Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Mar 03 2022 21:12:00 TRANSATLANTIC TRIUMPH FOR REPLICA TRANSMITTER STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A transmitter that was built to honor the one used 100 years ago during the famous Transatlantic Tests scored big during brief QSO Party on Saturday, February 26th. Kent Peterson, KC0DGY, tells us about it. KENT: It was a memorable moment as the 100-year-old vacuum tubes inside a replica of the Transatlantic Test transmitter powered a signal that once again spanned an ocean -- and perhaps even time. For three hours, three museum volunteers put callsign W2AN/1BCG on the air, marking the successful completion of repairs done since the replica's activation for the December centennial of the historic December 1921 test. Ed Gable, K2MP, Peter Schuch, WB2UAQ, and Bill Hopkins, AA2YV, operated for three hours from upstate New York feeding a T-antenna with lots of radials. The moment seemed right: Ed told Newsline that [quote] "a very nice thing happened." [endquote] He said operators crowding the bands in the weekend's 160m SSB contest appeared to move aside and make room for the important 375-watt transmission. Some high points:Reaching farther west in the US to log W8KGI in New Mexico -- and crossing the ocean once more, logging OH1XX in Finland, and YO2VG in Romania. Ed, the museum's curator emeritus, said this ends the 100-year-celebration. He said [quote] "The transmitter now goes into display mode at the museum and will wake up sometime in someone else's future." [endquote] For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson, KC0DGY. (ED GABLE, K2MP/W2AN) ** GERMAN YL BECOMES NEW YOUNGEST ADVANCED LICENSEE STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The newest advanced class license-holder in Germany is a YL barely in her teens. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, tells us about her. ED: A 13-year-old girl in Germany can now join the rest of her family on the air, and celebrate her recent achievement: Congratulations to Frederike D”tsch, DH9FD, who has become the country's youngest person to currently hold a Class A radio amateur licence. She follows in the footsteps of another bright YL, Laura Bergmann, DL2JJ, who was only 10 years old in 2017 when holding her previous callsign of DO9JJ, upgraded her licence from novice to full, joining both her parents on the air. Frederike passed her license exam administered by BNetzA, the Federal Network Agency and now joins her parents and her grandfather as active hams. According to a press release from the DARC, she has been a member of the German amateur radio club since late last year. With her new advanced level of licence, she is permitted to transmit on all ham radio frequencies in Germany. Be listening for her on the air. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP. (DARC) ** NEWSLINE'S YHOTY 2022 NOMINATIONS OPEN STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Online nominations are now being accepted for the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year award. Newsline’s Mark Abramowicz (pronouncer- Abram-uh-vich) NT3V is the chairman of the YHOTY award committee, and has this report. MARK: Our founder, the late Bill Pasternak WA6ITF, established this award 45 years ago to recognize the outstanding achievements of young people - boys and girls - through amateur radio. It brought him great joy to read the many nominations he forwarded to a select group of judges to choose the winner. He insisted an independent panel of amateur radio's best to pick from the nominees. I can tell you, Bill was always thrilled with the results. I know this, because Bill asked me to fill a board vacancy and serve as the chairman of the award and judging committee in 2002. I was honored when Josh Abramowicz KB3GWY, now KK4WDP, my son, was nominated by a fellow Scouter to receive the award, and we met in Huntsville where Bill presented it. We lost Bill in 2015. However, his legacy lives on as the Amateur Radio Newsline staff unanimously agreed to attach his name to the award to honor his memory. Now, it's up to you! We here at Newsline need your help to identify a young person 18 years or younger living in the Continental USA to nominate for the 2022 award. The nomination form and details are available on our website - arnewsline.org. We only accept online nominations to speed the process and make it easier for you to compile photos, letters, emails, and anything else you can think of to help us get to know the young person you're endorsing. The most important link right now in all of this is you. Don't wait until the last minute because a good nomination packet takes time to prepare. The deadline for nominations is May 31. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V. --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (954:895/7) .