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Subject: Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2450 for Friday October 11th, 2024
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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2450 for Friday October 11th, 2024
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2450 with a release date of
Friday, October 11th, 2024 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. Hams respond as Hurricane Milton engulfs
Florida. More funding will be used to strengthen broadcasters in
disaster areas -- and in India, ham radio is being promoted as a tool
for the well-being for women.  All this and more as Amateur Radio
Newsline Report Number 2450 comes your way right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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HAMS RESPOND TO 2ND HURRICANE IN SOUTHERN US

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: As Newsline went to production, our top story was still
developing: Hurricane Milton was rampaging through much of Florida in
the US. As Randy Sly W4XJ tells us, hams were prepared for the worst
when it came.

RANDY: While emergency communications were still continuing in the wake
of Hurricane Helene's impact on the Southeastern United States, hams in
Florida had to begin their own activation for Hurricane Milton on
Wednesday, October 9th. In addition to the Hurricane Watch Net on 20
and 40 meters, the Statewide Amateur Radio Network, or SARNet, was busy
handling traffic from the state's Emergency Operations Center. SARNet
is a network of linked UHF repeaters run out of the EOC covering most
of the state of Florida.

Approaching the state's western coast south of Tampa with Category 3
winds, Milton was already producing a number of tornadic supercells in
southern Florida before making landfall, causing the storm's first
deaths. More than 3 million were without power as the hurricane moved
out to sea on Thursday morning.

As with North Carolina's Mount Mitchell repeater during Hurricane
Helene, SARNet was linked to Broadcastify, allowing individuals from
around the world a front-row seat as amateurs passed emergency traffic.
Unfortunately, in addition to hearing a professionally-run net,
listeners also witnessed malicious interference on the repeaters, which
could have endangered clear communications. With handheld radios so
easy to obtain nowadays, it is hard to know whether the interruptions
came from licensed hams or not.

This is Randy Sly, W4XJ

(SARNet, BROADCASTIFY)

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FEDERAL FUNDS TO STRENGTHEN BROADCASTERS' RESILIENCY

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Public radio and TV stations are getting an extra dose
of federal funds to strengthen their ability to operate during
disasters. We have those details from Patrick Clark K8TAC.

PATRICK: With disaster resiliency on almost everyone's mind in the US,
the Federal Emergency Management Agency has made an additional $40
million available to public radio and TV stations to permit them to
upgrade their infrastructure. The money is being released through the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The funds are designed to permit
radio stations' investments in new transmitters, generators, backup
power supplies, antennas and related equipment for handling emergency
messages. The equipment is capable of handling messages through the
federal agency's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System and its
Common Alerting Protocol. For TV stations, the funds are to support
training their personnel in the use of new or upgraded equipment. FEMA
has already released two rounds of funding to public broadcasters This
third round will mean that $136-million has been spent during the
course of three fiscal years to assist public media's capabilities
during disasters.

This is Patrick Clark K8TAC.

(RADIO WORLD)

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HAMS HELP AMPUTATION PATIENT IN INDIA FIND HIS WAY HOME

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A ham club in India with a specialty in helping
families reunite with lost relatives has assisted in the homecoming of
a man recovering from an amputated leg. We hear more about him from
John Williams VK4JJW.

JOHN: The suffering of a man separated from his family was amplified by
the agony of having just endured the amputation of his left leg - the
result of an apparent accident near the Sodepur and Agarpara railway
station tracks in West Bengal, India. Authorities were not clear how
the man had become injured but following his surgery at the Sagar Dutta
Medical College and Hospital. They knew they could at least help heal
one part of his pain: his sense of isolation and the onset of
depression.

While the man recovered physically, the hospital superintendent sought
help to get him family support. On the 26th of September, the hospital
official Zahid Hossain, contacted the West Bengal Radio Club, an
amateur radio organisation with a proven track record of helping in
missing-persons cases.

According to a report in the Millennium Post, the hams used their vast
network of contacts to locate the man's family in the West Bengal
district of Birbhum. The club's secretary, Ambarish Nag Biswas VU2JFA,
told the newspaper that when the hams got in touch with the man's elder
sister, they learned that she had reported him missing about a year
ago. The siblings were put in touch with one another and the man
recognised his sister. When he was considered healthy enough to be
released by the hospital, he returned home with her to the family's
village.

This is John Williams VK4JJW.

(MILLENNIUM POST)

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COLORADO CHOSEN AS SITE FOR NEXT YOUNG AMATEURS' CAMP STEPHEN/ANCHOR:
As many as 50 licensed amateurs between the ages of 15 and 25 will be
headed for Colorado next June as the Youth on the Air Camp for the
Americas enters its fifth season. The online application period begins
on December 1st and is open to young radio operators from North,
Central and South America. The camp will take place from June 15th
through to the 20th.

Prospective campers living outside the United States are being given
priority and are encouraged to leave sufficient time to obtain the
required passport and tourist Visa, where applicable. First-time
campers are also being given priority. Attendees from past years are
welcome to apply to serve as leaders.

Meanwhile, plans are in the works to inaugurate two other camp
experiences next year: subregional camps and a YOTA Junior USA camp
serving hams younger than 15.

Visit youthontheair dot org - that's youthontheair - one word - dot org
(youthontheair.org) For additional information, please contact Camp
Director Neil Rapp, WB9VPG via the email address, director at
youthontheair dot org (director@youthontheair.org)

(YOUTH ON THE AIR)

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SILENT KEY: ALBANIAN AMATEUR RADIO LEADER JOVAN BOJDANI, ZA1H

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A leader in Albania's amateur radio community has
become a Silent Key. We hear about him from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY:  From the very beginning, radio was almost certain to be in the
future for Jovan Bojdani, ZA1H. He grew up watching his father at the
helm of Radio Tirana, Albania's first broadcast radio station which
transmitted its powerful signal on 7050 kHz. Jovan's own history-making
involvement in radio came with the creation of the Albanian Amateur
Radio Association, which he served in as secretary. Jovan had been one
of the first students to be trained in the ZA1A IARU amateur radio
program in 1989, in preparation for amateur radio's reintroduction into
Albania the following year.

Notices posted on a variety of DX websites praised Jovan's efforts to
welcome international operators to Albania and to provide whatever
guidance he could to local hams. A note posted on DX News said that
[quote] "Jovan worked tirelessly to unite competing amateur radio
groups in Albania though sadly, he did not live to see the fruits of
his efforts." [endquote]

Details about the date and cause of his death were not available when
Newsline went to production.

This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(425 DX NEWS)

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