Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (A)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 14 2023 12:58:49

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2385 for Friday July 14th, 2023

Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2385, with a release date of 
Friday, July 14th, 2023, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. The World Radiosport Team Championship heads to 
the UK. Campers prepare for Youth on the Air camp in Canada -- and 
calling QRZ among a universe of UFOs. All this and more, as Amateur 
Radio Newsline Report Number 2385 comes your way right now.

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UK CHOSEN TO HOST WRTC 2026

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story takes us to the World Radiosport Team 
Championship. The prestigious international competition wrapped up in 
Italy on July 9th and the winners were announced -- including the venue 
selected to host the competition in 2026. Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, brings us 
that report.

JEREMY: The World Radiosport Team Championship - a high profile 
competition often viewed as the Olympics of amateur radio - has 
declared the United Kingdom the winner in the selection process to be 
host site for the next international contest. The English counties of 
Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk - all in East Anglia - were selected 
by the Sanctioning Committee to serve as home to the 50 operating 
locations for the competing two-person teams.

In an interview with ICQ Podcast presenter/technical editor Martin 
Butler, M1MRB, WRTC 2026 President Mark Haynes, M0DXR, said organisers 
are going to rely heavily on amateur volunteers throughout the UK to 
provide technical help and support during setup and operation.

Meanwhile, as WRTC 2022 concluded, the top three winning pairs - among 
the other victorious operators - were identified as UW7LL and VE3DZ for 
first place; DJ5MW and DL1IAO, second place; and 9A7DX along with 9A3LG, 
third. For a full list of winners and their scores, visit the WRTC 2022 
website at wrtc2022 dot it (wrtc2022.it).

Newsline would also like to congratulate our colleagues at the ICQ 
Podcast, which has been chosen as a media partner, providing updates as 
the organising progress goes forward. The announcement was made on the 
podcast's website on 10th July by its founding editor, Colin Butler, 
M6BOY.

This is Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.

(ICQ PODCAST, WRTC 2022, WRTC 2026)

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STUDY CONFIRMS EMISSIONS FROM SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS

PAUL/ANCHOR: According to a new study, those tiny low-earth orbit 
satellites may be delivering something unwanted and much less attractive 
than broadband internet access. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has the details.

JIM: Large satellite constellations that provide detailed Earth imagery 
as well as broadband internet access to some regions have been shown to 
emit unintended electromagnetic radiation that may prove a challenge to 
radioastronomers' research. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for 
Radio Astronomy in Germany report that interfering signals appear to 
come from the electronics on board a number of SpaceX satellites. 
Writing in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the researchers said 
they made the discovery using the facility's Low Frequency Array 
telescope. They drew their conclusions after observing 68 of the 
satellites in low earth orbit.

The report's lead author, Federico Di Vruno, said [quote] "This study 
represents the latest effort to better understand satellite 
constellations' impact on radio astronomy." [endquote] The scientist 
said that the most recent observations confirm there is a measurable 
existence of the radiation.

This is Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF.

(PHYS.ORG)

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SILENT KEY: RUSSIAN ROBINSON CLUB'S GEORGE CHLIYANTS, UY5XE

PAUL/ANCHOR: The DX community is grieving the loss of an influential 
amateur who helped organize and promote DXpeditions in the polar 
regions. We hear more about him from Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

GRAHAM: George Giorgiy Chliyants, UY5XE, was a friend and an advocate to 
many. A number of reports say that George recently became a Silent Key. 
He has clearly left his mark: In 1993, while attending the IOTA 
convention in Spain, George encouraged the creation of what became the 
Russian Robinson Club, a group of adventurous amateurs who would come to 
operate out of particularly challenging locales in the polar regions. 
He later became QSL manager for many of the Russian expeditions in bot
h the Antarctic and the Arctic. He had also served as the president of 
the UDXC and vice president of the Robinson club. One of his DXpeditions 
was EM20YU, in which he activated the Chernobyl exclusion zone in 2006 
with Boris, UT7UT.

Licenced in 1966, he was an active ham whose contesting activity had won 
him many awards and plaques. He was also a published author and had been 
a correspondent for a number of amateur radio magazines, including Radio 
and RadioMir, both in Moscow and RadioHobby, in Kyiv.

George was 75.

This is Graham Kemp, VK4BB.

(WORLDWIDE ANTARCTIC PROGRAM, UT7UT.COM, UY5XE HOMEPAGE)
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