Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B) To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Oct 08 2021 05:09:09 SILENT KEY: ACTIVE NET PARTICIPANT WALTER PAGE PYNE, WA3EOP JIM/ANCHOR: A prominent active amateur radio operator and a well-known voice on the OMISS and Century Club nets has become a Silent Key. Sel Embee, KB3TZD, tells us about him. SEL: Walter Page Pyne was known for identifying his callsign as WA3EOP - We Are Three Elephants On Patrol - and his voice was a familiar one on the OMISS Net, the Century Club Net, the YL International Single Sideband Net and numerous other nets. Page, as he was known to friends, died on September 26th in his Maryland hometown of Hagerstown. A life member of the Antietam (Ann-Tee-Tum) Radio Association and the International Order of Odd Fellows ham club, he was also a cofounder of the Cheese Hollow Amateur Radio Society in Maryland. He had served as Charter Year President of the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Chapter (#222) of the Quarter Century Wireless Association. Page, a former phone activities manager for the ARRL's Maryland/DC section, at the time of his death belonged to the Maryland Emergency Phone Net. Walter Page Pyne was 74. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Sel Embee, KB3TZD. (QRZ.COM, TRIBUTE ARCHIVE) ** SCHOOL FOR DEAF PREPS FOR UNIQUE ARISS CONTACT JIM/ANCHOR: Few things are outside the realm of possibility with amateur radio, as a group of deaf students in the UK is about to learn in an ARISS QSO with an American astronaut. Here's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. JEREMY: American astronaut Mark Vande Hei, KG5GNP, is scheduled to complete a unique amateur radio contact from the ISS with students at Mary Hare School for deaf children in Berkshire, England. Ciaran Morgan, M0XTD, the UK's ARISS operations lead, told Newsline that the event will proceed like a standard ARISS contact for the astronaut, but students and school volunteers will have access to a stenographer using a device that projects what is being said onto a large screen in their auditorium. Ciaran added that the text will also appear on a live web stream which will also feature a sign language interpreter. Meanwhile, hams from the Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society have been assisting the students by providing lessons on amateur radio. The school noted on its blog: [quote] "These will be the first deaf children to have done this, making it a world first." [endquote] While some of the students will be linked to the action by a web feed, others will be in the auditorium itself as socially distanced spectators. It is scheduled to take place sometime during the week of October 10th. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH. (CIARAN MORGAN, M0XTD, ARISS-UK, MARY HARE SCHOOL) ** CQWW DX CONTEST GAINS PLAQUE SPONSORS FOR YOUTH JIM/ANCHOR: As the date inches forward for the CQ WorldWide DX contest, there are new sponsors for categories featuring young competitors. Ed Durrant, DD5LP, has those details. ED: The IARU Region 1 Youth Working Group will be sponsoring plaques awarded in the upcoming CQWW DX contest for competitors in Europe and Africa who are 25 years of age or younger. Plaques will be given to young SSB and CW operators. A number of other YOTA branches and IARU Youth Working Groups are sponsoring other awards on other continents for young participants. The CQWW contest announced on its blog in August that organisers have created a number of overlays within the contest, including those for young operators and for hams who are experimenting with new technologies. A new Explorer category has been created for those radio operators who are using SSB and CW while employing such new technologies as internet-linked stations. The contest dates are October 30th and 31st for SSB and November 27th and 28th for CW. For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm Ed Durrant, DD5LP. (CQWW BLOG) ** IT'S 'FALLOUT' WEEKEND FOR 100 WATTS AND A WIRE JIM/ANCHOR: Don't forget to be listening for operators calling "CQ FALL OUT!" on October 8th, 9th and 10th. Those are the days for the portable operating event of the 100 Watts and a Wire community. Operators are being encouraged to work any band, any mode and alone or as a team. The exchange is your call sign, your 100Watts ID if you have one, your state, province or DX country and a true signal report. For details, visit the website 100wattsandawire.com and use the numerals "1 Zero Zero" for the word "one hundred." (100 WATTS AND A WIRE) ** BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the K7MMA repeater in Spokane, Washington, on Fridays at 5 p.m. local time. --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (618:250/33) .