Subj : Newsline Part 4
To : ALL
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jul 08 2016 06:17 pm
KICKER: IT'S GREEN FOR "GO"
PAUL/ANCHOR: Speaking going green, we close this week's newscast with
another story about the power of green energy on the air. Operating on the
power of sun and wind at a site in Ireland, one noted contester has his
hopes as high as the hill he works from. Here's Newsline's Jeremy Boot,
G4NJH.
JEREMY: It's summer, and Olivier, ON4EI/EI8GQB, is back on his familiar
hilltop in Ireland. More than any other radio amateur, he is truly in his
elements. In his case, these elements happen to be mostly wind and sun --
and he is using both to power his station.
Olivier has big plans. His blog on QRZ.COM describes his antenna park, and
the rest of his station, reminiscent of a Field Day setup: He'll be on the
air from now until the 12th of August, using six antennas and two radios
operating on five bands.
Any successes he has he will owe to band conditions, skilled operation and
green energy as he competes in the IARU HF World Championship with the
call sign EI1A on 9 July and 10 July, and in the Island on the Air Contest
from 30 July to 31 July.
Olivier writes in his blog: QUOTE "Wow! What a pleasure to be back again
on the hill, and being alone for two weeks in the middle of nature. This
place is my lonely paradise where I can refill my social batteries."
ENDQUOTE
Of course, he will also be recharging his scorecard's batteries. He'll
need them to qualify for the World Radiosport Team Championship in
Germany. As ambitions go, that's pretty powerful too, green energy or not.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, in Nottingham, the UK.
(QRZ, IRTS)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; Bloomberg; CQ Magazine;
Hap Holly and the Rain Report; the IARU; Irish Radio Transmitter Society;
the K2BSA Amateur Radio Association; Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; The Province
newspaper; QRZ; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show;
Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; the Yavapai Amateur Radio
Club; and you our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline.
Please send emails to our address at
[email protected]. More
information is available at Amateur Radio Newsline's only official website
located at www.arnewsline.org.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and
our news team worldwide, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO, in Valparaiso, Indiana,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) is Copyright 2016. All rights reserved.
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