About Us:
Amateur Radio Newsline™ is a free service to the amateur radio community. It is entirely supported by voluntary donations from individual amateurs and amateur radio clubs.
Amateur Radio Newsline™ is not directly associated with the former Westlink Report Newsletter (no longer in production ), the ARRL Letter, or any organization or amateur radio lobby group.
All participants in the Amateur Radio Newsline™ operation are professionals in the news media who have volunteered their time and skills to help prepare each weekly bulletin.
Amateur Radio Newsline™ has no paid staff and all funds go directly to the defraying operating costs.
Amateur Radio Newsline™ along with Vertex-Standard and CQ Publishing is a co-sponsor of the Young Ham of the Year Award program. The award was created in 1986 by ARNewsline™ founder Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF. Full information on this program is at http://www.yhoty.org
Amateur Radio Newsline™ created and sponsors the Roy Neal K6DUE Amateur Radio Mentoring Project. This is a program designed to take newly licensed radio amateurs and place them one-on-one with veteran hams so that they may learn the traditions and operating skills that no classroom or home-study environment can teach. Please see http://www.arnewsline.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=42 for more information.
About the Newscast:
Amateur Radio Newsline™ proiduces a weekly newscast of interest to radio amateurs worldwide. The bulletins conform to all sections and codes as outlined under the United States FCC Part 97 Amateur Radio Service rules regarding the legal means of amateur radio operators issuing "QST’s" or "Bulletins of Interest to All Amateurs." We differ only in format and follow a more traditional radio "spot news" format. Whenever possible,
Production Values:
Amateur Radio Newsline™ stories include the voices of the newsmakers themselves so that you can more easily understand the effect that the story will have on all radio amateurs. If you have ever heard CBS Network Radio News or NBC News on the Hour then you will be familiar with the format utilized by Amateur Radio Newsline™, with the exception that the information we provide is strictly directed to radio amateurs.
Distribution:
Amateur Radio Newsline™ does not directly sponsor any on-air operation. We have no transmitting facilities of our own on any band: HF or VHF / UHF. We are producer / distributors only.
Amateur Radio Newsline™ is delivered primarily by MP3 Internet Audio at our http://www.arnewsline.org website and by automated telephone feeds from various locations nationwide.
Since most Amateur Radio Newsline™ bulletins contain a lead message to the issuing bulletin station called a "Closed Circuit Advisory" we recommend that bulletin stations pre-record the service and retransmit only that part which constitutes the text of the service itself. This is easily accomplished by calling into one of the numbers listed below and recording Amateur Radio Newsline™ for delayed retransmission on your local repeater (or FM simplex / HF SSB frequency.) This also permits easy integration of Amateur Radio Newsline™ into an already established net or on-air amateur radio information service.
Newscast Release Schedule:
The website audio and text feed is usually updated early on Friday of each week – Pacific time (PST or PDT depending on time of year.)
The Los Angeles (661-296-2407) telephone feed is updated by midday Friday Pacific time with other lines usually updating within 24 hours. (Please note that with the exception of the Los Angeles area lines, all other feed points are privately funded and sponsored.)
Technical Stuff:
The weekly Amateur Radio Newsline™ Amateur Radio bulletin is formatted and engineered primarily for distribution on VHF / UHF amateur repeaters and by FM simplex bulletin stations. Audio processing is specifically contoured for these delivery media, but the service can also be relayed with good results on HF SSB.
A Thank-You:
We hope that you and all amateur operators in your area will enjoy Amateur Radio Newsline™. Please let us know how we can serve you better. E-mail your suggestions to newsline@arnewsline.org
