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Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2534 for Friday, May 22nd, 2026 Amateur
Radio Newsline Report Number 2534 with a release date of Friday, May
22nd, 2026 to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.

The following is a QST. ARISS wants to put amateur radio on the moon.
Girl Guides train to become radio operators -- and the South Georgia
island DXpedition adds the final young operator to its team. All this
and more as Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2534 comes your way
right now.

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BILLBOARD CART

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ARISS ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR MOON-BASED HAM RADIO

PAUL/ANCHOR: Our top story this week takes us, or rather our radios, to
the moon. Two years after Japan landed the first amateur radio station
on the lunar surface, ARISS has announced plans to do the same in
cooperation with AMSAT - and with help from the US Space Agency, NASA.
Kent Peterson KC0DGY has those details.

KENT: The Morse Code transmitted more than two years ago by JS1YMG, the
lunar ham station of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is
apparently just the beginning. Attendees at a Hamvention forum hosted
by ARISS in Xenia, Ohio recently learned about a moon-based project
called CAVIAR. That's an acronym for "Communications, Audio, Video and
imaging using Amateur Radio." The feasibility of CAVIAR is being
studied by ARISS and AMSAT through a partnership known as AREx, for
Amateur Radio Exploration.

According to the early information being discussed publicly, the
station could have support for voice, digital and video - with 10 GHz
and 5 GHz links supported by a network of stations on Earth. More
far-reaching goals can be found on the ARISS website, which describes
AREx as [quote] an "international effort to develop and operate amateur
radio systems for deep space, starting at the moon and later to Mars." [endquote]

This is Kent Peterson KC0DGY.

(ARISS, AMATEUR RADIO DAILY)

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AMSAT-DL SEEKS INPUT FROM SATELLITE ENTHUSIASTS

PAUL/ANCHOR: Hamvention is over and for many, the next step is
Friedrichshafen in Germany. AMSAT-DL has a request for satellite
enthusiasts who are planning to be there, and Ed Durrant DD5LP tells us
how you can help.

ED: AMSAT-DL wants amateurs to look to the future. We're not only
talking about June 27th, when the organisation will be hosting a
workshop that builds on the experience of Qatar OSCAR 100. AMSAT-DL
wants a workshop with ideas, perspectives and proposals for the
upcoming ESA sponsored geostationary satellite which will carry an
amateur radio payload.

At the time that OSCAR-100 was sent into space in 2018, the OSCAR
number administrator Drew Glasbrenner KO4MA noted on the AMSAT-DL
website that it would be [quote] "the guiding star for future amateur
radio satellites and payloads in geostationary orbit and beyond."
[endquote]

The time has come at Friedrichshafen next month to follow that star's
light. AMSAT-DL will present two or three mission and payload concepts
for open discussion, including a concept that builds on QO-100's
success in new directions. An experimental concept will also be
presented, offering digital signal processing and software-defined
payload architectures. There is a possible third option to be presented
which involves beacons and experiments in high-frequency ranges and
would include new antenna concepts and space imaging.

The workshop's location in the Neue Messe will be announced as the date
gets closer. Meanwhile, AMSAT-DL welcomes everyone with varying levels
of experience - all that is required is an interest in amateur radio
satellites and helping to shape their future.

The AMSAT-DL meeting will not be the only space-related activity at Ham
Radio Friedrichshafen, as this year ASTRO, the astronomy trade fair,
will take place alongside the Ham Radio exhibition.

This is Ed Durrant DD5LP.

(AMSAT-DL)

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SILENT KEY: MARATHON VOLUNTEER, LIMARC OFFICER, JERRY ABRAMS, WB2ZEX

PAUL/ANCHOR: Members of the amateur radio community in the New York metropolitan area are grieving the loss of a lifelong ham whose deep involvement and leadership spanned more than five decades. We hear
about him from Daniel Garcia W2DIY.

DANIEL: Jerry Abrams, WB2ZEX, was as devoted to public service as he
was to his fellow amateurs during his long and active involvement with
ham radio.

Jerry became a Silent Key following a heart attack on the 28th ofMarch.

Jerry made his half-century membership with the Long Island Mobile
Amateur Radio Club an active and devoted membership. His different
roles included treasurer, membership chairman and, for a time,
newsletter editor. He also assisted families of Silent Keys with
clearing the contents of the shacks those hams left behind. According
to the club, over the years his efforts led families to receive more
than $100,000 from equipment being rehomed. The Ham Radio University
organizing committee also knew him to be a reliable and capable member.

Jerry took public service seriously, first as a member of an ambulance
corps in Brooklyn and later providing communications support for a
number of ARES groups throughout New York City and on Long Island. He
also provided radio support for the annual New York City Marathon. The
New York Road Runners, the group behind the race, inducted him into
their Volunteer Hall of Fame in 2022 for his years of service.

Jerry was 78.

This is Daniel Garcia W2DIY.

(LIMARC, LARRY GUERRERA, W2LAG)

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INNOVATIVE TRAILER MAKES DEBUT AT HAMVENTION

PAUL/ANCHOR: An important ham radio club trailer made its public debut
this month at Hamvention in Xenia, Ohio. It had a very appreciative
audience, as we hear from Kevin Trotman N5PRE.

KEVIN: The Porter County Amateur Radio Club in Valparaiso, Indiana,
received grant funding last year from Amateur Radio Digital
Communications to build a coordinated communications system with its
sister club, the neighboring Ogden Dunes Fire Department Amateur Radio
Club. Part of that plan involved building a communications trailer. The
project also involved connecting the HF radios to an Internet-based
youth network as part of the outreach program.

Club president Mike Lambertino W9ML described the original concept for
the project. He told Newsline: [quote] "The driving force behind the
trailer is youth, STEM, and community outreach, getting the trailer out
in the community and helping where we can. We do have interoperability
and the alliance with the neighboring fire department to help expand
our communications abilities to assist where needed." [endquote]

Volunteers designed and built out the trailer using significant
donations and discounts on equipment and supplies since the trailer's
delivery last September.

Mike said that the trailer received between 250 and 400 visitors -among
them were members of the ARDC committee. He said the trailer drew a lot
of very positive comments, especially from members of the ARDC who said
they were happy to see the results, calling it a model on which to base
other trailer builds.

Learn more about the club at www.K9PC.club. For Amateur Radio Newsline,
I'm Kevin Trotman N5PRE.

(MIKE LAMBERTINO, W9ML)

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NETS OF NOTE: NEW NET AT THE AWA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM

PAUL/ANCHOR: As part of our occasional series, "Nets of Note," we look
at a newly created net based at the AWA Communications Technology
Museum in upstate New York. You'd expect a group like the Antique
Wireless Association W2AN to recommend using only vintage equipment but
that's not the case: Steve Sykes KD2OM told Newsline that the SSB net
even allows modern equipment as well. The net takes place on Tuesdays
from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight time on 14.265 MHz, plus or
minus 5 kHz.

Everyone is welcome - and encouraged to check in - and topics for
discussion are open.

(STEVE SYKES, KD2OM; JOE FELL W3GMS)

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HELPING GIRL GUIDES EARN LICENSES IN THE CARIBBEAN

PAUL/ANCHOR: This summer, a group of Girl Guides will be preparing for
a different kind of adventure - getting licensed - with the help of a
ham radio club in their Caribbean nation, as we hear from Jim Meachen
ZL2BHF.

JIM: When the summer holidays arrive in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
many members of the Girl Guides in Georgetown will change from
classroom students to amateur radio students. The Youlou Amateur Radio Association has a training session planned, enabling Girl Guides and
other students to prepare to take their ham radio licence exam.

For many of the Girl Guides, this will be their second encounter with
amateur radio. In early May, 32 Girl Guides got their introduction to
radio science and the radio experience with the help of association
president James Codrington J88JC and past president Don De Riggs J88CD.
The girls learned how two-way radios work and participated in a
simulated disaster drill using hand-held radios within the school
compound.

The radio session in Georgetown was the latest the ham association has conducted for Girl Guides. Education is a big part of the mission
behind the Youlou amateur group, which also provides vital services in emergency communication.

This is Jim Meachen ZL2BHF.

(SEARCHLIGHT)

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TIME TO NOMINATE THE NEXT YOUNG HAM OF THE YEAR

PAUL/ANCHOR: You are almost out of time! This is the final week for
sending in your nominations for the Amateur Radio Newsline Bill
Pasternak WA6ITF Memorial Young Ham of the Year award. You only have
until the 31st of May -- and it is coming up fast! Nominees must be
licensed hams who are 18 years of age or younger and they must reside
in the continental United States.

Visit our website - arnewsline-dot-org and find the nomination form
under the awards tab. Submit the documentation that tells us how your
nominee has played an important role, not just in the community of
fellow amateurs but in the community at large.

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BREAK HERE: Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur
Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin stations around the world, including
the AB4KK repeater in Folkston, Georgia on Sundays at 8:45 p.m. local
time - also on Echolink, Allstar and DMR-TGIF.

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HAMS REMEMBER VICTIMS OF HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA FLOOD

PAUL/ANCHOR: The flood that overtook part of Pennsylvania in 1889 was
the kind of storm that happens only once every 1,000 years but a
special event station that remembers it is happening again this year.
Travis Lisk N3ILS tells us what to listen for starting later thismonth.

TRAVIS: The communities surrounding Johnstown, Pennsylvania do not
forget the lives that were swept away by floodwaters unleashed after
the collapse of a nearby dam. The numbers speak for themselves: A rush
of twenty million tons of water. Fatalities numbering two thousand two
hundred and nine -- among them, ninety-nine whole families.

Remembering that catastrophe on the 31st of May, one-hundred
thirty-seven years ago, the Cambria Radio Club WA3WGN will be on the
air again this year with the special event callsign N3N from the 30th
of May through to the 5th of June.

For hams in this flood-prone river valley, it is a very personal
special-event activation and a sad chapter in regional history. There
have been other floods since - notably in 1936 and 1977- but neither
compared to this deadly moment, one that is marked now by a national
memorial in the heart of the city and a special-event station by
amateur radio operators who know the landscape well.

This is Travis Lisk N3ILS.

(EDDIE MISIEWICZ, KB3YRU, QRZ.COM, HISTORY.COM)

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STUDENT JOINS SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND DXPEDITION TEAM

PAUL/ANCHOR: An engineering student from Ireland has become the third
and final young operator for next year's DXpedition to South Georgia
island. Jeremy Boot G4NJH tells us about her.

JEREMY: Even before they set foot on South Georgia island, the VP0SG
DXpedition team has already fulfilled one of its objectives. They have
added Megan EI5LA, a 19-year-old engineering student from University
College Cork, as the third and final young operator.

Megan joins Violetta KN2P and Leon DL3ON for next year's trip. There
are now 16 operators from North America and Europe who hope to get on
the air from this coveted DX next year.

Megan, who has been a ham since 2021, is involved in the EI7M contest
team and has a particular focus on high-level multi-operator events and
CW contesting. She is active in Youngsters on the Air in Region 1.

The team announced her addition, reaffirming its commitment to helping
mentor the next generation of operators and encourage a robust future
for DXpeditions.

This is Jeremy Boot G4NJH.

(EA1CS BLOG; DXWORLD)

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WORLD OF DX

In the World of DX, there is still time to work Bob, ZL1RS, who is
using the callsign A35RS from Tongatapu (TON-GAH-TAP-OO), IOTA Number
OC-049, in Tonga until the 26th of May. This is a 6-metre EME
DXpedition using Q65-60A in "Q65 Pileup" mode. Bob will also be
monitoring 50.313 MHz on FT8;

Rafal, SQ4O, will be on the air as HF0PAS from the Henryk Arctowski
Station on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, IOTA
Number AN-010. He is part of the 50th Polish Antarctic Expedition and
will be on the island from May through October. In his spare time, he
will be operating on the HF bands, using SSB and CW and using FT8 on 6
metres.

The special event station SX1FLY is marking 243 Years of human flight
by celebrating the Montgolfier brothers who flew the first crewed
hot-air balloon in 1783 in France. The station is on all bands using
all modes until the 31st of May.

Listen for Muttley, ZB2KX, operating as ZD8KX from Ascension Island,
IOTA Number AF-003, from the 25th through to the 29th of May. He will
operate QRP on 40-10 metres using mainly CW, with some SSB and
digitalmodes.

For QSL details and other operating information, visit each station's
page on QRZ.com

(425 DX BULLETIN)

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KICKER: COLORADO STUDENT CLUB FINDS IT VOICE ON THE AIR

PAUL/ANCHOR: With the help of a retired teacher who's a veteran of a
quite a few roundups - that would be School Club Roundups - Colorado
student club is finding its voice on the air, as we hear from Ralph
Squillace KK6ITB.

RALPH: The ARRL School Club Roundup was a way of life for Chris WR0TE
when he was teaching high school chemistry in Vermont. For half of his
40 years at the school, he also worked with students who belonged to
the school's amateur radio club, K1BBS. The effort paid off big in
February of 2014 when K1BBS became the top-scorer in the senior high
school category.

Now retired, Chris lives in Colorado where he is the education director
for the Estes Valley Amateur Radio Club. He is also one of the control operators for W0EPS, a student club that got its start at the Estes
Park Middle School a few years ago. One of the teachers had asked the
hams to get the kids involved in radio.

"Involved" doesn't even begin to describe it. The young teenagers now
have several ARRL School Club Roundups to their credit but as Chris
told Newsline, they don't really need an excuse to get on the air. In
one recent week, he said, a total of 58 students in 6th- through
8th-grade logged 113 contacts in 29 states and 2 Canadian provinces.
You can find them most of the time on 10 metres, if it's open;
otherwise try contacting them on the 20-metre band.

Chris told Newsline [quote] "The secret to getting students on the air
is exactly that ... get the kids on the air. Ham Radio is not a 'demonstration' activity ... it's a participation activity. Sit them
down ... put a mic in their hands ... have them call CQ ... and see
what happens." [endquote]

What happens is deceptively simple: The kids find their way in radio
and they also find their voice. In Estes Park, they're not waiting
around for another School Club Roundup to make things happen - but when
it does arrive, they'll be ready. Whenever they key the mic, these kids
already feel like champions.

This is Ralph Squillace KK6ITB.

(CHRIS WR0TE)

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NEWSCAST CLOSE

With thanks to Amateur Radio Daily, AMSAT News; AMSAT-DL, ARISS, Chris
WR0TE; David Behar, K7DB; DX World; EA1CS blog; Eddie Misiewicz,
KB3YRU; 425DX News; History.com; LIMARC, Larry Guerrera, W2LAG; NZNet;
QRZ.com; Radio Society of Great Britain; shortwaveradio.de; Wireless
Institute of Australia; and you our listeners, that's all from the
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