Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Dec 09 2022 07:41:08 ENGINEER NEEDED FOR FOR STATION WWVH NEIL/ANCHOR: Listeners around the world tune in regularly to WWV and WWVH, the radio station of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for various voice announcements, including the time. Now the US government agency hopes qualified engineers will tune into an important job opening it has - for a position based in Hawaii. Jack Parker, W8ISH, tells us more. JACK: Radio station WWVH, which is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is looking to hire an engineer in charge. In addition to maintenance of the station on Kauai, Hawaii, the job requires regular communication with NIST's Time and Frequency division in Boulder, Colorado. The engineer is responsible for the four radio transmission systems - on 2.5, 5, 10, and 15 MHz - which are required to be on the air 99.7 percent of the time. One or two electronic technicians will report to the engineer in charge. For more details about the job and whether you qualify, visit the link in the text version of this week's Newsline script at arnewsline.org This is Jack Parker, W8ISH. [FOR PRINT ONLY: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/690931100 ] ** BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the Midstate Hams WA9RDF repeater in Greenwood Indiana on Sundays at 7 p.m. local time. ** NEW RECORD SET ON LOWEST HAM BAND IN AUSTRALIA NEIL/ANCHOR: In Australia, a new record has been set for a contact on the 2200m-band. John Williams, VK4JJW, has those details. JOHN: Using barely 1 watt of power, a station south of Perth in Western Australia made a record-setting one-way contact into North America on the 2200-metre band, which at 136 kHz, is the lowest amateur band in Australia. The contact was made on November 21st between VK6MJM and received in the United States by Paul, KM5SW, in New Mexico. The distance was 16,164 kilometres and the power was 0.8 watts EIRP. The station was using a five-minute key-down mode known as WSJT-X FST4W-300 mode. It was a big moment for the Western Australian Low Frequency Experimenters Group, or WALFEG, which operates the station. It is led by Peter Hall, VK6HP, and is affiliated with the Wireless Institute of Australia. This is John Williams, VK4JJW. (WIA) ** PROGRESS ON WORLD'S LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE NEIL/ANCHOR: The world's largest radio telescope is on track to be completed by the end of this decade. Graham Kemp, VK4BB, has more on its progress. GRAHAM: Sites in Australia and South Africa have begun construction on the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, or SKAO, and astronomers are hoping to see the massive observatory's two antenna stations finish construction by May 2023, with the first dish commissioned in April of 2024 according to a report on the Space.com website. When the huge project is completed, it will boast a full 1-square kilometer collection area and it will be the world's largest radio telescope. Construction began recently on the observatory's mid- array in the Karoo desert of South Africa which will scan for sources of radio waves from 350 MHz to 15.4 GHz. The low-array is also under construction north of Perth in Western Australia. It will use 131,072 dipoles seeking signals on frequencies between 50 and 350 MHz. This is Graham Kemp, VK4BB. (SPACE.COM) ** AMATEUR-OWNED COMPANY BUILDING SATELLITE PLANT IN INDIA NEIL/ANCHOR: In our previous newscast, we shared the triumph of the amateur-owned company that sent two of its made-in-India CubeSats into space aboard an Indian Space Research Organisation rocket. The company announced it is ready to join other enterprises in that nation in taking the next step. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, tells us what's next. JIM: Not long after the launch of its Thybolt 1 and Thybolt 2 satellites, Dhruva Space, based in Hyderabad (Hydra-BOD), announced it was moving forward to build a facility where it can assemble and test satellites as large as 100 kg. Cofounder Abhay Egoor, the company's chief technical officer, said Dhruva is already raising funds toward that end. Dhruva joins another India-based space company, Pixxel, which is building a satellite assembly facility in Bengaluru. Pixxel expects that project to be completed during the first half of next year. Other companies are gearing up as well: Bangalore-based Bellatrix Aerospace, which is building in Karnataka; and Agnikul Cosmos in Madras, which is looking to develop testing facilities in Chennai. This is Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF. (INVENTIVA, STARTUPSTORYMEDIA) --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .