Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Aug 25 2022 18:04:47 ROMANIAN STUDENTS RETURN FROM 4-DAY SOTA EXPEDITION JIM/ANCHOR: Students in an amateur radio club in Romania have returned home with full hearts and full logbooks after four days of activating the countryside's beautiful mountains. More on their trip from Ed Durrant, DD5LP. ED: Accompanied by their teacher Adrian YO5IA, and other mentors, a group of young amateurs from the school radio club YO6KGS in Romania set out from Râciu Village in late July for their latest adventure, a four-day SOTA expedition in the Giumalau Mountains. After watching demonstrations by Csaba, YO6PIB, and Eva, YO6EVA, who activated their first summit, Giumalău Peak, the students joined them on 20m and 17m. Ranging in age from 12 to 20, many of the students had gone on previous activations with the school club and their advisors. Mihaela, YO5MCM, could not be there in person this time but made sure to chase the group from her QTH in Cluj about 200 km away. There was also a family reunion, ham radio style, as Nico YO6YLJ, made a summit-to-summit contact with his father, Mihai YO6SM, who was operating from Norway using the call sign LB9HI. Mihai was able to give the other students their chance for a summit-to-summit contact too. Everyone spent comfortable nights in a mountain cottage and by the final night they had earned some bragging rights: The whole team had activated Giumalău summit, YO/EC-007, and logged summit-to-summit QSOs from Muncel, YO/EC-527, to Giumalău on VHF and UHF. Daria YO6CDC wrote in her online diary that until the next time: [quote] "We have the radio waves, the contests, the radioclub where we meet, while the memories last forever." [endquote] This is Ed Durrant, DD5LP. (ADRIAN YO5IA) ** TOP HONORS FOR CALIFORNIA AMATEUR'S DOCUMENTARY AT LOS ANGELES FILM FEST JIM/ANCHOR: A documentary film celebrating the spirit of invention has just won top honors at a Los Angeles Film Festival. Not surprisingly, the film's creative team included a ham. We hear more from Mike Askins, KE5CXP. MIKE: "Pathways to Invention," a newly released documentary film directed and coproduced by a Santa Barbara, California amateur radio operator, has been chosen as Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards. Levi C. Maaia, K6LCM, is both a teacher and a tinkerer who believes that technology can be a driving force to power education. A proponent of the Maker movement, Levi and his production partner Noah G. Mark follow 10 emerging innovators on their journeys to become inventors. The film was made with the support of the Lemelson Foundation. At the festival, the film also received awards for best producer, best original music score and best director of a documentary feature. The film is to premiere this year. Levi has been active on the education committee of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. He is also a life member of AMSAT and a board member of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club. I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP. (LEVI C. MAAIA, K6LCM) ** INDIAN AMATEURS MARK NATION'S 75 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE JIM/ANCHOR: India has just marked its 75 years of independence and hams have been busy celebrating on the air. Jim Meachen ZL2BHF tells us some of the ways they're marking the occasion. JIM: Amateurs throughout India and beyond have been marking that nation's 75 years of independence with special event stations and commemorative nets. Special event station AT75CW will be on the air using CW from September 1st trough October 2nd from northern India. Rajesh, VU2CW, is the same operator who activated AT75RADIO earlier this month on SSB. Meanwhile, the Indian YL Net on the India Conference Server on Echolink marked the nation's independence with a series of guest net control operators during the week of Monday, August 15th. Guests net controllers on this daily net included Dr. S. Sathyapal, VU2FI, director of the Indian Institute of Hams, using the call sign AU75IIH, and Omprakash Khiyani, VU2KOC, who runs a popular net in India. He used the call sign AU75KOC. India officially marked its independence on Monday, August 15th. This is Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF. (QRZ, INDIAN YL NET) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .