yl.beam #101
dec 2021
Contents
New
South African Yls
Proud 2B PI4YLC Dutch Young Ladies Club
JQ1ARQ Kazue"KAZU" Nakata Field Day Contest 2021
YL Scout from Brasil takes 1st Place!
IU2LXR Micol Ivancic part of ARISS telebridge Italian schools
Faith Hannah Lea, KD3Z - Amateur Radio Newsline 2021 Young Ham of the Year
Out-and-About
WOTRA (Women-On-The-Radio- Award) 2021
100 Year Anniversary of the Transatlantic Test
W1MPP - Randall Thompson, Eunice - Pioneer
Silent Key
Contact & Calendar
New
South African Yls Welcome
RAE Oct 2021 6 new YLs + 1
upgrade.
ZS6YLB Brenda Els ;
ZS1MH Madré
Hansen
ZU1RDJ Amber Jordaan
ZS3SD
Samantha Joubert
ZS3MN Maria Nel
ZS6EM
Elmarie Mccash (OM became S/K)
ZS1ISS / ZU1ISS Kiara McLean
upgrade
Ooops!
Error ALARA 41st Contest Results
Tracy Roberts -
It's good to see my name in the results but I am an OM, not a YL, so
it is 17 YLs and 21 OMs. . It isn't the first time and won't be the
last. My mother thought the name was a good idea in 1961! 73,
Tracy Roberts VK3TTT
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Proud
2B PI4YLC Dutch Young Ladies Club
Posted on 14/04/2021
Last weekend PI4YLC
participated for the first time in the OK-OM DX SSB contest. We did
this contest before in 2015, but then it was with the special call
PI33YLC. This time the call PI4YLC was represented by Claudia PA5CT
and Sonja PD4SON from Claudia's home QTH.
During the OK-OM DX
SSB contest, the goal is to work as many Czech and Slovak stations as
possible, but other stations also score points. Claudia and Sonja
enjoyed the contest again this time and made 242 QSOs in 24 hours,
most of them on 7 MHz. The 40m dipole, which Rens PA3FGA and Claudia
had placed on Friday evening, did a good job! Claudia had a run at
40m and significantly increased the number of QSOs. Sonja usually did
Search & Pounce and also got nice points with that. The logged
result of PI4YLC in the OK-OM contest is 1268 points from QSOs with
62 countries.
We thank Rens PA3FGA, who keeps letting us grow
one step further in contesting with multiple operators. Because the
set-up is still under development, we entered a contest in the Multi
Operator Single Transmitter category (MOST) but in the future we can
work towards a Multi Operator 2 Transmitters (MO2T). At MO2T, both
operators are constantly behind one of the two radios. That's quite
strenuous for the two operators available. Now the YLs could
alternate with MOST.
https://www.pi4ylc.nl/?fbclid=
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JQ1ARQ
Kazue "KAZU" Nakata Field Day Contest
2021 11 Aug.
Kazu (from Japan) participated in the Field Day
Contest again this year. She usually operates from home, but
the field day contest means an opportunity to operate some
where else and to work with other club members., as part of the
JO1YYP - YYP DX & Contest Club.
An
online meeting was held about one month before the field day.
Since 160m has been added from this year, there is a lot of
equipment, operation, and content to consider.
As the threat
from Covid was active they had to take measures against infection and
just before the event participants confirmed the
infection was under control.
When it's hot so you can remove the
mask so that you don't get sick, but don't talk at that time, wear a
mask when talking, only talk using , chat as usual during operation,
don't talk during meals.
They travelled to Tsukuba located
approximately 50 kilometers from central Tokyo.
The Waiwai
Club FD team has four members, but this time there were only
three members.
It was the first time for everyone to use N1MM,
(Kazu
had been practicing N1MM in an individual participation contest for
this FD!)
There aren't many photos because of the bad weather
this time ,(lots of rain), but JQ1ARQ KAZU made a slide show:
https://www.facebook.com/
(Google
translation & your editor did our best, but the slide show tells
the story.)
****
YL
Scout from Brasil takes 1st PLACE!
PU2PRM- Beatriz
Pata, a scout from Grupo Escoteiro Cruz Azul Campinas 92 / SP
(São
Paulo) took 1st place in the two modes in which she competed in
the Green and Yellow Radioamator Contest, promoted by the Brazilian
Army.
Using her own callsign (PU2PRM) she stayed at the
top of the SSB (phonia) and CW (morse code) modes. Everyone is very
proud and happy for this achievement.
Created over
50 years ago, CVA DX Contest (Concurso Verde e Amarelo/
The Green and Yellow Contest), is the most traditional amateur radio
contest in Brazil . 2021 was the 62nd edition of the
competition always held on the third weekend of August in CW
mode and on the fourth weekend of August in SSB mode.
****
IU2LXR Micol Ivancic ARISS telebri
dge
Italian schools
Licensed in 2018 IU2LXR Micol the "space"
teacher from Milan, Italy talks to the astronauts on ISS
(International Space Station). She is part of the volunteer team of
the Casale Monferrato Telebridge station. The station is part
of the ARISS network (Amateur radio on the International space
station), an international group of radio amateurs, which manages
contacts with astronauts.
Schools all over the world are able to
let their students talk to the scientists aboard the ISS, the giant
space laboratory that orbits the Earth, completing just under 16
orbits in 24 hours. On clear days it can be seen with the naked
eye.
Contact with schools can take place in two ways. The
first is by placing the equipment on the roof, but sometimes the
horizon is not open enough. The second method is the connection
provided by Telebridge, which allows the school to connect via
teleconference
Middle school Mathematics and Sciences teacher
Micol knew nothing about radio or ARISS, but everything changed in
2006 when she met the Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli IZ0JPA in
one of the schools where she was teaching.
Because space and the
International Space Station (ISS) have a special place in her life
Micol shares her passion with her students in such projects as
growing micro-vegetables, as in a space green-house; or she teaches
the children to pick up sound signals which when decoded, turn out to
be an image taken in space! Or she sets the students tasks wearing
double gloves, to simulate the awkwardness of an astronaut suit.
21
years ago on November 13, 2000, the ISS Expedition-1 crew turned on
the ARISS Ericsson radio for the first time.
****
Faith
Hannah Lea, KD3Z - Amateur Radio Newsline 2021 Young Ham of the
Year
Faith
Hannah Lea, KD3Z, of Palm Coast, Florida, has been selected as the
2021 Bill Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Amateur Radio Newsline Young Ham
of the Year. Faith Hannah comes from an all-ham family. She is the
daughter of James Lea, WX4TV, and Michelle Lea, N8ZQZ. Her brother
and two sisters are also hams. She credited her parents with being
the biggest influences in her entry into amateur radio at the age of
10 in 2014. Just 18 months after being licensed, Faith Hannah was
invited to join the 2016 Dave Kalter Memorial Youth DX team, which
operated from the Saba station of Jeff Jolie, as PJ6/NM1Y. (Caribbean
island)
“And that’s when I realized especially that DXing is
amazing, because I absolutely love those huge pileups and getting to
talk to all of those different people,” she explained.
Among
her PJ6 achievements was a satellite contact that broke the SO-50
distance world record. Her account of the event appeared in the
March/April 2017 issue of The AMSAT Journal.
In August 2018,
Faith Hannah took part in the week-long Youngsters on the Air (YOTA)
camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she participated in kit
building, antenna projects, satellite operation, and a high-altitude
balloon launch. An article about her experiences in South Africa
appeared in CQ Magazine.
On the way to South Africa, Faith
Hannah and her father had a 22-hour layover in Dubai, the United Arab
Emirates. While there, they were invited by the Emirates Amateur
Radio Society to visit and operate A62A and A60YOZ.
In December
2018, Faith Hannah, her younger sister, Hope, ND2L, and their father
organized a 36-hour mini DXpedition to the Dry Tortugas in the Gulf
of Mexico, off the southwest coast of Florida, where they operated as
N4T. The family team put 1,970 HF contacts and 100 satellite contacts
into the log. CQ published Faith Hannah’s account of the N4T
operation, and she and Hope shared the April 2019 cover of the
magazine.
https://www.arrl.org/news/
KD3Z
Faith Hannah Lea - Wins Intrepid DX Group Essay Contest SEPT
15, 2020
Faith Hannah Lea, KD3Z, was awarded first place in the
Intrepid DX Group's "Dream Rig" youth essay contest. The
ARRL Letter reports that over 60 essays were submitted by young hams
around the world. As first-place winner, Faith Hannah received
an ICOM IC-7300 transceiver, a Greyline flagpole antenna, a Heil
Sound headset and more.
http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.
****
Out-and-About
Madeira
Islands CT9. YL Rosel, DL3KWR & Hardy, DL3KWF were active as
CT9/DL3KWF & CT9/DL3KWR until 24 November.
WW
DX CW Contest
Holly
(YL), K0HAC & Chris, N0UK/G4JEC active from Sint Maarten Island,
IOTA NA-105, 27 November - 4 December 2021 as PJ7/G4JEC and
PJ7/K0HAC.
WW
DX CW Contest
Russian yl RC5A Elena was active as
CR3DX Slovak Contest Group on Madeira Island.
WOTRA
(Women-On-The-Radio- Award) 2021
3rd
Annual Event was held Nov 22–28, 2021 & Hosted again by
Ángeles EC1YL
This AWARD is designed to make visible the
activity of women in amateur radio bands and in support of the
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25
November.
The 2021 AWARD, has 3 categories with the names of
outstanding defenders of women’s rights:
For the Clara
Campoamor category, will be necessary to obtain 15 points
For
the Virginia Woolf category, will be necessary to obtain 10
points
For the Frida Kahlo category, will be necessary to obtain
5 points
THE WOTRA TEAM 2021 is integrated by (in alphabetical
order):
Ana EI5IXB Ángeles EC1YL Idorca YV5EVA
Laila
OE3LZA Marija YU3AWA Marleen DF4RBM
Patricia XE1SPM Tere LU3GDT
Zulema CO8GMY.
https://diplomas.asorapa.com
Facebook
indicated lots of activity. Well done to all who participated.
****
Radio Club of America Celebrates 100 Year Anniversary of Transatlantic Test
In
1921, on December 9, 10, 11, radio amateurs, who were members of both
the Radio Club of America (RCA) and the American Radio Relay League
(ARRL), successfully spanned for the first time the Atlantic Ocean
from the United States to Androssan Scotland with Morse code signals.
Not only were the signals heard in Scotland, but also in Amsterdam
Holland (3600 miles), England, Germany, Puerto Rico, Vancouver
British Columbia in Canada, Catalina island California (2470 mi.),
and the State of Washington.
To
understand the significance of this Transatlantic Test by amateurs,
we first have to go back to December 1901. At that time, Marconi
first reported that radio signals could be sent across the Atlantic
Ocean. But all that was heard was the letter ‘S’ in Morse code.
Marconi’s stations were very expensive to install, and wireless
communications seemed out of the reach of most people.
Until
1921 transatlantic radio communications were utilizing very long wave
frequencies in the area of 500 meters, Meanwhile, amateurs were
utilizing the shorter wavelength of 200 meters and crystal
detector-based receivers and spark transmitter, usually limited to
relatively short distances.
But
this Transatlantic Test Project, conceived of by radio amateurs
(“hams”), proved that even with modest equipment, the Atlantic
Ocean could be spanned, opening up improved communications for many
more purposes.
Editor: While we cannot know whether yl Eunice (below) heard the transmissions (above) – she may have!
1XE
-> 1CDP -> W1MPP - Randall Thompson, Eunice - USA
Eunice
dates her start in radio as 1917 when she worked for experimental
station 1XE at Medford Hillside, Mass., her first Ham Ticket in 1921.
Eunice's activities at 1XE were recounted in QST for July, 1921, and
her amateur work in September of that year. Following this
announcement of a first district YL, a letter appeared in December,
1921 QST from 5ZT claiming that the Houston Radio Club had four YLs
and that he could name ten more who were operating in the fifth
district.
Her call then was 1CDP and she operated from her home
near New Bedford. Her actual station was remotely controlled, a line
extending from her brother's mill a quarter mile away. "The
noise from the quenched spark gap-wow!" is her comment. But she
adds: "200 meters was so wonderful!" In 1929 Eunice went to
work for the New England Power Company in Boston and stayed there
until her retirement. In 1938 she went on the air as W1MPP from
Watertown, Mass., later from her home at Lovell, Me. Over the years
Eunice added many hobbies to that of Ham radio: she liked to paint,
did needle point and petit point, collected buttons and coins, made
jewelry and ceramic pieces. She also hooked rugs and learned Braille
to do some transcribing to help where there was such a need.
(Source: CQ-YL, p 67, plus photo)
(Teaching code
during WWII; WERS; New England Electrical System. Silent key 23.
August 1982) http://dokufunk.org/
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Silent
Key VE2JOV Johanne Vachon of
Saint-Côme-Linière, QC Canada
Mrs. Johanne Vachon passed away
suddenly at her residence, Wednesday September 8, 2021, age
61 years and 1 month. She is survived by her husband, Mr.
Michel Gilbert VE2LCM
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CONTACT
US:
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YL'
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Earlier newsletters can be found on the website of WEST
RAND ARC
wrarc-anode.blogspot.com
& https://wrarc-anode.
and:
Italian Radio Amateurs Union: QTC U.R.I.
also
@ https://www.darc.de/en/der-
(erman ARC)
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DARC
YL Referee invites you to a virtual Christmas celebration
Let's
celebrate together and end the year comfortably. 🎄🎇🎄
Even
at a distance you can enjoy the time with hot cocoa or a mulled wine,
exchange and see dear friends again.
When and where ? On
12.12.2021 @ 2pm local time
Place: The best way to
go! treff.darc.de
To get the link just email Carmen at: dm4eax@darc.de
We
look forward to your participation
Calendar
Hanukkah
2021 Sunday, 28 November - Monday, 6 December
Dec 1-31
YOTA Month (Youngsters-On-The-Air)
Dec
5 YL Net 1st Saturday of month, 2000 (UK) on GB3DA
Danbury 2m repeater.
Dec 11, ARRL, RCA and the AWA will
recreate historic transmissions on 160 meters using the
call 1BCG
2021 marks the 100th year anniversary of the historic Transatlantic
Tests across the Atlantic Ocean
Dec 12 JLRS YL CQ
Day SUN, 9:00 AM UTC+09 – 4:00 PM UTC+09 (2nd Sunday)
Dec
12-17 II1 TCWC memorial station to commemorate 120th
anniversary of the 1st transoceanic wireless communication
made
on 12th of December, 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi.
Date: from 00:00 UTC
on 12 Dec to 23:59 UTC on 17 Dec 2021. CW Morse telegraphy
only (A1A)
Dec 12 160-Meter Transatlantic Centenary
QSO Party 0200 – 0800 UTC Sunday,
Dec 20-26 World Radio
Orienteering Championships 2021, in Side, Turkey.
Dec 22
Indonesia celebrates Mothers Day
Dec 25
Christmas Day
PA21XMAS PD21SANTA and PD22HNY to
celebrate X-mas
Active from 1 - 31 December and PD22HNY till end
of January '22
Work 2 Dutch Xmas stations for award. SWL
stations please send the log to pa5dxray@gmail.com
Dec.
OG1XMAS - FINNISH CHRISTMAS RADIO ACTIVITY 2021
OF9X &
OH9SCL Santa Radio (Finland)
14.225 Christmas Adam and Christmas
Eve noon to 7:00 pm of9x@sral.fi
The
76'ers Santa Net
146.760− Christmas Adam and Christmas Eve
(December 23 and 24) 6:00 pm kn0ji@arrl.net
The
MMSN Santa Net and the The 14300 Santa Net
14.305 to 14.325
Christmas Adam and Christmas Eve noon to 7:00 pm
cpalawyer@att.net
The
3916 Santa Net nightly November 27 through December 24 6:30 pm
ke5ggy@gmail.com
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