amateur radio ladies - yl.beam #141 june 2025

Contents

• YL active from American Samoa
• SV2TCC Kate news from Greece &  Museum ship HS Velos II
• Young Argentine operator  Delfina Maieru LU7BPM,    
• Barbara Pata PY2QL monitoring LABRE-SP (Brazil) accounts
• YL France    
• YLRL Awards    
• Silent Key  SA5YLX Agneta Emanuelsson  
• Contact  

REMINDER: June 7 – 8, 2025 Annual Queens of the Mountains YL SOTA

 

Out-and-About  KH8 American Samoa
YL from USA K0JJW Joyce AND K0NR Bobwill be operating in "vacation" mode as KH8/K0NR and KH8/K0JJW from May 27 to June 9, 2025. Their primary objective is to activate SOTA summits, using 20 to 10m SSB, FT8 and FT4, with 10 watts for wire antennas. They plan to include some POTA activations.
They will be looking for local operators on 6m and 2m (any mode). Email: kh8@k0nr.com

American Samoa
Lies in the South Pacific, south of the equator, American Samoa is located approximately halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and about 100km east of the island country of Samoa.  
 Samoa is 24 hours ahead of American Samoa because they're on the opposite sides of the international date line. American Samoa is East of the International Date Line.
It comprises five islands and two atolls. Tutuila, the largest island, is home to the capital Pago Pago, whose natural harbor is framed by volcanic peaks including 1,716-ft.-high Rainmaker Mountain. Divided between the islands Tutuila, Ofu and Ta‘ū, the National Park of American Samoa highlights the territory's tropical scenery with rainforests, beaches and reefs.
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SV2TCC – KATE news from Greece
 I’ve been a licensed ham since February 2023, and although I attend a local amateur radio club, I’ve only met one other YL — she got licensed after me but isn’t very active due to work commitments. So for now, I’m kind of on my own!
As for news (not sure how exciting it is!), during the celebration of Hellenic Navy Week (June 29 – July 6), our local club will activate the historic destroyer Velos. It’s now a floating museum, symbolising the fight for democracy, as it played a significant role in opposing the Greek dictatorship in the 1970s. I’ve been assigned as diploma manager for the activation and have also volunteered as one of the operators. We're currently waiting for the rest of the team to confirm so we can organise the operating schedule. 73 and thanks for keeping us all connected!

Museum ship HS Velos II (D-16) a Fletcher-class destroyer was launched in 1942, commissioned on 18 May 1943 by the US Navy as USS Charette (DD-581). One of  175 warships of the same type. Today, there are four ships of this type that still survive, three in the USA and one in Greece.
USS Charette participated in WW2, in the Pacific Ocean.
On 16 June 1959 she was transferred to Greece. and renamed Velos (D16).
Velos was decommissioned in 1991.
In 1994 she became a Museum and was anchored in Athens from 2002 – 2019. Currently she is anchored on the waterfront of Thessaloniki.
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Hello, my name is Leonardo Maieru LU7AOW. I'm proposing a story for your magazine about my 10-year-old daughter, who is currently very active in radio. I hope you like it.  73 best regards from Leonardo, LU7AOW.    18 Mar, 2025

YL Delfina LU7BPM (Argentina)  
Hi, I'm Delfina Maieru LU7BPM, 10 years old, and I live in Buenos Aires. I began my passion for amateur radio when I was very young, listening to my father (LU7AOW) doing DX and chatting with his friends.
When the pandemic started, I was very active as a radio listener from home, using my swl LU7EO-0003, awarded by the Avellaneda Radio Club, to participate in various national activities.
In 2023, because I hadn't yet turned 9, the minimum age to become a radio amateur in Argentina, after completing my school work, thanks to a study guide for theoretical and practical courses, I began preparing myself so that the following year, in March 2024, I could enrol in the first LU7EO course of the year with classmates of all ages.
I took it while my father was working, after having arrived from After school, after lunch, and once the course was over, I would dedicate myself to my homework. I had just enough time for everything, but it was already a daily routine.
In the last stage of the course, operational practices arrived, during which my father even changed his work schedule so he could take me to the radio club for them.
I obtained my distinctive signal last September, beginning my satellite activity, which is currently what I love to do, using a mini Moxon Yagi hand-held antenna that I built with my father's help.
We also manufactured, among other antennas, a log-periodic, a rigid dipole for the 10-meter band, and two turnstile antennas for 145 MHz and 437 MHz for use in high satellite orbits.
On HF, I normally operate on 40 meters, and on 10 meters, searching for DXers and taking my first steps in digital and CW modes.
Currently, when we have free time, we do outdoor activities with my dad and after school.
How wonderful it is when father and daughter share the same passion!
I would also like all the young people and children who haven't yet dared to go on the radio with their own call sign to give it a go! We're growing in number, and we're calling CQ!
I hope to see you on the radio soon, and you can write to me at lu7bpm@yahoo.com  and Instagram: @lu7aow_lu7bpm   Best regards!    Delfina Maieru. LU7BPM

Delfina LU7BPM chasing satellites.

LABRE - Liga de Amadores Brasileiros de Rádio Emissão (English: League of Brazilian Amateur Radio Transmitters) is a national non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Brazil. LABRE has separate organizations for each state of Brazil and is recognized by the Brazilian Ministry of Communications.

Barbara Pata PY2QL & family

Barbara Pata PY2QL takes on an important role in overseeing LABRE-SP's (São Paulo state) accounts

Barbara represents the new generation of dedicated radio amateurs, who have upgraded to class A and she joined LABRE-SP 2 years ago.

She has 4 children and is married to Rafael Pata PY2PI; one of her daughters is a Class A radio amateur, and her son is a Class C radio amateur.

Bárbara served as Advisor to the Board in 2024, appointed by President Pedro Niccolini PY2DEL.

In this important role she will be joining veteran and Chairman of the Internal Audit Commission Pedro Mauricio Pioli PY2VCP, who worked for over 35 years as an internal auditor for an automotive company, living for some years in Germany. Pedro Pioli set a new standard in this role, which allowed the Board to conduct an in-depth analysis of the Association over the past five years, culminating in the appointment of a new Executive President and former Board member Marcio Barbio PY2TTN.

Barbara was chosen not because of her relationship with the current members of the Council, but because of her prominence in Amateur Radio and Scouting activities, and because of her dedication to everything she does.

LABRE-SP is very concerned about generating new leaders who will be able to contribute to the future management of the association, with so many challenges and changes in amateur radio.

We wish Barbara Pata success, as she will be able to take on various leadership positions in LABRE-SP, taking part in training with the most senior and experienced members.

10 May 2025  LABRE - SP

YL France 

Weekend is over but what an incredible weekend in this charming city of Provins where the 100th anniversary of the French Broadcasters Network and the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) were celebrated and also the 10th anniversary of the Yl de France. A weekend full of discovery and personal enrichment. The happiness of reuniting with the OM and the Yls, sharing this passion that drives us all. A big thank you to the REF (Réseau des Émetteurs Français), the F6KOP (Radio club de Provins) team and everyone who contributed to making this weekend an unforgettable weekend for the Radioamateurs fraternity.

Radio Friendly Helene F4JWK     27 April 2025  


GM4YMM, Christine Dons  250 DXYL - Congratulations
YLRL gives several Awards and Certificates, to both YLs and OM.

A notable achievement is YLRL member GM4YMM, Christine Dons, of Edinburgh, Scotland. Christine qualified for our DXCC-YL Award (100 DX YLs) in 1990.  In 2011 she qualified for endorsements of 125 additional YL contacts.  That means she had worked and confirmed 225 DX YLs.  Since then she has added 15 more, bringing her total to 250 DX YLs.  There's a high probability that the record won't be broken for some time.  What an incredible achievement! Congratulations, Christine.

Young Ladies' Radio League,  Carol Fraley Laferty K4SAF · 30 April 2025
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Agneta Emanuelsson— with Roland Eriksson.2017

Silent Key  SA5YLX Agneta Emanuelsson

of Katrineholm, Sweden passed away on March 18, 2025 age 84, DOB 9 August 1940. She passed the radio test on August 2nd, 2009 and a week later was assigned a suffix in the special YL series.

Roland SM5TEY. Kindly shared information about Agneta.

I regret to inform you that my beloved Agneta Emanuelsson has died on March 18, 2025. She was a very active and committed person in many activities. She ensured that mines were cleared through the UN, wrote a book about Valdemar Langlet, learned and taught Esperanto, etc. When I met her through dance and we got together, I needed to learn Esperanto to be able to participate in the UK. Then she also learned to become a radio amateur (her call sign SA5YLX) and become a FRO (she was already a car corps member). There has been a lot of dancing during the years we have had together. We mostly danced old-fashioned and folk dances. Rest in peace! Roland SM5TEY

Ms. Agneta Emanuelsson (1940-2025) died in Katrineholm (Sweden) on March 18, after an illness that had afflicted her for the past year. Senator of the Esperanto City for three terms, she co-founded the Feminist Esperanto Movement (which she represented in the Forum when she was not a senator) and was a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Femina”.

With a pleasant, humorous character and still charming in old age, Agneta Emanuelsson positively contributed to the political development of the Esperanto Community. She herself was a member of parliament in Swedish politics, at an earlier age. A teacher by profession. A radio amateur. She wrote a Swedish-language biography of Valdemar Langlet, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews.

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Calendar
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June 1     Anniversary of 1st yl.beam newsletter 2011;
June 7 – 8, 2025 Annual Queens of the Mountains YL SOTA
June 19     aniversario ce4ylc (radio club yl chile)
June 21 - 22  International Museums Weekends  Amateur Radio Special Event
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