Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (B To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Mar 08 2019 11:40 am INDIANA CLUB HAS 35 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE JIM/ANCHOR: In Indiana, one especially active ham radio club is inviting everyone to share in its anniversary plans. Jack Parker, W8ISH, has those details. JACK: Members of the Mid-State Amateur Radio Club in Johnson county, Indiana, are gearing up to celebrate their 35th Anniversary as an ARRL Chartered club. Thirty-five years ago in 1984, a handful of Central Indiana hams gathered at a Franklin Indiana fire house, chose a president and other officers, and then settled on the Mid-State name since there were hams in attendance from several other counties. Over the years, the club has grown, and become more invested in their community by providing communications for dozens of public service events around Johnson county. Like radio waves, they didn't stop at the county line when it came to public service. Many MARC members have helped with major world sporting events, like the 1987 Pan American Games, and the 2001 Police and Fire Games, held in Indianapolis. More recently, some of the club members provided frequency coordination during Super Bowl 46. And, they are always on hand to help with the annual Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini-Marathon. The Mid-State ARC will celebrate 35 years, with breakfast at their monthly meeting March 16th, beginning at 8am. Immediately following their VE testing session, the club will fire up their one day Special Event station using the club call sign of WA9RDF. Look for them on 20 and 40 meters single sideband, beginning around 1600 hours UTC. QSL info will be available on the WA9RDF QRZ page, and the mid state hams dot org website. Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, this is Jack Parker, W8ISH. ** THEY'RE YOUNG, THEY'RE COMPETITIVE AND THEY'RE YARC JIM/ANCHOR: Youthful energy is the engine behind a rising group of the hobby's youngest members. Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, spoke to one of them. NEIL: In October 2017, David Mosden, KF1SHY, started a club, and an online chat on Discord for young hams. This club quickly became YARC, the Young Amateurs Radio Club. The club now has over 900 members, and has a web site at yarc.world. The club has hosted a QSO party, and other activities. Now, the club is recruiting contest stations, and young hams, for an inaugural event. Sterling Mann, N0SSC, one of the board members of YARC, explains. STERLING: Another program we're thinking of, with Team Exuberance in mind... you may have heard of them, as well as YOTA, the Youngsters on the Air program in Europe in IARU region one, we're starting a program called the youth contesting program, which is similarly named to the youth contesting program of YOTA, but it's a little bit different. Instead of having advanced young contesters, who have had a lot of experience contesting going to a megastation, like K3LR for example; we are wanting to try to pair hosts who have, you know, good contest experience, to set up competitive contesting stations, with young hams who are interested in improving their contesting skills. We don't want to like add any unnecessary expense to this, so a one day's days drive would be a great opportunity to be able to just drive to a host station, who would be operating it for this contest, meet a few young hams there, and then operate the contest over the 48-hour period for the CQ worldwide WPX contest on March 30. NEIL: While the time for the contest is drawing near, there is still time to register to be a host, or a youth operator. STERLING: It's not too late to sign up. If you go to YARC.world/ycp, there is a survey there, and you can sign up by March 14. I think by March 1, we'll start announcing matches. Currently we're up to 10 host stations and 17 youth operators, so we're looking for more than that. This is an experimental thing, so please don't be disappointed if you don't get selected for the operation, since there might not be a host operation station within a day's drive to your location. Of course, we don't want to have to make people fly in to do these sorts of things, because there are lots and lots of ham stations out there, and we think that there are lots of hosts that are more than willing to host their station for a event like this. This is, of course, the inaugural event. Many more will come hopefully for more contests in the future, as we kind of figure out the logistics, and planning the coordination of this whole thing. This first one will give us a lot of insight, as well as Team Exuberance, will give us a lot of insight on how we can maintain and promote contesting and ham radio to young operators in the world. NEIL: Reporting for Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG. ** IN SEARCH OF THE 2019 YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR JIM MEACHEN/ANCHOR: Young radio amateurs are what it's all about, and it's what Amateur Radio Newsline honors with its Young Ham of the Year Award. We have opened up the nomination period once again, and are in search of candidates for this year's honor, named in memory of Newsline's Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Award recipients offer the amateur community, and the community-at-large, the best of their talents. All information about eligibility is available on our website, arnewsline.org, under the YHOTY tab. You'll be able to download a nomination form, which is due back to us before midnight on May 31st. The award will be presented on August 18th at the Huntsville Hamfest, in Huntsville, Alabama. --- 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 .