2015 Young Ham of the Year Award

Amateur Radio Newsline is seeking nominations for its 2015 Young Ham of the Year Award.

For consideration, a nominee must have used amateur radio in some way that has benefited his or her community or encouraged technological development directly or indirectly related to communications.

Nominees must be 19 years or younger, and reside in the United States including Hawaii , Alaska , Canada , and Puerto Rico or any of the Canadian Provinces. The individual must also hold a currently valid United States or Canadian Amateur Radio license.

This award is not a contest. The person selected as ‘Young Ham of the Year’ is judged on his or her overall accomplishments and contributions.

Any prizes awarded are secondary in nature.

The deadline for submitting an application is May 30th 2015 and the decision of the judging committee is final. To obtain an application, send a self addressed, stamped envelope to 2015 Young Ham of the Year Award, in care of Amateur Radio Newsline, 28197 Robin Ave. Santa Clarita, CA 91350 .

Presentation of the 2015 Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham of the Year Award will take the weekend of 15-16 August 2015  at the Huntsville Hamfest in Huntsville Alabama.

Download Nomination Form - http://www.arnewsline.org/yhoty

Did the Eclipse Affect Propagation?

For the full 24 hours of 20th March 2015 eclipse, Derek Turner, G4SWY took world map screen shots of propagation as reported on WSPRnet.org every 4 minutes on 600, 160, 80 and 40 Meters.

He then turned the bitmaps into short videos and published them on YouTube.

MW :- https://youtu.be/RCJvsUwdGnc
160 Meters :- https://youtu.be/E-OPfoNy42U
80 Meters :- http://youtu.be/Nt2vQAty6AQ
40 Meters :- http://youtu.be/mBbhN2X3bTA

More details - http://wsprnet.org/drupal/node/5412

Camb-Hams to Operate from Isle of Mull

Ten members of the Camb Hams are returning to Grasspoint IO76EJ on the Scottish island of Mull (IOTA EU-008) from 15-21 May 2015 as GS3PYE/P

Camb-Hams operating from Isle of Mull 2012

They will be QRV with multiple stations on HF on 3.5-28MHz SSB, CW, RTTY and PSK with dipoles and verticals and up to 400W if necessary.   

VHF activity will be on 50MHz, 70MHz and 144MHz, all bands QRO with sizeable antennas.  

VHF will be mainly QRV using JT6m or ISCAT on 50MHz, FSK441 on 70MHz and FSK441 and JT65b (for EME) on 144MHz, but SSB and CW is also possible, especially in any sporadic E propagation openings. Other modes by agreement.

Satellite operations on 2m & 70cm will use an Icom IC-910 and X-Quad antennas mounted on a fully automatic AZ/EL tracking system. If internet connectivity allows, the VHF operators will monitor ON4KST Chat for terrestrial activity and N0UK JT65 chat for EME. You can submit your VHF sked requests online - http://tiny.cc/gs3pyesked

The team will be QRV in the 80m CW CC event on the 21st and in the 144MHz contest on the 16th and 17th. They may do very short side trips to Iona and the Treshnish Islands and will announce these nearer the time on the website.

Please QSL only via OQRS on ClubLog for direct or bureau cards. Do not send any cards direct or via the bureau.

For the latest info - 
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