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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2465 for Friday, January 24th 2025
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2465 with a release date of
Friday, January 24th, 2025 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. An alert amateur helps locate two missing
children in India. A wireless device helps track down the body of a
Colorado skier.  And in the UK Ofcom revisits operating privileges for
visiting amateurs. All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report
Number 2465 comes your way right now.

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HAM HELPS MOTHER WHOSE CHILDREN LEAVE PILGRIMAGE WITHOUT HER

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Situational awareness is always key for hams doing
emergency communications - and it was never more important than at a
recent religious pilgrimage in India, where one observant radio amateur
intervened to help find two missing children. Jim Meachen ZL2BHF brings
us that story.

JIM:  Hams around the world who were making DX contacts with AU2WBRC,
the West Bengal Radio Club, were no doubt happy to log a QSO from the
second largest religious gathering of Hindus in India, the Gangasagar
Mela in West Bengal. They may not have realised that one member of the
team made another important contact - off the air - with the
cooperation of a drone operator in the area. A 9-year-old girl and her
3-year-old sister had boarded a departing bus, expecting their mother
and grandmother to follow, but the adults failed to join them because
the massive crowd at the bus stand had got in their way. The bus pulled
away with the unaccompanied children.

Saborni Nag Biswas, VU2JFC, was at the festival to assist with the
radio club's DXpedition and public safety work. She told Newsline she
was near the bus stand, assisting others who had lost their way in the
crowd, when the frantic mother approached her after the bus pulled
away. The mother could not recall the bus' identifying number. Knowing
that there were drones flying over the island for security  purposes,
Saborni telephoned the drone operators to see if any footage captured
from the air could identify the departed vehicle. After the bus was
identified, located and stopped, she accompanied Kolkata police to the
bus and the girls were returned to their mother and grandmother.

A local newspaper credited Saborni's actions calling them [quote] "key
in completing the search operation in such a short time." [endquote]

This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.

(SABORNI NAG BISWAS, VU2JFC; MILLENNIUM POST)

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AVALANCHE TRANSCEIVER PINPOINTS BODY OF SKIER

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The body of an accomplished skier in Colorado was found
with the help of a personal device known as an avalanche transceiver
-four hours after he became buried in the snow. We have that story from
Kent Peterson KC0DGY.

KENT: A wearable wireless safety device known as an avalanche
transceiver helped a woman find the body of her husband, a veteran
downhill skier who died after being buried in a Colorado mountain
avalanche.

Fifty-seven-year-old Donald Moden Jr., who had once been a member of
the local mountain rescue team, was likely buried in the avalanche for
more than four hours before his body was located via transmissions from
his tracking device, according to news reports. The avalanche occurred
on January 7th on Red Mountain Pass, where he had skied for many years.
News reports said the skier's wife became concerned when he failed to
check in as agreed . Standing at the trailhead with her own avalanche
transceiver, she received transmissions being sent from her husband's
device and was able to locate where he was buried. The transceiver,
sometimes known as an avalanche beacon, transmits on 457 kHz. Newer
ones have a three-antenna design for greater accuracy. According to
several backcountry ski websites, the most modern devices have a
transmitting range of 50 metres or more.

A search team was called in to assist with recovering the skier's body.
News reports said that Donald Moden was the state's first reported
fatality from an avalanche this ski season.

This is Kent Peterson KC0DGY.

(COLORADO SUN, REI.COM)

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HAM RADIO IRELAND BEING PUBLISHED ONLINE AGAIN

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: A popular online ham radio magazine is returning for
readers in Ireland - and around the world, as we learn from Jeremy
BootG4NJH.

JEREMY: Ham Radio Ireland is back. After a period of inactivity late
last year, the free independent downloadable newsletter resumed online
publication in late January.

Shortly after its creators launched its predecessor, the Connacht
Regional Newsletter, in 2022, they realised it held appeal beyond its
initial readership in western Ireland and it was renamed Ham Radio
Ireland. Authors volunteered sharing their expertise on QRP, satellite
operation, VHF/UHF, home construction, keyboard modes and other topics.
According to Steve Wright, EI5DD, editorial contributions eventually
slowed to a trickle, making continued publication a challenge. By last
September, production had stopped.

John Tubritt, EI3HQB, from Collective Communications, and Steve Wright,
EI5DD are on the editorial team to revive the magazine in a new format.
Initially the best site for downloads will be via the Facebook page of
Ham Radio Ireland. Links will soon be available on other social media
platforms.

Authors anywhere in the world are welcome to send stories and pictures
relevant to ham radio and their experiences. They can be sent directly
to Steve at wright14@gmail.com - that's spelled w r i g h t at gmail
dot com.

This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(STEVE WRIGHT, EI5DD; JOHN TUBRITT, EI3HQB)

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AMATEUR RADIO'S GIFT TO LAKE PLACID OLYMPIC MUSEUM

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: The Lake Placid Olympic Museum in northern New York
State is receiving a donation that is more than just images and
memories. This gift contains history, as we hear from Kevin
Trotman,N5PRE.

KEVIN: It has been 45 years since the Winter Olympics were held in New
York State's Adirondack (Ad-DEER-on-DACK) Mountains. That year, the
athletes weren't the only ones making an Olympian effort. Twenty-one
amateur radio operators followed the 1,000-mile route of the
traditional Olympic Flame as it was carried north along the East Coast
of the US, starting on the 31st of January 1980. Along the way, hams in
each local community helped with safety and logistics as the Torch
Relay Team passed through.

To mark the Olympics' anniversary, one member of that team, Bob
Josuweit, WA3PZO, has donated some 100 magazine and newspaper articles
documenting the 10-day run itself and amateur radio's involvement.
There are also 350 35mm slides that are being digitized so the museum
can add these images to their collection too.

The hams themselves have more than those long-ago memories. Their
volunteer work earned each a medal that keeps the memory burning as
bright as that Olympic flame.

This is Kevin Trotman N5PRE.

(BOB JOSUWEIT, WA3PZO)

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SILENT  KEY: YUKON'S "RADIO RAY," RAYMOND FRED FUGARD, VY1RF

STEPHEN/ANCHOR: Hams in the Yukon knew him as "Radio Ray." They said
goodbye to him recently when he became a Silent Key. Neil Rapp WB9VPG
tells us more about him.

NEIL: Raymond Fred Fugard, VY1RF, kept his radios on in his house
around the clock. Ask and he would identify the frequencies and
coverage areas of every repeater in the vicinity of his home in the
Yukon territory. Ray had been a ham since December of 2006 -- and by
the time he got his license, his ever-diminishing eyesight had left him
legally blind.

Ray became a Silent Key on January 6th.

Ray moved to the Yukon more than 40 years ago from Ontario and became
an integral part of community life through his amateur radio activities
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