Subj : Newsline Part 4
To : All
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Feb 17 2017 09:15 am
KICKER: A VERY MERRY "CHRISTMAS HAM"
PAUL: We close this week's report with the story of a newly ticketed
amateur who may not be the ONLY ham on an Indian Ocean island, but he
might just be its newest. Amateur Radio Newsline's John Williams, VK4JJW,
tells us his tale.
JOHN'S REPORT: He's calling himself the Christmas Ham, even though it's
already February. Cliff Tindall, VK9VKL, is a new licensee who has chosen
to announce his advent on the bands by posting on QRZ.COM and on his blog.
He says he's the newest ham on Christmas Island -- even if he can't get on
the air just yet.
Christmas is coming soon enough for Cliff, however, because his rig,
antenna, and other equipment, are on their way to his remote location in
the Indian Ocean, 870 miles northwest of Australia. He explains on QRZ
how his relatively remote location made a Foundation license impractical
for him as a DXer, so he studied even more intensely to qualify for a
Standard ticket.
It's challenging and lonely not having regular club meetings, or an Elmer
next door, so while Cliff awaits the contents of his new shack to be
delivered, he's been blogging at
Vee-Kay-Nine-Vee-Kay-Ell-dot-island-dot-Cee-EX (vk9vkl.island.cx)
bringing the world up to date. As of early February, there's a G5RV
enroute to be his starter antenna, and a Yaesu FTDX 1200 transceiver -
among all the other items on his Christmas list.
Meanwhile, he's puzzling out the slow and costly process of sending those
eventual QSL cards out. For their eventual recipients, they're bound to
become Christmas cards of a very different sort.
For Amateur Radio Newsline I'm John Williams, VK4JJW.
(QRZ, SOUTHGATE)
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NEWSCAST CLOSE: With thanks to Alan Labs; the ARRL; CQ Magazine; Cook
Islands News; The Daily DX; DX Coffee; Hap Holly and the Rain Report;
Irish Radio Transmitters Society; North American Shortwave Association;
Ohio-Penn DX Bulletin; QRZ.COM; Southgate Amateur Radio News; Ted
Randall's QSO Radio Show; University of Alaska; WTWW Shortwave; 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.
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