Hammies Sprint 13 June / Youth Sprint 16 June 2021

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SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO LEAGUE NEWS FOR SUNDAY 13 JUNE 2021

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

The South African Radio League broadcasts a news bulletin each Sunday in A
frikaans and English at 08:15 and 08:30 Central African Time respectively
on HF and various VHF and UHF repeaters around the country. The bulletin
is relayed on Echolink by Johan, ZS6JPL. The audio bulletins can be dow
nloaded from the League website at www.sarl.org.za while the text bulletin
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In the news today:

THE HAMMIES SPRINT THIS AFTERNOON

VOORTREKKERS USING SPECIAL EVENT CALL SIGN ON 16 JUNE

and

TWO INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS AT THE AMSAT SA SPACE SYMPOSIUM

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

We begin the bulletin with news of five silent keys.

It is with regret that we announce the keys of Jan Jordaan ZS3JAN, Jerry
De Ru, ZS6JDR, Danie Potgieter, ZS6AXX, Joffre Papenfus, ZS3EY
and Charly du Pont, ZS5DU have gone silent.

Jan passed away on Saturday 27 February, while Jerry passed away on Tues
day 1 June and Danie on Saturday 5 June. Joffre passed away on Thursday 10
June and his wife passed away on Wednesday 2 June. Charly passed away on
Friday 11 June 2021.

We extend our sincere condolences to the families and friends of these rad
io amateurs.

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THE HAMMIES SPRINT THIS AFTERNOON

The Hammies Sprint is a fun activity to promote contacts between Hammies a
nd radio amateurs in Southern African countries with an emphasis on ZU sta
tions and runs from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC (16:00 to 17:00 CAT) this afternoon
, Sunday 13 June 2021. The exchange is RS and provincial abbreviation,
DX for all stations outside South Africa and the QSY rules for Sprints ap
ply. It is a phone contest on the 40-metre band. Logs, in ADIF, Cabril
lo or MS Excel format shall be submitted by 23:59 CAT on Friday 18 June 20
21 and sent by e-mail to .
za) or ) . Get the rules in the
2021 Blue Book.

KYRGYZSTAN LATEST TO ARRIVE ON 60 M

Paul Gaskell, G4MWO reports that the Union of Radio Amateurs of Kyrgyz R
epublic (ARUKR) has announced on 4 June 2021 that the Kyrgyzstan Telecommu
nications Regulator made the new WRC-15 Amateur Secondary Allocation of 5
351.5 - 5 366.5 kHz available to Kyrgyz amateurs at a maximum pow
er of 100 W. Other Secondary allocations made available at the same time w
ere 472 - 479 kHz at 1 W, 122,25 - 123 GHz and 134 - 141 GHz both at 1
00 W.

VOORTREKKERS USING SPECIAL EVENT CALL SIGN

In celebration of the Voortrekker Movement's 90th anniversary, a special
event call sign, ZS90VTK, has been issued. The call sign will be acti
vated on 16 June 2021, Youth Day, from the roof of the Voortrekker Mon
ument. The bands to be used are 40 and 20 metres as well as 2 metres. The
Voortrekkers in Namibia will operate under the call sign, V55JAM. All r
adio amateurs, Voortrekkers, Scouts and Guides are invited to contact
the respective call signs. For the remainder of the year, special trans
missions will made from various monuments in Sout Africa and a special QSL
card will issued. For any additional information, please contact Gerhar
d, ZS6CRS at )

IARU REGION 1 WORKSHOP

The Region 1 Workshop was held yesterday 12 June on the Zoom platform. Mem
bers Societies were tasked at the April Workshop to do a SWOT analysis and
yesterday the feedback was given. South Africa, Serbia, Tunisia and S
pain were asked to prepare a 10 minute slide show of their SWOT analysis a
nd present it at the Workshop. More information in next week's bul
letin.

NEXT GENERATION BEACON FUND TOPS R18 000

The SARL Next Generation beacon fund administered by AMSAT SA topped the R
18 000 mark and currently stands at R18 150. Full details of how to contri
bute to this crowd funding initiative can be found on www.amsatsa.org.za i
ncluding links to the Payfast credit card platform to make a R50, R250 o
r R1 000 contribution and a list of contributors acknowledging their suppo
rt.