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Youthnet NEWS 012 12/ /94 Jennie S. Finch N9SAK Alexis M. Leynes N9KYJ Topics: Communication Museum Review: Antique Wireless Association Dayton Amateur Radio Association Scholarship awardee's are... Santa Ham on the bands this holiday season Fox Hunting Supplemental International Packet Youth Forum on AMPRNet still meets CQ Magazine Celebrates 50th anniversary Antique Wireless Association In Bloomfield, NY, in a building built over a hundred and fifty years ago, the Antique Wireless Association has a museum. One that tells the story of the discovery and development of radio and television. The association houses thousands of o...

Youthnet NEWS 011 11/3/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ Jennie Finch N9SAK Topic: Fox hunting Fox hunting There are many aspects of amateur radio that many hams don't understand very well. In this edition we will cover fox hunting. If you do not know what fox hunting is, it is considered an exercise of locating a hidden transmitter by usage of triangulation. In simpler terms Fox hunting doesn't involve a real fox. Fox hunting is about hiding a transmitter and then have a group of other hams to look for the transmitter. Usually the group who looks for the transmitter generally are called the hunter(s). These groups of one or two in a...

Youthnet NEWS 010 10/09/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ [Editor-in-Chief] Jennifer Finch N9SAK [Founder] Topic: The Survey Says Welcome back N9SAK The Survey Says Remember a while back when I sent out a survey. Well, it took me a while to tabulate the results to find out where the youth in amateur radio is going. I have the current results that have been sent in so far, as of the first of this month. There are many people in the amateur radio community who are awaiting these results and would like an up to date study. So I have decided to make this an ongoing survey for the next few years to try and find out the long term trend of young ha...

Youthnet NEWS 008 9/4/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ E-mail: aln9kyj@mcs.com AlexN9KYJ@aol.com Packet: N9KYJ@W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM Topics: F.A.R.E. Youthnet NEWS guest on Ham Radio & More. F.A.R.E The F.A.R.E. (Family Amateur Radio Event) is Saturday, September 17, 1994, at Rawhide Theme Park, in Scottsdale, Arizona. It's an ARRL sanctioned event, with Ronald McDonald, other clowns, Spaceball rides, moonwalk rides, a dunk tank for VIP's (Len Winkler KB7LPW & other well known hams), a swap meet at 6:00 am, exhibit hall from 9:00 am, all hand on stations like AMSAT, HF CW & Phone, packet, ATV, MARS, The Salvation Army Radio ...

Youthnet NEWS 007 7/18/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ Packet: N9KYJ@W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM E-mail: aln9kyj@mcs.com Topic: What to do with your old ham books. What to do with your old ham books. I have been cleaning out my shack trying to get organized for this school year (pictures of my room/disaster area are available on request). I bumped into my old copies of ham radio magazines, and books dating back to a few years. I began to wonder why I had subscribed to many magazines and purchased many ham books. The reason I came up was that it was mainly for reference about material for ham radio. Now that I don't need them that much anymor...

Youthnet NEWS Announcement Alexis Leynes N9KYJ E-mail:AlexN9KYJ@aol.com aln9kyj@mcs.com BBS: N9KYJ@W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM IMPORTANT SURVEY FOR THE YOUNG HAM! This is a very important survey, if you would want to send an opinion to me about Youthnet NEWS or anything else, please do so via my Packet address or my Internet E-mail addresses. If you have anything else to add please send me a message. Please include in your reply; your age, and a way to contact you for more information. There is no age limit and all messages will be returned with a reply. What made you interested in Ham Radio? Why do kids want to be hams? Are you more interested in ...

Youthnet NEWS 006 7/14/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ E-mail: AlexN9KYJ@aol.com BBS: N9KYJ@W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM Topics: CQ Video wins Cindy Award Feedback: Field Day Aftermath Final Note CQ Video Wins CINDY Award [Hicksville, NY] -- Ham Radio Horizons, the CQ video introduction to amateur radio, has been awarded a bronze medal in the Association of Visual Communicators' 1994 CINDY awards competition. The CINDY awards honor outstanding productions in all fields of non-theatrical video programming , including radio, television, cable and non-broadcast categories. Ham Radio Horizons won in the "public service & information" category. Th...

Youthnet NEWS 005 7/3/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ BBS: N9KYJ@W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM E-mail: AlexN9KYJ@aol.com Topics: Casey Halley AB5RG and DXCC Field day aftermath Correspondence Casey Halley AB5RG attains elusive DXCC. Nine year old Casey Halley AB5RG was able to obtain his DXCC award this past month. At nine years old, he is the youngest ham operator to obtain DXCC for now. After a few years of chasing DX on the ham bands, he was able to obtain DXCC. How hard you may ask is it to obtain DXCC. Not that hard. You just need to contact at least 100 countries on the ARRL DXCC list. Once you have made it through the pile-up, you would have to...

Youthnet NEWS 004 6/19/94 Alexis Leynes N9KYJ E-mail: AlexN9KYJ@aol.com BBS: N9KYJ@W9ZMR.IL.USA.NOAM Topics: Field day tips (For the young ham) Field day tips and hints (for the young ham). Field day- (my) definition (adjective) it is two days in June where a few or many hams gather and try to connect to other stations across the nation with a separate power supply and station under diverse conditions. If you would like to go to your clubs field day, there might be a few problems for the young ham. Read on if your parents are not hams. If they are hams and are going, my best of luck to you. If your parents like others I have encou...