, the net is back on the air. You can 
find Extra Class operators checking in every night on 3.668 MHz, starting 
at 0100 UTC. Now in its 50th year of operation, the net is marking the 
occasion by adding an anniversary award to the array of awards it already 
confers to qualifying hams. To be eligible, hams must make 50 contacts - 
one for each year of the net's lifetime - during a session of the GERATOL 
Net. These contacts must be logged during the period of the net's 
anniversary year. The contacts must include the club staton W0NL.

For details about the award or additional information on how to find and 
check into the net, visit the website g e r a t o l dot net (geratol.net)

This is Sel Embee, KB3TZD.

(GERATOL NET)

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STUDENTS IN UKRAINE AWAIT THEIR SATELLITE'S LAUNCH

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A student-built CubeSat is being prepared for launch next 
month and its young creators in UKraine have included amateur radio 
operators in their plans. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, brings us up to date.

ED: Students at the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine 
are looking forward to the November launch of an educational satellite 
they built with a group of space-exploration enthusiasts. The students' 
Cubesat is designed to work on a variety of scientific and technical 
issues related to research at the institute's school, the National 
Technical University of Ukraine.

The Cubesat, QBUA01, will be in a sun-synchronous orbit and accessible to 
hams around the world who can receive telemetry, beacon and science 
payload data.

The nano-satellite project will focus its studies on near space and will 
explore the operation of solar sensors, magnetometers, gyroscopes, 
electromagnets and flywheels used in stabilization and orientation in 
space. Research will also focus on thermal regulation of a payload using 
heat pipes and on new software for controlling satellite systems and 
obtaining telemetry. Frequencies to be used are still being finalized.A 
9k6 GMSK UHF downlink is proposed using AX25.

This is Ed Durrant, DD5LP.

(IARU)
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