Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (C To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Thu Jan 24 2019 11:48 pm BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the Massasoit Amateur Radio Association's 2 meter repeater, W1MV, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and W1MV-R on EchoLink, on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ** NEW AWARDS PROGRAM TO DEBUT IN RADIO SCOUTING JIM/ANCHOR: Radio Scouts have begun the new year with a full agenda, and Bill Stearns, NE4RD, tells us what they've got planned. BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, we're beginning two countdowns, and a new awards program is in the works. Jamboree on the Air 2019 is just a mere 10 months away. The month of January is when you get your event on the district or council calendar. Most groups publish the calendar earlier, but if you failed to set some 2019 dates, now is the perfect time to begin those conversations. Start recruiting members that can help you achieve your updated goals for 2019. Check out our website for other January items that should be in your JOTA checklist. World Scout Jamboree is only 6 months away, and the leadership team for the NA1WJ event are busy at work, meeting and organizing the team for this major event. The leadership team met earlier this month to go over progress in the various areas of the program, to assure all the materials, equipment, and training is either in hand or in progress. The ARDF team is putting together all the 80m gear for the foxhunts. The demo team is putting together all the scripts, contact logs, and ensuring we have as many bands and modes covered to make contacts possible. July will be here before we know it! While the K2BSA has had the Scout Camps On The Air website, and has been a great resource for scheduling your radio scouting events, we are excited to finally announce that we will be transitioning this to an awards program. Similar to other "on the Air" programs, SCOTA will allow you to earn points for activating and chasing activations, as well as other details yet to be worked out. Once the program is finalized, we'll be rolling out an update SCOTA.US site that will include the new aspects of the program, and as well maintaining the ease of access to the activations calendar. For more information on this, and radio scouting, please visit our website at k2bsa.net. For Amateur Radio Newsline, and the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association, this is Bill Stearns, NE4RD. ** TWO SILENT KEYS IN NEW ZEALAND JIM/ANCHOR: They were hams for a lifetime, a very long lifetime, and now, two New Zealand operators are Silent Keys. Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF, has that story. JIM MEACHEN: Two longtime amateur radio operators in New Zealand have become Silent Keys. Reg Motion, ZL2LX, of Tauranga, was 97 years old, when he died on the 14th of January, at Tauranga Hospital. Reg had at one time been with the New Zealand Post Office as a radio technician. John Duncan, ZL2JD, was 81 years of age, when he died on the 15th of January. John's QR Zed page notes that he had been active on the HF bands, and was an ex-Maritime Coast Station operator in Wellington. He had been licensed since the 1960s, and got his first license in Auckland. His other call signs were ZK1CI for the Cook Islands, C21JD for Nauru Island, and ZK2JD for Niue Island. Vale Reg Motion, and John Duncan. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Meachen, ZL2BHF. ** VOA'S BETHANY RELAY STATION MARKING A MILESTONE JIM/ANCHOR: There's going to be a lot of partying going on, radio-style of course, in West Chester, Ohio, as we hear from Stephen Kinford, N8WB. STEPHEN: The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester, Ohio - home to the West Chester Amateur Radio Association, WC8VOA - is marking the 75th birthday of the VOA Bethany Relay station this year. This milestone is being celebrated with a four-event series, conducted jointly by the museum, and the MidPointe Library System. The series is called "The Voice of Truth in America: Celebrating 75 Years of the VOA Bethany Station", and underscores the power of radio during the active years of the station's shortwave broadcasts. The series kicks off on March 6, with a talk by Steve Herman, the VOA's White House bureau chief. This series is among the dozen free events being held this year, inside the VOA building. Others include the annual Hamvention Nights at the VOA Museum on May 16, 17, 18 and 19, and a program on July 11th, discussing stealth antennas for radio amateurs who live in communities with HOAs. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB. --- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32 * Origin: RadioWxNet: The Thunderbolt BBS tbolt.synchro.net (801:1/2) þ Synchronet þ Temple of Doom BBS - tod.eothnet.com .