M0PLA achieves Mountain Goat award

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Paul Athersmith, M0PLA of Telford, Shropshire, has achieved the coveted Mountain Goat award for gaining 1,000 activator points in the Summits on the Air scheme.

Paul completed his mission on the summit of Pole Bank, on the Long Mynd in Shropshire.

The feat took Paul just over seven years, following his debut activation in December 2016.

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ARRL 2023 Fall Section Manager Election Results

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ARRL 2023 Fall Section Manager Election Results

Two balloted Section Manager elections were conducted this fall. Ballots were counted on Tuesday 21st November 2023, at ARRL Headquarters. All two-year terms of office will begin on 1st January 2024.

For Section Manager of the ARRL Alaska Section:

  • David Stevens, KL7EB (incumbent), received 105 votes

  • Jeffrey Wolf, N8EX, received 72 votes

David Stevens, KL7EB, of Anchorage, Alaska, has been declared re-elected. Stevens has been the Section Manager of the ARRL Alaska Section since 2020. Stevens’ first term as Section Manager in Alaska was from 1998 through 1999, and he also served as Section Manager from 2002 through 2007.

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Using Amateur Radio to Play Chess

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Using Amateur Radio to Play Chess

Playing chess using amateur radio? The concept may have begun in 1912 when a group of college students from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) wanted to challenge chess players at The Ohio State University (OSU). Though the official origin is still debated, clippings from a 1912 issue of The Case Tech, one of CWRU's former student newspapers, reveal that the challenge was made when the CWRU Wireless Club procured a Morse code transceiver.

Faculty Advisor to the Case Amateur Radio Club, W8EDU, David Kazdan, AD8Y, said there are no official records of the match, so the challenge was re-proposed this year by the Case Amateur Radio Club. With the with the help of OSU's Amateur Radio and RF Club, W8LT, the game was on. It started on September 26 as a round-robin tournament with other schools and is now moving into an elimination phase. The setup is the same as any chess game except the players are in different locations.

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