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SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO LEAGUE NEWS FOR SUNDAY 24 JULY 2022

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 https://sarl.us5.list-manage.com/track/ click?u'b05a8cba9589bf8d019e5d3&idàc6126c3f&eœe7bd785b w
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sing the SARL web pages are being attended to, an additional channel is
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org.za.

In the news today:

THE SANDTON ARC POWER HOUR TECH TALK ON THURSDAY

TEN AMATEUR RADIO CUBESATS DEPLOYED FROM THE ISS

and

THE SARL HF PHONE CONTEST ON 7 AUGUST

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

THE SANDTON ARC POWER HOUR TECH TALK ON THURSDAY

The Sandton ARC Power Hour Tech Talk at 19:00 CAT on Thursday 28 July will
cover QSO logging... Why, Where, and How. Call-ins will start at 18:4
5 CAT and all are welcome. This talk is perfect for all Amateurs or Elmers
who want to learn more about logging and the modern logging tools or shar
e their knowledge and experience.

Our special guest is well known to many, Noel ZR6DX, the SARL/ICASA gu
ru amongst his many other talents. Noel will be showing us, yes showing
us, as this will be our first ever hybrid Tech Talk, where we use our
repeater and Echolink channels, together with Zoom. We expect that the
talk will cover several logging programs, various websites, eQSL card
s, and even Logbook of The World (LoTW), but part of the excitement is
not knowing exactly what Noel intends to cover. What we do know, is tha
t it is sure to be interesting.

Bring along your questions and answers and come and both see and hear how
best to maximise the benefits of your own QSO logging. Please connect via
Zoom or the 145,700 repeater or Echolink ZS6STN-R. The Zoom link is ava
ilable on the ZS6STN Facebook page and the SARL upcoming events diary page
s. Please come and spend the Power hour with us and join the knowledge sha ring.

BACAR 10

The launch of BACAR 10 is planned for Saturday 8 October from the Trichard
t Dam Yacht Club near Secunda. What is BACAR? It is a Balloon Carrying Ama
teur Radio. There is an element of â-˜roughing it' with lots
of space for your tent or caravan with showers and ablutions available an
d 220 V for your radio. Braai facilities are available but bring wood or c harcoal. The cost is R40 per person per night, but you need to book. Ple
ase e-mail secradio@jenny.co.za to reserve your spot.

TEN AMATEUR RADIO CUBESATS DEPLOYED FROM THE ISS

On Thursday 21 July, during a spacewalk by Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0
UDF, and Oleg Artemyev, ten amateur radio CubeSats were deployed from
the International Space Station. On his website Dmitry Pashkov, R4UAB r
eports that during extravehicular activities (VKD-54), Russian cosmonaut
Oleg Artemyev deployed ten Russian small spacecraft (MKA) - SWSU-55 No 1
to 8 and "Tsiolkovsky-Ryazan 1" and "Tsiolkovsky-
Ryazan 2" according to the programme of the space experiment â
"Radioskaf." The SWSU series satellites were developed at the
Research Institute of Space Instrumentation (part of Roscosmos) and radio -electronic systems of Southwestern State University (SWSU). Listen to Sat ellite Update in Amateur Radio Today for more information about these sate llites.

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

THE AUGUST RADIO ZS

The Editor is awaiting articles from the VHFers and Clubs for the VHF and
Above and the Club columns. Also, Afrikaans articles are most welcome.
Send your contribution to radiozs@sarl.org.za

CLUB NEWS

The 2022 Diary of Events shows that on Saturday 30 July, the Pretoria AR
C is holding another of their Flea Markets. Unfortunately, the News Team
has no further information, please contact the Club for more detail.

CONTEST NEWS

The RSGB Islands on the Air contest is on the air from 12:00 UTC on Saturd
ay to 12:00 UTC on Sunday 31 July with CW and phone activity on 80, 40
, 20, 15 and 10 metres. You will find the rules at www.rsgbcc.org/hf/r ules/2022/riota.shtml.

The aim of the SARL HF Contests is for participants to contact as many ama teurs in Southern Africa as possible on the 20, 40 and 80 m amateur band
s using phone, RTTY and CW.

The HF Phone contest will be held on Sunday 7 August and the activity is s pread over three periods - between 14:00 to 14:30 UTC activity is
on 20 metres, from 15:00 to 16:00 UTC activity is on 40 metres and from
16:30 to 17:00 UTC activity is on 80 metres. You can take part as a Singl
e Operator, Single Radio, Single Band station, a Single Operator,
Single Radio, All Band station, a Multi Operator, Single Band stati
on or a Multi Operator, All Band station. YL and Youth stations must cle
arly mark their logs as YL or Youth.

A trophy is awarded to the Phone contestant in his or her first year of ph
one achieving the highest score. Candidates for this trophy shall state th
e date of the issue of the licence on the summary sheet. Get all the infor mation on page 62 in the 2022 SARL Contest Manual and read the General Rul
es in the Manual.

Fourteen logs were received for the SARL Newbie Contest held on Saturday 2
July 2022. This contest is for the new radio amateurs following the May R
AE. Five of the logs are from Newbies and the other nine are from no more
Newbies.

1st Alyscia le Roux, ZS6ALY - 406 points
2nd Phillip Fisher, ZS6FY - 279 points
3rd Ethan Oberholzer, ZU3EO - 131 points

Twenty logs were received for the ZS5 QSO Party held on Sunday 3 July 2022
.
1st Deon Frazer, ZS5DCF - 136 points
2nd Jan Botha, ZS4JAN - 76 points
3rd Kobus Boshoff, ZS6BOS - 60 points

PROPAGATION REPORT

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that solar activity is expected to be
at low levels. There are currently 8 sunspots with simple magnetic config urations visible. There is a high probability for C-class and a low probab ility for M-class flaring. If you want to do your own frequency prediction
s, the expected effective sunspot number for the week will be around 61.
The 15 to 30 m bands will, especially late afternoon, provide some go
od DX fun. Please visit the website spaceweather.sansa.org.za for further
information.

Finally, a diary of some upcoming events:

25 July - The closing date for 80 m Club Contest Logs
28 July - The Sandton ARC Talking Tech Power Hour
28 and 29 July - The Delta Aquarids Meteor shower
30 July - The Islamic New Year and the Pretoria ARC flea market
30 and 31 July - The RSGB Islands on the Air contest
7 August - The SARL HF Phone contest
8 August - A school holiday
9 August - Women's Day and the SARL YL QSO Party
12 August - International Youth Day and the closing date for HF
Phone logs
12 and 13 August - The Perseids Meteor Shower
13 August - The SARL Youth QSO Party
14 August - The SARL HF Digital Contest and the closing date for Y
L logs
18 August - The closing date for Youth logs
19 August - The closing date for HF Digital logs
20 and 21 August - The 25th International Lighthouse and Lightship
Weekend

To conclude our bulletin, a recap of our main news story:

The Sandton ARC Power Hour Tech Talk at 19:00 CAT on Thursday 28 July will
cover QSO logging... Why, Where and How. Call-ins will start at 18:45 C
AT and all are welcome. This talk is perfect for all Amateurs or Elmers wh
o want to learn more about logging and the modern logging tools or share t
heir knowledge and experience.

This concludes our bulletin for this morning.

We invite clubs and individuals to submit news items of interest to radio
amateurs and shortwave listeners, in both English and Afrikaans, if p
ossible, by following the News Inbox link on the South African Radio Lea
gue web page. News items to include in the bulletin should reach the news
team no later than the Friday preceding the bulletin date.

You are welcome to join us every Sunday morning for the weekly radio progr
am, Amateur Radio Today at 10:00 CAT. The programme can be heard on VHF
and UHF repeaters countrywide and on 7 082 kHz lower sideband by courtesy
of Louis, ZS5LP. A rebroadcast by Andy, ZS6ADY can be heard on Monday
evenings at 19:30 CAT on 3 620 kHz.

We welcome your signal reports, comments and suggestions; please send th
ese by e-mail to artoday@sarl.org.za.

You have listened to a news bulletin compiled by Dennis Green, ZS4BS,
proofread by Herman Erasmus, ZS6CTA and read by ..............

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

Where are the VHFers and the UHFers and the Satelliters?
I remember years ago, there was a VHF/UHF Newsletter edited and publishe
d by Hal Lund,
ZS6WB. And Mike Bosch, ZS2FM (SK) wrote a regular VHF and Above column f
or Radio ZS.
Calling all the VHF and Above amateurs - all those little groups around th
e country - get together and appoint someone to gather the news and activi
ties and write a VHF and Above article.
And the same with the satellite guys (and girls)!
And the Clubs for the Club Column!
Yes, the editor will help and guide!

SUID-AFRIKAANSE RADIOLIGA NUUS VIR SONDAG 24 JULIE 2022

Goeie more en welkom by die weeklikse nuusbulletin van die Suid-Afrikaanse
Radioliga gelees deur ................ [jou naam, roepsein en QTH]

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Radioliga saai elke Sondag 'n nuusbulletin in Afrikaan
s en Engels om 08:15 en 08:30 Sentraal-Afrikaanse Tyd onderskeidelik op HF
en verskeie VHF- en UHF-herhalers regoor die land uit. Hierdie uitsending
s word ook via Echolink herlei deur Johan, ZS6JPL. Die oudio bulletins k
an afgelaai word van die Liga-webwerf by www.sarl.org.za terwyl die teks b ulletin afgelaai kan word vanaf https://sarl.us5.list-manage.com/track/cli ck?u'b05a8cba9589bf8d019e5d3&id•d9aa9200&eœe7bd785b. Om
by die MailChimp-bulletin-poslys aan te sluit, stuur 'n e-pos aan die S ARL-sekretaris. Terwyl daar aandag gegee word aan die probleme wat sommige
lede ervaar wat toegang tot die SARL-webbladsye ervaar, is 'n bykomende
kanaal nou beskikbaar. Besoek www.amateurradio.org.za om die weeklikse SA
RL News-oudio-opnames af te laai en om na te luister, of Amateur Radio T
oday af te laai.

Vandag in die nuus:

DIE SANDTON ARK KRAG UUR TEGNIESE PRAATJIE OP DONDERDAG

TIEN AMATEUR RADIO KUBESATS IS VANAF DIE ISS GELANSEER

en

DIE SARL HF FOON KOMPETISIE OP 7 AUGUSTUS

Bly ingeskakel vir meer inligting oor hierdie en ander interessante nuus.

DIE SANDTON ARK KRAG UUR TEGNIESE PRAATJIE OP DONDERDAG

Die Sandton ARK Krag Uur Tegniese Praatjie om 19:00 SAT op Donderdag 28 Ju
lie gaan oor om QSOs te log... Hoekom, Waar en Hoe. Inroepe sal om 18:45
SAT begin en almal is welkom. Hierdie praatjie is perfek vir alle Amateur
s of Elmers wat meer wil leer oor die log van QSOs en die moderne nutsgoed
vir logs of hul kennis en ervaring wil deel.

Ons spesiale gas is welbekend aan baie, Noel ZR6DX, die SARL/OKOSA-gho
eroe onder sy vele ander talente. Noel sal ons wys, ja ons wys, want d
it sal ons eerste hibriede Tegniese Praatjie wees, waar ons ons herhaler
en Echolink-kanale gebruik, saam met Zoom. Ons verwag dat die praatjie
verskeie logprogramme, verskeie webwerwe, eQSL-kaarte en selfs Logboe
k van die Wêreld (LoTW) sal dek, maar deel van die opgewondenheid i
s om nie presies te weet wat Noel beoog om te dek nie. Wat ons wel weet,
is dat dit beslis interessant sal wees.

Bring jou vrae en antwoorde saam en kom kyk en luister hoe om die voordele
van jou eie QSO-registrasie die beste te maksimeer. Koppel asseblief via
Zoom of die 145,700 herhaler of Echolink ZS6STN-R. Die Zoom-skakel is b eskikbaar op die ZS6STN Facebook-bladsy en op die SARL se komende gebeurte nisse dagboek bladsye. Kom spandeer asseblief die Krag uur saam met ons en
sluit aan by die kennis deling.

BACAR 10

Die lansering van BACAR 10 word vir Saterdag 8 Oktober vanaf die Trichardt
dam Seiljagklub naby Secunda beplan. Wat is BACAR? Dit is 'n ballon wat a mateur radio dra. Daar is 'n element van â-˜buitelewe' met b
aie spasie vir jou tent of karavaan met storte en ablusies beskikbaar en 2
20 V vir jou radio. Braaigeriewe is beskikbaar, maar bring hout of houts
kool saam. Die koste is R40 per persoon per nag, maar jy moet bespreek.
Stuur asseblief 'n e-pos aan secradio@jenny.co.za (mailto:secradio@jenny. co.za) om jou plek te bespreek.

TIEN AMATEUR RADIO KUBESATS IS VANAF DIE ISS GELANSEER

Op Donderdag 21 Julie, tydens 'n ruimtewandeling deur Samantha Cristofor
etti, IZ0UDF en Oleg Artemyev, is tien amateur radio CubeSats vanaf di
e Internasionale Ruimtestasie ontplooi.

Op sy webwerf berig Dmitry Pashkov, R4UAB dat die Russiese ruimtevaarder
Oleg Artemyev tydens buite-ruimtetuig aktiwiteite (VKD-54) tien Russiese
klein ruimtetuie (MKA) ontplooi het - SWSU-55 No 1 tot 8 en "Tsiolkovsky- Ryazan 1" en "Tsiolkovsky-Ryazan" 2" volgens die program van die ruimte-ek speriment "Radioskaf." Die SWSU-reeks satelliete is ontwikkel by die Navor singsinstituut vir Ruimte-instrumentasie (deel van Roscosmos) en radio-ele ktroniese stelsels van die Suidwes-staatsuniversiteit (SWSU). Luister na S atelliet Nuus in Amateur Radio Today vir meer inligting oor hierdie satell iete.

Jy luister na 'n nuusbulletin van die Suid-Afrikaanse Radioliga.

DIE AUGUSTUS RADIO ZS

Die Redakteur wag op artikels van die BHFers en Klubs vir die VHF en Bo en
die Klub-kolomme. Ook Afrikaanse artikels is baie welkom. Stuur jou bydra
e na radiozs@sarl.org.za (mailto:radiozs@sarl.org.za) .

KLUB NUUS

Die 2022 Dagboek van Gebeure wys dat die Pretoria ARR op Saterdag 30 Julie
nog een van hulle snuffelmarkte hou. Ongelukkig het die Nuusspan geen ver
dere inligting nie, kontak asseblief die Klub vir meer besonderhede.

KOMPETISIE NUUS

Die RSGB Eilande op die Lug kompetisie is op die lug vanaf 12:00 UTC op Sa terdag tot 12:00 UTC op Sondag 31 Julie met GG en foon aktiwiteit op 80
, 40, 20, 15 en 10 meter. Jy sal die reëls vind by www.rsgbcc.o rg/hf/rules/2022/riota.shtml.

Die doel van die SARL HF-kompetisies is dat deelnemers soveel as moontlik
amateurs in Suider-Afrika op die 20, 40 en 80 m amateur bande kontak de
ur middel van telefoon, RTD en GG.

Die HF Foon-kompetisie word op Sondag 7 Augustus gehou en die aktiwiteit i
s oor drie periodes versprei - tussen 14:00 tot 14:30 UTC is die a
ktiwiteit op 20 meter, van 15:00 tot 16:00 UTC is die aktiwiteit op 40 m
eter en vanaf 16:30 tot 17:00 UTC is die aktiwiteit op 80 meter. Jy kan de elneem as 'n enkel operateur, enkel radio, enkel band stasie, 'n enk
el operateur, enkel radio, alle band stasie, 'n multi-operateur, e
nkel band stasie of 'n multi-operateur, alle band stasie. JD- en Jeug st
asies moet hul logs duidelik as JD of Jeug merk.

'n Trofee word toegeken aan die Foon-deelnemer in sy of haar eerste jaar v
an foon wat die hoogste telling behaal het. Kandidate vir hierdie trofee m
oet die datum van die uitreiking van die lisensie op die opsommingsblad aa ndui. Kry al die inligting op bladsy 62 in die 2022 SARL-Kompetisiehandlei
ding en lees die Algemene Reëls in die Handleiding.

Veertien logstate is ontvang vir die SARL Newbie-kompetisie wat op Saterda
g 2 Julie 2022 gehou is. Hierdie kompetisie is vir die nuwe radio amateurs
wat die Mei RAE geskryf het. Vyf van die logs is van Newbies en die ander
nege van nie meer Newbies nie.

1ste Alyscia le Roux, ZS6ALY - 406 punte
2de Phillip Fisher, ZS6FY - 279 punte
3de Ethan Oberholzer, ZU3EO - 131 punte

Twintig logstate is ontvang vir die ZS5 QSO-partytjie wat op Sondag 3 Jul
ie 2022 gehou is.
1ste Deon Frazer, ZS5DCF - 136 punte
2de Jan Botha, ZS4JAN - 76 punte
3de Kobus Boshoff, ZS6BOS - 60 punte

VOORTPLANTINGSVERSLAG

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, berig dat die verwagte sonaktiwiteitsvlak laag
gaan wees. Tans is daar 8 sonvlekke met eenvoudige magnetiese samestellin
gs sigbaar. Daar is 'n hoë waarskynlikheid vir die voorkoms van C-kla
s en 'n laer moontlikheid van M-klas sonfakkels.
Diegene wat hulle eie frekwensievoorspellings wil doen, kan 'n verwagte
effektiewe sonvlektelling van 61 vir die week gebruik. Radio amateurs kan
veral laatmiddag goeie DX openinge op die 15 tot 30 m bande verwag. Besoe
k gerus die webtuiste spaceweather.sansa.org.za vir meer inligting.

Ten slotte, 'n dagboek van 'n paar opkomende gebeure:

25 Julie - die sluitingsdatum vir 80 m-klub kompetisie logstate
28 Julie - die Sandton RK Tegniese Praatjie
28 en 29 Julie - die Delta Aquarids Meteorietreën
30 Julie - die Islamitiese Nuwejaar en die Pretoria ARK snuffelmar
k
30 en 31 Julie - die RSGB Eilande op die Lug kompetisie
7 Augustus - die SARL HF Foon kompetisie
8 Augustus - 'n skoolvakansie
9 Augustus - Vrouedag en die SARL JD QSO Partytjie
12 Augustus - Internasionale Jeugdag en die sluitingsdatum vir HF Foon log state
12 en 13 Augustus - die Perseïde-meteoorreën
13 Augustus - die SARL Jeug QSO Partytjie
14 Augustus - die SARL HF Digitale kompetisie en die sluitingsdatu
m vir YL logstate
18 Augustus - die sluitingsdatum vir Jeug logstate
19 Augustus - die sluitingsdatum vir HF Digitale logstate
20 en 21 Augustus - die 25ste Internasionale Vuurtoring- en Ligski
p-naweek

Om ons bulletin af te sluit, 'n opsomming van ons hoof berig:

Die Sandton ARK Krag Uur Tegniese Praatjie om 19:00 SAT op Donderdag 28 Ju
lie gaan oor om QSOs te log... Hoekom, Waar en Hoe. Inroepe sal om 18:45
SAT begin en almal is welkom. Hierdie praatjie is perfek vir alle Amateur
s of Elmers wat meer wil leer oor die log van QSOs en die moderne nutsgoed
vir logs of hul kennis en ervaring wil deel.

Dit bring ons aan die einde van hierdie bulletin.
Ons nooi klubs en individue uit om nuusitems van belang aan radioamateurs
en kortgolfluisteraars in beide Engels en Afrikaans in te stuur, indien
moontlik, deur die â-˜News Inbox'-skakel op die Suid-Afri
kaanse Radioliga-webblad te volg. Nuusitems wat in die bulletin ingesluit
moet word, moet die Nuusspan nie later nie as die Vrydag voor die bulle
tin datum bereik.

Jy is welkom om elke Sondagoggend by ons aan te sluit vir die weeklikse ra dioprogram, "Amateur Radio Today" om 10:00 SAT. Daar is
herleiding op 7 082 kHz laer syband deur Louis, ZS5LP en verskeie herle
idings op BHF en UHF frekwensies regoor Suid-Afrika. 'n heruitsending deur
Andy ZS6ADY vind op Maandae aande om 19:30 Sentraal Afrika Tyd op 3 620 k
Hz plaas.

Ons verwelkom jou seinverslae, kommentaar en voorstelle; stuur dit asseb
lief per e-pos na artoday@sarl.org.za (mailto:artoday@sarl.org.za) .

Jy het geluister na 'n nuusbulletin wat geskryf is deur Dennis Green, ZS
4BS, geproeflees deur Deon Erwin, ZS1ZL en gelees deur ..............

Van die Nuusspan, beste wense vir die week wat voorlê.

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