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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2486 for Friday, June 20th, 2025 Amateur
Radio Newsline Report Number 2486 with a release date of Friday, June
20th, 2025 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1

The following is a QST. Scientists find radio waves with upward
propagation. A DXpedition honors a Silent Key -- and Newsline pays
tribute to cofounder Bill Pasternak WA6ITF, 10 years after his passing.
All this and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2486 comes
your way right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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RADIO SIGNALS HAVE 'UPWARD PROPAGATION' THROUGH ICE, STONE

SKEETER/ANCHOR: We begin this week with a scientific discovery about
radio waves that researchers say defies the laws of physics. These
signals didn't come from somewhere above - but from deep down below the
surface of the earth. Kevin Trotman, N5PRE, tells us about this
so-called "upward propagation."

KEVIN: Radio signals picked up by a NASA high-altitude balloon have
been leaving scientists baffled. The balloon, part of NASA's experiment
known as Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA, was floating
40 kilometres above the continent, in search of neutrinos and other
particles when its sensitive radio antennas unexpectedly picked up
signals that were coming from someplace below - way below - the
Antarctic's frozen surface. Physicists say that for that kind of
reception to occur the radio waves would have had to have penetrated
6,000 to 7,000 kilometres, or 3,700 to 4,300 miles, of solid ice and
stone. 

Although the balloon project has since been retired, researchers
continue to study these unexplained transmissions and recently
published their findings in the journal, Physical Review Letters. The
researchers say that by all models of physics, the signals should have
been absorbed by the rock and gone undetected. 

Scientists know that these are not neutrinos - the particles that they
had expected - but are still trying to narrow down what kind of radio
signals they're dealing with. Meanwhile, with the ANITA project
retired, the next instruments to have a go at the mystery will be on
board a work in progress: A Pennsylvania State University team is
building something bigger and, they hope, better: The Payload for
Ultrahigh Energy Observation mission.

This is Kevin Trotman N5PRE

(GIZMODO, NEWSWEEK)

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ISLAND DXPEDITION WILL BE TRIBUTE TO SILENT KEY

SKEETER/ANCHOR: For one ham in the US, a return to a favorite
DXpedition spot in the North Atlantic will have another purpose this
year. It will serve as a tribute to a friend for whom that island was
home. Andy Morrison K9AWM brings us that story,

ANDY: For Eric Williams, KV1J, his planned trip to St. Pierre &
Miquelon Island, IOTA Number NA-032, is for a solo activation-- but
even as he calls CQ as FP/KV1J starting on the 28th of June, Eric will
not be totally alone. He will carry the memory of a local amateur who
was his friend, Jean-Pierre Carrere, FP5CJ. Jean-Pierre, who was known
in the ham community as a welcoming, helpful and personable radio
operator, especially to visitors, became a Silent Key last September.

Eric will remain on the air through to the 14th of July and will
participate in the IARU HF World Championship on the 12th and 13th of
July. It is his 17th trip to the island in the North Atlantic, not far
from Newfoundland.

This is Andy Morrison K9AWM.

(QRZ.COM)

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TEEN CW CHAMP TRIES TO TOP OWN WORLD RECORD

SKEETER/ANCHOR: Here's one for the record books. A teenager from
Romania is preparing to beat the world record he set last year for
speed in copying callsigns sent in CW. It's set to happen this month in
Germany, as we hear from Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

JEREMY: Ham Radio 2025 at Messe Friedrichshafen, Germany, will have
plenty to offer international visitors when the three-day event opens
on the 27th of June. One scheduled event in particular is likely to
draw a crowd as it showcases the achievement of Ianis Scutaru, YO8YNS,
who set the world record in callsign receiving in Morse Code last year.

In a demonstration sponsored by the Romanian Federation of Amateur
Radio, Ianis will attempt to beat that record before a panel of judges
from Guinness World Records and the IARU. It forms part of a larger
exhibit by the Romanian amateur radio group which is demonstrating
high-speed telegraphy as its centerpiece.

In case you were wondering, at the age of 13, Ianis won a gold medal at
the 20th IARU High Speed Telegraphy World Championship with a
record-setting maximum copy speed of 1,126 characters per minute - an
equivalent just exceeding 225 words per minute.

This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(LUCIAN  YO8SLC)

**
CHICAGO RACE PUTS HAMS ON THE RUN

SKEETER/ANCHOR: This month, hams in the heart of Chicago showed a good
bit of heart themselves during a popular half-marathon. Jen DeSalvo,
W9TXJ, takes us there.

CAREY PINKOWSKI: We've seen a lot of things over the years with the ham
operators. They're the most dependable way of communication.

JEN: For three and a half decades, Carey Pinkowski has been the race
director of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, and in that time, he
has watched his race grow from just a few thousand runners to over
fifty-thousand finishers in 2024.

CAREY: At the marathon last year, we had close to 2,000 medical
volunteers...

JEN: And of those, about 150  amateur radio operators coordinating
medical treatment and transport. The partnership began in 2008 after a
dangerous October heat wave cut the 2007 event short. On a course with
all asphalt and no shade, water became scarce, and communication was
lacking.

CAREY: We didn't have cell phones!

JEN: Runner Kate Saccany, Kilo-Eight-Sierra-Lima-Foxtrot (K8SLF), was a
participant in the Chicago Marathon that year, and like many hams, she
was trained in emergency communications. It was after that event that
she, Pinkowski, and other amateur radio operators devised a plan to put
hams on the run. Sixty-eight hams helped out that first year in 2008,
and since that time...

CAREY: They participate in our planning meetings and our operational
design of things. A lot of it's geared toward emergency or crisis
communications.

JEN: And it's not just for the 26.2-mile race in October. On Sunday,
June 1st, 40 hams assisted medical teams for the Bank of America 13.1,
the half-marathon version.  For their primary repeater, volunteer hams
used a Yaesu DR-2X in analog mode with a "pace" of 25 watts off the
rooftop of Chicago's Historic Mount Sinai Hospital. The backup repeater
had an inverted antenna mag mount and a world-class view, as it was
housed atop Chicago's tallest skyscraper, the Willis Tower, in the ABC
Chicago WLS-TV transmitter suite.

These special ham teams aren't unique to Chicago.  They also assemble
for other World Marathon Majors such as Boston and New York. They play
an important role at the Marine Corps Marathon and several others
across the globe.

So, when distance runners are in need of a hero,

CAREY: It's the ham operators that are there to save the day.

JEN: In Chicago, I'm Jen DeSalvo, W9TXJ

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HAMS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN

SKEETER/ANCHOR: Let's face it: amateur radio can be hard work,
especially lately with the sun sending some geomagnetic storms our way.
Still, it's June and for many of us that signals a chance to have a
little more fun in spite of it all. Geri Goodrich, KF5KRN, offers us a
few options -- in a few modes.

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