SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO LEAGUE NEWS FOR SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER 2018

Good morning and welcome to the weekly news bulletin of the South
African Radio League read by
.................................................. ..... [your name, call
sign and QTH]

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in Afrikaans as well as English, at 08:15 and 08:30 Central African
Time respectively, on HF as well as on various VHF and UHF repeaters
around the country. The bulletin is relayed via Echolink by ZS6JPL. A
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We start the bulletin this morning with news of four silent keys.

It is with deep regret that we announce that the keys of Mannie de
Beer, ZS6AK, Chris Tippet, ZS5CEV, Dave (Ian) Williams, ZS6JW and Frans
Swanepoel, ex-ZS3ABL went silent in the past weeks.

Mannie de Beer, who passed away on 25 October, was a founding and
honorary life member of the Centurion Radio Amateur Club.

Chris Tippet passed away on Saturday, 1 December in the Amber Valley
Frail Care Centre in Howick. He was an active member of the Midlands
ARC and was also a SARL member. We extend our sincere condolences to
his wife Pam and family.

Dave Williams passed away peacefully on Sunday 2 December after a short
illness. He was a member of the Pretoria ARC and a SARL member.

Frans Swanepoel passed away on Tuesday 4 December 2018.

We extend our sincere condolences to the families and friends of these
four radio amateurs.

PAUSE

In the news, today:

THE 2019 SARL DAY OF THE RADIO AMATEUR

FOX-1CLIFF LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY, NOW DESIGNATED AO-95

and

THE RESULTS OF THE VHF/UHF CONTESTS

Stay tuned for more information on these and other interesting news
items.

THE 2019 SARL DAY OF THE RADIO AMATEUR

The Boland Amateur Radio Club will be hosting the 2019 SARL Day of the
Radio Amateur at two venues in Stellenbosch on Friday 12 and Saturday
13 April 2019. SARL Hamnet is planning a meeting for Friday morning and
the SARL Symposium will be run on Friday afternoon and into the early
evening. The SARL AGM will be held on Saturday morning. These events
will take place at the Datavoice House Auditorium in the Techno Park at
Stellenbosch. The SARL Awards Dinner will be held at the Stellenbosch
Golf Club on Saturday evening.

On pages 14, 15 and 16 of the December Radio ZS, you will find a list
of the SARL Awards and Trophies that will be handed out during the
Awards Dinner. Five Councillors will be retiring at the 2019 AGM,
nominations to fill these five vacancies are invited. Motions for
discussion at the 2019 AGM are also invited. Nominations for these
Awards and Trophies, nominations for Council and motions for the AGM
must be submitted to the SARL Secretary by midnight on Thursday 31
January 2019 using the e-mail . Nomination
templates and a template for motions can be found by following the link
in the 2019 Day of the Radio item in the Member's Only section.

ZS100WWI CERTIFICATES

In the past week, ZS100WWI Certificates have been e-mailed to everybody
in the log sheet. Well, almost everybody. E-mails to the following call
signs either bounced or there is no e-mail on the database for the call
sign - ZS6F; ZS1WOP; ZS5IE; ZS2NB; ZS5JX and ZS5OG. The following call
signs got lost in translation - ZS6AWH/m; ZS6OLR; ZS6FSN; ZS1MOS;
ZS1WAP/6 and ZS2RAI. Please contact Dennis, ZS4BS at
with your correct e-mail and call sign so that
your certificate can be sent to you.

FOX-1CLIFF LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY, NOW DESIGNATED AO-95

Satellite enthusiasts soon will have another "bird" to use. AMSAT's
Fox-1Cliff CubeSat was successfully launched and placed into orbit this
week. A SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle carried Fox-1Cliff and several other
satellites, including other Amateur Radio payloads, into space at
approximately 1334 UTC on 3 December from the Vandenberg Air Force Base
in California, following a 1-day launch delay.

The Fox-1Cliff downlink for FM voice and data-under-voice (DUV) is
145,920 MHz. Uplinks are 435,300 and 1 267,300 MHz. In addition to
Fox-1Cliff, the SpaceX SSO-A: SmallSat Express mission carried FUNcube
on ESEO, JY1-SAT, K2SAT, and ExseedSat. The reusable Falcon 9 vehicle
launched 64 payloads in all.

A VACANCY FOR A NEWS COMPILER/EDITOR

The SARL News Team has a vacancy for a news compiler/editor from early
2019. Emile Venter, ZS6V has notified the Team that he will be
relocating to New Zealand in the new year. The Team thanks Emile for
his work as bulletin compiler and wishes him and his family all of the
best in New Zealand. If you are proficient in English and Afrikaans and
would like to join the News Team, please contact Dennis Green, ZS4BS on
e-mail .

You are listening to a news Bulletin of the South African Radio League.

NEW TWO AMATEUR ISS CREW LAUNCHED FOLLOWING THE ABORTED OCTOBER FLIGHT

Three astronauts, including two radio amateurs, have docked at the
International Space Station (ISS) on the first crewed Soyuz vehicle
launch since a dramatic failure in October. The astronauts, from the
US, Canada and Russia, left Kazakhstan at 1130 UTC on 3 December and
the Russian space agency Roscomos confirmed their successful docking at
the station. On board were David Saint-Jacques, KG5FYI, a Canadian
engineer, astrophysicist and medical doctor; space veteran Oleg
Kononenko, RN3DX, of Russia and Anne McClain of the US. Investigators
have blamed a faulty sensor, said to have been damaged during assembly
in Kazakhstan.

RESULTS OF THE VHF/UHF ANALOGUE CONTEST

The results of the second leg of the SARL VHF/UHF Analogue contest held
on 10 and 11 November as well as the combined results of the contest
have been released.

Base Station - Single operator 1st Carl Minne, ZS6CBQ - 110 020 points
2nd Pierre Lindeque, ZS4PF - 47 637 points 3rd Rickus de Lange, ZS4A -
17 186 points

Field Station - 4 hours 1st Koos Greyvenstein, ZS6KSG - 60 414 points
2nd the Cape Radio Group, ZS1CRG - 16 148 points

Limited - 4 hours 1st Jacques Louw, ZS4WW - 37 700 points 2nd Vernon
Fryer, ZS6AIG - 13 703 points

Overall winners - Analogue both legs 1st Carl Minne, ZS6CBQ - 275 562
points 2nd Pierre Lindeque, ZS4PF - 122 750 points 3rd Christo
Greyling, ZR6AUI/4 - 80 709 points

Overall winners - Digital both legs 1st Pieter Jacobs, V51PJ - 44 037
points 2nd André Botes, ZS2ACP - 42 038 points 3rd Christo Greyling,
ZR6AUI/4 - 9 573 points

Congratulations to all the winners. The full set of results are on the
SARL web site under Contest Results.

NEW COMMITTEE FOR THE SABC AMATEUR RADIO CLUB

At the club's AGM held on 1 December 2018, the following committee
members were elected:

Chairman: Pieter van Wyk, ZS6PVW Vice Chairman: Yvonne, ZR6TBL
Secretary: Magda van Wyk, ZS6MVW Treasurer: Lizette Pienaar, ZS6LZT
Webmaster: Marianne, ZS6ANA Social: Magda van Wyk, ZS6MVW Technical and
repeater: Pieter van Wyk, ZS6PVW and Mark Esilva, ZS6MAE Technical
assistants: Magda van Wyk, ZS6MVW and Riaan Barkhuizen, ZS6BAR

The AGM was followed by a social gathering in the form of a Bring and
Braai. We thank the previous committee members for their hard work and
wish the new committee the best of luck.

PROPAGATION REPORT

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to
remain at low levels. Currently there is only a single sunspot visible
that poses no threat of solar flares. If you want to do your own
frequency predictions, the expected effective sunspot number for the
week will be around one. The 15 to 30 m bands may provide some DX fun.
Please visit the website spaceweather.sansa.org.za for further
information.

Finally, a Diary of some upcoming events:

Until midnight UTC this evening - the ARRL 10 m Competition. 10
December - the closing date for Newbie Logs. 12 December - all
provincial schools close. 14 December - Geminids Meteor Showers. 16
December - the Day of Reconciliation. 17 December - Public Holiday. 21
December - the Summer Solstice. 22 December - Ursid Meteor Showers. 25
December - Christmas Day. 26 December - Family Day and the closing date
for the January Radio ZS. 31 December - End of the YOTA Month, the 2018
CQ DX Marathon and the ARRL International Grid Square Hunt.

To conclude our bulletin a quick overview of our main news item:

The Boland Amateur Radio Club will be hosting the 2019 SARL Day of the
Radio Amateur at two venues in Stellenbosch on Friday 12 and Saturday
13 April 2019. SARL Hamnet is planning a meeting for Friday morning and
the SARL Symposium will be run on Friday afternoon and into the early
evening. The SARL AGM will be held on Saturday morning. These events
will take place at the Datavoice House Auditorium in the Techno Park at
Stellenbosch. The SARL Awards Dinner will be held at the Stellenbosch
Golf Club on Saturday evening.

This concludes our bulletin for this morning.

Clubs and individuals are invited to submit news items of interest to
radio amateurs and shortwave listeners, if possible, in both English
and Afrikaans, by following the news inbox link on the South African
Radio League web page. News items for inclusion in the bulletin should
reach the news team no later than the Thursday preceding the bulletin
date.

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radio program, 'Amateur Radio Today' at 10:00 Central African Time. The
program can be heard on VHF and UHF repeaters countrywide and on 7 082
kHz lower side-band and on 7 205 kHz and 17 760 kHz AM. There is also a
podcast available from Dick Stratford, ZS6RO. A rebroadcast can be
heard on Monday evenings at 18:30 Central African Time on 4 895 kHz AM.

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You have listened to a news bulletin compiled by Emile Venter, ZS6V,
edited by Dennis Green, ZS4BS and read by ........................

From the news team, best wishes for the week ahead.

/EX

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