HAGAL INTERNATIONAL August 2002 Vol. 16 No.07-8
Israel Ham News

byAhron Kirschner 4X1ATand Ron Gang 4X1MK


More on the New IARC HQ

On Tuesday June 11th a festive IARC council meeting was held in the new headquarters of the Israel Amateur Radio Club in the Tel-Aviv (please see our previous issue).About 50 members were present for the occasion.Speakers were Nathan Gidron 4Z7GAD of Motorola and Dani Roth 4X4YM.Joe Obstfeld 4X5KJ thanked Nathan and his company, Motorola for their most generous support of the IARC.

Tuvia 4X4GT is organising a regular lecture series there, which he opened with a talk on wire antennas – dipoles, delta loops, Slim Jims, and longwires.More speakers are solicited.

The club callsign is 4Z4HX and the station is being kept active.

NEWS BRIEFS 

*The work on the Israeli amateur radio emergency network continues with meetings with the authorities and new members joining.Amnon 4X1DF is meeting with hams from New York to learn more from their experience in keeping communications goingat “Ground Zero” in the aftermath of the terror attack on September 11th.

*Congratulations to Mark Stern 4Z4KX on his acceptance to the FOC (the “First Class Operators”), an organisation of very proficient CW operators.We have two other members of this elite group, Ricki 4X4NJ and Danny 4X1FC.Mark is also on his way to Finland to adjudicate in the WRTC contest.This competition sets up top Dxers to work unders identical operating conditions during the IARU contest, and Mark is one of the chosen judges.More to follow on this in a future issue.

*Ziv 4X1UK reports that contacts between Israeli school children and the upcoming Space Shuttle is in the offing.This will be the first flight of an Israeli astronaut and naturally will be getting a lot of media coverage here.This is a golden opportunity to get recognition of amateur radio on the TV, radio and press, and we must make the most of this opportunity to attract young people to ham radio.

*Ministry of Communications amateur radio examinations were held recentlyat the IARC HQ.Many were present including four students of 4Z5IS, Eli Stern, from the Re’ut-Maccabim club.

*From the Amishav Club for the Sightless there are four new hams:4Z5OR, 4Z5QI, 4Z5OX and 4Z5PD, the last two being a married couple.Their electronics instructor was Tamir 4X1YT.At this centre in Petach Tikvah, club callsign 4X6EK, there have already been two courses for the blind.Former graduates are 4Z5KI, 4Z5KL, 4Z5KB and 4Z5MD.