Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Dec 03 2021 02:20:00

SUCCESS WAS IN THE (QSL) CARDS

NEIL/ANCHOR: For one ham club in Massachusetts, a recent QSL sorting party 
became a celebration party. Andy Morrison, K9AWM, shares the details.

ANDY: The recent QSL sorting party of the Nashoba Valley Amateur Radio 
Club was anything but routine. As they handled the coveted confirmations 
of DX contacts, preparing the cards to be sent to their recipients, the 
volunteer crew found itself on the receiving end of something as well: The 
Massachusetts club was presented with a plaque from the ARRL's DX QSL 
Bureau System for the group's 25 years of service to the ARRL regional 
bureau. Club president Bruce Blain, K1BG, accepted the honor on behalf of 
the club from the bureau's comanager, Eric Williams, KV1J.

With hams enjoying a better sunspot cycle now, there's likely to be lots 
more DX on the horizon so the club can look forward to sorting many more 
of those cards for the foreseeable future.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Andy Morrison, K9AWM.

(JOE REYNOLDS KA1GDQ)

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CHANGES COMING FOR AUSTRALIAN LICENSEES

NEIL/ANCHOR: Australia's regulator is seeking input on two proposed 
changes affecting amateur radio licensees. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, brings us 
that story.

GRAHAM: Australia's communications regulator has proposed syllabus changes 
impacting the Advanced, which is the Full amateur licence and, in a 
separate move, seeks to restrict further issuance of two callsign suffixes 
associated with emergencies.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority's proposal for the 
Advanced licence would adopt the exam syllabus from the CEPT 
Recommendations, making the certificate of proficiency fully compatible 
with CEPT HAREC. 

Separately, the regulator is seeking to drop callsign suffixes SOS and PAN 
from future allocations because of their association with international 
emergency and distress calls. Hams with callsigns already containing these 
suffixes will not be affected. Going forward, the suffixes will be added 
instead to a list of reserved call signs.

The regulator invites comments on both of these proposals and asks hams to 
respond no later than the close of business, Australia time, on Monday, 
the 13th of December. A link to the survey is in the text version of this 
newscast on our website arnewsline.org.

In another move, hams have been notified that the ACMA now requires all 
equipment sold or imported into Australia to comply with ARPANSA's 
electromagnetic energy exposure levels, simplifying the mandatory testing 
procedure for most amateurs.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

[FOR PRINT ONLY, DO NOT READ: 
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(ACMA) 

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SPECIAL ACTIVATION MARKS PEARL HARBOR'S BOMBING

NEIL/ANCHOR: The US Battleship Iowa's original Navy callsign, NEPM, will 
be heard on the air on Tuesday, December 7th, marking the anniversary of 
Japan's surprise aerial bombing of the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in 
1941. That attack spurred the United States' entry into World War II.

The US Navy's Third Fleet Spectrum Manager has authorized the callsign's 
activation by the Battleship Iowa Amateur Radio Association and the Iowa's 
Innovation and Engineering Team. The hams will be operating split; be 
listening for them on 14.781.5 MHz and answer their call using 14.343 MHz. 
The activation will take place between 1600 and 2359 UTC. 

For more details, visit the QRZ.COM page for NEPM.

(BATTLESHIP IOWA AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION)
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