Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri May 06 2022 08:35:55 YOUNG HAM AWARD NOMINATING WINDOW TO CLOSE SOON PAUL/ANCHOR: The clock is ticking on the time you have left to send in your nominations for the Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year award. Amateur Radio Newsline's Mark Abramowicz (pronouncer Abram-a-vich) NT3V is chairman of the award committee, and has more. MARK: We're looking for candidates - 18 years or younger from the continental United States. Details under the awards tab at our website: arnewsline.org. We're looking for someone who has a real love of the hobby - perhaps through a public service role in amateur radio. Maybe that young ham you know serves as a net control for a local net. Or they like working with other young people, helping expose them to the fun and excitement of ham radio. Maybe - thanks to Elmers or other mentors - they really have developed a love of contesting, or chasing DX and sharing those experiences with others. Are they active in your radio club? Have they ever been to Dayton or made a presentation there or someplace else? How about introducing amateur radio at school? Maybe establishing a school radio club. Or have they helped set up and taken part in a contact with the International Space Station? Time to act now. Deadline for nominations is May 31st. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mark Abramowicz, NT3V. ** HAM STATIONS WARMING UP FOR INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR RACES PAUL/ANCHOR: If you're getting revved up for the annual special event station at the Indianapolis Speedway, you're not alone. Jack Parker, W8ISH, takes us for a test drive. JACK: As spring temperatures warm up so do the radios at W9IMS, the official special event station at the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway. Starting early Monday May 9th, you can make contact with the special event station for the Indy Grand Prix race the following weekend. That's seven days of continuous access on 20 and 40 meters. This is the first of three races and the special event stations for the racing season at the famed two-and-one-half-mile oval in Speedway, Indiana. Later this month, beginning May 23rd, you can make a second contact with W9IMS for the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500 mile race. They will be logging contacts until race day. According to station coordinator Bill Kennedy, WY9T, this is the 19th year for the Indy 500 special event station. After a short breather, the W9IMS men and women will rev up the radios again for the NASCAR 200 race beginning July 25th. Each contact will receive a custom designed QSL card for each race. Those hams logging all three special event stations are eligible for a special three-race certificate this fall. You can find more details of the times and dates by logging onto W9IMS at QRZ. Com. Reporting from Indianapolis, for Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Jack Parker, W8ISH. ** YOUNGSTERS PREP FOR DX ADVENTURE IN CURACAO PAUL/ANCHOR: The three youngsters who were scheduled for a big DX adventure in 2020 are two years older - and two years more eager to get going and get on the air. They're ready for the Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX Adventure that will land them in CURACAO as PJ2T between July 14th and 19th. Created in 2008, the adventure group provides a DX experience, education and some travel experience for young licensees between the ages of 12 and 17 at no cost to them. It is supported entirely by donations from individuals, clubs and other organizations. If you're heading to Hamvention later this month, stop by booth number 2602, and meet the trio of young operators and their team. Tickets will also be sold for a raffle drawing on an HF rig to help support their trip. The trio of young radio amateurs are the same ones chosen for the 2020 trip before it was cancelled because of the pandemic. The youth DX group's last adventure was held in 2019, and set a program record of 6,569 QSOs. (DAVE KALTER MEMORIAL YOUTH DX ADVENTURE) ** SCOUT CAMP ACTIVATION AT WEST POINT RETURNS AFTER 2 YEARS PAUL/ANCHOR: A special event station for young Scouts in the United States is back after two years, and it logged an impressive array of contacts. For that story we turn to Newsline's newest correspondent, George Zafiropoulos, KJ6VU. GEORGE: You might consider special event station W2P the official station of the Comeback Kids. The 58th annual Scout Camporee at the West Point Military Academy in New York had to be cancelled for two consecutive years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the weekend of April 22nd to 24th, it returned and got on the air, making 577 contacts on CW and phone, covering 41 states and 25 DXCC entities on three continents. James Gallo, KB2FMH, one of the organizers, told Newsline that organizers and the West Point Scoutmaster's Council saw that the camporee itself made up for lost time, even with the usual number of 6,000 attendees reduced to 4,000 as a COVID precaution. The radio station had about 13 operators working in rotation on five stations on Saturday and three stayed on with James to finish up the activation the next day. James said the contacts were devoted to mini-ragchews, giving everyone a chance to share memories of being in Scouting or the military. Many of the operators, who were from the Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club in New Jersey, handled the pileups and engaged their contacts in a lively conversation. He said the most memorable contact was logged in the middle of the night on 20 meters: a 5-watt station with the call sign R5AJ. The operator told James he'd been a Scout as a boy and when he found the listing on QRZ he had to make the call. He gave the Scouts a signal report of 5 and 8. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm George Zafiropoulos, KJ6VU. (JAMES GALLO, KB2FMH) PAUL/ANCHOR: If you worked W2P or heard it as a shortwave listener, QSL with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the mailing addresss of W2TMR no later than May 9th. --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .