Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C)
To   : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Mar 25 2022 00:21:21

BREAK HERE: 

Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio 
Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the 
Butler County Amateur Radio Public Service Group's K3PSG repeater, in 
Butler, Pennsylvania, on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. local time

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FCC HAM RADIO LICENSE FEE TAKES EFFECT APRIL 19TH

PAUL/ANCHOR: Get ready for April 19th. If you're looking to upgrade, 
renew, or change your callsign, you have until that date to do so without 
having to pay a fee. The FCC has announced its new $35 application fee 
for US amateur radio licenses takes effect on that date. The agency said 
the fees can be paid by using the Commission's Universal Licensing 
System on the FCC website. The FCC posted a public notice on its website 
on March 23, announcing it would begin collecting the fees, which it has 
said will cover the costs of processing the applications. For hams, the 
fees apply to new licenses, renewals, upgrades, sequential call sign 
changes and applications for vanity calls. It does not apply to such 
administrative updates as change of email or other mailing address.

(FCC)

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OREGON LAUNCHES STATE'S FIRST SATELLITE

PAUL/ANCHOR: The team behind Oregon's first satellite gets bragging 
rights this week after its successful launch from Alaska. Ralph 
Squillace, KK6ITB, brings us that story.

RALPH: Space enthusiasts are celebrating the launch of Oregon's first 
satellite, which carried amateur radio into low Earth orbit on a 
spacecraft no larger than a box of tissues. Known as OreSat0, it is an 
open source CubeSat built by the Portland State Aerospace Society, an 
interdisciplinary group of students at Portland State University. With 
solar panels, batteries, a color camera and of course amateur radio on 
board, it was launched on March 15th from Kodiak, Alaska.

The group's faculty advisor, Andrew Greenberg, KD7CJT, said on the 
university website [quote]: "Our small group of space hipsters gathered 
in the rocket room to watch the launch with fancy bagels and pour-over 
coffee, and then collectively held our breath for more than an hour." 
[endquote] After some nervous moments, they learned the flight had gone 
smoothly. Its mission, which is to test the cubesat system itself, is 
expected to last several years. Fear not, this won't be the first and 
the last for Oregon. The group is already hard at work on OreSat0.5 
(OreSat Zero Point Five), and it's scheduled for launch this summer. It 
will be a larger satellite for NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative and will 
carry equipment gathering data for global climate science, studying the 
distribution of high altitude cirrus clouds.

Meanwhile if you'd like to track the pride of Oregon's space fans, see 
the link in the text version of this week's script at arnewsline.org

For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Ralph Squillace, KK6ITB.

[FOR PRINT ONLY, DO NOT READ: 

https://uniclogs-cesium-megqz.ondigitalocean.app/ ]

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NORWAY'S BEGINNERS' LICENSE GAINS TRACTION

PAUL/ANCHOR: Norway is moving forward with a plan to introduce a new 
amateur radio license for beginners. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has that story.

JEREMY: Norway has plans to introduce a 10-watt entry level certificate 
for young hams. It has the financial support of one million Kroner, or 
nearly $114,000 US dollars, from the Norwegian Research Council with the 
input of hams throughout the nation.

The proposal, introduced last year, was discussed at Norway's 
Hammeeting, an annual amateur radio convention. Attendees included the 
communications regulator NKOM, and the Norwegian Radio Relay League. The 
NRRL, the Research Institute of Forsvaret and Torbj”rn, LA4ZCA, are 
working together on a plan to introduce the subject formally into school 
curricula. The proposed certificate would become available to 12- and 
13-year-old enthusiasts operating at low power on limited bands.

The entry level licence has the support of such groups as the Academic 
Radio Club, or ARK, which has already been making classes available. The 
ARK is Norway's oldest amateur radio club for students.

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

(ARK, SOUTHGATE)
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