Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 25 2022 00:21:10

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2317 for Friday March 25th, 2022

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2317 with a release date of Friday,
March 25th, 2022, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. China's space station makes room for amateur 
radio. Russia and Belarus are suspended from CEPT -- and hams help other 
hams after Australia's wide-ranging flood damage. All this and more, as 
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2317 comes your way right now.

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CHINA'S SPACE STATION TO PUT HAMS IN ORBIT

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story this week takes us to the space station that 
China is building, module by module. The latest word is that one of 
those modules will have room for amateur radio. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has 
those details.

JIM: China's Tiangong space station, which is being constructed in low 
Earth orbit following the launch of its first module last May, is 
expected to have room for astronauts, experiments and now,  amateur 
radio. The IARU's satellite frequency coordination panel reports that it 
received an application on March 8th for an amateur radio payload to be 
on board. The station is being proposed by the Chinese Radio Amateurs 
Club in cooperation with the Aerospace System Engineering Research 
Institute of Shanghai and the Harbin Institute of Technology. Previous 
news reports have noted that the Chinese Manned Space Agency plans to 
have three astronauts on board continuously for a minimum of 10 years. 
One module will house the astronauts; the space station expects to use 
the remaining two of its three modules to host scientific experiments of 
researchers from all nations of the UN.

The amateur radio station is applying to use portions of the VHF/UHF 
amateur radio band and will consist of communications by voice, 
repeater, AFSK digipeater and SSTV or other digital imaging modes. Not 
unlike the radios on board the International Space Station, the ham 
radios on the Chinese space station are intended for a variety of uses, 
including contacts with students to inspire careers in science, 
technology, engineering and math. According to the application, the 
payload would launch in the third quarter of this year.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.

(SPACE.COM, AMSAT-UK)

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EUROPEAN CONFERENCE SUSPENDS RUSSIAN, BELARUSIAN MEMBERSHIP

PAUL/ANCHOR: Hams from Belarus and the Russian Federation are feeling 
the impact after their nations' memberships were suspended from the 
European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations. Ed 
Durrant, DD5LP, has an update.

ED: The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications 
Administrations has indefinitely suspended the membership of Belarus
and the Russian Federation, in a sweeping action that has an impact on 
amateur radio operators. An agreement within the conference, known as 
CEPT, grants amateur radio privileges to qualifying hams traveling 
between signatory countries without the need to obtain additional 
permits or licences. The CEPT was formed to foster cooperation among its 
member nations with regards to postal and electronic communications.

The suspension, which comes in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 
took effect on the 18th of March. The Russian Federation joined CEPT in 
1994. Belarus became a member in 2003.

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP.

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SILENT KEY: GILES READ, G1MFG, RSGB's TECHNICAL EDITOR

PAUL/ANCHOR: The Radio Society of Great Britain has suffered a great 
loss with the death of one of its key team members. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH,
has that story.

JEREMY: Giles Read, G1MFG, had been the technical editor for RadCom 
magazine, the widely read publication sent free every month to Society 
members throughout the world. The Society announced that Giles, who had 
been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer just days earlier, 
became a Silent Key on Friday, March 18th. No further details were 
immediately available. We here at Amateur Radio Newsline extend our 
condolences to his family and friends.

The Society will be posting additional details about Giles on its 
website at rsgb.org/sk

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(RSGB)
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