Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri May 17 2019 11:49:22

Amateur Radio Newsline 2168, for Friday, May 17, 2019

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2168, with a release date of
Friday, May 17, 2019, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. After Hamvention, it's the Wireless Institute
of Australia's turn. A much-loved podcast, the RAIN Report, is no
longer in active production -- and a trio of SOTA activators operates
briefly on Mount Etna. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline
Number 2168, comes your way right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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WIA PRESENTERS TO FOCUS ON MICROWAVES, RF MANAGEMENT

JIM/ANCHOR: We begin this week with a reminder that just as the
excitement over Dayton Hamvention starts to become a memory, hams
will be heading to Sydney, Australia, for their own excitement.
Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has some of that agenda.

GRAHAM: Attendees at the Wireless Institute of Australia's conference
who are gathering May 24th to 26th in Sydney, will have an opportunity
to learn in greater depth about operating on the microwave bands.
David Minchin, VK5KK, who has been active in the millimeter part of
the spectrum since 1979, will be presenting a look at microwave operation
around Australia. If you don't catch up with him at the AGM, you can
otherwise find him calling QR Zed between 1.296 MHz and 122 GHz, and also
on 10 GHz EME. Another presenter on the agenda is John Buckley, VK2LWB,
who will share the podium with Peter Twartz, principle of a company
specialising in RF management at large-scale events. The two will discuss
spectrum management, and the challenges of managing RF in areas that the
ACMA already has declared as "high density."

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

JIM/ANCHOR: Meanwhile as Newsline went to production, Hamvention plans
included an appearance by John Amodeo, AA6JAX, producer of TV's "Last Man
Standing", on Friday at the D-STAR gathering at 6:30 p.m. at the Drury Inn
and Suites Dayton North -- and on Sunday, free admission to the Greene
County fairgrounds for the public.

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RAIN REPORT NOW ARCHIVES ONLY

JIM/ANCHOR: If the Radio Amateur Information Network report - or RAIN
report - has been a big part of your ham radio life, you have one man to
thank for all those good years. Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, speaks for all of us
as he presents this tribute to the podcast's creator, who is retiring
from the production studio.

DON: Since the mid 1980s Hap Holly, KC9RP has been producing weekly news
bulletins. The RAIN Report, for Radio Amateur Information Network, began
as part of The BEAR Information Service, a Chicago based ham radio program
on the Broadcast Employees Amateur Repeater.  His weekly 10 to 15 minute
magazine-style reports have been a staple of ham radio news reporting for
decades. Now, as time marches on, Hap has decided to hang up the headphones
and turn off the mic.

If you don't know about Hap Holly, his story is worthy of some research.
Born to blind parents, Hap is also blind. One morning at age 7, Hap Holly
woke up totally sightless. His family story was the subject of a 420-page
book "What Love Sees."  That book became a made-for-tv movie airing on CBS
in 1996. He got his ham ticket in 1965, and a year later, served as a phone
patch and net control for the Westcars traffic net.

Hap credits Amateur Radio Newsline founder Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, as
inspiration for the RAIN Report. That friendship continued until Bill's
passing in 2015. Over the decades, Hap shared his Hamvention booth space
with Newsline, and we shared stories and audio between the two reports.

Although Hap is no longer recording new RAIN Reports, the archives will
remain online. There is so much more to Hap's inspiring story than we have
time for here, so I encourage you to visit the website, therainreport.com
to learn more about this amazing gentleman. and listen to the archived
Rain Reports. It will be time well spent.

All of us at Amateur Radio Newsline wish you well in your retirement, Hap.
Thank you for the decades of friendship!

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW.

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ANOTHER LEAP OF FAITH BY PARACHUTE MOBILE

JIM/ANCHOR: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane - wait, it's a
ham radio operator! Andy Morrison tells us about some high-flying hams
beneath those parachutes.

ANDY: We all know there are stars in the sky - but what about AllStar in
the sky? The radio link network is expected to add a whole new dimension
to Mission 35 of the Parachute Mobile hams at their next
skydiving-with-a-radio adventure in California. The hams are jumping off
into the high altitudes above earth on Saturday, May 25th, parachutes and
radios at the ready. According to Rob, KC6TYD, the team's AllStar node,
built by Fred, W6BSD, will be making its debut, as another means of making
contact. It will be available as will EchoLink. The hams taking that leap
of faith out of the airplane, are also looking to make 2 meter QSOs on
146.430 simplex, and 20 meter QSOs on 14.250 MHz, all beneath the canopy
of their parachutes - and of course, the sky.

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