Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Sep 09 2022 16:52:47

BREAK HERE: 

Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, 
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including D-STAR Reflector 
91 C in Melbourne, Australia on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Australian 
Eastern Time.

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W1AW MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF ITS SHACK'S DEDICATION

PAUL/ANCHOR: Congratulations to W1AW, the headquarters station of the 
American Radio Relay League. The station is marking the anniversary of 
the dedication of the brick building in Newington, Connecticut, that 
became its shack on September 2nd, 1938. The league's official station 
has the callsign of its founding president, Hiram Percy Maxim, who became 
a Silent Key in 1936. Following his death, the league applied to replace 
its callsign of W1MK with Maxim's. The busy station is known around the 
world for the welcome it gives to guest operators as well as for its 
bulletin transmissions and on-air practice sessions of Morse Code.

(ARRL)

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YOUTH PLAQUES ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION IN OCEANIA DX CONTEST

PAUL/ANCHOR: There's extra excitement for younger amateurs in this year's 
Oceania DX contest. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, tells us why.

GRAHAM: Two new, youth-related, plaques have been added to the phone 
section of this year's Oceania DX contest on October 1st from 0600 UTC, 
sponsored by Oscar Reyes, VK3TX, a noted DXer and an IARU Region 3 
director.

The two new plaques are intended to engage younger hams. The "World Youth 
Phone plaque" will recognise the highest-scoring amateur of 25 years or 
younger from outside of Oceania. The "Australia Youth Phone plaque" will 
recognise the highest-scoring amateur 25 years of age or younger from 
within Australia.

This is the 77th running of the contest whose aim is to get non-Oceania 
stations to contact those around the Pacific region and the bands promise 
to be busy with VK and ZL operators calling CQ Oceania DX contest.

This is Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

(OCEANIA DX CONTEST, WIA)

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OBSERVATORY EDUCATOR HONORED FOR WORK IN ASTRONOMY

PAUL/ANCHOR: Hard work in the field of astronomy education paid off 
recently for one longtime educator who's been honored for her years of 
advocacy at facilities around the United States. We hear more from Sel 
Embee, KB3TZD.

SEL: The assistant director for education and public outreach at the 
National Radio Astronomy Observatory has been honored for her work by the 
Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Suzanne Gurton is being recognized 
with the Klumpke (Klumm-Key) Roberts Award for nearly four decades of her 
effort helping educators develop and present astronomy programs to 
further the public's understanding. Before joining the Observatory in 
2016, Suzanne Gurton worked at a number of planetariums around the United 
States and also served as an astronomy lecturer at the Griffith 
Observatory in Los Angeles. She is a former writer and producer at the 
American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Previous recipients of this award have included Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan, 
Timothy Ferris, and Walter Sullivan.

The observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation.

I'm Sel Embee, KB3TZD.
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