Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Aug 20 2020 23:11:54 WORLD OF DX In the World of DX, be listening on August 22nd and 23rd, for the 23rd International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend, which will activate lighthouses around the world for 48 hours. Some 314 entrants were registered as of the 16th of August. To locate the names and locations of the lighthouses, visit the website that appears in the printed version of this week's newscast. [FOR PRINT ONLY: https://illw.net/index.php/entrants-list-2020] Members of the Association Royale des Radio-Amateurs du Maroc, are active in Morocco using the special prefix 5E7 until the 31st of August. The hams are celebrating the 67th anniversary of the Revolution of the King and the People in Morocco on August 20th, 1953. In West Malaysia, radio amateurs will be using the special callsign 9M63MR to celebrate the 63rd Malaysian Independence Day. Be listening on various HF bands and modes. QSL to 9M63MR. Be listening for Bo, OZ1DJJ, who will be using the call sign OX3LX, from three islands off Greenland, between August 24th and September 20th. He will be on 40 through 4 meters, with an emphasis on 50 and 70 MHz. He will also be running a WSPR beacon on 40 through 6 metres when he is not active. Send QSLs via OZ0J (Oh Zed Zero J) direct. Visit QRZ.com for more details. (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: YOUTHFUL OPTIMISM FROM MAXIM AWARD WINNER PAUL/ANCHOR: Just like Newsline gives out the Young Ham of the Year award to recognize outstanding young hams, the ARRL has the Hiram Percy Maxim award, which our winner this year, Chris Brault, KD8YVJ, won back in 2015. This year's recipient is Jacob Nagel, AD0JA, from Missouri. Nagel's technical accomplishments are many, including building and troubleshooting repeater systems, helping a local fire department upgrade their communications system, and sharing his knowledge and experience in online forums. I recently asked him what he felt like when he found out he had won: NAGEL: I was very excited, and quite surprised, because I had applied for this award before, hadn't won it before, and this was my last year that I was eligible for it. PAUL/ANCHOR: One of the biggest questions is how to attract, and keep young hams in the hobby. I took this opportunity to go right ahead, and ask one what he thought it would take: NAGEL: Well, I think being welcoming to them in the amateur community would be one thing, and the other thing is keep showing the current technological advances of amateur radio like DMR, FT8 - show the neat things that involve computers with ham radio. That's what interests younger people like me, are the new technologies in amateur radio. You get them hooked on that - you know, it only takes an $80 radio to get into DMR or so - get them hooked on that, and that's a fun way to get started. PAUL/ANCHOR: Nagel is currently attending college, where he hopes to become an electrical engineer, a perfect fit for an active, enthusiastic ham radio operator. All of us at Newsline, wish him the best, and can't wait to see what the future holds for him. ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; Andy Meyer, N2FYE; Arstechnica; the ARRL; Bart Pulverman, WB6WUW; Benjamin Isaacs, ZL2BCI; the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette; CQ Magazine; David Behar, K7DB; Facebook; the FCC; Ohio Penn DX; QRZ.COM; Radio Amateurs of Canada; Radio Society of Great Britain; shortwaveradio.de; the Shortwave Listening Post; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; University of Central Florida; the Verge; the Washington Post; WTWW Shortwave; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at arnewsline.org. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (618:250/33) .