Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D To : All From : Daryl Stout Date : Fri Aug 09 2019 01:38 pm RADIO SCOUTS WRAP UP 24th WORLD SCOUT JAMBOREE NEIL/ANCHOR: World Scout Jamboree is over, and thousands of youngsters are looking back on an experience of a lifetime, as we learn from Bill Stearns, NE4RD. BILL: This week in Radio Scouting, the 24th World Scout Jamboree, and operations at NA1WJ, came to a close. Over 45,000 Scouts from 150 countries, and over 8,000 staff, all departed the Summit Bechtel Reserve, leaving behind a life experience, that most Scouts will only have once in their Scouting career. The team at NA1WJ was able to demonstrate amateur radio to over 3000 Scouts, making over 4000 QSOs, and working over 80 countries. These contacts were made on HF, D-STAR, Echolink, and satellite. The team would like to thank all those who contacted the station, and spent time talking to Scouts on the air. QSL request information is on the K2BSA website. The team launched, under the expertise of Mike Cullen K1NPT, 4 high altitude balloons with APRS payloads. The two farthest traveling balloons were NA1WJ-6, which made it to Spain before going silent, and NA1WJ-7, which made it to Tunisia before going silent. An ARISS contact was also completed, where scouts signed up for a chance to ask a question of assistant Scout master, and astronaut Drew Morgan. Every selected Scout that was able to make it over to the stage, was given one to two questions to ask. Over 250 attended the event, which was conducted via telebridge, with ON4ISS in Belgium and executed on one of the many outdoor stages at the event. There will be a final report forthcoming, that will detail out the operation and results, and will be posted on the K2BSA website. 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. ** THE WORLD OF DX In the world of DX, Gil, IZ2DLV, is operating as 8Q7GB from Nika Island in the Maldives until August 18th. Gil is operating holiday style on 40, 30, 20, 17, and 15 meters, using CW, SSB, and FT8. QSL via LoTW or ClubLog. Operators Valdimir, RV1CC, and Yuri, RM0F, are using the call signs RV1CC/0 {zero}, and RM0F/P, respectively, from Iturup Island, beginning August 15th. They'll be on various HF bands. For QSL details, visit QRZ.com. Be listening too, on the weekend of August 17th and August 18th, for hams calling QRZ during International Lighthouse & Lightship weekend. Please check out ILLW dot NET on the web, for additional information (illw.net). (OHIO PENN DX) ** KICKER: A VIDEO VOYAGE WITH 3Y0I TO BOUVET NEIL/ANCHOR: Finally - With Bouvet Island reaffirmed as the second most wanted DXCC entity, what can hams do until it's time to listen again for DXpeditioners on a calling frequency? Here's Mike Askins, KE5CXP, with one idea. MIKE: So you think you missed out on a chance for contact with the Bouvet Island DXpedition team Three Y Zero Eye (3Y0I)? Guess again. You can now share 27 minutes and 19 seconds of adventure and radio with the team -- and while it's not quite a ragchew, it is a valid contact of another sort. So many months later, they are back with a video called "The Road to Bouvet," a chronicle of their attempt earlier this year, before their landing on remote island's western shore was scrapped by a monstrous storm, and damage it caused to their vessel. They were only 70 nautical miles from their destination, when they made the difficult decision to turn back. Team member Mietek, SP3CMX, who made the video, cautions viewers - whether they get seasick or not - to simply "Buckle Up", and click on the video on the Rebel DX group's website. You'll be watching the DXpedition unfold just before the Atlantic Tuna's journey was scrapped. No, it won't earn you a QSL card, but that's still not out of the question. The team has plans to set off once again later this year. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Mike Askins, KE5CXP. (REBEL DX GROUP WEBSITE) ** NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Amateur News Weekly; ARISS; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; Fox Carolina; Galway VHF Group; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM Forums; New Zealand Radio Spectrum Management; Rebel DX Group; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Steve Wright, EI5DD; SWLing Post; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show; Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our address at newsline@arnewsline.org. More information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website at arnewsline.org. For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and our news team worldwide, I'm Neil Rapp, WB9VPG, in Bloomington, Indiana, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening. Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2019. All rights reserved. --- SBBSecho 3.08-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - tbolt.synchro.net (801:1/2) þ Synchronet þ Temple of Doom BBS - tod.eothnet.com .