SOUTH AFRICAN RADIO LEAGUE
SARL NEWS SUNDAY 27 MAY 2001

This is Amateur Radio Station ZS6SRL transmitting Amateur Radio News, a
service by the South African Radio League, the National society for Amateur Radio in South Africa, for the interest of all Radio Amateurs, Short-wave Listeners and Electronic Enthusiasts. For a complete list of broadcast times and frequencies please send a SASE to Amateur Radio News, SARL, P O Box 1721, Strubensvallei 1735.

This bulletin is also available on the SARL's web pages hosted by Intekom at www.sarl.org.za, as well as the packet radio bulletin board system. You may also request sarlnuus@mweb.co.za to e-mail it to you in either text or MSWord 6.0 format.


Here are the headlines of today's news:

INTECNET TONIGHT at 20:00 CAT

YARIA MAKES A RETURN

AMATEUR RADIO ON SAFM

PEARS AGM AND NEW COMMITTEE

80 METRE QSO PARTY HELD 4-4-2001.

PROPAGATION REPORT

You are listening to ZS6SRL. The news follows in detail.


INTECNET TONIGHT at 20:00 CAT

The SARL Intecnet 2001 will be on the air tonight, Sunday 27 May 2001 at
20:00 CAT. The subject for discussion will be Internet repeater linking
which represents an important element in the future of Amateur Radio.

Join Ian Able G3ZHI from the UK as he will take listeners through the
process, discuss ideas and provide references to web sites where the
necessary software can be found. This will be followed by an interactive Q&A session.

The Intecnet talkshow will be broadcast on 3215 kHz sponsored by Sentech and will be interactive on repeaters in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Pietermaritzburg, Durban and the Highway areas, on the Eastern Cape Repeater network and in
Cape Town. It will also be interactive on 3718 kHz.

Clubs wishing to book an interactive link should send an Email to armi@intekom.co.za or a fax to 012 991 5651 with their contact details before noon today.

YARIA MAKES A RETURN

YARIA, the once popular Youth for Amateur Radio in Africa programme, will return to the airwaves. This follows the agreement between the SARL and
ICASA that registered club stations may introduce amateur radio to newcomers
by arranging special events during which non-licensed persons may operate an amateur radio station using a club callsign under the supervision of a
licensed amateur.

The SARL petitioned ICASA for relaxation of the rules as we believe that this is the most effective way to let newcomers experience amateur radio, SARL president Hans Potgieter said. This new arrangement will offer clubs the opportunity to introduce practical operating experience sessions during the teaching for the Radio Amateur Examination.

Clubs are urged to register their club callsigns for this purpose with the
SARL as soon as possible. A registration form will be available on the SARL web at www.sarl.org.za early next week. Each event must be registered with
the SARL. A guideline document will be available on the SARL web soon.

AMATEUR RADIO ON SAFM

Today, 27 May 2001, the SA FM Media programme will include a 9 minute feature on Amateur Radio featuring amongst other the ARISAS event. It will be on the air around 10:30

PEARS AGM AND NEW COMMITTEE

The Port Elizabeth Amateur Radio Society held its AGM on the 19th May. The meeting was well attended. The committee for the ensuing year was elected,
the committee members being:

Chairman - Beavan Gwilt ZS2RL
Vice Chairman - Chris Scarr ZS2AAW
Secretary - Neil Thomas ZR2NT
Treasurer - Clive Fife ZS2RT
Other committee members are - Bill Hodges ZS2ABZ, Ewalt Bouwer ZS2EHB,

80 METRE QSO PARTY HELD 4-4-2001.

Results of the first leg of the QSO party held 4th April 2001.

Names. Call. Points.

LOUIS DE BRUIN. ZS5LP. 415.
MICHAEL ROODT. ZS6BHF 380
WILLIAM VAN COLLER. ZS5WC 355
JOHAN TERBLANCHE. ZS1I 325
WILLIAM AXFORD. ZS5WI 315
G. DE VENTE. ZS6DV 290
KOBUS ZS5KS/6 220
A CORY. 3DA1DB 185
ALVIN COMMON. ZS5AES 185
DENNIS GREEN. ZS4BS 180
WILLIE LONG. 3DA0BD 150
PETER DU PLESSIS. ZS5PJ 125
PIETER BOSMAN. ZS6AOR 125.
MALCOLM RUSSEL.

SETI LEAGUE SWITCHES ON MOOBOUNCE BEACON

The SETI League, grassroots leaders in the privatized search for Extra- terrestrial Intelligence has placed a transmitter on the air that bounces microwave signals of the surface of the moon. The transmitter operates on a frequency of 1296,000 MHz.

The SETI League's more than 1200 members in 60 countries have collectively assembled over 100 small radio telescopes, constructed by individual members

out of discarded satellite dish antennas along with sensitive microwave receivers and powerful home computers.

Traditionally radio telescopes are used to study the structure of the
universe by analysing microwave radiation emitted by natural astrophysical phenomena.

In the SETI application, it is artificial radiation from other technological civilisations that the telescopes seek to identify. In either case such as
the one now being provided by the SETI moonbounce beacon enable radio astronomers to confirm the proper operation of their equipment.

On 22 July the SETI League Executive Director, Paul Shuch will again be a
guest on the SARL Intecnet 2001 to continue his discussion on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. He was a popular speaker on the February Intecnet.

CLUB ACTIVITIES

Weather pictures, satellites and everything that one would like to know IN
this area, is the theme of the next monthly meeting of SAATI. OM Hofie ZS6CC will enlighten the theme, based on his years of experience.

Everybody is welcome, members and others. It is planned, for 28 May 2001 at the Centurion Information Centre (Library) in Cantonnement Road, Centurion.
The planned start time is 20h00 and pleasant snacks will be provided. If anybody require more information they are welcome to contact OM Louis Kruger
at louiskruger@yahoo.com or 082-336-2597. (Via packet radio zr6abc@zs0hbt.gau.zaf.af). SAATI also sends news and reminders via e-mail,
to subscribe send an e-mail to saati-mbrs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. The
same service will soon be available on packet radio.

See you all there!

PROPAGATION REPORT

Ean Retief, ZS1PR reports as follows: The past week was more or less as expected.

The Solar Flux did however reach is peak on Thursday and also with a value of 170, a bit lower than the 180 envisaged over the last two weeks.

This peak value of only 170 is the lowest in several months, clearly
indicating that cycle 23 has indeed passed it's peak.

It will now appear that the Solar Flux will decline fairly fast and be in the 155 to 145 range during the coming week.

As a result of a few small Coronal Mass ejections in the last two days as
well as a Coronal Hole accelerating the Solar Wind, it can be expected that
the Earth's magnetic field will become active this afternoon and will remain
so until tomorrow.

It is expected that HF propagation will be mildly degraded, but no major disruptions are expected. The effects should be that the higher bands close
a bit earlier and that the lower bands will be a bit noisy, especially
tonight.

From Tuesday onwards the Earth's magnetic field should be quiet to unsettled and fairly good propagation conditions can be expected.



CLUB ACTIVITIES


DATES TO REMEMBER

Intecnet 2001 will be ON THE AIR TONIGHT AT 20:00. You are invited to participate.

The closing date for registration for the next RAE is September 25 2001. The registration fee is R135-00. No late entries will be accepted.

The SARL News Service invites Clubs and individuals to contribute information regarding Amateur Radio to sarlnuus@mweb.co.za with a copy to gth@freemail.absa.co.za. Please submit in Afrikaans and English wherever possible and send it as early in the week as possible.

Also join us in the following activities: The President's Net on Sundays
12:00 on 7082 kHz. Amateur Radio Mirror International Sundays at 10:00 on
9750 and 21560 kHz which are sponsored by Sentech, the common carrier for broadcasting signals in South Africa and Telkom who provides the transmission lines. This transmission is repeated Mondays at 20:00 on 3215 kHz.

Correspondence for Amateur Radio Mirror International is via armi@intekom.co.za. Include your telephone number to allow the producers to call you for a possible interview.

Send written reports to PO Box 90438 Garsfontein 0042 and include a self-addressed envelope and sufficient postage so that you may receive a QSL card.

We thank all contributors, individuals, clubs and other organisations to this bulletin and all stations who so reliably relay these bulletins. This
bulletin was compiled by Marten, ZS6ZY, and read by ..........

You have been listening to ZS6SRL.

This bulletin now ends and Sarlnews wish you a pleasant week.

Goodbye to all.

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Regards,
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