Tunisian Ham Camp for Youngsters Gets Yasme Grant

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Young radio amateurs throughout the north of Africa enjoyed the weekend subregional camp of Youngsters on the Air with the support of a grant from the Yasme Foundation. The grant to the Association of Tunisian Radio Amateurs was announced on the foundation website five days before the camp itself got underway on the 18th October 2024. This is the second year that IARU Region 1 YOTA has been able to organise an African subregional camp.

This year's participants included two youngsters each from Mauritania, Morocco, Egypt, Libya and Algeria. Young hams were also joined by members of the Tunisian Scouts who were very familiar with the location as a well-used international scout camp facility. Organisers said that the inclusion of scouts this year will allow the hams to expand their network even more. Camp activities include building antennas, fox hunting, solving problems and of course, getting on the air.

Source - ARNewsline

AI Presenter Experiment Pulled From Polish Radio Station After One-Week

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AI Presenter Experiment Pulled From Polish Radio Station After One-Week

After a week-long run, presenters Jakub “Kuba” Zieliński, Emilia “Emi” Nowak, and Alex Szulc were off the air. The three AI-generated presenters were greeted with a massive backlash. Marcin Pulit, OFF Radio Krakow’s editor in chief said he had assumed the project would last at least three months but after a week the station decided to discontinue the experiment based on “observations, opinions and conclusions” that it was “pointless.” More than 23,000 people had signed a petition calling for intervention by the regulator and officials involved in media ethics.

A related story from RadioWorld: The Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM) has given Antenne Deutschland its approval to launch a new station programmed and presented by artificial intelligence —Absolut Radio AI, which originally launched in July 2023 as an online streaming service. It is now looking to go national via DAB+

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Boeing-Built Satellite Explodes in Orbit

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In the latest blow to Boeing, one of its 2016 Intelsat communication satellites blew up in late October while in geostationary orbit and has been declared "a total loss." The fragments are being tracked by the US Space Force and Roscosmos but US officials said that they have detected no immediate threats to other satellites.

The development is yet another setback for Boeing which is already dealing with a variety of issues, including its troubled Starliner spacecraft which NASA brought back to Earth without its two-person test-flight crew on board because of thruster failures.

No cause for the explosion was disclosed. The satellite is frequently used for internet, telephone and satellite TV and radio broadcast signals. According to published reports, its launch had been delayed by three months after it developed problems with its primary thruster.