Subj : Newsline Part 3 To : ALL USERS From : DARYL STOUT Date : Thu Mar 24 2016 09:34 pm TWO ALASKAN AMATEURS BECOME SILENT KEYS The State of Alaska has lost two noted radio amateurs: Arlene "Buddy" Clay, KL7OT, and Gary Senesac, AL9A. Arlene Clay became a Silent Key on Feb. 11, and the amateur community lost Gary Senesac on March 15. Arlene Clay, who was 103 years old, became a licensed amateur in 1948, and for years called the Thursday night Snipers Net for the Matanuska Amateur Radio Association - even after she moved into a Wasilla, Alaska retirement community home in 2011. A native of Maine, she was a retired magistrate judge in the Alaska Court System, and was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2015. Before her career in the courts, she had been an air traffic controller with her husband, Earl, KL7EM. Noted contester Gary Senesac, also of Wasilla, Alaska, was an Illinois native who moved to Alaska in 2003 after retiring from the Caterpillar Corporation. His contest activities, which were especially strong in the modes of CW and RTTY, included working as W1AW/KL7 during the recent ARRL Centennial. He also made himself available to any amateurs needing an Alaskan contact for an operating award. Said fellow Alaskan ham, Corliss Kimmel, AL1G, QUOTE "Seems like he was in just about every contest. He was also very technically knowledgeable and helpful to anyone who needed advice." ENDQUOTE A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Gary Senesac was 72. (ARRL, ALASKA WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME) ** INTRUDERS ON THE AIR The International Amateur Radio Union, Region 1, reports the latest instances of intruders on the amateur bands. They include a 50 kHz-wide Russian over-the-horizon radar on 80 meters, often found in the CW portion of the band. Another over-the-horizon signal, about 13 kHz wide, turns up in the range on 40 meters between 7000 and 7100 kHz. As high as 7200 kHz, there is also PSK, FSK and a Codar-like radar signal. That radar is also turning up on 20 meters, along with some broadband over-the-horizon radar signals from China and some digital traffic. (IARU, Region 1) ** THE WORLD OF DX In addition to Heard Island, there's lot more DXing going on: Listen for John, K3JZ and Marjorie, N7SOF in a number of locations in the Society Islands of French Polynesia until April 21. Keep an ear out for them as FO/K3JZ and FO/N7SOF on CW, RTTY, and JT65. They will upload all logs to LoTW and Club Log after they return. QSL card requests via Club Log OQRS or Direct. Richard, BG9GXM is working from Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China as BG9GXM/3 until March 29. During the CQ WPX contest on March 26 and 27, his callsign will be BG3ITB. Be listening on 40-10 meters, possibly 80 and 6 meters too. He is working mainly SSB and JT65, but possibly CW. Elvira/IV3FSG and Angelo/IK2CKR are working the HF bands as E44YL from Bethlehem until April 7. Elvira will be on SSB and digital modees, and Angelo will work CW. Elvira and Lui/YT3PL will also be in the CQWW WPX SSB Contest on March 26 and 27 as a Multi-Single entry. QSL all SSB and Digital mode QSOs via IK3GES. QSL all CW QSOs via IK2CKR. (OHIO PENN DX BULLETIN, DX-WORLD.NET) ** KICKER: GRADUATING MAGNA CUM LICENSE DON: We close this week's newscast with an appreciation of some especially devoted students of amateur radio, young adults who are seeking a license to have fun. Literally. Here's that story from Amateur Radio Newsline's Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. NEIL: While you can't exactly get a degree in amateur radio, you can get the next best thing on the Berkeley campus of the University of California: a modest curriculum in ham radio science, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, that has been a magnet for an ever-growing crop of new, young licensees. Professor Michael Lustig, KK6MRI, teaches two classes to the next generation of hopefuls: An entry level Hands-On Ham class at the sophomore level, and a Digital Signal Processing course for juniors and seniors. Lustig says that the classes fill quickly on registration day, with a strong showing among students majoring in nuclear, biological and mechanical engineering. In addition to text books, students also get plenty of air time. The courses set them up with inexpensive hand-helds that became their ticket to some 2 meter ragchews. The courses also have the full support of the EECS Department, as well as W6BB, the ham club on the Berkeley campus. As for a formal graduation ceremony, well, the campus also hosts, as a followup, one final exam that can be considered a kind of graduation: A VE session. The most recent one, this past semester, was held March 16 and produced 50 new Technician Class licensees, 3 General Class licensees and 5 Extra Class licensees. They can now all go to the head of the class - and get on the air. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington, Indiana. (ARRL) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; Alaskan Women's Hall of Fame; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; DX.NET; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters; the Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QSL.NET; QRZ.COM., Southgate Amateur Radio News; TWiT TV; Wireless Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email address is newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website located at www.arnewsline.org. A reminder that the nominating period for the Bill Pasternak Young Ham Of The Year award is now open. Full details and the nominating form is available right now on our website, www.arnewsline.org. Click the YHOTY tab. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune, Mississippi, saying 73 and as always we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. --- BgNet 1.0a12 - The Thunderbolt BBS wx1der.dyndns.org Little Rock, AR .