Subj : Newsline Part 3
To   : ALL USERS
From : DARYL STOUT
Date : Thu Nov 26 2015 08:07 am

KICKER: SANTA AT THE NORTH DIPOLE?

[ANCHOR/DON:] We conclude this week's report with a Christmas story that
begins, as all good Christmas stories must, with the wish of a child. What
started as a staged report from Santa's Sleigh during an amateur radio Net
on 80 meters nine years ago has grown. And grown. More from Amateur Radio
Newsline's Kent Peterson, KC0DGY:

[KENT]:

If you take an 80 meter rag chew net, add a bit of holiday cheer, and Pete
Thompson, KE5GGY, explains what comes next.

{PETE]: It really goes back to a year where I had a young child at home,
I was checked into one of the 3916 nets on Christmas Eve. A number of us
were looking for a way for our kids to talk to Santa. So we pieced
together something for a couple of us that one night, and it worked
really well. I could be a Santa net relay for a station in Kansas City
then he could facilitate the contact with Santa for me and my son, so we
had sort of a primitive dress rehearsal, and I think it occurred to a
number of us that, hey, this really is neat, and it has grown from there.
I think we had five people that first year, now in 2015, we are expecting
250 and 300 kids to talk to Santa.

[KENT]: Thompson says running the net has its rewards.

[PETE]: Connecting kids to Santa at Christmas time just makes their
Christmas. We get emails every year from parents and grandparents that
say this was the highlight of our holiday season. This brought our family
together. That and the fact we're using the magic radio to do it, makes
it very rewarding on another level. We know a number of these kids who
have been on the Santa net, have gone on to get their ham radio tickets.
It's a win win. Kids get the spirit of Christmas connecting with Santa
through the magic of ham radio, they experience this great hobby, it's a
great way for us to end the year on the 3916 nets.

[KENT]: Thompson fired up his ham rig to demonstrate the quality of the
Santa connection.

[PETE]: Right now I've got a connection with Santa so we could close this
interview with a couple comments from Santa. Let me see if I can get him
on my phone patch in Dallas. Santa Santa, this is KE5GGY from Denton
County calling, Santa can you come onM and give a couple of comments to
the Amateur Radio Newsline. Calling Santa.

["SANTA"]: HO HO HO!! Hello There!! Merry Christmas to everyone listening
to the Amateur Radio Newsline. And, ho ho ho! And, I know you've all been
very good boys and girls this year, and I just want to invite you to join
the hams on 3916 every night at 7:30 for the Santa net. And yes, I could
talk to you so we'll see you then. And until then, 73, from Santa.
Ho Ho Ho!

In case you just missed that info, the 80 meter Santa Net meets every
night on 3916 KHz at 7:30PM US Central time. For the Amateur Radio
Newsline, I'm Kent Peterson, KC0DGY

[DON's TAGLINE]: This year Thompson will stream the audio for a live feed
on the Internet, and it will be archived. So anyone who is on the Santa
Net, through Christmas Eve, will be able to find their contact from a
YouTube page, just do a hashtag and a call sign and you'll find that
particular contact.

**

NEWSCAST CLOSE

With thanks to Alan Labs; AMSAT; the ARRL; the BBC; CQ Magazine; Hap
Holly and the Rain Report; IEEE, The Irish Radio Transmitter Society;
northjersey.com; KE5GGY Blog; the Ohio-Penn DX Newsletter; Radio Society
of Great Britain; The South African Radio League; Southgate Amateur Radio
News; the 3916 Nets; TWiT TV; Young Hamsters; Youngsters On the Air, and
you, our listeners, that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Our email
address is [email protected]. More information is available at
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www.arnewsline.org. You can also write to us or support us at Amateur
Radio Newsline, 28197 Robin Avenue, Santa Clarita, CA 91350.

For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York, and
our news team worldwide, I'm Don Wilbanks, AE5DW, in Picayune, Mississippi,
saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.

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