Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Feb 11 2021 21:26:24 BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the Utah Amateur Radio Club's W7SP repeater, on Sundays as part of the club's 9 p.m. net. ** HAMSCI PROPOSAL DEADLINE APPROACHES STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Organizers are still looking for amateurs' ideas for presentations at next month's HamSCI Workshop – but the deadline is almost here. Sel Embee, KB3TZD, explains. SEL: With this year's HamSCI Workshop coming up on March 19th and 20th, the deadline is approaching fast for hams, scientists and other experts to submit presentation abstract proposals. This year's theme is midlatitude ionospheric sensing but presentations are not required on that subject. The workshop will again be held virtually on Zoom, as it was last year, in cooperation with the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania and sponsored by the National Science Foundation. A team meeting will also be held for HamSCI's Personal Space Weather Station project. This project's goal is the creation of a citizen science instrument that enables space weather to be studied right from your QTH. Abstracts for presentations are due by the 15th of February. They can be sent via the conference webpage at hamsci dot org (hamsci.org), that's ham-s-c-i-dot-org. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Sel Embee, KB3TZD. (HAMSCI) ** AUSTRALIA'S WYONG FIELD DAY REPLACED BY 'MAYHAM' EVENT STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The popular Wyong Field Day in Australia has been cancelled due to COVID precautions, but Ed Durrant, VK2JI, tells us what will be happening in its place. ED: In light of the recent new COVID events across Australia and the situation's changeable nature at present, the executive committee of the Central Coast ARC, with input from a survey of club members, has decided not to run the Wyong Field Day 2021 which was planned for Sunday the 28th of February. This is a decision that was not easy, and was taken considering the safety of the club members, traders and those who attend the day. However, open your calendar's as the club wishes to announce the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club "Mayham" event which will be held on Sunday the 30th of May 2021 at the Wyong Race Course. We would like to see this one- time event attract as many visitors as the Field Day does every year, who knows, this could be the largest gathering of radio amateurs in the Southern Hemisphere this year! Traders have already been contacted and informed of the new date and we expect the exhibitor and lecturer variety to be just as broad as was planned for the 2021 Field Day. Full details and information regarding this event will be updated on the clubs website at ccarc (dot) org (dot) au and through social media as it becomes available. Looking forward to NO MAYHEM at the MayHam event, For the Central Coast ARC, this was Ed, VK2JI. (CCARC) ** CANADIAN SATELLITE CONSTELLATION WOULD PROVIDE NEW INTERNET ACCESS STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A Canadian satellite operator has become the latest player to join the low-earth orbit action over Earth's skies. The company Telesat announced on February 9th that it intends to build a constellation of 300 satellites in order to deliver high-speed internet worldwide in the next two years. Known as Lightspeed, it will be designed to serve fixed and mobile network operators, aeronautical and maritime users, enterprise customers, and governments. Consumers wishing to use Lightspeed's services would purchase their service from one of Lightspeed's direct customers. The company said financing still needed to be finalized. If Telesat is successful, that would make the company the latest seeking to offer satellite-based internet services. The most well-known one perhaps is SpaceX's Starlink service which is already serving parts of North America. Project Kuiper (KIE-PURR) has also announced it is moving forward but has had no launches yet. (FORTUNE MAGAZINE) ** RSBG ANNOUNCES AWARD-WINNERS STEPHEN:/ANCHOR: The Radio Society of Great Britain has announced the winners of its construction competition held during lockdown and Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has the results. JEREMY: The Radio Society of Great Britain has announced the winners of the construction competition held for projects created during the autumn 2020 lockdown, the Christmas and New Year holiday period and the early part of this year. Response exceeded the society's expectations and the decision was made to name four winners instead of one. Congratulations to: first-prize winner Gordon Lean, G3WJG ; runner-up Paul Graham, M0PGX; third-prize winner Laurence Fletcher, G4SXH, and to Robert Lynch, M0NVQ, who was chosen as highly commended. Learn more about their projects in the April RadCom, and on the RSGB website at the URL given in the written text on the arnewsline.org website. [FOR PRINT ONLY, DO NOT READ: www.rsgb.services/gota2c-construction-competition]. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (618:250/33) .