Subj : Newsline Part 2
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Oct 13 2016 10:08 pm
DANISH AMATEUR COMES FULL CYCLE
JIM/ANCHOR: The noted bicycling radio amateur is back home in
Copenhagen -- off his bicycle but not off the air. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Jeremy Boot, G4NJH, has that story.
JEREMY's REPORT: Danish cyclist Thomas Andersen, OZ1AA/K9DXX, thinks the
world of his most recent adventure as a radio amateur. It's because his
adventure embraced the world itself, or at least 36,000 miles of it in
58 countries. He's back home now, but not before completing a bicycling
adventure begun six years ago, much of it with an HT in his hand.
Andersen wrote on his online diary, cyclingtheglobe.com: QUOTE "I have
cycled through Eastern Europe learning all about the local beer, I have
been chased by dogs in Turkey. I have pedaled through Syria before the
war. I have been a celebrity in Malaysia, and worked on a huge cattle
station in Australia." ENDQUOTE
He celebrated his arrival back home in Copenhagen, by operating Special
Event station OZ1BIKE, a way of saying hello to his hometown after a
long, mostly uninterrupted absence as he cycled through the United
States, Canada, South America, parts of Africa and Europe.
Now it's time for the 33-year-old engineer to hop off his cycle for a bit,
and simply gear down.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jeremy Boot, G4NJH.
(cyclingtheglobe.com)
**
MAKING A PRESENT OF THE PAST
JIM/ANCHOR: If you're a ham in the New York area, or if you used to be
one, this next story is for you. Here's Newsline's Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
PAUL's REPORT: When living in the present, it's often easy to forget
about how important the past can be. The realization of that came to
A-Double-R-L member Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, while looking at random stuff
at a hamfest:
MIKE: I was looking at a hamfest - I'm the Hudson Division director, so
needless to say, I spend a lot of time going to hamfests, and club
meetings, and what-have-you - and I typically go to these things with
empty pockets, so I don't come home with a ton of garbage, instead of
cleaning my stuff out.
What happened was I was talking to somebody, and I happened to look down
at a box of ephemera that they had, and I went through it, and I found a
program from the 1982 Hudson Division Convention. I picked it up, and
purchased it, and took it home, and started going through it, and there's
pictures of people from forty years ago, with no gray hair or with full
heads of hair, looking young -- and ads from some clubs that are still
around, and some that are now defunct, dealers and what-have-you, and I
came to realize that there was no repository anywhere in the Division for
items of a historical nature to the division such as other conventions.
We have conventions going back to the 30s, apparently - newsletters that
directors used to send out to the division, QSL cards from people who are
very active or club cards, things of that nature. I realized that the
aging of the membership was such that if we didn't start to collect this
information now, it would be gone in no time, and that I found very
disturbing.
So I came home, and started going through some of the stuff that I had
accumulated over the years, and put it aside, and put out a call to the
Division, asking for any information that they have, that either they're
willing to part with, or are either willing to lend me, so that I can
scan them, or scan them themselves, and send me the jpegs, and then
ultimately, with the goal of putting up all of this data that we get
onto the Hudson Division website, so that somebody in the future, if
they wanted to take a look and see what it was like going on, you know,
ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty, sixty, a hundred years ago, would
be able to take a look at that, and have a sense of the history of both
the hobby and the division."
PAUL: If you have anything to contribute to the project, Mike said it
would be easiest to contact him via email at N2YBB at a-double-r-l dot
org.
It's good to have a sense of your roots to truly appreciate how far this
hobby has come. Perhaps this is a project you'd like to start in your
own division. For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Paul Braun, WD9GCO.
**
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