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SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO LEAGUE NEWS FOR SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 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 in English at 08:15 and 08:30 Central African Time respective
ly on HF and various VHF and UHF repeaters around the country. The bulleti
n is relayed on Echolink by Johan, ZS6JPL. The audio bulletins can be do wnloaded from the League website at https://sarl.us5.list-manage.com/track /click?u'b05a8cba9589bf8d019e5d3&id75b03ceb&eœe7bd785b
the text bulletin can be downloaded from https://sarl.us5.list-manage.com /track/click?u'b05a8cba9589bf8d019e5d3&id™6fa62b7e&eœe7bd785b. To join the MailChimp bulletin mailing list, send an e-mail to th
e SARL Secretary.

In the news today:

THE SARL HF DIGITAL CONTEST THIS AFTERNOON

THE 25TH INTERNATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTSHIP WEEKEND

and

RTTY TURNS 100

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

THE SARL HF DIGITAL CONTEST THIS AFTERNOON

The SARL HF Digital Contest will be on the air from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC thi
s afternoon, with RTTY activity spread over three periods: 20 m between
14:00 and 14:30 UTC, 40 m between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC and 80 m between
16:30 and 17:00 UTC. You have a choice of four categories of participatio
n. YL and Youth participants are asked to mark their log sheets with YL or
Youth. All the information is on page 62 of the 2022 SARL Contest Manual.
Please read the rules before the contest and check General Rule 15.7 as w
ell.

MFJ TO CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY

MFJ Enterprises, an amateur radio electronics manufacturer and retailer
, will celebrate 50 years in business this October. Martin Jue, K5FLU
, founded the company in 1972 after building a CW filter kit that sold f
or less than $10. Since 1990 the company has made five acquisitions, inc
luding Hy-Gain and Cushcraft antennas. MFJ Customer Services and Public Re lations Manager Richard Stubbs says the company continues to grow with the
popularity of amateur radio and currently manufactures over 2 000 product
s. "I've been with the company for 28 years and the number
s are good," said Stubbs. "Amateur radio continues to gr
ow worldwide."

Martin Jue graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelorâ
-(tm)s degree in electrical engineering and he earned a master's
degree in electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology ( Georgia Tech). He served as a professor of electrical engineering at Missi ssippi State University from 1972 until 1979, but abandoned his doctorat
e in 1977 because of MFJ's growth.

THE 25TH INTERNATIONAL LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTSHIP WEEKEND

At the time of writing this bulletin, seventeen South African lighthouse
s have registered for the 25th ILLW activity on 20 and 21 August. The Cape
Town Amateur Radio Centre will activate Green Point lighthouse for the 24
th time! With one week to go, there is still time to register a lighthou
se. Hopefully, Namibia and Mozambique will also appear on the list. ILLW
is one of the most popular international amateur radio events in existenc
e, probably because there are very few rules and it is not the usual con test-type event. It is also free and there are no prizes for contacting la
rge numbers of other stations. ILLW is not a contest!

The 2022 Southern African Lighthouse Award is available for working lighth ouses in Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. Find the 2022 Lighthouse
log sheet at . You may contact non-lighthouse stations, BUT there must
be at least FOUR lighthouses in your log to qualify for the certificate.
The Lighthouse name, number and the operator's name must be obt
ained during the QSO. The certificate will be sent to you by e-mail - it i
s a PDF document. Send your log sheet to secretary@sarl.org.za after the e vent.

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

RTTY TURNS 100

On 9 August 1922 a text was typed in an airplane and simultaneously printe
d out at a ground station. With this experiment, the US Navy Department
gave the telex procedure wings - exactly 100 years ago. From now on, it
was possible to transmit texts wirelessly at a speed of up to 100 words p
er minute. The Ministry immediately pushed for messages to be made availab
le in the opposite direction, namely from the ground to the plane. It wa
s the birth of radio telex or RTTY.

After the Second World War, the first telexes came into the hands of rad
io amateurs in the USA, who then modified their transmitters for frequen
cy shift keying (FSK). RTTY had now also arrived in the amateur radio serv
ice. With the advent of personal computers at the beginning of the 1980s
, they replaced the previously widespread electro mechanically generated
RTTY with very simple RTTY programmes. With the introduction of digital t echnology and the development of new types of transmission such as PSK31 a
nd later FT8, RTTY has lost its previous importance in amateur radio. It
is different in the maritime radio service: despite modern and fast digit
al processes, RTTY transmissions still have their place there, e.g.,
to warn of dangers or to transmit current sea weather reports to the skip pers.

CLUB NEWS

The West Rand Amateur Radio Club would like to remind you they will activa
te Seal Point Lighthouse, ILLW number ZA-0021, situated in Cape St Fra
ncis on Saturday and Sunday, 20 and 21 August. They hope to be active on
the 20, 40 and 80 metres. All QSOs will be confirmed via the SA QSL Ser
vice, QRZ.com and a special QSL card sent via the SARL QSL Bureau. ZS6WR
/2 Lighthouse would love to make a contact with you during this special ev
ent. Please turn on your radio, contact as many Lighthouses as possible
and claim your Lighthouse certificate. Remember - the bands are only dead
when your radio is off!

The Boland Amateur Radio Club will put 2 stations on the air this coming w eekend during the International Lighthouse Weekend. On l'Agulhas, BARK w
ill be using the call sign ZS1BAK/L from the southernmost lighthouse on th
e African continent. From Cape Columbine, Boland members will also put t
he call sign ZS1BK/L on the air. Amateurs are requested to listen out for
the 2 stations on 80, 40 and 20 m. ZS1BK will also be active on 160,
15 and 10 metres. QSL via the electronic SA-QSL system will be replied to
.

The next Sandton ARC Power Hour will take place from 18:45 CAT on Thursday
25 August on the 145,700 repeater and Echolink on ZS6STN-R. The guest i
s Mike, ZS6MSW and he will be talking about the 7P8CW DXpedition schedul
ed for November.

The Sasolburg Amateur Radio Club held its AGM on Saturday 6 August. A new
committee was elected and Louis Haarhoff, ZS6BD, was elected as the C
hairman for the coming year. Louis thanked the Club members for their trus
t in him and he also thanked the outgoing committee for their work during
the past year. The Club has seen an average growth of 10% in member numbe
rs over the last couple of years and this is because the Club excels in mo
st areas of Amateur Radio. Listen for the ZS4SRK call sign, The Club wou
ld love a QSO with you.

COMPETITION NEWS

The fourth leg of the Saturday 40 m Club Contest will be run on Saturday 2
7 August and the SARL HF CW contest will be run on 28 August.

Start your planning for the first weekend in September - the SARL
Field Day will run from 08:00 UTC on Saturday 3 September to 10:00 UTC on
Sunday 4 September, while the IARU Region 1 SSB Field Day will run from
13:00 UTC on 3 September to 12:59 UTC on 4 September. Get out of the hous
e and enjoy a weekend outdoors. Get the information about the local contes
ts in the 2022 Blue Book.

PROPAGATION REPORT

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to
be at low levels. There are currently 5 sunspots with simple magnetic con figurations visible. There is a low probability for C-class and a very low
probability for M-class flaring. If you want to do your own frequency pre dictions, the expected effective sunspot number for the week will be aro
und 52. The 15 to 30 m bands will, especially late afternoon, provide
some good DX fun. For more information, please visit the website .

Finally, a diary of some upcoming events:

This afternoon - The SARL HF Digital contest
19 August - The closing date for the HF Digital logs
20 and 21 August - The International Lighthouse and Lightship week
end
25 August - The Sandton Power Hour
27 August - The SARL 40m Club contest and the West Rand Flea Marke
t
28 August - The SARL HF CW contest
1 September - The closing date for Club contest logs
2 September - The closing date for the HF CW logs
3 and 4 September - The Region 1 Field Day and the SARL Field Day
9 September - The closing date for Field Day logs
10 September - The Regional FT4 DX Contest and the AMSAT SA Space
Symposium
10 and 11 September - The SAMOC Spring Sweepstakes

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

The SARL HF Digital Contest will be on the air from 14:00 to 17:00 UTC thi
s afternoon, with RTTY activity spread over the three periods as in the
HF Phone contest. All the information is on page 62 of the 2022 SARL Con
test Manual. Please read the contest rules and General Rule 15.7 before th
e contest.

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 relayed on 7 082 kHz lower sideband by
Louis, ZS5LP. A rebroadcast by Andy, ZS6ADY can be heard on Monday ev
enings 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 (mailto:artoday@sarl.org.za) .

You have listened to a news bulletin written by Dennis Green, ZS4BS, p
roofread by Herman Erasmus, ZS6CTA and read by ..............

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

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SUID-AFRIKAANSE RADIOLIGA NUUS VIR SONDAG 14 AUGUSTUS 2022

Goeie môre en welkom by die weeklikse nuus uitsending van die Suid-Af
rikaanse Radioliga, gelees deur ________________________ (jou naam, ro
epsein en QTH)

Die Suid-Afrikaanse Radioliga saai elke Sondag nuus bulletins uit in Afrik
aans sowel as Engels om 08:15 en 08:30 Sentraal Afrika Tyd onderskeidelik
op HF sowel as op verskeie BHF- en UHF-herhalers. Hierdie uitsendings wor
d ook via Echolink herlei deur Johan, ZS6JPL. Die oudio bulletins kan af
gelaai word vanaf die Liga webwerf by www.sarl.org.za, terwyl die teks b ulletins by https://sarl.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u'b05a8cba958 9bf8d019e5d3&idf7012ec5&eœe7bd785b afgelaai kan word. Om by
die Mailchimp bulletin e-poslys aan te sluit, stuur 'n e-pos aan die SA
RL Sekretaris.

In die Nuus vandag:

DIE SARL HF DIGITALE KOMPETISIE VANMIDDAG

DIE 25STE INTERNASIONALE VUURTORING EN LIGSKIP-NAWEEK

en

RTD WORD 100

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

DIE SARL HF DIGITALE KOMPETISIE VANMIDDAG

Die SARL HF Digitale kompetisie sal vanmiddag van 14:00 tot 17:00 UTC op d
ie lug wees met RTD-aktiwiteit wat oor drie periodes versprei is -
20 m tussen 14:00 en 14:30 UTC, 40 m tussen 15:00 en 16: 00 UTC en 80 m
tussen 16:30 en 17:00 UTC. Jy het 'n keuse van vier kategorieë van d
eelname. JD- en Jeug deelnemers word gevra om hul logstate te merk as JD o
f Jeug. Al die inligting is op bladsy 62 van die 2022 SARL-Kompetisiehandl eiding. Lees asseblief die reëls voor die kompetisie en kyk ook na Al
gemene Reël 15.7.

MFJ OM 50-JAAR HERDENKING TE VIER

MFJ Enterprises, 'n amateur radio elektroniese vervaardiger en kleinhand
elaar, sal hierdie Oktober 50 jaar in besigheid vier. Martin Jue, K5FL
U, het die maatskappy in 1972 gestig nadat hy 'n GG-filter-stel gebou he
t wat vir minder as $10 verkoop is. Sedert 1990 het die maatskappy vyf ver krygings gedoen, insluitend Hy-Gain en Cushcraft-antennas. Richard Stubb
s, bestuurder van MFJ-kliëntedienste en openbare betrekkinge, s
ê die maatskappy groei steeds met die gewildheid van amateur radio en
vervaardig tans meer as 2 000 produkte. "Ek is al 28 jaar by die
maatskappy en die syfers is goed," het Stubbs gesê. â-
œAmateur radio groei steeds wêreldwyd."

Martin Jue het aan die Mississippi Staat Universiteit gegradueer met 'n ba ccalaureusgraad in elektriese ingenieurswese en hy het 'n meestersgraad in
elektriese ingenieurswese aan die Georgia Instituut vir Tegnologie (Georg
ia Tech) verwerf. Hy het van 1972 tot 1979 as professor in elektriese inge nieurswese aan die Mississippi Staat Universiteit gedien, maar het sy do ktorsgraad in 1977 laat vaar weens MFJ se groei.

DIE 25STE INTERNASIONALE VUURTORING EN LIGSKIP-NAWEEK

Ten tyde van die skryf van hierdie bulletin het sewentien Suid-Afrikaanse
vuurtorings geregistreer vir die 25ste ILLW-aktiwiteit op 20 en 21 August
us. Die Kaapstadse Amateurradiosentrum gaan Groenpunt-vuurtoring vir die 2
4ste keer aktiveer! Met een week om te gaan, is daar nog tyd om 'n vuurt
oring te registreer. Hopelik sal Namibië en Mosambiek ook op die lys
verskyn. ILLW is een van die gewildste internasionale amateur radio-byeen komste wat bestaan, waarskynlik omdat daar baie min reëls is, dit
is nie die gewone kompetisie tipe byeenkoms nie. Dit is ook gratis en daa
r is geen pryse om groot getalle ander stasies te kontak nie. ILLW is nie
'n kompetisie nie!

Die 2022 Suider-Afrikaanse Vuurtoring-toekenning is beskikbaar vir kontakt
e met vuurtorings in Namibië, Suid-Afrika en Mosambiek. Kry die 202
2 Vuurtoring-logstaat by www.sarl.org.za/public/contests/contestrules.asp.
Jy mag nie-vuurtoring stasies kontak, MAAR daar moet ten minste VIER vu urtorings in jou logstaat wees om vir die sertifikaat te kwalifiseer. Die
vuurtoring se naam, nommer en die operateur se naam moet tydens die QSO
verkry word. Die sertifikaat sal per e-pos aan jou gestuur word - dit is
'n PDF-dokument. Stuur jou logstaat na secretary@sarl.org.za (mailto:secr etary@sarl.org.za) na die geleentheid.

Jy luister na ʼn nuus uitsending van die Suid-Afrikaanse Radioliga.

RTD WORD 100

Op 9 Augustus 1922 is 'n teks in 'n vliegtuig getik en gelyktydig by 'n gr ondstasie uitgedruk. Met hierdie eksperiment het die Amerikaanse Vloot Dep artement die teleks-prosedure vlerke gegee - presies 100 jaar gele
de. Van nou af was dit moontlik om tekste draadloos teen 'n spoed van tot
100 woorde per minuut oor te dra. Die Ministerie het dadelik aangedring d
at boodskappe in die teenoorgestelde rigting beskikbaar gestel word, naa
mlik van die grond na die vliegtuig. Dit was die geboorte van radio-teleks
of RTD.

Ná die Tweede Wêreldoorlog het die eerste telekse in die hande v
an radio amateurs in die VSA gekom, wat toe hul senders vir frekwensie-s kuif-sleuteling (FSK) aangepas het. RTD het nou ook in die amateur radio d
iens aangekom. Met die koms van persoonlike rekenaars aan die begin van di
e 1980's, het hulle die voorheen wydverspreide elektromeganies-gegeneree
rde RTD met baie eenvoudige RTD-programme vervang. Met die bekendstelling
van digitale tegnologie en die ontwikkeling van nuwe tipes transmissie so
os PSK31 en later FT8, het RTD sy vorige belangrikheid in amateur radio
verloor. Dit is anders in die maritieme radiodiens: ten spyte van moderne
en vinnige digitale prosesse, het RTD-uitsendings steeds hul plek daar
, bv., om te waarsku oor gevare of om huidige seeweer verslae aan die
skippers oor te dra.

KLUB NUUS

Die Wes-Rand Amateurradioklub herinner jou daaraan dat hulle Seal Point Vu urtoring, ILLW nommer ZA-0021, geleë in Kaap St Francis op Saterd
ag en Sondag, 20 en 21 Augustus gaan aktiveer. Hulle hoop om aktief te w
ees op die 20, 40 en 80 meterbande. Alle QSOs sal bevestig word deur die
SA QSL-diens, QRZ.com en 'n spesiale QSL-kaart wat via die SARL QSL-bur
o gestuur word.

ZS6WR/2 Vuurtoring sal graag met jou kontak wil maak tydens hierdie spesia
le geleentheid. Skakel asseblief jou radio aan, kontak soveel Vuurtoring
s as moontlik en eis jou Vuurtoring-sertifikaat op. Onthou - die bande is
net dood as jou radio af is!

Die Boland Amateurradioklub sal eerskomende naweek 2 stasies op die lug pl
aas tydens die Internasionale Vuurtoring Naweek. Op l'Agulhas sal BARK die
roepsein ZS1BAK/L van die mees suidelike vuurtoring op die Afrika-kontine
nt gebruik. Vanaf Kaap Columbine sal Bolandse lede ook die roepsein ZS1BK/
L op die lug sit. Amateurs word versoek om uit te luister vir die 2 stasie
s op veral 80, 40 en 20 m. ZS1BK sal ook aktief wees op 160, 15 en 10
meter. QSL via die elektroniese SA-QSL-stelsel sal beantwoord word.

Die volgende Sandton ARK Krag Uur sal plaasvind vanaf 18:45 SAT op Donderd
ag 25 Augustus op die 145,700 herhaler en Echolink op ZS6STN-R. Die gas
is Mike, ZS6MSW en hy sal [DEL: praat :DEL] oor die 7P8CW DXpedisie pr
aat wat vir November geskeduleer is.

Die Sasolburg Amateurradioklub het op Saterdag 6 Augustus sy AJV gehou. 'n
Nuwe komitee is verkies en Louis Haarhoff, ZS6BD is as voorsitter vir d
ie komende jaar verkies. Louis bedank die Klublede vir hul vertroue in hom
en hy het ook die uittredende komitee bedank vir hul werk die afgelope ja
ar. Die Klub het die afgelope paar jaar 'n gemiddelde groei van 10% in led
e getalle gesien en dit is omdat die Klub uitblink in die meeste areas van
Amateur radio. Luister vir die ZS4SRK-roepsein, Die Klub sal graag 'n Q
SO met jou wil hê.

KOMPETISIE NUUS

Die vierde been van die Saterdag 40 m-Klub kompetisie word op Saterdag 27
Augustus en die SARL HF GG-kompetisie op 28 Augustus aangebied.

Begin jou beplanning vir die eerste naweek in September - die SARL
Velddag sal vanaf 08:00 UTC op Saterdag 3 September tot 10:00 UTC op Sond
ag 4 September duur, terwyl die IARU Streek 1 ESB Velddag vanaf 13:00 UT
C duur op 3 September tot 12:59 UTC op 4 September. Kom uit die huis en ge
niet 'n naweek in die buitelug. Kry die inligting oor die plaaslike kompet isies in die 2022 Blou Boek.

HF VOORTPLANTINGSVOORSPELLING

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, berig dat die verwagte sonaktiwiteitsvlak laag
gaan wees. Tans is daar 5 sonvlekke met eenvoudige magnetiese samestellin
gs sigbaar. Daar is 'n lae waarskynlikheid vir die voorkoms van C-klas fak
kels en 'n baie lae moontlikheid van M-klas sonfakkels. Diegene wat hulle
eie frekwensievoorspellings wil doen, kan 'n verwagte effektiewe sonvle ktelling van 52 vir die week gebruik. Radio amateurs kan veral laatmiddag
goeie DX openinge op die 15 tot 30 m bande verwag. Besoek gerus die webtu
iste spaceweather.sansa.org.za vir meer inligting.

Nou die dagboek van gebeure vir die volgende paar weke:

Vanmiddag - die SARL HF Digitale kompetisie
19 Augustus - die sluitingsdatum vir die HF Digitale logstate
20 en 21 Augustus - die Internasionale Vuurtoring- en Ligskip-nawe
ek
25 Augustus - die Sandton Krag Uur
27 Augustus - die SARL 40m Klub kompetisie en die Wesrand snuffelm
ark
28 Augustus - die SARL HF GG kompetisie
1 September - die sluitingsdatum vir Klub kompetisie logstate
2 September - die sluitingsdatum vir die HF GG logstate
3 en 4 September - die Streek 1 Velddag en die SARL Velddag
9 September - die sluitingsdatum vir Velddag-logstate
10 September - die Streeks FT4 DX-kompetisie en die AMSAT SA Ruimt
esimposium
10 en 11 September - die SAMOC Lente Sweepstakes

Om die bulletin mee af te sluit, â-˜n opsomming van ons hoof berig
:

Die SARL HF Digitale kompetisie sal vanmiddag van 14:00 tot 17:00 UTC op d
ie lug wees met RTD-aktiwiteit wat oor die drie periodes versprei word soo
s in die HF Foon-kompetisie. Al die inligting is op bladsy 62 van die 2022
SARL-Kompetisiehandleiding. Lees asseblief die kompetisiereëls en Al
gemene Reël 15.7 voor die kompetisie.

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-webtuiste te volg. Nuusitems wat in die bulletin ingeslui
t moet word, moet die Nuusspan nie later nie as die Vrydag voor die bull
etin 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 nuus uitsending van die Suid-Afrikaanse Radioliga
, geskryf deur Dennis Green, ZS4BS, geproeflees deur Deon Erwin, Z
S1ZL en gelees deur ....................................

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

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