Subj : Newsline Part 4
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Nov 04 2016 07:12 pm
WORLD OF DX
Elsewhere in the world of DX, John, AD8J, is working as AD8J/HR9 until
November 12, from the island of Guanaja, Honduras, IOTA reference NA-057.
Send QSL cards via his home call sign.
Roly, ZL1BQD, is working until November 25th, as E51RR, from Rarotonga
in the South Cook Islands. Listen for him 40, 20 and 15m. Send QSL cards
to his home call.
Be listening for the callsign XU7MDC until November 14th. That would be
a team of radio operators from the Mediterraneo DX Club, on the air from
Cambodia. You can listen for them on all HF bands. The team's QSL manager
is IK2VUC.
(IRISH RADIO TRANSMITTERS SOCIETY)
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KICKER: A COMIC STRIP TRIBUTE TO CODE
We close this week's newscast with this story of a classic comic strip
with a surprise element: Morse Code. Now, Samuel Morse isn't exactly the
kind of character you'd find in the pages of any comic strip, much less
the classic strip, "The Phantom." The Phantom, an avenger with a sense
of justice, was created in the 1930s, long after Samuel Morse devised his
system of dots and dashes in the 19th Century. In the strip's earliest
days, The Phantom was already using amateur radio to send important
messages. It seems that in the intervening years, he hasn't forgotten
ham radio's reliability -- nor has he forgotten his CW.
Now he is an older, wiser Phantom - and the father of two, including a
son attending college at a remote Himalayan location. He is seen in the
comic's current story thread, keeping tabs on his son by communicating
with one of his teachers via code. His wife, of course, asks her
crime-fighting husband "isn't that obsolete?" The Phantom replies:
"Not at all."
Right you are, Phantom. That's what makes you OUR hero too!
(SOUTHGATE AMATEUR RADIO NEWS)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; Boston Globe; Boston
Business Journal; CQ Magazine; Hap Holly and the Rain Report; Institute
of Noise Control Engineering; Irish Radio Transmitter Society; Ohio-Penn
DX Bulletin; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted Randall's QSO Radio Show;
Wireless Institute of Australia; WTWW Shortwave; and you, our listeners,
that's all from the Amateur Radio Newsline. Please send emails to our
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www.arnewsline.org.
For now, with Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, at the news desk in New York,
and our news team worldwide, I'm Stephen Kinford, N8WB, in Wadsworth,
Ohio, saying 73, and as always, we thank you for listening.
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