Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Aug 28 2020 16:45:19 BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the Potomac Highlands Amateur Radio Club's N8VAA repeater, in Moorefield, West Virginia, on Mondays, at 8 p.m. local time. ** ARRL BOARD SELECTS NEW CEO NEIL/ANCHOR: A prominent New Jersey radio amateur has been chosen as the new chief executive officer of the ARRL. David Minster, NA2AA, of Wayne, New Jersey, was chosen by the league's board of directors to succeed interim CEO Barry Shelley, N1VXY. A CW operator and seasoned contester, David also belongs to AMSAT, the Straight Key Century Club, the Frankford Radio Club, and the North American QRP CW Club. His tenure begins September 28th. (ARRL) ** ANOTHER HAM JOINS STARLINER MISSION TO ISS NEIL/ANCHOR: Congratulations to Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU, who will be making her first space flight next year, as part of the Boeing Starliner-1 mission to the International Space Station. She will join a six-month expedition that includes two other hams - Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, and Josh Cassada, KI5CRH, who were both chosen for the mission in 2018. This is to be the first operational crewed flight of Starliner. The mission will be the first as well for John Cassada, but it will be the third for Sunita Willliams, who has been on two previous expeditions to the ISS. (SOUTHGATE, NASA) ** HAMS HELP SHARE EXCITEMENT OVER INDY 500 RACE NEIL/ANCHOR: In Indianapolis, hams went the distance recently to keep up the excitement for an iconic 500-mile auto race, as Jack Parker, W8ISH, tells us. JACK: While the Indianapolis 500 mile race ran without fans in the stands, thousands of amateur radio operators from around the world were still able to reach out, and touch history in the making. During the week prior to the 104th running of the Indy 500, members of the W9IMS special event station, ran their own 7-day marathon to log contacts in honor of the 500-mile race. Due to COVID-19 concerns, the race was moved from Memorial Day weekend to August 23rd, to allow pandemic issues to run its course. Track officials had to ban fan participation at the last minute, and only allowed race crews and officials, inside the two and a half mile oval. That didn't deter the W9IMS special event club. Despite poor band conditions, they successfully operated for seven days, taking check-ins on most of the HF bands. The 500-mile race stats are not in yet, but the crew reported over 5,200 contacts for the first two races earlier in the spring. W9IMS normally operates three weeks of special event stations, starting in May, with the Indy Grand Prix, then the Indy 500, and then in July for the Brickyard 400. This year, every station who contacted W9IMS for all three races, will receive a special certificate or QSL card. Check out the details on the W9IMS, QRZ page. Reporting from Indianapolis, for Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Jack Parker, W8ISH. ** WYOMING CLUB EVENT SAYS 'COME AND GET US' NEIL/ANCHOR: Who says ham radio operators don't know how to recycle creatively? The Shy-Wy Amateur Radio Club had reserved the special event call sign W7Y for the Wyoming ARRL Section Convention the club was scheduled to host in Cheyenne -- but the pandemic prompted the convention's cancellation. The call sign, however, is going to be as active as ever. It's been repurposed. Be listening on various bands, and in various modes, including digital and satellite, for W7Y between September 6th and September 15th. The club is calling this its "Come and Get Wyoming" event. All logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World, and there are additional details on the special event page on QRZ.com Meanwhile, the club is also putting out a special request to any and all Wyoming amateur radio operators to please join them on the air. Contact shywyevents at gmail dot com (shywyevents@gmail.com) and ask to be put on the schedule. Remember, you'll have 10 days to get Wyoming in your logbook, just in case you need it for that Worked All States Award. Come and get it! (R.J. BRAGG WY7AA) --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (618:250/33) .