Subj : Newsline Part 3
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jan 27 2017 04:43 am
STRONG TALK ON WEAK SIGNALS FROM NOBEL LAUREATE
NEIL/ANCHOR: If you use JT65 or WSPR, you probably know about Joe Taylor,
K1JT. Now some hams in Puerto Rico will get to know him in person.
Amateur Radio Newsline's Heather Embee, KB3TZD, has that story.
HEATHER: Software developer Joe Taylor, K1JT, will be an honored guest at
the Fifth Annual ARRL Puerto Rico State Convention, where he will talk
about DXing with weak signals. The convention is taking place Friday,
January 27th through Sunday the 29th. Joe, a Nobel Laureate, and a DXer,
was the Dayton Hamvention Amateur of the Year in 2016. The Princeton,
New Jersey ham has developed and improved digital protocols for
weak-signal communication on the ham bands, using such modes as JT65 and
WSPR. In 1993, Joe won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering a new
type of pulsar which had impact on the study of gravitation. He is a
professor emeritus at Princeton University.
The convention was organized by the Caribbean Amateur Radio Group, and the
Puerto Rico Amateur Radio League. If you can't be there in person to hear
Joe, be listening for Special Event station W1AW/KP4 which will be on the
air while the convention is going on.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather Embee, KB3TZD.
(ARRL)
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BREAK HERE:
Time for you to identify your station. We are the Amateur Radio Newsline,
heard on bulletin stations around the world, including the West Chester
Amateur Radio Club repeater, WC8VOA, in West Chester, Ohio, on Monday
nights.
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AN HF HOMECOMING ACROSS THE MILES
NEIL/ANCHOR: Yes, you CAN go home again - especially if you're a ham, and
your far-away hometown is Hull, in the North of England. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Caryn Eve Murray, KD2GUT, has that story.
CARYN: What attracts the interest of a well-travelled ham when tuning
around the bands? How about a special event station celebrating his town
of birth? That's what happened this week to Amateur Radio Newsline's
correspondent Ed Durrant, DD5LP, who shares that experience with us.
+++++ GB0HCC contact audio +++++++
ED'S REPORT: As you heard towards the end of my QSO, band conditions and
QRM were not the best; however, I was glad to get the QSO with the Hull,
UK-based special event station, GB0HCC, which is celebrating the city of
Hull in the north of England, being the UK's city of culture for 2017.
Hull was originally the UK's largest fishing port, but later developed
many industries, small and large. It's where I grew up, and got my
Amateur Radio license in the seventies. It is great to see the latest
changes to this adaptive city, and to see the recognition of the Arts in
the award of the UK's city of culture 2017.
Good luck to the various Amateur Radio groups who will use the GB0HCC
callsign around the Hull area through the year. For further details,
please checkout the GB0HCC page on qrz.com.
Also heard on the bands this week was a station we announced on
ARNewsline a few weeks ago. VE100VIMY is a Canadian special event
station to commemorate the battle of Vimy Ridge in World War one, some
100 years ago. The call sign will move around Canada. When I contacted
it, it was in the VE3 prefix area being kept very busy with calls.
+++++++++ VE100VIMY contact audio ++++++
Finally Tom, OH6VDA, from Finland, would like all to know that the "OF"
call signs coming from Finland during 2017, are to celebrate 100 years
of independence for Finland. All Finnish stations may change their "OH"
prefix to "OF", so Tom was operating the OH2K station as OF2K when I
contacted him.
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So, even when atmospheric conditions are not good, it's always worth
tuning the bands. You never know what you might find.
